DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL [DELUXE LIMITED EDITION VSD EXCLUSIVE] (DEAF CROCODILE/4K UHD)

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Release date: 10/17/2026

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DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL ("HUKKUNUD ALPINISTI" HOTEL) - 1979, Tallinnfilm, 84 min. "I was on call to drive to a mountain hotel. The hotel's name was The Dead Mountaineer," says police inspector Peter Glebsky (Uldis Pūcītis) at the beginning of Estonian director Grigori Kromanov's dazzling, paranoid mixture of locked-room mystery, 1970s Euro giallo, classic noir whodunit, and (unbelievably) alien sci-fi ala THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH. Based on a novel by famed Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (STALKER, HARD TO BE A GOD), the hall-of-mirrors plot follows Glebsky as he's trapped by avalanche in the ski lodge with a rogues' gallery of weird suspects: tubercular gangster Hinckus (Mikk Mikiver), creepy hotel owner Snewahr (Jüri Järvet, KING LEAR), a wall-climbing physicist (Lembit Peterson), a louche, wig-wearing beauty out of a Bryan Ferry song (Irena Kriauzaite) - oh, and the Dead Mountaineer's faithful St. Bernard. The interior of the hotel (brilliantly art directed by Tõnu Virve and Priit Vaher, and photographed by Jüri Sillart) is straight out of a Dario Argento or Sergio Martino thriller: all chrome-and-marble with Space Age modern designs, drenched in champagne and feather boas. Featuring a stellar electronica / prog score by composer Sven Grünberg, the film combines an eerie THE SHINING-like mountain locale with speculative sci-fi straight out of Chariots of the Gods. "This is the end of the road. The only way is back," as the hotel owner cryptically smiles. Newly restored in 4K by Deaf Crocodile in collaboration with the Estonian Film Institute and Film Archive. In Estonian with English subtitles.

Bonus Materials

New 4K restoration from new 4K interpositive scan by Craig Rogers and Michael Coronado for Deaf Crocodile and color grade by Tyler Fagerstrom.

First-ever Worldwide 4K UHD + Blu-ray release

New commentary by film historian Michael Brooke

“Snow Job: A Routine Investigation in Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel” - new visual essay by Ryan Verrill & Dr. Will Dodson of Someone’s Favorite Prod.

Excerpt from the documentary BONUS TRACK (2016, dir. Riho Vastrik) on composer Sven Grünberg and his score for the film (13 min.)

Original trailer

Vintage “Making of DEAD MOUNTAINEER’S HOTEL” featurette created by Estonian Public TV

Vintage Soviet Estonian newsreel footage on the making of the film (2 min.)

New artwork by Beth Morris

Deluxe hardbound slipcase featuring artwork by artist Hans Woody

60-page illustrated booklet including new written interview with actor Lembit Peterson

New essays by Soviet film scholar Peter Rollberg, film critic Walter Chaw and film historian Michelle Kisner

Sales Points

For fans of films based on the novels of the Strugatsky Brothers (STALKER, HARD TO BE A GOD)

For fans of 1970s Italian giallos by Dario Argento and Sergio Martino

First-ever worldwide 4K UHD + Blu-ray release of the film.

For fans of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING