Severin Films Preps A 4K Ultra HD Edition Of Director Roy Ward Baker's Asylum For Genre Fans On Oct. 14

Severin Films, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 4K scan (from the original camera negative) of director Roy Ward Baker’s 1972 horror anthology, Asylum, ready for delivery as a newly minted 4K Ultra HD product offering on Oct. 14.

Four tasty tales in an insane asylum that are built around the interview process for a new psychiatrist (played by Robert Powell — as Capt. Walker in Tommy, plus such genre delights as The Asphyx and Harlequin) gives the likes of Herbert Lom, Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Charlotte Rampling, Patrick Magee and more a chance to show their best side of crazy.   

Asylum joins the Amicus Productions’ stable of “portmanteau” (a fancy word for anthology films) genre productions that began with Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors in 1965, followed by Torture Garden (1967), The House that Dripped Blood (’71), Tales from the Crypt (’72) and then capped off with Vault of Horror in 1973 and From Beyond the Grave in 1974.   Quite the collection!!

Bonus goodies with this 4K Ultra HD presentation of Asylum on Oct. 14 from Severin Films includes an archived commentary featuring director Roy Ward Baker and his camera operator Neil Binney (a specialist in horror with work on The Vampire Lovers, The Horror of Frankenstein, Scars of Dracula and more), the newly prepared featurette “Dr. Martin’s Challenge ” and a 1972 BBC on-set production titled “Two’s a Company.” 

There is also a vintage featurette titled “Inside the Fear Factory” and video sessions with both screenwriter David J. Schow (The Crow, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, etc.) — discussing the career of writer Robert Bloch — and Fiona Subotsky’s retrospective on her producer husband, Milton Subotsky.