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New to Blu – Week of 12/29/2015
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.
We have arrived at the final New to Blu for 2015! A little more this week than last week, but overall not a whole not new coming out. Personally, I’m looking forward to picking up Bone Tomahawk. I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m pretty confident I’ll like it. Kurt Russell in a violent western? What isn’t there to like?!
US Releases
Bone Tomahawk (Image, Region A)
Synopsis:
Four men set out in the Wild West to rescue a group of captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
Hitman: Agent 47 (Fox, Region A)
Synopsis:
An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.
UK Releases
Rage of Honor (101 Films, Region B)
Synopsis:
A Japanese cop, Shiro, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Shiro follows the murderer, a sadistic drug lord, up to Singapore.
Sinister 2 (Entertainment One, Region B)
Synopsis:
A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that’s marked for death.
Victor Frankenstein (Fox, Region B)
Synopsis:
Told from Igor’s perspective, we see the troubled young assistant’s dark origins, the redemptive friendship with the young medical student Victor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man and the legend we know today.
Australia Releases
The Gift (Roadshow Entertainment, Region B)
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.
The Diabolical (Starz/Anchor Bay, Region B)
Synopsis:
When a single mother and her two young children are tormented by an increasingly strange and intense presence in their quiet suburban home, she turns to her scientist boyfriend to take on the violent forces that paranormal experts are too frightened to face.
Drunken Master (Umbrella Entertainment, Region B)
Synopsis:
The troublesome son of a martial arts master must learn the art of “Drunken Boxing” when he loses a fight with an assassin hired to kill his father.
The Night Crew (Pinnacle Films, Region B)
Synopsis:
A group of hard up bounty hunters who must survive the night in a desert motel against a horde of savage border runners. They soon realize that their fugitive, a mysterious Chinese woman, is much more than she lets on.
Get ready for double the fun, protagonists, and body count when Ready or Not 2: Here I Come explodes on streaming next week.
Just in time for the fireworks, the sequel makes its streaming debut on Hulu and Disney+ on July 2.
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett are back, along with Samara Weaving, for more hide and slay mayhem.
Picking up moments after the all-out attack from the Le Domas family in the first Ready or Not movie, Grace (Weaving) discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.
That means a higher body count and even more explosive carnage. Just how much? A whopping 325 gallons worth, the directors previously told BD.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, David Cronenberg, Elijah Wood, Kevin Durand, Olivia Cheng, Varun Saranga, and Daniel Beirne also star.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “More is more in Ready or Not 2. Bigger stakes, larger playing field, a higher (and more gruesome) body count, and even double the protagonists. It’s all designed to deliver maximum crowd-pleasing fun.”
The horror-comedy sequel is written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy.
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