DARK CITY SYNOPSIS:

A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.

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From Alex Proyas, visionary director of The Crow, comes Dark City, a mind-bending science fiction thriller set in a shadowy world where the sun never rises and nothing is quite what it seems.

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John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes in a hotel bathtub with no memory of who he is or how he got there, but there's a body on the floor with bloody spirals carved into the flesh and a voice on the phone that tells him to flee. Soon Murdoch is on the run, wanted by the police, a woman who claims to be his wife and a group of mysterious pale men who seem to control everyone and everything in the city... except him.

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With a cast that includes Kiefer Sutherland (The Lost Boys), William Hurt (A History of Violence), Jennifer Connelly (Phenomena) and Richard O'Brien (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), and a script by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (Kafka) and David S. Goyer (Batman Begins), Dark City is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, filmed through a lens of film noir and German expressionism... an extraordinary feast for the cinematic senses.

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SPECIAL FEATURES ​

• DISC ONE - DIRECTOR'S CUT

  • Brand new audio commentary by director Alex Proyas

  • Brand new audio commentary with Craig Anderson, Bruce Isaacs and Herschel Isaacs, co-hosts of the Film Versus Film podcast

  • Archive audio commentary by director Alex Proyas

  • Archive audio commentary by film critic Roger Ebert

  • Archive audio commentary by writers Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer

  • Archive introduction by Alex Proyas

  • Return to Dark City, a new hour-long documentary featuring interviews with director Alex Proyas, producer Andrew Mason, production designers Patrick Tatopoulos and George Liddle, costume designer Liz Keough, storyboard artist Peter Pound, director of photography Dariusz Wolski, actor Rufus Sewell, hair & makeup artist Leslie Vanderwalt and VFX creative director Peter Doyle

  • Rats in a Maze, a new visual essay by film scholar Alexandra West

  • I'm as Much in the Dark as You Are, a new visual essay by film scholar Josh Nelson on film noir and identity in Dark City

  • Design & Storyboards

• DISC TWO - THEATRICAL CUT

  • Archive audio commentary by director Alex Proyas, writers Lem Dobbs & David S. Goyer, director of photography Dariusz Wolski and production designer Patrick Tatopoulos

  • Archive audio commentary by film critic Roger Ebert

  • Memories of Shell Beach, a 2008 featurette in which cast and crew look back at the making of the film from concept to reception

  • Architecture of Dreams, a 2008 featurette presenting five perspectives on the themes and meanings of the film

  • Theatrical trailer

  • Image gallery