There’ll be a chance to see a long-missing section of the 1958 Dracula when Hammer release a 4K version of the film later this year.

Screen Daily reports that “the restoration reinstates more than three minutes of footage that was believed to be lost and had only ever been seen by audiences attending the film’s original Japanese theatrical release in 1958.”

John Gore, CEO of Hammer Films and executive chairman of John Gore Studios, said: “Bringing Dracula back to audiences in 4K goes far beyond a piece of film restoration work. This is the recovery of a piece of British film history that audiences believed had been lost forever. Seeing Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing together again in such extraordinary detail is a reminder of just how powerful this film remains nearly seventy years after its original release.”

The restored version will be released for home entertainment, and in cinemas, this October.

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