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.

Awesome week of releases this week with new stuff from Scream Factory, Arrow and Kino Lorber. The big release this week that people have been looking forward to is the brand-new Donnie Darko from Arrow and rightfully so, it’s a loaded release. But the winner this week, at least as far as I’m concerned, is Tales from the Hood, a fantastic anthology that holds up incredibly well.

US Releases

The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
Lord Alan Cunningham is haunted by the memory of his dead wife Evelyn. He channels the trauma of his spouse’s past affair by picking up red-headed prostitutes and subjecting them to vicious acts of torture in his decaying castle. He remarries in an attempt to recapture his fading sanity, but the arrival of his new wife spawns a series of sinister events. Bloodthirsty creatures strike at Sir Alan’s family, killing them off one by one. As the violence escalates, Evelyn’s tomb is discovered to be empty. The resurrected corpse descends upon the terrified Baron, beckoning him to join her in death…

The Assassin (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
Wealthy antique dealer Nello Poletti is falsely accused of murdering his former mistress, who set him up in a life of luxury…

Sleepless (Universal, Region A)

Synopsis:
A cop with a connection to the criminal underworld scours a nightclub in search of his kidnapped son. Based on the 2011 French film “Nuit Blanche.”

Broken Arrow (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
By 1870, there has been 10 years of cruel war between settlers and Cochise’s Apaches. Ex-soldier Tom Jeffords saves the life of an Apache boy and starts to wonder if Indians are human, after all; soon, he determines to use this chance to make himself an ambassador. Against all odds, his solitary mission into Cochise’s stronghold opens a dialogue. Opportunely, the president sends General Howard with orders to conclude peace. But even with Jeffords’ luck, the deep grievance and hatred on both sides make tragic failure all too likely…

Donnie Darko (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
Some may think that Donnie Darko is a typical maladjusted teenager. Actually, Donnie is a borderline delusional intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex- crazed, teenaged arsonist, beset by visions of a monstrous rabbit which is trying to keep him under its sinister influence. Prompted by this apparition, Donnie commits antisocial acts while he is undergoing psychotherapy, surviving the vagaries of high-school life and romance, and fortuitously escaping a bizarre death from a falling jet engine. Donnie battles his demons, literally and figuratively, in a series of intertwining story lines that play with time travel, fundamentalist gurus, fate, predestination and the machinations of the universe.

Split (Universal, Region A)

Synopsis:
Kevin, a man with 23 different personalities, is compelled to abduct three teenage girls. As they are held captive, a final personality—”The Beast”—begins to emerge.

Tales from the Hood (Scream Factory, Region A)

Synopsis:
A strange funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.

The Handmaid’s Tale (Shout Selects, Region A)

Synopsis:
In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (Arrow, Region A)

Synopsis:
When two sisters inherit their family castle, a string of murders committed by a mysterious dark haired woman in a red cloak decimates their circle of friends. Is the killer their ancestor, the “Red Queen” whom legend says claims seven lives every hundred years?

The Mephisto Waltz (Kino Lorber, Region A)

Synopsis:
Alan Alda plays a classical piano player on the rise who befriends a famous player himself who’s at death’s door. Unknown to Alda, the guy is a satanist, who arranges to have their souls switch places at his death, so that he can be young again and continue to play piano (thus needing a skilled piano player like Alda to switch bodies with)…