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New to Blu – Week of 6/13/2017

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Each week here at Bloody Disgusting we like to highlight some of the new Blu-ray releases hitting shelves across the world. Please note that this isn’t every release for the week, just a few of the ones that jumped out at us.

Not a huge week of releases this week, but some really good stuff. The big one is John Wick: Chapter 2 which is amazing and everyone should own. The cooler genre stuff would be Arrow’s release of Madhouse, Shout Factory’s Alienator and Mondo Macabro’s Inquisition. Heading over to our friends in the UK and Shameless delivers All the Colours of the Dark and 88 Films gives us Lamberto Bava’s Boddy Puzzle. Definitely quality of quantity this week!

US Releases

Mine (Well Go USA, Region A)

Synopsis:
Following a failed mission, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert, where he’ll have to face nature, the local guerrilla groups and his progressive mental and physical deterioration.

The Killer Sci Fi 3 Pack (SGL Entertainment, Region A)

Slipstream
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by natural disasters, and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself. These in turn try to hunt the two men down.

Creature
A expedition to Titan uncovers an alien being, that goes on a rampage.

Incident at Raven’s Gate
Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother’s isolated farm. It’s not long before bizarre things start happening–dead birds falling out of the sky, family pets attacking their owners, strange apparitions beginning to appear, and people who had been “normal” suddenly going insane.

Inquisition (Mondo Macabro, Region A)

Synopsis:
Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to seduce and condemn the man who is killing off Satan’s servants.

Madhouse (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
Julia, a teacher in a school for the deaf, has a hideosly disformed and deranged twin sister that resides in the local looney bin. She escapes to gate-crash a surprise birthday party for Julia by murdering all the party guests with the help of a giant killer Alsation dog, which gets it’s come-uppance when lobotomised by a power drill, in a scene that will offend most animal lovers.

Don’t Look in the Basement (Brink, Region A)

Synopsis:
In Stephens Sanitarium, therapy has been replaced by torture and necrophilia. By allowing each patient to act out his psychosis, the director believes that he can cure insanity. The doctor becomes the victim of his own experiment when he is brutally murdered by an inmate. Charlotte, a young nurse practiced in experimental psychology, joins the shrinking staff, but nothing can prepare her for the gruesome scenes that await her at the asylum. Under the guidance of the new director, the stronger patients prey on the weak, as they plunge deeper into madness. Charlotte’s attempt to help turns into a fight for survival as the most violent and demented inmate emerges to take control of the entire hospital…

Alienator (Shout Factory, Region A)

Synopsis:
Kol is an evil guy about to be executed on a distant spaceship. He manages to escape on a shuttle and make his way to some woods in America. The commander of the spaceship decides to send out The Alienator to execute Kol at all costs. Kol meets up with some teens and Ward Armstrong and together they all try not to get killed by the pursuing Woman of Death – The Alienator.

The LEGO Batman (Warner Bros, Region A)

Synopsis:
LEGO Batman and LEGO Robin team up to fight crime.

John Wick: Chapter 2 (Lionsgate, Region A)

Synopsis:
John Wick is forced to back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers.

They Live By Night (Criterion, Region A)

Synopsis:
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.

UK Releases

John Wick: Chapter 2 (Lionsgate, Region B)

Synopsis:
John Wick is forced to back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers.

Madhouse (Arrow, Region B)

Synopsis:
Julia, a teacher in a school for the deaf, has a hideosly disformed and deranged twin sister that resides in the local looney bin. She escapes to gate-crash a surprise birthday party for Julia by murdering all the party guests with the help of a giant killer Alsation dog, which gets it’s come-uppance when lobotomised by a power drill, in a scene that will offend most animal lovers.

Meridian: Kiss of the Beast (88 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
Two American students go to Italy after graduating from art school, one to work in restoration of paintings, the other because she’s inherited her father’s castle. When the restorer visits her friend at the castle, they invite the players of a traveling sideshow to dinner, and are slipped drugs, leading to an orgy of abandon. The woman who owns the castle keeps having visions of a young woman who has been stabbed in the castle. After talking to her nanny, she finds that the “vision” woman is her father’s sister, who was murdered brutally as the consequence of a 15th Century curse put on her family, and that she is the next in line, and the troupe they have entertained is a part of the curse.

All the Colours of the Dark (Shameless, Region B)

Synopsis:
Jane lives in London with Richard, her boyfriend. When she was five, her mother was murdered, and she recently lost a baby in a car crash. She’s plagued by nightmares of a knife-wielding, blue-eyed man. Richard, a pharmaceutical salesman, thinks the cure is vitamins; Jane’s sister Barbara, who works for a psychiatrist, recommends analysis; a neighbor Jane’s just met promises that if Jane participates in a Black Mass, all her fears will disappear. Jane tries the Mass, but it seems to bring her nightmares to life. Is there any way out for her short of death or a living hell?

Body Puzzle (88 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
A police officer makes a terrible discovery during the investigation of a series of murders: Each victim has a transplanted organ from the same man.

Chris Coffel is originally from Phoenix, AZ and now resides in Portland, OR. He once scored 26 goals in a game of FIFA. He likes the Phoenix Suns, Paul Simon and 'The 'Burbs.' Oh and cats. He also likes cats.

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Gateway Horror Classic ‘The Gate’ Returns to Life With Blu-ray SteelBook in May

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One of my personal favorite horror movies of all time, 1987’s gateway horror classic The Gate is opening back up on May 14 with a brand new Blu-ray SteelBook release from Lionsgate!

The new release will feature fresh SteelBook artwork from Vance Kelly, seen below.

Special Features, all of which were previously released, include…

  • Audio Commentaries
    • Director Tibor Takacs, Writer Michael Nankin, and Special Effects Designer & Supervisor Randall William Cook
    • Special Effects Designer & Supervisor Randall William Cook, Special Make-Up Effects Artist Craig Reardon, Special Effects Artist Frank Carere, and Matte Photographer Bill Taylor
  • Isolated Score Selections and Audio Interview
  • Featurettes:
    • The Gate: Unlocked
    • Minion Maker
    • From Hell It Came
    • The Workman Speaks!
    • Made in Canada
    • From Hell: The Creatures & Demons of The Gate
    • The Gatekeepers
    • Vintage Featurette: Making of The Gate
  • Teaser Trailer
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • TV Spot
  • Storyboard Gallery
  • Behind-the-Scenes Still Gallery

When best friends Glen (Stephen Dorff) and Terry (Louis Tripp) stumble across a mysterious crystalline rock in Glen’s backyard, they quickly dig up the newly sodden lawn searching for more precious stones. Instead, they unearth The Gate — an underground chamber of terrifying demonic evil. The teenagers soon understand what evil they’ve released as they are overcome with an assortment of horrific experiences. With fiendish followers invading suburbia, it’s now up to the kids to discover the secret that can lock The Gate forever . . . if it’s not too late.

If you’ve never seen The Gate, it’s now streaming on Prime Video and Tubi.

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