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 first week of September and we’ve got some good releases! Stateside we have some good stuff, including 4K releases of Blade Runner and The Cabin in the Woods. The biggie though is Kino Lorber’s The Birthday Party. That’s the US release I can’t wait to get. Australia has the releases to rise above the rest, however, with Dark Age and The Entity. Not a bad week!

US Releases

The Skulls (Universal, Region A)

Synopsis:
Luke McNamara, a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called “The Skulls”, in hope of gaining acceptance into Harvard Law School. At first seduced by the club’s trapping of power and wealth, a series of disturbing incidents, such as his best friends suicide, leads Luke to investigate the true nature of the organization and the truth behind his friends supposed suicide. He starts realizing that his future and possibly his life is in danger.

Crime of Passion (ClassicFlix, Region A)

Synopsis:
Barbara Stanwyck soars in a “rafter-rattling portrayal of a homicidal housewife” (The New York Times) in this “exciting, taut” (Motion Picture Daily) thriller about wanting it all — and stopping at nothing to get it. A most unusual story for its time, CRIME OF PASSION delivers nail-biting suspense, shocking plot twists and a 1950s anti-heroine you won’t soon forget! Advice columnist Kathy Ferguson (Stanwyck) abandons her successful career when she marries police detective Bill Doyle (Sterling Hayden). But her new role as a 1950s suburban homemaker quickly stifles her spirit, and she transfers her thwarted ambition to her husband’s career, scheming to push Bill up the ladder by any means necessary…even murder!

Supernatural: The Complete Twelfth Season (Warner, Region A)

Synopsis:
Season Twelve plunges Sam and Dean Winchester into extreme peril as they face The Darkness, a sinister new menace unleashed upon the Earth. They continue their monster-hunting missions, battling the usual werewolves, black-eyed demons and even a vengeful ghost in a stuffed bunny costume, but with a sharp new focus: destroy The Darkness. Needing all the help they can get, the brothers turn to fallen angel Castiel; the King of Hell, Crowley and even an unassuming God – only to come face to face with Lucifer and Crowley’s power-hungry witch-mother Rowena.

A Dark Song (Scream Factory, Region A)

Synopsis:
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

Rebecca (Criterion, Region A)

Synopsis:
A young bride is terrorized by the memories of her husband’s glamorous first wife.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut 4K (Warner, Region A)

Synopsis:
As 21st-century detective Rick Deckard hunts for vengeful, fugitive replicants in a high-tech future soured by urban and social decay, he is drawn to a mysterious woman whose secrets may undermine his own soul.

The Cabin in the Woods 4K (Lionsgate, Region A)

Synopsis:
Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

First Kill (Lionsgate, Region A)

Synopsis:
A police chief who tries to solve a kidnapping that involves a bank robber holding a young boy hostage.

The Birthday Party (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
The down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away.

The Spell (Scream Factory, Region A)

Synopsis:
A teenaged girl, taunted by her schoolmates because she’s overweight, uses her supernatural powers to take revenge.

American Psycho 2 (Lionsgate, Region A)

Synopsis:
The evil legacy of Patrick Bateman continues with the beautiful Rachael Newman, a femme fatale willing to eliminate anyone blocking her chances of becoming a teaching assistant to the infamous Dr. Daniels, a professor and FBI profiler.

UK Releases

Deadly Blessing (Arrow, Region B)

Synopsis:
A gruesome secret, protected for generations, rises to give its Deadly Blessing!

The Day of the Jackal (Arrow, Region B)

Synopsis:
A professional assassin codenamed “Jackal” plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

Ghoul (Arrow, Region B)

Synopsis:
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.

Australia Releases

Dark Age (Umbrella Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace. During the hunt, one of the guides discovers that he has an ESP connection to the giant creature.

The Entity (Umbrella Entertainment, 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.

Tokyo Godfathers (Umbrella Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
Three homeless people find a lost baby girl and start seaching for her rightful parents on Christmas Day in Tokyo. Along the way, they must confront their own haunted pasts, and learn to face their futures.