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.

Welcome to the final week of June releases and thus the halfway point of 2016. All in all a very impressive week of releases. We’ve got some new animation Blu-rays from Kino Lorber which I always enjoy, Arrow Video has two stellar releases and we’ve got releases from Blue Underground and Criterion Collection. And that’s just stateside. Once we jump over to the UK we get a ton more awesome releases, including some highly anticipated titles from 88 Films, most notably Alien 2: On Earth. Not a bad way to end the month.

US Releases

Roland and Rattfink (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
The story of blond, good-looking, pacifist Roland and the many attempts by the evil, mustachioed Rattfink to ruin his good time.

Precious Cargo (Lionsgate, Region A)

Synopsis:
After a botched heist, Eddie, a murderous crime boss, hunts down the seductive thief Karen who failed him. In order to win back Eddie’s trust, Karen recruits her ex-lover and premier thief Jack to steal a cargo of rare precious gems. But when the job goes down, allegiances are betrayed and lines are crossed as Jack, Karen, and Eddie face off in a fateful showdown

Tijuana Toads (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
The series was about two toads, Toro and Pancho, who live in the Mexican city of Tijuana. Throughout the cartoon they try to eat their prey, but always get out-smarted. They would sometimes themselves be targeted by a bird, Crazylegs Crane, and would in turn always out-smart him.

Circus of Fear/Five Golden Dragons (Blue Underground, Region A)

Circus of Fear
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

Five Golden Dragons
A naive young American playboy in Hong Kong finds himself caught up in the middle of an international crime.

Return of the Killer Tomatoes (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
The remarkable career of the movie industry’s most admired and influential special-effects auteur, the legendary Ray Harryhausen, is the subject of Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan. Leaving no doubt as to Harryhausen’s seminal influence on modern-day special effects, the documentary features enlightening and entertaining interviews with the man himself, Randy Cook, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Phil Tippet, Terry Gilliam, Dennis Muren, John Landis, Guillermo Del Toro, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and many more. These filmmakers pay tribute to the father of Stop Motion animation and films such as ‘The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms’, ‘It Came From Beneath The Sea’, ‘The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad’, ‘Mysterious Island’, ‘Jason And The Argonauts’ and ‘The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad’ – the films that enthralled them as children and inspired them to become filmmakers in their own right.

Two-Minute Warning (Shout Factory, Region A)

Synopsis:
A nightmare of fear and panic unfolds in this chilling tale of a lone gunman who sets his sights on a sellout crowd at a championship football game. Charlton Heston is the police captain who leads the desperate fight to stop the madman — high atop the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum — before he sets off widespread devastation in the jam-packed stadium. John Cassavetes and Martin Balsam are among those risking their lives to thwart the sniper’s attempts, while innocent spectators Gena Rowlands, Jack Klugman, Beau Bridges, Walter Pidgeon, David Janssen and thousands of others try to hide from the fatal gun sites and avoid the deadly ensuing stampede.

Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls (Scorpion Releasing, Region A)

Synopsis:
John Considine plays the flamboyant Dr. Death, a thousand-year-old magician who has mastered he art of transferring souls from one body to another and thereby manages to perpetuate himself by jumping from one body to the next. Apparently the Doc is a kindred spirit since his blood is a highly-corrosive acid that can strip flesh from bone.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Criterion, Region A)

Synopsis:
After a psychotic Air Force general unleashes an ingenious, foolproof and irrevocable scheme sending bombers to attack the Soviet Union, the U.S. President phones the Soviet premier in a desperate effort to save the world.

UK Releases

Cabin Fever (Arrow, Region B)

Synopsis:
A group of five friends are terrorized at their getaway cabin. A remake of the 2002 film, ‘Cabin Fever’.

Ghostbusters (HMV Steelbook, Region B)

Synopsis:
Three university parapsychologists lose a research grant when their experiment methodology is proven to be bogus. The team decides to go into business for themselves as “Ghostbusters”, a ghost removal service. After struggling to get on their feet, they are summoned to investigate the strange happenings in a woman’s Central Park West apartment. What they discover is that all Manhattan is being besieged by ghosts and other worldly demons through a portal in her building.

Ghostbusters II (HMV Steelbook, Region B)

Synopsis:
Five years after New York’s finest parapsychologists save Manhattan from the Goze, it seems that the city is being overwhelmed by “mood slime,” and the possessed painting of 16th century sorcerer. Now it’s up to the guys in gray to bring out the best of the Big Apple before it’s too late.

Return of the Killer Tomatoes (Arrow, Region B)

Synopsis:
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.

Puppet Master 4 (88 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
A young scientist working on an artificial intelligence project is the target of strange gremlin-like creatures, who are out to kill him and thus terminate his research. By coincidence, in one of the rooms he uses, there’s a mysterious case containing the puppets of the “puppet master”. When the puppets are brought to life, they help destroy the creatures.

Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter (88 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
The puppets battle their most powerful enemy yet as they protect the new puppet master from the demon God that created the Secret of Life.

Alien 2: On Earth (88 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
Ultra-low budget and very violent rip-off of “Alien”. A space module lands back to Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate into people’s bodies and make them explode. A group of speleologists battle the monsters inside an underground cave, but the survivors are in for a surprise when they finally manage to escape their trap…

The Seven-Ups (Signal One Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
New York City cops wage a war against assorted hoods and criminals after one of their own is brutally killed by a hoodlum. Seven-Ups refers to the minimum jail time each of the crooks will have to spend if they are caught.

Soroity Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama (88 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
Sorority Babes worship an Imp that grants deadly wishes.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Lionsgate, Region B)

Synopsis:
Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England is faced with a new challenge: an army of undead zombies.

Solar Warriors aka Solarbabies (101 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the stormtroopers search for them and the orb.