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New to Blu – 12/27/2016
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.
The finally week of Blu-ray releases for 2016 has arrived! It’s a light week, especially here in the US, but some good stuff. The latest team-up between Nicolas Cage and Paul Schrader has arrived with Dog Eat Dog which I can’t wait to see because I love Cage. Plus Ti West’s latest flick In a Valley of Violence arrives. So far West has yet to disappoint. Over in the UK we’ve got a couple of new release from 88 Films including the highly anticipated Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eyes and a number of new Zavvi steelbooks for your steelbooks lovers out there.
US Releases
When the Bough Breaks (Sony, Region A)
Synopsis:
A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.
Dog Eat Dog (Image Entertainment, Region A)
Synopsis:
Three former convicts must adapt to civilian life under the looming shadow of California’s “three strikes” law. One more hit, one more jackpot, and they’ll all be satisfied.
In a Valley of Violence (Universal, Region A)
Synopsis:
A mysterious stranger and a random act of violence drag a town of misfits and nitwits into the bloody crosshairs of revenge
The House that Screamed (Scream Factory, Region A)
Synopsis:
Mrs. Fourneau owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Mrs. Fourneau also has an adolescent son she tries to keep isolated from the young women lest he be tainted by sexual relations; she explains that he must wait for a girl “just like his mother”. Meanwhile, girls are “running away” (being murdered) one by one, with their corpses and any evidence of their outcome not to be found…
UK Releases
Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eyes (88 Films, Region B)
Synopsis:
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat…
Hands of Steel (88 Films, Region B)
Synopsis:
A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands.
Ghost Town (88 Films, Region B)
Synopsis:
A modern-day deputy tracks an abducted girl to a ghost town, and the spirits of the past who took her.
Enemy Mine (Zavvi Steelbook, Region B)
Synopsis:
A soldier from Earth crash-lands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world.
The Purge: Election Year (Zavvi Steelbook, Region B)
Synopsis:
Years after sparing the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, a Presidential candidate targeted for death on Purge night due to her vow to eliminate the Purge.
The Entity (Zavvi Steelbooked, Region B)
Synopsis:
Carla Moran awakens one night to find herself being beaten and raped by an unseen presence. Terrified of what’s happening to her, and shunned by friends and family who think she’s lost her mind, she seeks help from parapsychologists.
Fright Night (Zavvi Steelbook, Region B)
Synopsis:
For young Charley Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charley with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that their strange behavior is explained by the fact that they are a vampire and his undead day guardian. The only one who can help him hunt them down is a washed-up actor, Peter Vincent, who hosts Charley’s favorite TV show, Fright Night. Vincent doesn’t really believe that vampires exist, but does it for the money…
Home Video
‘Backrooms’ Heads Home to Digital Next Week
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.
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