Eclipse Blu-ray

'Eclipse' Director: Simon Perry (1977) BFI Flipside Blu-ray | 2K restoration

A remote cliffside house on the Scottish coast provides the weather-beaten setting for this eerie, atmospheric psychological thriller, adapted from Nicholas Wollaston's haunting novel and inexplicably blown adrift since its release in 1977.

Tom Conti (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence) stars as a bereaved brother troubled by memories of his twin, whom he saw die at sea. After returning to his childhood home for a Christmas celebration with his brother's alcoholic widow and her son, things begin to go awry as dark secrets and sibling rivalries surface once more.

Special features include:
- Audio commentary by co-founder of BFI Flipside Vic Pratt
- Tom Conti discusses Eclipse (2025, 10 mins)
- Two stylish short films, The Chalk Mark (1989, 24 mins) and Marooned (1994, 20 mins), that echo the disjointed relationships central to Eclipse
- Not Waving, Drowning: Joe and Petunia: Coastguard (1968, 2 mins)
- Charley Says: Falling in the Water (1973, 2 mins): three haunting water-safety Public Information Films eerily adjacent to the psychogeographic headspace of the main feature