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.

After a brief hiatus New to Blu is back, baby! It’s a good week to return too because we’ve got some great release. If you’re looking for newer genre adjacent releases you’re all set with the likes of Atomic Blonde and Winder River. Perhaps box sets of more classic horror strikes your fancy? Well there’s a new George A. Romero and a new Paul Naschy set out. Or maybe you want a modern film that is a continuation on a classic horror franchise? Well in that case you can check out Amityville: The Awakening. Whatever you’re into, you’re pretty much covered!

US Releases

Le Samourai (Criterion, Region A)

Synopsis:
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he’s seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner.

Atomic Blonde (Universal, Region A)

Synopsis:
The crown jewel of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.

Wind River (Lionsgate, Region A)

Synopsis:
An FBI agent teams with the town’s veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

Georege A. Romero: Between Night and Dawn (Arrow, Region A)

There’s Always Vanilla
A young man returns to his home city of Pittsburgh and moves in with an older woman whom he begins to rely on for emotional and financial support.

Season of the Witch
Unseen for over 30 years. After forever changing horror history with NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, George A. Romero next directed a pair of rarely seen movies that have been considered ‘lost’ by critics and fans worldwide. Filmed as JACK’S WIFE and briefly released under the title HUNGRY WIVES, Romero’s third feature is the disturbing story of a suburban housewife’s descent into extramarital sex and the occult.

The Crazies
Its code name is ‘Trixie,’ an experimental government germ weapon that leaves its victims either dead or irreversibly insane. When the virus is accidentally unleashed in Evans City, Pennsylvania, the small community becomes a war zone of panicked military, desperate scientists and gentle neighbors turned homicidal maniacs. Now a small group of citizens has fled to the town’s outskirts where they must hide from trigger-happy soldiers while battling their own depraved urges. But even if they can escape the madness of this plague, can they survive the unstoppable violence of THE CRAZIES?

The Paul Naschy Collection II (Scream Factory, Region A)

Hunchback of the Morgue
Paul Naschy plays a hunchback with below average intelligence who works at the morgue. He’s in love with a sickly girl who happens to be the only person who is kind to him. Each day he brings her flowers until the day she dies. He never really accepts her death and believes she is just sleeping. The girl eventually ends up at the morgue where she is being prepared for burial. Naschy’s character flips out at the desecration of the girls body and stabs and decapitates the men. The police begin to look for him. This is when the Hunchback meets up with a mad scientist who’s work isn’t accepted by the general society. The scientist promises the Hunchback that he would re-animate the girl’s body if the Hunchback brings him fresh bodyparts from the graveyard and live victims. He uses the parts to create a monster…

Devil’s Possessed
In the middle ages, life was hard, but nowhere as in the region controlled by field marshal De Lancre. De Lancre rules with an iron hand, torturing and burning those who oppose him, giving the young farmer’s daughters to his lust-driven men. De Lancres’ secret passion is the search for the famed Philosopher’s Stone, which, if he finds it, will give him untold wisdom and power. But he may never succeed – as the peasants may have some plans of their own. They revolt, and in the battle that ensues, the once barren fields of the village become well irrigated – with blood…!

The Werewolf and the Yeti
Waldemar, the renowned adventurer, joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he’s captured by two cannibalistic demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their sex-slave. They transform him into a werewolf setting him loose to roam the mountain where he encounters a sadistic bandit.

Exorcism
The story in this horror movie involves a young woman’s unknowing participation in a satanic ceremony which causes her to be possessed by the spirit of her dead father. She promptly begins exhibiting the standard symptoms (curses, vomiting, and even twisting the heads of a few people 180 degrees). Paul Naschy plays the village priest summoned to perform the rites of exorcism, and must fend off the possessed’s lewd advances before casting the evil spirit out of her body…

A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
A killer is cleaning up the streets of Milan by murdering those considered as deviant. An ornamental dragonfly, soaked in the blood of the victim, is left on each body.

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Shout Select, Region A)

Synopsis:
When an ordinary woman is exposed to a unique mix of chemicals, she begins to uncontrollably physically shrink.

Amityville: The Awakening (Lionsgate, Region A)

Synopsis:
A single mother moves her three children into a haunted house, unaware of its bloody history.

Nightkill (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
A simple love affair becomes a deadly game of cat-and-mouse… Katherine Atwell has come up with a foolproof plan: she will kill her rich husband, have her lover take his place, and no one will be any the wiser. Trouble is, she hasn’t factored stetson-wearing investigator Donner into the equation, and when he gets wind that something is wrong, there’s little that can put him off the trail.

Attack of the Puppet People (Scream Factory, Region A)

Synopsis:
This twisted tale about a deranged maniac who creates a device that shrinks people to foot-high figurines is big on terror! Tired of being toyed with, the puppets launch an attack, and suddenly their captor finds he’d better stop playing — and start praying — because these miniature moppets are hellbent on revenge!

Time to Die (Film Movement, Region A)

Synopsis:
This classic Mexican neo-western, was the first realized screenplay of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez and legendary Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes. Under the direction of Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein, TIME TO DIE tells the story of a former gunman who, after serving a term in prison, returns to his town planning to live a quiet life, however, the sons of a man he killed have other plans.