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.

US Releases

Black Mass (Warner Bros, Region Free)

Synopsis:
John Connolly and James “Whitey” Bulger grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the late 1970s, they would meet again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI’s Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of the Irish Mob. What happened between them – a dirty deal to trade secrets and take down Boston’s Italian Mafia in the process – would spiral out of control, leading to murders, drug dealing, racketeering indictments, and, ultimately, to Bulger making the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.

The Vincent Price Collection III (Scream Factory, Region A)

Master of the World
The world in the late 19th century: A scientist and his team are held as “guests” of Robur on his airship, that he want to use to ensure peace on earth. Peace with all, even if he has to bombard military targets all over the world. Can the scientist stop him?

Tower of London
The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.

Diary of a Madman
Simon Cordier is a well-respected magistrate who visits a condemned prisoner, Louis Girot, just before the man’s execution. Girot again pleads his innocence insisting that he has been taken over by a spirit that forced him to commit his crimes. Cordier doesn’t believe him and the man suddenly dies. Cordier does however note a rapid change in his personality during their short interview. In the following days, Cordier must face a number of strange occurrences in his home. He begins to wonder if he is sleepwalking but is soon hearing voices and begins to wonder about his sanity. It’s recommended to him that he take up sculpting, something he once had an interest in. He develops a relationship with Odette, a gold digger married to a struggling artist, but the evil, invisible spirit soon drives him to murder.

Cry of the Banshee
In Elizabethan England, a wicked lord massacres nearly all the members of a coven of witches, earning the enmity of their leader, Oona. Oona calls up a magical servant, a “banshee”, to destroy the lord’s family.

An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
Vincent Price recites four Edgar Allen Poe stories: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum.

I Confess (Warner Archive, Region A)

Synopsis:
Refusing to give into police investigators’ questions of suspicion, due to the seal of confession, a priest becomes the prime suspect in a murder.

The Mutilator (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
A teenager who accidentally committed matricide finds himself being hunted together with his girlfriend and mates by his now crazed father.

My Science Project (Mill Creek, Region A)

Synopsis:
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael’s class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to stop the orb and save mankind.

What the Peeper Saw (VCI, Region Free)

Synopsis:
In this stylish and atmospheric psychological thriller reminiscent of Henry James’s Turn of the Screw, a widowed English writer brings a young, glamorous new bride to his bleak, isolated home in rural Spain. She soon becomes obsessed with her 12-year old stepson, who she learns has just been expelled from school for mysterious offenses; while the boy enjoys, exploits, and feeds her increasing paranoia about him. That he is a brilliant and lonely child is obvious. But is he the victim of a neurotic woman’s overwrought imagination– in Shakespeare’s words, the innocent flower, or the serpent under it?

Death by Hanging (Criterion, Region A)

Synopsis:
A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.

The Challenge (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.

Hitch-Hike (RaroVideo USA, Region A)

Synopsis:
While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer and his beautiful wife pick up a stranded motorist. But when this hitcher turns out to be a depraved psychopath, their road trip takes a vicious detour into sex and savagery where the miles are marked in mayhem and vengeance is the ultimate rule of thumb.

Curse of the Faceless Man (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls…

Frankenstein (Mill Creek, Region A)

Synopsis:
Another adaption of Mary Shelley’s novel about a scientist who brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.

UK Releases

The Mutilator (Arrow, Region B)

Synopsis:
A teenager who accidentally committed matricide finds himself being hunted together with his girlfriend and mates by his now crazed father.

Crimson Peak (Zavvi Steelbook, Region Free)

Synopsis:
Young author Edith Cushing discovers that her charming new husband is not who he appears to be.

Signs (Zavvi Steelbook, Region B)

Synopsis:
The story of the Hess family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. One morning they wake up to find a 500- foot crop circle in their backyard. Graham Hess and his family are told extraterrestrials are responsible for the sign in their field. They watch the news as crop circles are soon found all over the world. Signs is an emotional story of one farm as they encounter the possibility the world is being invaded.

Man from Deep River (88 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief’s daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.