The Overlook Theatre: Bluray Tuesday Featuring: The Strangers 2, Abominable & Tomb Raider

June 12th 2018

Bluray Tuesday returns once again, and this week is filled with many cool releases both, new and older, for the first time on Bluray. The long awaited Strangers sequel finally hits shelves today in a new unrated edition titled The Strangers: Prey at Night. This sequel is a bit more fast paced and slasher-like compared to the home invasion slow burn the first was. I enjoyed seeing the slasher genre make a big screen comeback this year. MVD Visual releases a collector's edition of Abominable. This was released in 2006 and I personally haven't heard of it, so this one will be a blind buy for me this week. The 2018 reboot of Tomb Raider hits stores today in both standard Bluray and 4k. I was hoping for a steelbook edition for this release to go with the previous Tomb Raider films but no such luck. Next title is from Scream Factory, which releases Ninja III: The Domination as a part of their collector's edition line. Next on my list is 80's erotic drama Spetters which is being released for the first time on Bluray from Kino Lorber. With Jurassic World 2 hitting theaters next weekend, we get a zombie dinosaur crossbreed film hitting stores titled The Jurassic Dead. Looks like a fun drinking movie! So what will you buy, rent or skip this week! Let us know in the comments. Until next week.

The Strangers 2: Prey at Night: Amazon - $19.99

A vacation turns macabre when three masked strangers return to menace a family visiting a trailer park in this sequel to the disquieting horror shocker.

Abominable: Amazon - $21.99

With 42,000 sightings in 68 countries, the elusive woodland creature known as Sasquatch, Yeti, and Bigfoot is one of the most enduring natural mysteries ever known to man. Hunted by humans for hundreds of years, the formerly reclusive man-like beast strikes out against his would-be captors in a mountain-based tale of survival and horror.

Tomb Raider (2018): Amazon - $24.99

4K: Amazon - $29.99

Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now 21, and working as a London bike courier, Lara is driven to solve the puzzle of her father's mysterious death. Leaving behind everything she knows, she searches for her father’s last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan.

Ninja 3: The Domination: Amazon - $19.99

The body of a sexy aerobics instructor is invaded by the evil spirit of a dying ninja. At first, changes in her behavior is limited to having strange interactions with an arcade game, doing sexy things with V8 juice, and being attracted to an unusually hairy police officer. But soon enough, she's systematically killing, ninja-style, the officers responsible for the ninja's death, and can only be stopped by another ninja!

Spetters: Amazon - $19.99

Rien, Eef and Hans are three young working-class guys stuck in an industrial town on the outskirts of Rotterdam. They couldn't be more different except for one thing: their shared passion for motorcycle racing, which each sees as his ticket to a better life. But a deeper passion will soon rule each of their lives, when a sexy, ambitious blonde comes between them and provokes unforeseen events that will rock their worlds.

Love, Simon: Amazon - $19.99

4K: Amazon - $24.99

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life-changing.

Love, Simon 4K (Blu-ray)
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Darkman Trilogy: Amazon - $14.99

Darkman: When thugs employed by a crime boss lead a vicious assault on Dr. Peyton Wilder (Liam Neeson), leaving him literally and psychologically scarred, an emergency procedure allows him to survive. Upon his recovery, Wilder can find solace only by returning to his scientific work developing synthetic skin, and seeking revenge against the crime boss. He assumes a phantom avenger persona called Darkman, who, with malleable facial qualities, is able to infiltrate and sow terror in the criminal community.

Darkman 2:Scientist Peyton Westlake (Arnold Vosloo) returns to his lab believing he has disposed of his nemesis, mobster Robert G. Durant (Larry Drake), who gave him the hideous burns that transformed him into his alter ego, Darkman. While Darkman is perfecting an artificial skin that will restore his old appearance, Durant inexplicably returns to torment him. Overcome by rage, Darkman disguises himself with the artificial skin, setting out to infiltrate Durant's world and bring him to justice.

Darkman 3: Burn-scarred scientist Peyton Westlake (Arnold Vosloo) roams the night as his alter ego, the cloaked Darkman. When Darkman, who often steals from the corrupt, crosses drug kingpin Peter Rooker (Jeff Fahey), he finds a worthy adversary. Rooker tricks Darkman into an operation, implanting a remote-control device in his mind. To free himself from his enemy, Darkman must now take down Rooker or die -- a job that will draw the recluse unexpectedly close to his target's family.

Spinning Man: Amazon - $14.99

A happily married professor, known for having many affairs with students, becomes the prime suspect when a young woman has gone missing.

The Sleeper: Amazon - $34.99

It's 1981 and the girls of Alpha Gamma Theta sorority are having a party. As the new pledges arrive, so does an uninvited guest. Little do the sisters know someone is watching them in the shadows. As the girls shower, study, eat and sleep the stalker studies the girls. One by one he finds the girls at their most vulnerable and murders them. The police hunt for the missing girls and their killer, but will they find them in time? Or will the girls be forced to fight for their lives.