Amongst overlooked filmmakers, british director michael j murphy ranks as one of the most sorely neglected. Having cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts, he had completed three feature length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between greece, portugal, and the uk, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun.despite this prolific output – a total of more than thirty completed films over a half century, of which twenty six survive – murphy's work remains rarely seen and little championed. Fitfully available on videotape, and barely represented on dvd, this comprehensive and long gestating ten disc blu ray collection seeks to rectify that situation once and for all. Boasting all new 2k restorations from archival 16mm and 8mm elements, as well as a number of new digital captures from murphy's personal tape masters, this extensive retrospective of the obsessive auteur's work is bolstered by a wealth of bonus features, including surviving fragments from lost works, and a 120 page book, all of which provides the definitive account of the weird and wonderful worlds of britain's great unheralded diy filmmaker. All new 2k restorations by powerhouse films, using film elements from the murphy archives, of tristan and iseult 1970, happy ever after 1974, secrets 1977, almost a movie 1979, the cell 1980, stay 1980, death in the family 1981, invitation to hell 1983, the last night 1983, bloodstream 1985, moonchild 1989, torment 1990, atlantis 1991, road to nowhere 1993, tristan version one, 1999, zk3 2012, nekros isle of the dead 2014, and the return of alan strange 2015standard definition presentations, newly digitised from murphy's tape masters, of qualen 1983, tristan aka legend of the hero 1986, death run 1987, avalon 1988, second sight 1992, the rite of spring version one, 1995, the rite of spring version two, 1995, tristan version two, 1999, roxi 2004, and skare 2008original mono soundtracksover 34 hours' worth of film contentaudio commentary with murphy, and actors sally duncan and phil lyndon on invitation to hell 2008audio commentary with author and arts professor johnny walker on invitation to hell 2022audio commentary with murphy, duncan and lyndon on the last night 2008audio commentary with murphy, actors june bunday, judith holding and lyndon on atlantis 2010audio commentary with murphy and holding on skare 2009murphy's lore 2022 three part documentary assessing murphy's six decade career, featuring interviews with murphy, bunday, holding, chris jupp, stephen longhurst, patrick olliver, filmmakers jackson batchelor, sam mason bell and tom lee rutter, film historians darrell buxton and walker, and film programmer paul cotgrovethe horror on sea interview with michael j murphy 2013 the prolific filmmaker in conversation with bunday and lyndon, recorded for the british horror festivalthe making of 'invitation to hell' and 'the last night' 2008 retrospective documentary featuring interviews with murphy, lyndon and duncanthe making of 'atlantis' 2010 two part retrospective documentary featuring interviews with murphy, lyndon, bunday and holdingthe making of 'skare' 2009 retrospective documentary featuring interviews with murphy and holdingthe making of 'roxi' 2004 documentary featuring interviews with actors mary anne barlow, bruce lawrence, ross maxwell and valia yanarouthe making of 'zk3' 2012 retrospective documentary featuring interviews with murphy, holding and lyndon'the rite of spring' behind the scenes 1999'nekros' behind the scenes 2012'skare' script readthrough 2008surviving fragments from six lost murphy films atlantis city of sin 1967, boadicea 1968, gods and heroes 1971, two versions of seventh day 1976 77, and insight 1978outtakes from moonchild, torment, atlantis, second sight, and skaremute rushes from the lost 16mm version of skare, with optional selected scene commentary with actor oliver price'the return of alan strange' test footage 2014michael j murphy on 'beast' 2010 interview with the filmmaker about chris jupp's remake of his lost version of skarevideo tour of michael j murphy's home 2014michael j murphy tribute video 2015 documentary short made for the murlyn films international websitehome video footage shot by murphytrailers for invitation to hell, the last night, bloodstream, legend of a hero, death run, avalon, moonchild, torment, atlantis, road to nowhere, the rite of spring, tristan, roxi, skare, zk3, nekros isle of death, and the return of alan strangeoriginal 'stay' 7 single needle drop recordingimage galleriesscript gallerieslimited edition exclusive 120 page book with new essays by murphy experts wayne maginn, paul higson, darrell buxton and johnny walker, a comprehensive filmography, and film creditsworld premieres on blu raylimited edition box set of 6,000 numbered units for the uk and usall extras subject to change