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New to Blu – Week of 3/15/2016
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.
Not a huge week of releases, but certainly some good stuff. A couple of action-packed Chuck Norris vehicles from Shout Factory that are definitely worth picking up. My personal pick for this week though is Rage of Honor from Arrow. Great movie, great release.
US Releases
Game of Thrones: The Complete Fifth Season (HBO, Region A)
Synopsis:
Summers span decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plots, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; and all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords, and honest men…all will play the “Game of Thrones.”
Invasion U.S.A. (Shout Factory, Region A)
Synopsis:
A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.
Rage of Honor (Arrow, Region A)
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.
My Boyfriend’s Back (Mill Creek, Region A)
Synopsis:
Teenager Johnny Dingle will do anything to keep his date with the hottest girl in school – even come back from the grave.
Braddock: Missing in Action III (Shout Factory, Region A)
Synopsis:
James Braddock once again returns to Vietnam, 12 years after the end of the war, to rescue his thought-dead Vietnamese wife and son, and a group of Amerasian orphans held in another prison camp presided over by a sadistic Vietnamese general whom was one of those that tortured Braddock during his stay in a similar prison camp just a few years earlier.
Band of Robbers (FilmRise, Region A)
Synopsis:
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are grown men, still searching for the hidden treasure that has eluded them since childhood.
UK Releases
The City of Lost Children (Studio Canal, Region B)
Synopsis:
On a futuristic oil rig, a man has aged prematurely because he has lost the ability to dream. To reverse the ageing process he kidnaps children from the local harbor town so that he can steal their dreams.
Basket Case – The Trilogy (Second Sight, Region B)
Synopsis:
One of the essential repeat rentals for any self-respecting horror fan in the early 1980s, Frank Henenlotter’s cult classic Basket Case and the gloriously psychotic sequels it spawned are collected together in one of the most twisted and enjoyable horror trilogies ever made.
Re-Animator (Second Sight, Region B)
Synopsis:
Herbert West is obsessed with the idea of bringing the dead back to life. Experimenting with a glowing green fluid, he successfully reanimates dead tissue. Unfortunately, the dead are uncontrollable and difficult to subdue.
Home Video
Brazilian Werewolf Fable ‘Good Manners’ Finally Gets Physical Media Release
One of contemporary horror’s best werewolf movies is 2017’s Good Manners, and it’s finally set to receive a proper physical media release.
Icarus Films is partnering with OCN Distribution to unleash a new Blu-ray that’s now available to preorder via Vinegar Syndrome. and with a limited edition slipcover.
Set in São Paulo, the film follows Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of the city who is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana to be the nanny of her soon to be born child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond. But a fateful night marked by a full moon changes their plans.
Good Manners is the second collaboration between filmmakers Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, who write and direct. Zama’s Rui Poças‘ cinematography captures this unique werewolf tale described as “Disney meets Jacques Tourneur.”
Our own Trace Thurman wrote in his review, “With Good Manners, Rojas and Dutro have made one of the best werewolf movies ever made. That they are able juggle commentaries on racism and classism while still managing to tell two deeply affecting love stories is remarkable.”
BONUS FEATURES:
- Commentary from film critics Shelagh Rowan-Legg and Carolyn Mauricette
- 12-page booklet with an essay by film critic Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer
- Making-of short film: The Making of a Werewolf (2 mins)
- Two additional short films from the filmmakers: A STEM (15 mins), directed by Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutras, and DOPPELGANGER (24 mins), directed by Juliana Rojas

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