The Incredible Shrinking Man Blu-ray

Release Year: 1957

Runtime: 81 min

Director: Jack Arnold

Cast: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey

Studios: Universal International Pictures

A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.

Special Features:

4K digital restoration

with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.

New audio commentary

featuring genre-film historian Tom Weaver and horror-music expert David Schecter.

New program

on the film’s special effects by effects experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt.

New conversation

between filmmaker Joe Dante and comedian and writer Dana Gould.

Auteur on the Campus: Jack Arnold at Universal

(Director’s Cut, 2021).

Interview

from 2016 with Richard Christian Matheson, novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson’s son.

Interview

from 1983 with director Jack Arnold.

8mm home-cinema versions

of the film from 1969.

The Lost Music of “The Incredible Shrinking Man”

Trailer and teaser narrated by filmmaker Orson Welles.

PLUS: An essay

by critic Geoffrey O’Brien.

Technical Specifications:

• 4K digital restoration
• Uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• 1.85:1 aspect ratio