Deaf Crocodile

By the great Hans Woody!

DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL - DELUXE LIMITED EDITION PRE-ORDER AND SAVE $5 - PRICE WILL INCREASE TO $44.95 UPON RELEASE. SHIPPING IN LATE MARCH LIMITED TO 3000 UNITS DEAD MOUNTAINEER’S HOTEL (“HUKKUNUD ALPINISTI” HOTEL) – 1979, Tallinnfilm, 84 min.  "I ...

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Episode 31 of the Official Deaf Crocodile Podcast is live, and no surprise, it's an all DEAD MOUNTAI

Episode 31 of the Official Deaf Crocodile Podcast is live, and no surprise, it's an all DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL episode! Hear about the multi-year process of restoring the film, and listen as Craig & Dennis break down the cornucopia of supplemental features! Available wherever you podcast.

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Deluxe Edition Bonus Content:
Limited Edition of 3000 units
Hard slipcase featuring new painted cover art by Hans Woody
60-page illustrated booklet including:
New essay by Soviet film scholar Peter Rollberg
New essay by film historian Michelle Kisner
New essay by film critic Walter Chaw

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

“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

Bonus Features:
New 4K restoration 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

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.

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

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

(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

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

***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Coming in late March on #4K/Blu-ray dual format in the US from
@deafcrocodile.bsky.social
: #DeadMountaineersHotel (1979)!

"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

This place looks amazing! I wish I lived closer to Minneapolis!

MINNEAPOLIS: This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Trylon Cinema is showing our restoration of GWEN

MINNEAPOLIS: This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Trylon Cinema is showing our restoration of GWEN

MINNEAPOLIS: This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Trylon Cinema is showing our restoration of GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND as part of its series, "The Art of Insurgence: '80s Animated Sci-Fantasy." Support cinema, support micro-cinemas! https://www.trylon.org/film/gwen-and-the-book-of-sand/

PRE-ORDERS. FRIDAY. 4K UHD world premiere from a brand-new restoration by the Estonian Film Institute and Deaf Crocodile. Watch the restoration trailer now, full details in two days.

#deafcrocodile #4kuhd #filmrestoration #estonianfilm #deadmountaineershotel #strugatskybrothers #bluraycollection

Pics from the Berlinale premier of Deaf Crocodile and the Estonian Film Institute's new restoration

Pics from the Berlinale premier of Deaf Crocodile and the Estonian Film Institute's new restoration

Pics from the Berlinale premier of Deaf Crocodile and the Estonian Film Institute's new restoration

Pics from the Berlinale premier of Deaf Crocodile and the Estonian Film Institute's new restoration of DEAD MOUNTAINEERS HOTEL. Photos by Erik Weiss, used with kind permission.

The Cleveland Cinematheque presents three Lev Atamanov's films on Thursday (February 19) at 6 pm and

The Cleveland Cinematheque presents three Lev Atamanov's films on Thursday (February 19) at 6 pm and Saturday (February 21) at 8:30 pm, including THE SNOW QUEEN, which Hayao Mizayaki called "My destiny and my favorite film"! https://cinematheque.cia.edu/movies/treasures-of-soviet-animation-vol-2/

WOW. A second win at tonight's Shelf Shock Rewind Awards, this time for "Best Annual Slate from a Si

WOW. A second win at tonight's Shelf Shock Rewind Awards, this time for "Best Annual Slate from a Single Small-Slate Boutique Label" from the Creator's Selection Committee.

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone for the support. It really means the world.

#deafcrocodile #shelfshockrewind #worldcinema

THANK YOU to everyone that voted for Deaf Crocodile in the Pre-Code/Silent Film release category of

THANK YOU to everyone that voted for Deaf Crocodile in the Pre-Code/Silent Film release category of the Shelf Shock Rewind 2025 awards! We're so glad to see these films getting recognition in the physical media community.

#deafcrocodile #silentfilm #filmrestoration #shelfshockrewind

Final scan of the release cover, showing scenes from a broken mind revealed through shards of glass

A dork holding some art for scale.

Though it’s been peeking at people from my profile banner for a while, here’s a complete look at the final cover art for @deafcrocodile.bsky.social ‘s wonderful release of the excellent KRAKATIT. Inkwash on paper, with more details over on Patreon.

Awards season (for physical media) is here! Watch the 2025 Shelf Shock Rewind Awards Sunday, Februar

Awards season (for physical media) is here! Watch the 2025 Shelf Shock Rewind Awards Sunday, February 15 at 7pm EST/4pm PST. Deaf Crocodile is nominated in five categories! Join us in the comments and cheer on all the winners! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6-9cnQ6yeQ

Happy Valentine's Day Eve from Cherry, Spud, and the whole gang or horndogs at HAIR HIGH! Whether you're having your first kiss or your millionth, may it be filled with a maximum of passion, and a minimum of hamburgers or locomotives.
(Unless that's your thing, in which case, carry on!)

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Thanks to McBastard's Mausoleum for the awesome and detailed writeups of ALRAUNE and THE STUDENT OF

Thanks to McBastard's Mausoleum for the awesome and detailed writeups of ALRAUNE and THE STUDENT OF

Thanks to McBastard's Mausoleum for the awesome and detailed writeups of ALRAUNE and THE STUDENT OF

Thanks to McBastard's Mausoleum for the awesome and detailed writeups of ALRAUNE and THE STUDENT OF

Thanks to McBastard's Mausoleum for the awesome and detailed writeups of ALRAUNE and THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE. Check out the full review here: https://mcbastardsmausoleum.blogspot.com/2026/01/alraune-1927-student-of-prague-1926.html

Los Angeles! Friday, February 20, you can see Deaf Crocodile's new 4K restoration of DEAD MOUNTAINEE

Los Angeles! Friday, February 20, you can see Deaf Crocodile's new 4K restoration of DEAD MOUNTAINEERS HOTEL at the Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dead-mountaineers-hotel-1979-new-4k-restoration-tickets-1981277140261?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Sadly the current shop theme doesn't have Blue sky option. 😭

Alas, it seems it's a deficit in our ecommerce platform, who don't provide a widget to quick-link our Bluesky account. 😒

Hmm, good point! Let me see what I can do...

They can be so hard to find sometimes!