Psychological thriller Eclipse set for BFI release

The BFI have announced the Blu-Ray release of cult classic Eclipse on 21 April 2025.

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

Strange, unsettling and barely seen since it was shot nearly 50 years ago, Eclipse now finds safe harbour on Blu-ray for the first time, in a new scan from the best available 35mm archival materials, released on the BFI Flipside label.

Extras include an audio commentary by the BFI’s Vic Pratt and a new filmed interview with actor Tom Conti.

Tom Conti (Oppenheimer, Slade in Flame) 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 (Gay Hamilton) and her son (Gavin Wallace), things begin to go awry as dark secrets and sibling rivalries surface once more.

Special features

• Newly remastered in 2K and presented in High Definition
• Audio commentary by Vic Pratt, co-founder of BFI Flipside
• Sun & Moon – Tom Conti Discusses Eclipse (2025, 10 mins): the actor on his experience of making the film
• Relative Strangers: 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, 1 min); Lonely Water (1973, 2 mins): three haunting water-safety Public Information Films eerily adjacent to the psychogeographic headspace of the main feature
• 2025 trailer
• Image gallery
• ***First pressing only*** Illustrated booklet with new writing on the film by Vic Pratt, an archival interview with director Simon Perry, an original review, an essay on the film’s locations by Douglas Weir and writing on The Chalk Mark and Marooned by the BFI’s William Fowler.

Pre-order from the BFI Shop.