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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.
After scaring up a strong theatrical run, Oddity director Damian McCarthy’s Hokum heads home to Digital this week.
Settle in for a spooky supernatural chiller as Hokum arrives on all Digital platforms to rent or own beginning June 2, followed by a Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD Combo and DVD release on August 11, 2026.
Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars in Hokum as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), Brendan Conroy (“Bodkin”), and Austin Amelio (“The Walking Dead”) also star.
Get a peek at the upcoming physical media release below, including a few special features.
Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee (Weapons) & Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, & Mairtín de Barra, and Cweature Features’ Ken Kao & Josh Rosenbaum.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “A quaint Irish hotel with a deeply haunted history awaits an American writer in McCarthy’s third outing, continuing his streak for folkloric tales of supernatural karma and spine-tingling terror with a dark sense of humor.”
What’s next from Damian McCarthy? He’s currently writing a haunted house movie, but recent comments suggest he may be moving into other genres beyond that upcoming project.
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