A pale, dark-haired vampire actor is mid-snarl, fanged mouth smeared with blood, eyes bloodshot and wide with fury, wearing a black high-collared cape, with a red-curtained set behind him and another actor's blood-streaked face in the foreground.

4K Film: Dracula: The Cut They Tried To Bury

About 4K Film: Dracula: The Cut They Tried To Bury

This is it. After more than six decades, the Count returns, looking better than ever.

In 1958, Hammer Films changed horror cinema forever. This October, Dracula returns to the big screen like never before. Painstakingly restored in 4K from the best original archival materials sourced from around the world, this definitive restoration includes footage believed missing for over six decades — deemed too shocking for UK and US audiences at the time, and previously seen only during the film's original 1958 Japanese theatrical release.

Restored by Hammer Films and Silver Salt Restoration in partnership with Warner Bros, this is the cut the censors tried to bury, finally uncensored.

Precedeed by a short film exploring the film's restoration, featuring an introduction from John Gore.
 

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Duration includes trailers, adverts and any Q&A/panel. For events such as NT Live, Colour Box and Reel & Meal there will be minimal advertising. We do not admit latecomers after the main feature has started and we have a limited food & drink policy.

MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.

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