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.

Week two of July releases offers up a ton. The long awaited Criterion release of Carnival of Souls is here, a must for everyone. Between that and Grindhouse Releasing’s Cat in the Brain I don’t know where to begin! And Universal has a number of re-releases out this week with some new pop art covers. Ch-ch-check it out!

US Releases

Frankenstein: Day of the Beast (SGL Entertainment, Region A)

Synopsis:
In a foggy winter morning, a raft brings a priest to an isolated island. He is getting paid to perform a wedding ritual under very mysterious conditions. The groom is Victor Frankenstein, and the young and beautiful bride is his cousin Elizabeth. Seven armed and dangerous mercenary soldiers have been hired to protect her against something huge that hides in the woods, awaiting for that wedding night to be consummated. Victor is the only one who knows the truth about their enemy. His secret will be paid with the life of his private army, whose men will die one by one, as the creature gets closer to his target: the bride.

Batman: Assault on Arkham (Warner Bros, Region A)

Synopsis:
Set in the universe of the ‘Arkham’ video game series, this story follows Batman as he must join forces with the Suicide Squad to foil a bomb plot by the Joker.

Carnival of Souls (Criterion, Region A)

Synopsis:
Mary Henry survives a drag race in a rural Kansas town, then takes a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her to an abandoned lakeside pavilion.

Green Room (Lionsgate, Region A)

Synopsis:
A young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence.

Cat in the Brain (Grindhouse Releasing, Region A)

Synopsis:
Dr. Lucio Fulci is a director of splatterfilms. He stages a gestapo-orgy like it was any other movie scene. But he is influenced by these things more than he likes. He is hunted by bloody visions day by day. Is Fulci still normal? He asks a psychatrist. He doesn’t know that the psychatrist has much bigger problems than Fulci himself. The psychatrist uses Fulci’s visions for brutal murders in real life…

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (Raro Video, Region A)

Synopsis:
With his crooked face and rough demeanor Abel Ferrara looks and act like he could have been born in Naples, Italy, the subject and location of his raw and “hyperreality” film Napoli Napoli Napoli. Inspired by real events, this docudrama, narrated by the director, depicts a young woman metaphysically lost in the passionate and vibrant streets of Naples. Ferrara takes the viewer through the neighborhoods and parks of Naples while starkly showing the division between the classes. The undercurrent of characters associated with a women’s prison penetrate the narrative with a message of injustice and despair. Though criticized by some for its harsh representation of the city, the outcome is a portrayal of a city that no one has yet figured out, and that so many love, but also criticize; a city that has much to discover, but can never be known well enough. Ferrara depicts Naples through the words of the excluded and marginalized, portraying the chaotic mosaic of the Neopolitan universe with lucidity and love, characteristics that only he knows how to express with such intensity and immediacy.

The Birds (Universal, Region A)

Synopsis:
An immense flock of birds descends upon a seacost town, makes it their nesting ground, and begins to attack and kill the townsfolk.

King Kong (Universal, Region A)

Synopsis:
Flamboyant, foolhardy documentary filmmaker, Carl Denham, sails off to remote Skull Island to film his latest epic with leading lady, Ann Darrow. Native warriors kidnap Ann to use as a sacrifice as they summon “Kong” with the local witch doctor. But instead of devouring Ann, Kong saves her. Kong is eventually taken back to New York where he searches high and low for Ann, eventually winding up at the top of the Empire State Building, facing off against a fleet of World War I fighter planes.

Psycho (Universal, Region A)

Synopsis:
Marion Crane goes on the run after stealing $40,000 from one of her employer’s clients. Taking a wrong turn in a storm, Marion arrives at the isolated Bates Motel, run by the twitchy Norman, who is constantly at the beck and call of his unseen mother.

Scarface (Universal, Region A)

Synopsis:
In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami… wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. he was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name… Scarface.

iZombie: The Complete First Season (Warner, Region A)

Synopsis:
A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner’s Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But with every brain she eats, she also inherits its memories and must now solve the victim’s death with help from the medical examiner and a police detective. Based on the DC/Vertigo comic series.

iZombie: The Complete Second Season (Warner, Region A)

Synopsis:
A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner’s Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But with every brain she eats, she also inherits its memories and must now solve the victim’s death with help from the medical examiner and a police detective. Based on the DC/Vertigo comic series.

Yellow Sky (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
A band of bank robbers on the run from a posse flee into the desert. Near death from lack of water they stumble into what appears to be a ghost town, only to discover an old prospector and his granddaughter living there. The robbers discover that the old man has been mining gold and set out to make a quick fortune by robbing the pair. Their plan runs foul when the gang leader, Stretch, falls for the granddaughter, which sets off a showdown between the entire gang.

Crimes of Passion (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who’s attracted the unwanted attention of two men. One is a sexually frustrated private detective hired by her employees. The other is a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.

Belladonna of Sadness (Cinelicious Pics, Region Free)

Synopsis:
The beautiful peasant woman Jeanne is raped by a demonic overlord on her wedding night. Spurned by her husband, she has no outlet for her awakened libido, which develops to give her powers of witchcraft.

Just Desserts: The Making of Creepshow (Synapse, Region Free)

Synopsis:
Details the making of Stephen King & George A. Romero’s 1982 horror anthology classic, from conception through to completion.

The Ox-Bow Incident (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done on the spot.

Slasher: Season One (Scream Factory, Region A)

Synopsis:
A woman is at the center of a series of copycat killings, similar to her parents’ murders, when she returns to the small town where she was born.

Invisible Invaders (Kinor Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens’ weakness, Penner, his daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of the recently deceased…

UK Releases

Justice League vs Teen Titans (Zavvi Steelbook, Region B)

Synopsis:
Frustrated and disillusioned about his work alongside the Justice League, Robin is forced into a new position with a younger super team, the Teen Titans. Readily welcomed aboard, he is immediately intrigued by the mysterious Raven and the unnatural force that looms over them – her father, Trigon – a deceptive being powerful enough to destroy Metropolis by pitting the mighty Justice League against the Teen Titans. With loyalties on the line and lives in the balance, the super hero showdown will pit Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg against the likes of Beast Boy, Starfire, Blue Beetle and Nightwing. Only true teamwork will end the threat in this all-new DC Universe adventure!

Crimes of Passion (Arrow, Region B)

Synopsis:
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who’s attracted the unwanted attention of two men. One is a sexually frustrated private detective hired by her employees. The other is a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.

The Boy (Entertainment in Video, Region B)

Synopsis:
A nanny, working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple treat as a real child.

Jaws 2 (Universal, Region B)

Synopsis:
Another giant Great White Shark terrorizes beach goers in this sequel to Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster.

Jaws 3 (Universal, Region B)

Synopsis:
Second sequel to Steven Spielberg’s classic with another giant Great White shark wreaking havoc on an aquatic amusement park in Florida after following her newly born offspring inside and getting trapped. Originally filmed and released in 3D.

Jaws: The Revenge (Universal, Region B)

Synopsis:
Ellen Brody still lives in the island resort town of Amity, and her sons Sean and Michael don’t work at Sea World anymore, and some time ago, Ellen’s husband Martin Brody died of a heart attack that happened because he was afraid of sharks. Sean is now a deputy in Amity. One night, during the Christmas season, Sean is called to untangle a log from a buoy, and when Sean goes to the buoy, he’s killed by a great white shark.

Invasion U.S.A. (88 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.

Satan’s Blade (Arrow, Region B)

Synopsis:
At a mountain resort, a local resident is possessed by the evil spirit of an ancient mountain man, and terrorizes a ski lodge.

Scarecrows (88 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
Five people heist the Camp Pendleton payroll, kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned graveyard surrounded by strange scarecrows. Two of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night…