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New to Blu – Week of 3/1/2016
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.
Fantastic week of releases with the Blu-ray release of Pieces leading the way from Grindhouse Releasing. Plus a ton of good stuff from Kino Lorber. March is starting out with a bang!
US Releases
Pieces (Grindhouse Releasing, Region Free)
Synopsis:
Young co-eds are being cut up by a chainsaw killer on a college campus. The killer is attempting to put together a human jigsaw puzzle made from body parts.
Creed (Warner Bros, Region A)
Synopsis:
A story that finds Rocky Balboa acting as a trainer and mentor to the grandson of his fellow boxing alumni, Apollo Creed.
Gog 3D (Kino Lorber, Region A)
Synopsis:
A security agent investigates sabotage and murder at a secret underground laboratory, home of two experimental robots.
Cop (Kino Lorber, Region A)
Synopsis:
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
Death Note (Viz Pictures, Region A)
Synopsis:
Light Yagami is a genius high school student who is about to learn about life through a book of death. When a bored shinigami, God of Death, named Ryuk drops a black notepad called a Death Note, Light receives power over life and death with the stroke of a pen. Determined to use this dark gift for the best, Light sets out to rid the world of evil… namely the people he believes to be evil. Should anyone hold such power? The consequences of Light’s actions will set the world ablaze.
The Boy (Scream Factory, Region A)
Synopsis:
An intimate portrait of a 9-year-old sociopath’s growing fascination with death.
Kung Fu Trailers of Fury (Severin Films, Region Free)
Synopsis:
Get ready for the most hard-kicking, face-smashing, snake-fisting trailer collection of them all! From the golden age of kung fu cinema comes this insane tsunami of masters, mobsters, furious vengeance and incredible fighting styles, starring Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Lo Lieh, Sammo Hung, Angela Mao, Chuck Norris, Jimmy Wang Yu and Wu Tang, too. These are the most over-the-top and rarely-seen original trailers for Hong Kong classics that include THE WAY OF THE DRAGON, DEATH BLOW, TWO CHAMPIONS OF SHAOLIN, DAGGERS 8, SNAKE IN THE EAGLE’S SHADOW, SHAOLIN WOODEN MEN, THE STORY OF DRUNKEN MASTER, ENTER THE FAT DRAGON, BRUTAL BOXER and many more, plus exclusive new bonus features that deliver unique historical and cultural perspectives on the amazing world of martial arts movies.
Transformations (Kino Lorber, Region A)
Synopsis:
Wolfgang is traveling in outer space when a monster, which he sees as a beautiful woman, appears in his spaceship and makes love with him. Then the ship is forced to land on a planet which is a penal colony. Here he meets Miranda who falls in love with him. A group of prisoners uses him and his spaceship to fly away from the planet. But the monster which is by now inside Wolfgang arouses and only Miranda’s love can save him.
The Rosary Murders (Kino Lorber, Region A)
Synopsis:
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.
Narcopolis (Scream Factory, Region A)
Synopsis:
In the near future, Frank Grieves is a new breed of police officer working in a city where all recreational drugs are legal. When he is taken off a case involving an unidentified corpse, he discovers that legalization has come at a price.
UK Releases
Audition (Arrow, Region A)
Synopsis:
A widowed TV producer is encouraged by his teenage son to remarry before he gets too old. Unable to find anyone suitable, he decides to hold auditions for a false movie in order to test out potential wives. He thinks he may have found the one he is looking for when he auditions a former ballerina, but she seems too good to be true and an investigation into her past reveals a horrific secret.
Compulsion (Signal One Entertainment, Region B)
Synopsis:
Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.
DEATHGASM (Studio Canal, Region B)
Synopsis:
Two teenagers who have started a heavy metal band unwittingly stumble upon an ancient text that contains a musical spell for summoning a powerful demon.
Doc (Signal One Entertainment, Region B)
Synopsis:
A fanatically accurate retelling of the familiar Wyatt Earp/Doc Holliday story in Tombstone, with fascinating character development, stressing such details as the romance between Doc Holliday and Kate Elder, and concluding with a blistering depiction of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Australia Releases
Night of the Creeps (Umbrella Entertainment, Region B)
Synopsis:
In this campy chiller, a college couple in 1959, see an object plummet to Earth like a meteor. The boy accidentally swallows a space-slug that shoots out. In 1986, two freshmen roam the campus and stumble across the corpse of the boy who swallowed the space-slug. Once thawed out, the corpse comes to life.
SeaQuest DSV: Season Two (Via Vision Entertainment, Region B)
Synopsis:
Adventure resurfaces with the return of the Emmy Award-winning seaQuest DSV. Rejoin Captain Nathan Bridger and his crew as they serve as guardians to Earth’s undersea colonies and protect world peace from all threats – both above and below the water. This 8-disc set is packed with all 21 Season 2 episodes and features guest stars Mark Hamill, Dom DeLuise and others. Season 2 continues the incredible, imaginative epic journey.
Quantum Leap: The Complete First Season (Via Vision Entertainment, Region B)
Synopsis:
Scientist Sam Beckett finds himself trapped in time–“leaping” into the body of a different person in a different time period each week.
Home Video
‘Hokum’ Heads Home to Digital Tomorrow Ahead of Physical Media Release in August
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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