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.

Second week of November is another fairly light but very solid week of releases. Some really good stuff hitting shelves this week. Stateside the wonderfully underrated Bubba Ho-Tep receives a stunning Blu-ray release courtesy of Scream Factory while the entire Lone Wolf and Cub series gets the Criterion treatment. Across the pond in the UK 88 Films headlines this week’s releases with Mad Dog Killer and Prozzie. A good week of releases indeed.

US Releases

Bubba Ho-Tep (Scream Factory, Region A)

Synopsis:
Elvis Presley is still alive, now in his late sixties, but confined to a rest home in Texas. Here, he recounts how he escaped fame with the help of an impersonator–now left to wonder what could have been, all while trying to battle the “soul-sucking” mummy, Bubba Ho-tep, who enters the rest home at night and consumes souls.

Lone Wolf Cub (Criterion, Region A)

Synopsis:
Entire Lone Wolf and Cub series.

Daredevil: The Complete First Season (Disney, Region Free)

Synopsis:
A blind lawyer with his other senses superhumanly enhanced fights crime as a costumed superhero.

The Initiation (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
Kelly Fairchild has become a college student and a member of the Delta Ro Kai sorority. During all her life, she has suffered from a nightmare where a man is burning. She meets an assistant professor who can help interpret the dream. The sorority’s initiation ritual is a nighttime breaking-and-entering into her father’s department store.

Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Edition (Sony, Region A)

Synopsis:
Paul Schrader’s gritty screenplay depicts the ever-deepening alienation of Vietnam Veteran Travis Bickle, a psychotic cab driver who obsessively cruises the mean streets of Manhattan.

Kickboxer: Vengeance (Image Entertainment, Region A)

Synopsis:
Eric and Kurt Sloane are the descendants of a well-known Venice, California-based family of martial artists. Against Kurt’s concerns, Eric accepts a paid offer and travels to Thailand to challenge the Muay Thai champion Tong Po and fails with dire consequences. Training with his brother’s mentor, Master Durand, Kurt sets out for revenge.

Night Has a Thousand Desires (Mondo Macabro, Region A)

Synopsis:
A telepathic nightclub act becomes the backdrop for murder.

I, The Jury (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
After Hammer finds his best friend murdered, he vows an oath of revenge. During the course of his search for the killer, he encounters a suspicious female doctor who runs a New York sex clinic. Based on the 1947 novel by Mickey Spillane.

Private Vices, Public Virtues (Mondo Macabro, Region A)

Synopsis:
The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliance at a country estate…

UK Releases

The Initiation (Arrow, Region B)

Synopsis:
Kelly Fairchild has become a college student and a member of the Delta Ro Kai sorority. During all her life, she has suffered from a nightmare where a man is burning. She meets an assistant professor who can help interpret the dream. The sorority’s initiation ritual is a nighttime breaking-and-entering into her father’s department store.

Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Edition (Sony, Region B)

Synopsis:
Paul Schrader’s gritty screenplay depicts the ever-deepening alienation of Vietnam Veteran Travis Bickle, a psychotic cab driver who obsessively cruises the mean streets of Manhattan.

Mad Dog Killer (88 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
Deranged murderer Nanni Vitali (a completely unhinged performance by Helmut Berger of The Damned) and three violent thugs escape from prison and begin a psychotic spree of robbery, rape and revenge. But when Vitali brutalizes a beautiful young woman (the luscious Marisa Mell of Danger: Diabolik and Perversion Story), he lights the fuse on a deadly trap set by an obsessed cop (Richard Harrison). In this bloody urban jungle, life is cheap, vengeance is law and the ultimate maniac is a Beast with a Gun.

Jamaica Inn (Arrow, Region B)

Synopsis:
Set in Cornwall where a young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are the landlords of the Jamaica Inn. Mary soon realizes that her uncle’s inn is the base of a gang of ship wreckers who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast. The girl starts fearing for her life.

Prozzie (88 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
An engineer from the US in London helping to dismantle the London Bridge to be transported to Arizona, strikes up an acquaintanceship with a young British woman. Several years later he happens to be at the bridge’s new location and sees the woman again–but this time she’s a real estate agent there, doesn’t have a British accent and doesn’t recognize him.