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.

Pretty busy week. Lots of new stuff hitting Blu-ray. In the US and UK Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive makes it first ever appearance on the format. But check out what Germany has in store for us this week. Lots of cool steelbooks and mediabooks!

U.S. Releases

The Sentinel (Scream Factory)

Synopsis:
Not ready for marriage, a fashion model moves into an unbelievably nice Brooklyn Heights apartment, where scary occurrences turn into a much more frightening turn of events.

Eaten Alive (Arrow)

Synopsis:
A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.

The Satan Bug (Kino Lorber)

Synopsis:
John Sturges directed this sizzling suspenser about a nerve-racking chase to recover flasks of a lethal virus which were stolen from a government lab by a deranged and dangerous scientist. Based on a novel by Alistair MacLean (writing under pseudonym Ian Stuart).

Black Caesar (Olive Films)

Synopsis:
Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage. He performs a free-lance hit on a Mob contract to attract the attention of the head of a Mafia family. Reluctantly accepted into ‘The Family,’ he grows increasingly autonomous and aggressive, eventually starting a gang war.

Busting (Kino Lorber)

Synopsis:
LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don’t heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss. While higher ups in the police department want the cop duo to just focus on nabbing petty criminals, the team does so while still going after LA kingpin Rizzo. Various fist fights, chases, shootouts and other carnage occur as the two cops go after Rizzo’s crime syndicate.

The Desctructors (Kino Lorber)

Synopsis:
When a US intelligence agent is unable to bring a ruthless drug baron to justice, he resorts to hiring a contract killer. But the man he is put in contact with turns out to be an old friend.

Nightmare Weekend (Vinegar Syndrome)

Synopsis:
A maniacally evil woman manipulates a computer and uses it to warp people’s minds and turn them into crazed mutanoid zombies.

Slaughter (Olive Films)

Synopsis:
Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.

The Woods (Olive Films)

Synopsis:
Equal parts Dario Argento and Henry James, Lucky McKee’s brooding psychological horror film stars Agnes Bruckner as Heather, a young woman with a tendency to set things on fire. Her exasperated parents send her off to a remote boarding school in a mysterious woods, where it turns out the administration has been collecting young people with special powers in order to execute their nefarious schemes. Patricia Clarkson stars as the school’s creepy headmaster, and cult legend Bruce Campbell plays Heather’s father…

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 40th Anniversay Edition (Fox)

Synopsis:
When bland engaged couple Brad and Janet seek shelter after their car breaks down in a storm, they find themselves made welcome in the very weird home of mad scientist Dr Frank N. Furter, an alien transvestite who is building a monster called Rocky.

The American Dreamer (Etiquette Pictures)

Synopsis:
A documentary about actor/director Dennis Hopper, showing him at his home and studio putting together his film “The Last Movie.”

Tokyo Ghoul: Season 1 (FUNimation Entertainment)

Synopsis:
In modern day Tokyo, society lives in fear of Ghouls: mysterious creatures that look exactly like humans, yet hunger insatiably for their flesh. None of this matters to Ken Kaneki, a bookish and ordinary young man, until a dark and violent encounter turns him into the first ever Ghoul-human half-breed. Trapped between two worlds, Ken must survive the violent conflicts of warring Ghoul factions while attempting to learn more about Ghoul society, his newfound powers, and the fine line between man and monster.

George: A Zombie Intervention (Breaking Glass)

Synopsis:
George’s friends have all gathered for an intervention… George’s intervention. You see, George is a zombie and George’s friends are attempting to convince George to stop eating people and to enter ‘zombie rehab’. But the intervention doesn’t go quite as planned.

UK Releases

Eaten Alive (Arrow)

Synopsis:
A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.

John Wick (Warner Bros.)

Synopsis:
A former hit man is pursued by an old friend who was contracted to kill him.

The Man Who Could Cheat Death (Eureka)

Synopsis:
Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he’s really 104 years old. But people are starting to get suspicious, and he may not make 200…

Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (88 Films)

Synopsis:
A mental-patient, who is troubled with horrible nightmares, has escaped from his hospital. Now on the streets he can’t help killing innocent people. But there is one family he is more than interested in and when he tries to kill them, he finds that it’s not that easy.

Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 (88 Films)

Synopsis:
When a terrorist’s body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing the virus/bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island. Soon the infected populace mutate into flesh-hungry zombies, and a trio of soldiers on leave must team up with a group of tourists and board themselves up in an abandoned hotel as they try to fend off the agile and aggressive living dead…

Australia Releases

Time Lapse (Gryphon Entertainment)

Synopsis:
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24hrs into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

Mimesis (Monster Pictures)

Synopsis:
A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.

Fury: The Tales of Ronan Pierce (Monster Pictures)

Synopsis:
Fury revolves around vigilante cop Ronan Pierce. He is fueled by a tragic past, and the recent abduction of his wife McKenzie has Ronan’s appetite for vengeance completely unbounded. Relentlessly searching for clues, Ronan systematically unchains his rage on a city full of psychopaths, gangs, corruption and the unrivaled evil-doings of the Luna Cartel. Responsible for both his daughter’s death and his wife’s abduction, the Luna Cartel enslaves thousands of young beautiful women from around the world and harvests organs from all of its other victims. Joined by his partner Rex and a young circus clown named Karina, Ronan ‘paints the town red’ in his search for bloody justice.

Germany Releases

Ghousthouse (X-Rated Eurocult)

Synopsis:
Visions of a deceased girl and her doll bring doom to the visitors of a deserted house.

A Blade in the Dark (X-Rated Eurocult)

Synopsis:
Bruno is hired to compose the music for a new horror movie and rents an isolated villa to concentrate on his work. But when several beautiful young women are brutally murdered within the house, Bruno becomes obsessed with solving the savage crimes. Is a clue to the killer’s identity hidden within the film itself, or is there a more horrifying secret lurking deep in the dark?

No Retreat, No Surrender (Splendid Entertainment)

Synopsis:
Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top martial artist is the deadly Ivan.

Spring (Koch Media)

Synopsis:
A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

Zardoz (Koch Media)

Synopsis:
Two societies, one intellectual (The Eternals) and the other physical (The Brutals) live side by side but never meet. Sean Connery is a Brutal out to shake things up.

Saturn 3 (Koch Media)

Synopsis:
Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent 8-ft robot. Remember, in space no one can hear you scream…

Halloween II (Rough Trade)

Synopsis:
Dr. Loomis and Sheriff Brackett are again searching the dark streets for Micheal Myers but meanwhile Laurie Strode is taken to the Haddenfield Hospital where she is still not safe. Micheal, being shot by Dr. Loomis six times, is also still looming in the shadows hunting for her yet this time, there is a reason why he is after her.

Maniac Cop (NSM)

Synopsis:
In New York, a man in a cop’s uniform starts killing people for no apparent reason.