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.

Sort of weird week of releases. Lots of good stuff here in the US, particularly from Kino Lorber and Olive Films, but the only foreign releases of note this week (at least IMO) come from Australia. Quality stuff across the board though.

US Releases

Disturbing Behavior (Scream Factory, Region A)

Synopsis:
The new kid in town stumbles across something sinister about the town’s method of transforming its unruly teens into upstanding citizens.

Black Mama, White Mama (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can’t seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.

Fear the Walking Dead (Starz/Anchor Bay, Region A)

Synopsis:
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in “The Walking Dead”? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.

Breaker! Breaker! (Olive Films, Region A)

Synopsis:
A truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.

The Black Sheep (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife’s brain tumor.

Undertow (Olive Films, Region A)

Synopsis:
Chris Munn is a troubled teenager who can’t seem to stay out of trouble. His hard-nosed father, John, and younger brother, Tim, are his only companions. But when Chris’s long-lost Uncle Deel shows up for a reunion of sorts, the past comes back to haunt everyone.

Donovan’s Brain (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
Dr. Patrick Cory has a hideous hobby — he keeps brains alive! So when the brain of dead murderer W.H. Donovan falls into his possession, bringing him back becomes his obsession. But the cunning cranium has its own agenda — to control the doctor’s mind through telepathic messages! Now, Cory’s wife must put a stop to the devious brain before it destroys the man she loves — and her in the process!

Kill Me Again (Olive Films, Region A)

Synopsis:
Fay Forrester, an attractive young lady wants to escape from her violent and jealous boyfriend Vince. So she hires Jack Andrews, a second class private investigator to arrange her death. She wants to restart her life with a new identity and the money she robbed together with Vince. Because of Jack’s financial problems he joins Fay after her fake death. Unfortunately Vince finds out that Fay’s still alive. The hunt for Jack, Fay and the money begins.

The Trip (Olive Films, Region A)

Synopsis:
Hedonism isn’t just for breakfast anymore. Or so learns TV commercial director Paul (Peter Fonda) on his first LSD trip — a mind-blowing passage through surreal images and stroboscopic light shows. Written by Jack Nicholson and directed by Roger Corman, THE TRIP takes you to a whole new world of extreme beauty and sheer terror — on a passport the size of a stamp!

Puppet on a Chain (Scorpion Releasing, Region A)

Synopsis:
From Alistair MacLean, the writer of Guns of Navarone, & Where Eagles Dare comes Puppet on a Chain. The headquarters of a drug-smuggling cartel is the quarry of American narcotics agent Paul Sherman (Sven-Bertil Taube). Though the cartel’s activities are centered in Amsterdam, Sherman’s search for the headquarters leads to an island castle owned by an offbeat religious group. Sherman and his partner Maggie (Barbara Parkins) run into serious trouble when they try to gain access to the forbidden site.

Goodbye Gemini (Scorpion Releasing, Region A)

Synopsis:
Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.

Australia Releases

Thirst (Glass Doll Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the “blood cows” (the people) kept at the “dairy farm”. A strange ritual awaits her, involving her marriage to the cult leader, who forces her to help him satiate his desire for blood…

Dead Kids (Glass Doll Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.

Howl (Eagle Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.

Excess Flesh (Monster Pictures, Region B)

Synopsis:
Obsessed with her sexy roommate, Jill violently imprisons Jennifer in their apartment in a twisted attempt to bring them closer together.

Reclusion (Eagle Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
Reclusion is a creepy psychological horror thriller about Tim, who has lived as a shut in for years. When a young couple attempts to help re-socialise their reclusive neighbour, they unleash a sinister force that preys upon the people who get close to him.

Absolutely Anything (Icon Home Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
A group of mischievous extraterrestrials (voiced by the Python crew) who grant embittered schoolteacher Neil Clarke (Simon Pegg) extraordinary powers in order to see how he will use them.

Birdemic (Monster Pictures, Region B)

Synopsis:
A platoon of eagles and vultures attack the residents of a small town. Many people die. It’s not known what causes the flying menace to attack. Two people have managed to fight back, but will they survive the Birdemic?

Shiki: The Complete Series (Siren Visual Enteratainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
When citizens of a secluded village begin dying off in alarming numbers, the sole hospital’s head doctor tries desperately to save his patients-but his efforts are in vain. Entire families are wiped out while others desert their homes. All hell breaks loose as the villagers discover their loved ones’ corpses are rising from the grave with an insatiable thirst for human blood. Haunting, hallucinogenic and unnerving to the core, Shiki stares into the hearts of both the hunter and the hunted. Who is safe when the urge to kill in order to survive blurs the line between man and monster?