After years of endeavour ‘BORLEY RECTORY’ is now available to buy on BluRay from Nucleus films and it boasts a HUGE amount of bonus features specially made for the release.
Apart from the film itself the disc will also include all of the early Carrion Short films, on stage festival Q & A’s, a feature length ‘making of’ documentary chronicling the oft troubled production (with all new interviews with cast and crew), a special hour long special wherein three Borley experts (Eddie Brazil, Paul Adams and Stewart Evans) reflect upon the legend of Borley and the facts and intrigue behind it and an exclusive all access featurette celebrating the much loved Usborne ‘World of the Unknown’ series of childrens books and their influence upon both Ashley, Reece Shearsmith and many others part of what has come to be known as the ‘haunted generation’.
ORDER THE BLU-RAY HERE:
Nucleus Films are proud to present the definitive release of Ashley Thorpe’s BORLEY RECTORY on Blu-ray, just in time for Halloween!
Release Date – 14 October 2019
Order link: bit.ly/Borley
“Haunted by the story for 40 years and a film subsequently 6 years in the making, ‘Borley Rectory’ was a labour of love, so there was never a chance of me handing it over to anyone who I didn’t believe would do it justice. The Nucleus release of ‘Borley Rectory’ is everything I could have hoped for and more. Not only does it feature a pristine transfer of the film, it also boasts an incredibly in-depth, highly entertaining and informative feature-length ‘making of’ covering not just the colourful production of the film, but the journey that led me there. Nucleus also allowed and encouraged me to dig deeper into both the legend and the obsessions that led to the film being made. The disc is literally groaning with extras; ghost related featurettes, in-depth interviews with Borley experts, insights from Stephen Volk, Reece Shearsmith and Jonathan Rigby, and an exclusive interview with the publishers of the children’s book that started this journey way back in 1979. Borley Rectory was the Mount Everest of hauntings. This Blu-ray is the Everest of releases.”
– Ashley Thorpe, Director of BORLEY RECTORY
“Tells the tale in a mesmerising fashion.” 9/10 – STARBURST MAGAZINE
This release of Borley Rectory has inspired Usborne Publishing to re-release their classic “The World of the Unknown: All About Ghosts” book, which was a huge influence on director Ashley Thorpe and Actor Reece Shearsmith, who has written an introduction to the new edition. The book can be pre-ordered here: http://bit.ly/AllAboutGhosts
BORLEY RECTORY – SYNOPSIS:
When Daily Mirror journalist V C Wall (Reece Shearsmith) calls upon the services of famed paranormal investigator Harry Price (Jonathan Rigby) to investigate supernatural ‘goings on’ at a Victorian mansion in Essex, little does he realise that he will set into motion a story that will fascinate and confound the world. ‘Borley Rectory’ is the true story of Price’s investigation and the legends that came to haunt all those involved.
Borley Rectory is an animated documentary chronicling what came to be known as ‘The most haunted house in England’. The legends attached to the rectory and famed paranormal investigator Harry Price’s subsequent investigations of them, caught the public’s imagination during the 1930s, in time becoming one of the world’s most notorious ghost stories and influencing Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ and Richard Matheson’s ‘Hell House.’
The first 100 discs ordered direct the from Nucleus Films website will come with a limited edition postcard signed by director Ashley Thorpe.
SPECS:
BORLEY RECTORY (Black and White, 73 mins)
Audio: 5.1 DTS / 2.0 PCM
Optional English Subtitles for the hard of hearing
EXTRAS:
• Audio Commentary 1. Ashley Thorpe and Kevin Lyons
• Audio Commentary 2. Johnny Mains
• Ultrasound of a Haunting: The Making of Borley Rectory (80 mins TBC)
• Haunted Generation: The Legacy of Usborne’s World of the Unknown Series (30 mins)
• The History of Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England (with Stewart Evans, Paul Adams and Eddie Brazil) (60 mins)
• Anatomy of a Scene: Animating Borley Rectory (10 mins)
• Celluloid Screams: On Stage Q&A with Ashley Thorpe & Nicholas Vince 20th October 2017 (32 mins)
• At the Mercy of Ghosts: In Conversation with Stephen Volk (30 mins)
• Night Visions: Borley Rectory in Helsinki (30 mins)
• Reece Shearsmith & Jonathan Rigby: Q&A at the British Library (17 mins)
• Grimmfest Interview (11 mins)
• Conjuring the Spirits: Making the Borley Rectory Ouija (10 mins)
• Trailer
• Teaser 1
• Teaser 2
• Gallery
Plus Ashley Thorpe’s Early Short Films:
• Harry Price and the Martian Lighthouse (5 mins)
• Scayrecrow (12 mins)
• The Hairy Hands (12 mins)
• Screaming Skull (10 mins)
Borley Rectory (Blu-ray) -> http://bit.ly/Borley
The World of the Unknown: All About Ghosts (Book) -> http://bit.ly/AllAboutGhosts