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.
A really mild week for releases, at least when it comes to quantity. Quality is still top of the line as Arrow, Severin and Scream Factory are all offering up multiple titles this week. Blood Rage is the release after my heart this week.
US Releases
Blood Rage (Arrow)
Synopsis:
Man is blamed for murders actually committed by his evil twin.
The Car (Scream Factory)
Synopsis:
A sleek, possessed black car terrorizes everyone it comes in contact with in a small town in Utah.
The Dungeonmaster/Elimnators (Scream Factory)
Synopsis:
A demonic wizard challenges a modern-day computer programmer to a battle of technology vs. sorcery, with the programmer’s girlfriend as the prize.
Synopsis:
A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.
Count Dracula (Severin)
Synopsis:
Infamous Spanish horror director Jesus Franco created this surprisingly low key and faithful adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel. Christopher Lee, who played the same role in Britain’s Hammer Films, does a first rate job as the undead Transylvanian count with a thirst for blood. Frederick Williams is Harker, the young lawyer who travels to the count’s castle and winds up a prisoner, while Dracula goes off of to London to seduce his wife, Mina (Maria Rohm). Soledad Miranda plays Lucy, Dracula’s first victim, and Klaus Kinski is an unusually underplayed Renfield…
What Have You Done to Solange? (Arrow)
Synopsis:
Several girls are murdered by an elusive “Catholic priest” in a residents college. Police and teachers are unable to locate the killer, and prevent further deaths. Henry, who has a romantic interest in one of the students, Elizabeth, becomes a main suspect, but so are other male, and even female teachers. Are the girls doing the right thing, telling their suspicions to the priest, in the secrecy of confession…?
Axe/Kidnapped Coed (Severin)
Synopsis:
Three criminals seek refuge from the police inside a rural farmhouse occupied by Lisa and her paralyzed grandfather. One by one, Lisa must defend herself against their attacks with a well-sharpened axe. Kidnapped Coed: A rich young lady is kidnapped and held for ransom. She didn’t expect to fall in love with her captor.
Synopsis:
A woman living in a boarding house is kidnapped by a small-time criminal. Soon others in the gang try to take her away from him so they can get the ransom.
Zombie High (Scream Factory)
Synopsis:
A woman goes to previously all-male boarding school on a scholarship. She begins to separate herself from her boyfriend in order to devote more time to her new environment. Over the course of time she notices that more and more students have lost their individuality, and approach their activities in a lifeless and automatic manner. Eventually a diabolical plot fostered by the faculty begins to emerge.
Classic Hitchcock (Criterion)
Synopsis:
Experience four of the greatest films by the Master of Suspense in this deluxe box set from the Criterion Collection. It includes three of Alfred Hitchcock’s most beloved movies from the 1930s, when he was still working in England—the arresting spy thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much and The 39 Steps and the exhilarating railway mystery The Lady Vanishes—as well as one of the first films he made upon arriving in Hollywood, the sensational tale of journalistic intrigue Foreign Correspondent. Each comes digitally restored and with a bounty of supplemental features.
The Toxic Avenger Collection (Troma)
Synopsis:
A collection of 4 Toxic Avenger movies.
The Last Horror Film (Troma)
Synopsis:
A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady’s friends.
Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (Mondo Macabro)
Synopsis:
Carol Hammond is the daughter of a prominant English politician who keeps having recurring “nightmares” in which she makes love to a bisexual nympho who lives downstairs and conducts all-night LSD orgies. When the nocturnal wet dreams become murderous, the neighbor turns up dead, and Carol is the main suspect. Did she actually commit the murder she dreamt about? Is she being framed by her philandering husband? Did Carol actually make nightly visits downstairs aside from borrowing the occasional cup of sugar? How Did Carol’s letter opener end up stuck in the dead neighbor’s chest anyway? The complex plot unfolds amidst red herrings, outlandish dream sequences, lesbian hanky panky, and ominous close-ups of Carol’s guilt-ridden facial expressions every time someone mentions the murder. All this takes place in swinging late-1960’s London…
Trancers III: Deth Lives (Full Moon)
Synopsis:
Jack, beginning to get his life back together, is timejacked back to 2247 to save Angel City from a new wave of trancers. His mission – find the origin of this new wave of trancers and end it with extreme prejudice. With the help of Lena and R.J., a trancer camp escapee, Jack learns that the new trancer program is government sponsored, and that his usual shoot-everything-that-moves attitude might not work this time. With R.J. and Shark, a crystal powered cyborg, Deth will have to find a way inside the trancer program and shut it down. For good.
UK Releases
Tower of Evil (Odeon)
Synopsis:
A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders…
What Have You Done to Solange? (Arrow)
Synopsis:
Several girls are murdered by an elusive “Catholic priest” in a residents college. Police and teachers are unable to locate the killer, and prevent further deaths. Henry, who has a romantic interest in one of the students, Elizabeth, becomes a main suspect, but so are other male, and even female teachers. Are the girls doing the right thing, telling their suspicions to the priest, in the secrecy of confession…?
