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.

Massive amount of releases this week! I’m fairly certain that since I’ve been doing this update this is far and away the most releases we’ve had in one week. Last week of October, week of Halloween, gotta push those titles! The Hellraiser: Scarlet Box is already OOP and sold out a lot of places so if you happen to see that anywhere, I’d suggest you get it!

US Releases

Mulholland Drive (Criterion Collection)

Synopsis:
A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.

Army of Darkness (Scream Factory)

Synopsis:
Forced to lead a makeshift Dark Ages army against the demonic Deadites, who possess all the deadly magic of hell, the shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed, reluctant 20th century time traveler Ash must save the living from the dead, rescue his medieval girlfriend and get back to his own time.

Special Effects Collection (Warner Bros.)

Synopsis:
Four films featuring groundbreaking special effetcs – The Son of Kong, Mighty Joe Young, Them! and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Each film is also available as an individual Blu-ray release.

The Gift (Universal)

Synopsis:
A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a “friend” from the husband’s past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their world into a tailspin.

Phase IV (Olive Films)

Synopsis:
Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them. But the ants have other ideas.

Sometimes They Come Back (Olive Films)

Synopsis:
Young Jim Norman fled his home town in terror when his brother Wayne was killed by delinquents. He returns to teach high school thirty years later and finds the same ghouls who killed his brother are in his class. Based on a Stephen King story.

Black Cats (Arrow)

Synopsis:
Two adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats by Serigo Martino & Lucio Fulci.

Breeders (Olive Films)

Synopsis:
The Manhattan General Hospital has admitted a string of young women who have been raped by something otherworldly. The perpetrator only attacks women who are virgins. Dr. Pace and Detective Andriotti work together to try and isolate the strange organic material found on the victims, and to try and locate the fiend. Soon the victims begin arising in a trance and leaving the hospital by an underground passage where their fate awaits them.

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (Olive Films)

Synopsis:
A brutal Los Angeles police Lt. is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.

Dr. Terrors House of Horrors (Olive Films)

Synopsis:
Cinematographer turned director, Freddie Francis’ cult horror tale stars Peter Cushing as the mysterious Dr. Schreck. Schreck boards a train and offers to tell his five fellow passengers their fortunes using his “House of Horrors” tarot cards. The deadly tales he tells includes werewolves, voodoo and a severed hand. Who is this sinister Doctor and where exactly is the train heading?

Some Kind of Hate (Image Entertainment)

Synopsis:
To escape relentless bullying, Lincoln sent to a remote school for troubled teens, but soon the harassment starts all over again. This time, someone is watching – a teenage girl named Moira who was driven to suicide by vicious bullying years ago. When Lincoln accidentally summons Moira from the grave, he unleashes a vengeful and unstoppable force.

Messenger of Death (Olive Films)

Synopsis:
Wives and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive. Orville doesn’t give any comment on the case, is taken into protective custody. Journalist Smith persuades him to help him in the investigation – and finds out about economic motives for the murder.

Heart of Midnight (Kino Lorber)

Synopsis:
Carol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special relationship with her uncle as she battles her memories and her surroundings in her new home.

The Human Centipede: The Complete Sequence (Scream Factory)

Synopsis:
The complete Human Centipede trilogy.

The Deadly Bees (Olive Films)

Synopsis:
Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion and takes a vacation on a small resort island. She soon meets Mr. Hargrove, a difficult man with a failing marriage who owns the resort and keeps bees as a hobby. Charming Manfred, who also lives on the island, keeps bees as well, and he soon strikes up a friendship with Vicki. However, when first a dog and then Hargrove’s wife are killed by bee stings, Vicki discovers that someone on the island is breeding a strain of killer bees, and she has to find out who is responsible and what can be done before they kill again.

Flying Disc Man from Mars (Olive Films)

Synopsis:
Mota, a Martian invader intent on ruling Earth, finds a more than willing accomplice in Dr. Bryant, a brilliant scientist with a secret Nazi past. Together they plan to harness atomic technology to further their evil goal. But whatever diabolical plan Mota may have in mind, intrepid pilot and would-be investigator, Kent Fowler, along with his crack team, Steve and Helen, will foil Mota, his Nazi stooge and evil henchmen Drake and Ryan, at every turn, leading to a climactic battle inside of a live volcano.

Bloody Knuckles (Artsploitation)

Synopsis:
Travis is an underground comic book artist with a penchant for the obscene. When one of his comics insults a Chinatown crime boss, the gangster punishes Travis by removing his drawing hand. A daunted Travis retreats into a life of alcoholic misery. That is, until his hand returns from the grave…

UK Releases

Hellraiser: The Scarlet Box (Arrow)

Synopsis:
Evil Julia helps her lover, Frank, come back to the mortal world from hell. Because Frank has used the Lament Configuration box to taste pleasures outside the normal realm of human sensation, freeing him from hell unleashes Pinhead and a menagerie of demons (cenobites) back unto earth.

Dragon Inn (Eureka Entertainment)

Synopsis:
In the mid-Ming dynasty, a loyal and upright Minister Yu is accused and killed by the evil and powerful eunuch Cao. Yu’s children are sentenced to exile to the border Dragon Gate. Cao sends several assassins to kill Yu’s children on their way, yet failed. Cao then sends killers of East Chamber, the espionage agency. The righteous swordsman Xiao and Yu’s former staffs come to Dragon Inn to rescue Yu’s children. The two groups have many fights there. Then Cao himself comes to have a fierce fight with Xiao and others.

Splatter University (88 Films)

Synopsis:
A patient escapes from a mental hospital, killing one of his keepers and then a University professor after he makes his way to the local college. Next semester, the late prof’s replacement and a new group of students have to deal with a new batch of killings.

The Skull (Eureka Entertainment)

Synopsis:
A collector of esoterica, Dr. Maitland (Peter Cushing), buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source of artifacts. The skull is what remains of marquis De Sade. Much too soon he discovers how the skull affects him: by turning him into a frenzied killer…

Seconds (Eureka)

Synopsis:
Desperate to escape his dreary, dead-end life, aging broker Arthur Hamilton succumbs to a mysterious organization’s offer of a new identity and a fresh start.

Misery (Zavvi Steelbook)

Synopsis:
A successful romance novelist, after being disabled in a car crash, is held captive by a psychotic fan.

The Big Boss (Mediumrare Entertainment)

Synopsis:
Kung-fu master protects his family and friends from drug traffickers.

Fist of Fury (Mediumrare Entertainment)

Synopsis:
A kung fu master avenges the death of his martial arts instructor.

The Way of the Dragon (Mediumrare Entertainment)

Synopsis:
Bruce Lee plays a country boy who travels to Rome to help a family friend whose Chinese restaurant is being terrorized by Italian mobsters. With his formidable Kung Fu skills, Lee totally crushes the city gangsters.

Game of Death (Mediumrare Entertainment)

Synopsis:
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

Hercules (101 Films)

Synopsis:
The film is a retelling of the story of Hercules battling the wizard Minos, who uses “science” in an attempt to take over the world. Hercules must stop him and rescue his princess love in the process.

The Adventure of Hercules II (101 Films)

Synopsis:
Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.

Howl (Metrodome Video)

Synopsis:
When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.

Sinbad of the Seven Seas (101 Films)

Synopsis:
Sinbad and his crew leap to the aid of a young prince who must battle an evil wizard for the hand of a beautiful princess.

Pay the Ghost (Arrow)

Synopsis:
A professor frantically searches for his son who was abducted during a Halloween parade.

Missing In Action (101 Films)

Synopsis:
Colonel James Braddock is an American officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 10 years ago.

Australia Releases

Infini (Hopscotch Entertainment)

Synopsis:
An elite ‘search and rescue’ team transport onto an off-world mining-facility to rescue Whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a biological outbreak.

The Fear of Darkness (Transmission Films)

Synopsis:
A brilliant young psychiatrist is forced to confront the dark creature that dwells deep within her own unconscious when she investigates the supernatural disappearance of a university student.

Germany Releases

Class of 1984 (CMV Laservision)

Synopsis:
Andy is a new teacher in an inner city high school that is like nothing he has ever seen before.

This Island Earth (Alive)

Synopsis:
Two nuclear Earth scientists are kidnapped by aliens from the planet Metaluna as part of a last-ditch effort to save it from being destroyed by neighboring, rival planet Zagon.