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.

Welcome to the first week of September releases! Lots and lots of good stuff this week. In the US we have Hard Target 2 which is one I’m eager to check out. The UK is getting Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Australia is getting Dolph Lundgren’s The Punisher on Blu-ray, which is seemingly available everywhere in the world but the US, so if that film interests you it may be time you look to import yourself a copy. The most interesting releases this week though are four Gene Wilder films – two in the US and two in Australia. The US releases of Haunted Honeymoon and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother are world-wide Blu-ray debuts for both films. All four of these releases were planned months in advance, so kind of weird how the timing worked out, but I’d now expect this to be in even more demand.

US Releases

Night of the Living Deb (MPI Media Group, Region A)

Synopsis:
Following a drunken one-night-stand, mismatched strangers Deb and Ryan awaken to find their small town in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Forced to trust each other, their walk of shame becomes a fight for survival.

Urge (Lionsgate, Region A)

Synopsis:
A weekend getaway takes a dangerous turn when a mysterious nightclub owner (Pierce Brosnan) introduces a group of friends to a new designer drug. Stripped of their inhibitions, they start living out their wildest fantasies – but what starts out as a fun night of partying quickly turns deadly, as the island paradise deteriorates into a tropical madhouse.

The Darkness (Universal, Region A)

Synopsis:
A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation with a supernatural presence in tow.

The Ones Below (Magnet, Region A)

Synopsis:
A couple expecting their first child discover an unnerving difference between themselves and the couple living in the flat below them who are also having a baby.

The Dead Room (Scream Factory, Region A)

Synopsis:
Step inside the Dead Room, where something sinister guards a home’s horrifying secrets. Inspired by a 1970s urban legend, this atmospheric nerve-shredder follows two scientists and a young psychic as they travel to the countryside to investigate mysterious occurrences at a remote farmhouse. Skepticism quickly turns to terror as the researchers’ presence unsettles a seriously angry demonic presence possessing the home. Upping the white-knuckle suspense with visceral camerawork and unsettling sound design, The Dead Room creates a sense of palpable danger lurking in every corner and hallway.

Hard Target 2 (Universal, Region A)

Synopsis:
Retired mixed martial artist Wes “The Jailor” Baylor (Scott Adkins) can’t refuse a million-dollar purse he’s offered for one final bout in Myanmar. But when he arrives for the fight, he learns he’s been tricked into becoming the target of a human hunt. Carrying only water and a ruby-filled money belt for the last person standing, Wes must outsmart the heavily armed group that has paid to kill him. As he fights for his life in the treacherous jungle terrain, the hunters become the hunted.

Supernatural: The Complete Eleventh Season (Warner Bros, Region A)

Synopsis:
Sam Winchester grew up hunting unearthly horrors. But now law school and a normal life beckon. That is, until Sam’s estranged brother Dean appears with troubling news: their father has disappeared, a man who’s hunted evil for 22 years. So to find their father, the brothers must hunt what he hunts… and Sam must return to the life he’d rather leave behind.

The Neighbor (Starz/Anchor Bay, Region A)

Synopsis:
Set in Cutter Mississippi, the film follows a man who discovers the dark truth about his neighbor and the secrets he may be keeping in the cellar.

The Revenge of Frankenstein/The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (Mill Creek, Region A)

The Revenge of Frankenstein
Having escaped death by the guillotine, Dr. Frankenstein relocates to Carlsbruck. There, as Dr. Victor Stein, he successfully establishes himself as a physician with a large practice and a hospital for the poor. After three years however he is recognized by Dr. Hans Kleve but rather than expose him, the young doctor wants to join him in his research. Frankenstein has resumed his experiments and is on the verge of re-animating a body he has constructed using the brain of Fritz, the deformed assistant who helped him escape from his death sentence. The operation goes quite well and Fritz is quite pleased with his new body. An encounter with a drunken hospital attendant however sends him on the run. As his mind and his body deteriorates, he publicly reveals the good Doctor’s true identity…

The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb
When British archaeologists disturb the tomb of Ra, they have to deal with a curse that condemns anyone involved to death. The American showman who paid for the expedition, Alexander King, insists in taking the precious artifacts to London for an exhibition even though he could have left them for the local authorities who were prepared to pay a hefty price for them. As a result they not only have to face the curse but the wrath of Egyptians who have vowed have the precious find returned. When King finally has his first public showing, he finds that the sarcophagus is empty, the mummy having been taken or -more ominously- come to life to seek revenge…

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll/The Gorgon (Mill Creek, Region A)

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Dr. Henry Jekyll is bookish scientist who spends more time with his lab animals testing theories of alternate personalities than with his beautiful wife. Kitty Jekyll has given up trying to find any passion in her distant husband and is involved in an affair with one of Jekyll’s old ‘friends’, Paul Allen, a weak slacker and wastrel who relies on Jekyll to pay his numerous gambling debts. After experimenting on himself, Jekyll transforms himself into the young, dynamic and self-confidant Edward Hyde. In his new character he befriends Allen, who has no idea of that this clean-cut, handsome playboy prone to outbursts of violence is really Jekyll. As Hyde, he encourages Allen to introduce him to the dark underbelly of London’s night life. When he tries to seduce Allen’s mistress, in reality his own wife, he is frustrated to find she prefers her decadent lover to him…

The Gorgon
When his father Professor Jules Heitz and brother Bruno die under mysterious circumstances, Paul Heitz travels to a small town to determine what is going on. It’s the early 1900’s and he finds villagers who are wary of strangers and apparently live in fear, particularly when there is a full moon. He hears of the legend of Megaera, a Gorgon so hideous that to look at her will turn you to stone. Of particular interest to him are Dr. Namaroff and his attractive assistant Carla Hoffman. Namaroff is obviously hiding something and is very possessive of Carla, who suffers from blackouts and memory loss. With the help of his mentor, Professor Karl Meister, Paul tries to unlock the secrets around them…

The Flash: The Complete Second Season (Warner Bros, Region A)

Synopsis:
After witnessing his mother’s strange murder and his father’s wrongful conviction for the crime, Barry Allen becomes a brilliant but socially awkward crime scene investigator for the Central City Police Department. An advanced particle accelerator malfunctions during its public unveiling, bathing the city center with a previously unknown form of radiation. Awakening after a nine-month coma, Allen discovers he has the ability to move at superhuman speeds and vows to use his gifts to protect Central City from the escalating violence of “metahuman” criminals.

Road House (Shout Select, Region A)

Synopsis:
 A cool-headed bouncer (with an NYU philosphy degree and a gift for martial arts) is hired to calm an extra-rowdy midwestern tavern. Along the way he falls in love with a beautiful doctor, and runs up against the local kingpin.

The Iron Giant (Warner Bros, Region A)

Synopsis:
An enormous robot has come from deepest space, crash-landed on Earth, and followed nine-year-old Hogarth Hughes home. Now, young Hogarth has one big friend and an even bigger problem: How do you keep a secret that’s 50 feet tall? Especially when a paranoid government agent is on the “alien invader’s” trail, bringing with him the full might of the U.S. military to destroy the giant.

Haunted Honeymoon (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a neurotic speech defect and exaggerated bursts of fear: he gives him a shock therapy with palace ghosts.

The Adventures of Sherlock Homes’ Smarter Brother (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
Sherlock Holmes’ younger brother is annoyed that he has had to live in Sherlock’s shadow for so long. When Sherlock goes to the continent, he sends a case to his brother who constantly tries with varying success, to imitate Sherlock’s deductive and observational tricks.

UK Releases

Exterminator 2 (101 Films, Region B)

Synopsis:
The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.

Captain America: Civil War 3D (Zavvi Steelbook, Region B)

Synopsis:
Captain America and Falcon continue their search for Bucky Barnes while going head to head with a new foe, Crossbones.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Arrow, Region B)

Synopsis:
Fun-loving bombshells Kelly, Casey and Pet have a rock band, and they’re headed to Hollywood to make it big. Thanks to Kelly’s well-connected aunt, they soon find themselves at a hedonistic love-in thrown by eccentric music promoter Ronnie “Z-Man” Barzell. He takes them under his wing, and a new world of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll unfolds. Superstardom is within reach, if only their newfound distractions don’t get in the way!

Australia Releases

Lost Horizon (Via Vision Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.

The Punisher (Umbrella Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb, has become THE PUNISHER… a shadowy, invincible fighter against evil who lives for total revenge on his mob enemies. Only his ex-partner believes Castle survived the blast. Lashing out from a labyrinth of subterranean sewers, THE PUNISHER leads a heavily armed raid into a world of brutal crime and savage retribution. A world where only one thing is certain…the guilty will be punished.

Suddenly, Last Summer (Via Vision Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
After witnessing her cousin’s death, Catherine Holly begins to suffer mental problems. Her aunt, Violet Venable attempts to persuade neurosurgeon Dr Cukrowicz to perform a lobotomy in order to put an end to Catherine’s hallucinations and the truth coming out about her son’s death.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil (Via Vision Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
A blind man and a deaf man are mistakenly accused of murder and must work together to find the real killers.

Stir Crazy (Via Vision Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.

House of 1000 Corpses (Umbrella Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
Two young couples take a misguided tour onto the back roads of America in search of a local legend known as Dr. Satan. Lost and stranded, they are set upon by a bizarre family of psychotics. Murder, cannibalism and satanic rituals are just a few of the 1000+ horrors that await.

Fail-Safe (Via Vision Entertainment, Region B)

Synopsis:
At the height of the Cold War, during the standard investigation of a possible incursion into US airspace by the Soviets, the nuclear bombers that are always in the air are sent towards their “Fail-Safe” points, about which they orbit while waiting to be sent to their targets if a preemptive attack by the USSR is confirmed. The alert turns out to be false and the various flights are recalled, but a technical error occurs, and one flight of 6 aircraft, armed with multiple 20 megaton nuclear weapons, passes beyond its “Fail-Safe” point, and heads towards its assigned target of Moscow. With the World racing towards WWIII, can the US President and Soviet Premier overcome their distrust, and avoid nuclear annihilation?!

Stephen King Collection (Via Vision Entertainment, Region B)

The Dead Zone
The chilling story of a man who emerges from a five-year coma possessed with the extraordinary power to see visions of the past, present and most frighteningly, the future ….

Christine
Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. But as the car changes, so does Arnie, and his newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie’s girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.

Pet Sematary
For most families, moving is a new beginning. But for the Creeds, it could be the beginning of the end.

Sleepwalkers
Charles Brady and his mother Mary move to a small town. They are sleepwalkers – they can change their appearance and they need the life force from young women. Charles has picked out young Tanya as his next victim. He asks her for a date and invites her home…