The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) (4K + Blu-ray Collector’s Limited Edition) (Hammer Films) [UK]

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Release date: October 13, 2025
Purchase links: Hammer Films - Amazon UK - Zavvi - HMV (Pre order will be live on Friday August 29th at around 12PM UK time)
Price: £60.00 (Hammer Films) - £59.99 (Amazon - Zavvi - HMV)
Notes: Disc 6 is Exclusive to the Collector's Limited Edition



Hammer Films UK Store for this release is UK location.
On hammer films you need set to region flag at bottom of website to United Kingdom GBP £ to get a order done
If you have location flag set to other country on website page you will see This product is not available in your territory


I don't know if hammer film uk store will honor orders done with a delivery address that's based outside UK when setting website to UK that will only be known closer to release date

This release is a UK release only. US and ROW release available from The Warner Archive Collection.

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I don’t need to as I can get a copy without any issues

My reply was for other members based outside UK if Amazon UK don’t have available they can order instead from Zavvi international websites that deliver to their country or use DiabolikDVD or Orbit DVD

jaws finatic is based in USA


Zavvi Ireland website will have available for customers based in Republic of Ireland



HMV now do delivery on some select pre order releases to Republic of Ireland but some releases can be UK address only.

I will use either Zavvi or Amazon UK or HMV
Trouble is Zavvi are not 100% reliable. I'm had various titles cancelled by them at the last minute along the lines of "We got limited supplies of item X and you're **** out of luck " or words to that effect.
 
Trouble is Zavvi are not 100% reliable. I'm had various titles cancelled by them at the last minute along the lines of "We got limited supplies of item X and you're **** out of luck " or words to that effect.
I will not have any issues getting a copy of this release as I can order from Amazon UK/Zavvi/HMV/Hammer Films

I can even order direct from Hammer Films Store if I want as I have An Post AddressPal account that provides a UK and USA virtual delivery address to use with UK/USA retailers that only accept UK or USA delivery address for doing orders
AddressPal receive the parcel and then deliver direct my home address in Ireland

I also not had any issues with Amazon UK on any of my pre orders they done delivery even though some was estimated delivery date 1 or 2 weeks after release date so if Amazon UK list to pre order I will be OK to use them
I can also still use Zavvi/HMV or order direct from Hammer Films
 
I will not have any issues getting a copy of this release as I can order from Amazon UK/Zavvi/HMV/Hammer Films

I can even order direct from Hammer Films Store if I want as I have An Post AddressPal account that provides a UK and USA virtual delivery address to use with UK/USA retailers that only accept UK or USA delivery address for doing orders
AddressPal receive the parcel and then deliver direct my home address in Ireland

I also not had any issues with Amazon UK on any of my pre orders they done delivery even though some was estimated delivery date 1 or 2 weeks after release date so if Amazon UK list to pre order I will be OK to use them
I can also still use Zavvi/HMV or order direct from Hammer Films
Then you have been very lucky. I'm had a few titles cancelled on both zavvi and amazon.
 
I was able to order direct from hammer films but had to set to region flag at bottom of website to United Kingdom GBP £
If you have location flag set to other country on website page you will see This product is not available in your territory

I will find out in October if my order gets despatched
 
They have the separate standard editions also available to pre order
Note the standard editions do not include the Exclusive Bonus Blu-ray disc and other items that's in the Collector's Edition
Standard Edition is just a Amaray case


Standard Editions

4K £30.00

Blu-ray £25.00
 
I also will be doing another order with Amazon UK as a backup when that goes live to order next week
The Quatermass Xperiment order I had done direct hammer films got returned to sender by royal mail for some reason and had to get a refund from hammer I then ended up having to do an a new order with Amazon UK to get that release

The order I had done direct with hammer films for The Quatermass Xperiment had the pre order reward Quatermass Xperiment mission patch included and I missed getting due to my order getting returned
I don't know the exact reason why that parcel got returned by royal mail but it's possible there was an issue with the customs declaration details not matching as others mentioned that did get delivery they list the full value of the pre order reward items even though are free and that will not match the total price the customer paid on their order.

I hope the same does not happen with my order I done direct with hammer films for the curse of Frankenstein even If they honor my order and does get dispatched to Republic of Ireland

If I do end up with 2 copies I will keep both as the order I done direct with Hammer Films I got all 3 pre order rewards as part of my order.
Customs charges if the full price of the pre order rewards is listed in the declaration I will end up having to pay vat on those as well as the box set itself
 
I was able to order direct from hammer films but had to set to region flag at bottom of website to United Kingdom GBP £
If you have location flag set to other country on website page you will see This product is not available in your territory

I will find out in October if my order gets despatched

Wow good shout on changing the region, I'm in Ireland too and couldn't see it anywhere else for pre order. I'm sure other sites will get it eventually but the whole "only shipping to UK" thing could still affect that, I often can't buy stuff from Amazon UK because it says it only ships to UK.

Fingers crossed they honour the orders, they've already taken my money so surely they will but who knows. I had to pay a hefty import fee (20 quid I think?) when I ordered Kronos directly from them, I skipped the two Quatermass' so I can justify having to pay it again on this set.
 
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FWIW... Interestingly, yesterday I was unable to pre-order due to my location (Australia) unless of course I changed the flag to UK. Today, there is no such restriction. I was able to pre-order regardless of the flags location... so, I did!! YMMV
 
FWIW... Interestingly, yesterday I was unable to pre-order due to my location (Australia) unless of course I changed the flag to UK. Today, there is no such restriction. I was able to pre-order regardless of the flags location... so, I did!! YMMV
I just tested website
When Flag is set to Australia it still lists This product is not available in your territory

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It’s when location flag is set to United Kingdom (GPB £) you can do an order

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It’s unknown yet if hammer will still dispatch orders done with delivery address that’s based outside UK when using the trick set location flag to UK
Payment currency taken when order is placed is the currency of delivery address in your case would have been Australia $
 
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I just tested website
When Flag is set to Australia it still lists This product is not available in your territory

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It’s when location flag is set to United Kingdom (GPB £) you can do an order

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It’s unknown yet if hammer will still dispatch orders done with delivery address that’s based outside UK when using the trick set location flag to UK
Payment currency taken when order is placed is the currency of delivery address in your case would have been Australia $
Well you are unable to test it properly as you're IP address & location is not in AU, mine is as I live here!. I notice that doesn't stop you from telling me that I am wrong and that I wouldn't have been able to order in AUD... What do you want me to do... email you the Tax Invoice or something?... seriously! I just tried it again (with flag set to Australia) currency changed to AUD and it works fine. No such error anymore. As I said, YMMV :)
 
Well you are unable to test it properly as you're IP address & location is not in AU, mine is as I live here!. I notice that doesn't stop you from telling me that I am wrong and that I wouldn't have been able to order in AUD... What do you want me to do... email you the Tax Invoice or something?... seriously! I just tried it again (with flag set to Australia) currency changed to AUD and it works fine. No such error anymore. As I said, YMMV :)
You was able to do an order with region flag later changed to Australia as you previously had added The Curse of Frankensteinto to your basket when region location flag was set to UK.

If The Curse of Frankenstein is not already in your basket
I just tested with a VPN set to Australia IP address
and when Flag is set to Australia you still get This product is not available in your territory

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When you set Flag to UK you can add to basket and as I very clearly previously mentioned at checkout currency it will be in AU $ as it changes currency going by delivery address of that order.
I never said you was not able to do an order I gave Instructions how to do an order with a delivery address based outside UK

Did you previously have set to UK (GPB £) and then added to basket on Friday if yes then it does not matter what country flag is later set on their website as The Curse of Frankenstein already in the basket to do checkout.

Once item is in the basket you can complete checkout it won't matter what country flag you later set to on hammer films website or what country IP address is been used

When an item is already in basket if you later change the country flag on the website it will change currency of item in basket for that country

In my case the price was in Euro's on Friday when I got to checkout as my delivery address details was already in my account

The website goes by what region the country flag is used at bottom of the website they don't use IP address Geolocation
Any product that is still in your basket (As long as it's not sold out) you can still complete an order at checkout regardless what country region flag you later set on their website or what the country IP address is been used

In regards to The Curse of Frankenstein
You can only add to basket if first set country flag to UK once you do this you can complete an order
As long as it's in your basket it won't matter what country flag you later change to on the website it will just change item already in the basket to the currency for that location

Try doing a new order with no items already in the basket you cant add this release to basket unless you first set region flag at bottom of website to United Kingdom GBP £
If country flag is set to Australia you will still see
This product is not available in your territory

For other members based outside UK who not yet done an order
How to do an order if The Curse of Frankenstein is not already in your basket
To add to basket first set region flag at bottom of website to United Kingdom GBP £
You can then later change the country flag of your choice
if you wanted on the hammer films website and the currency will be listed for that location for the item already in your basket and complete checkout for any location or currency

Note it's not known yet if Hammer Films will actually dispatch orders of The Curse of Frankenstein in October done with a delivery address that is based outside UK
Using the trick to get this release in basket to do checkout.
It's not guaranteed you will actually get order dispatched you might find they do start doing refunds and cancelling orders closer to release date.
Hopefully this does not happen but don't be surprised if Hammer Films don't honor orders done it might depend if Warner UK/USA get strict and won't allow them ship these orders to delivery address outside UK
 
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It’s still possible orders done with a delivery address that’s outside UK won’t be honoured as in be dispatched in October.

At the moment the payment is still a pending transaction on my debit card if that does not change to completed by next week there might be an issue.

Yes my hammer account for the order says paid but the actual payment has not been completed yet

If the pending transaction drops off and funds are returned to my bank account balance then no payment was completed.

Hopefully Hammer will ship orders that was done with delivery address that’s outside UK but don’t be surprised if that doesn’t happen.
 
Amazon UK/Zavvi/HMV live to pre order

I have done a backup order with Amazon UK just in case Hammer Films Store don't dispatch my order in October
 
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Trouble is Zavvi are not 100% reliable. I'm had various titles cancelled by them at the last minute along the lines of "We got limited supplies of item X and you're **** out of luck " or words to that effect.
That's not the only problem with Zavvi. They so completely abused my senses with their Casablanca debacle, that I have sworn to never use them again. Rediculous, unprofessional and stupid was the nonsense they put me thru.

That said....thanks to the excellent information about OrbitDVD I received from @paulboland I have secured a copy of this most magnificent endeavor.