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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Bluray Tuesday Featuring: Upgrade, Brainscan & Mary Shelley

August 28th 2018


The last Bluray Tuesday of August has arrived. This month had lots of cool releases, and this week continues the trend with some solid pickups as well. My number one pick up of today goes to Upgrade. I've heard nothing but great things from Leigh Whannell's new film. Scream Factory this week releases 90's film Brainscan for the first time on Bluray. Next up is from IFC Films  that releases biography film Mary Shelley. This one I haven't heard too much about but do eventually want to check it out. Vinegar Syndrome brings us Wonder Women with a new scan and features. And in you didn't grab the Chucky boxset, Universal is releasing the rest of the Child's Play series in stand alone Blurays with original cover art for each. Rounding out this week is a new DC animated movie The Ray, comedy film Tag and Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder. What will you guys buy, rent or skip this week? Let us know in the comments. Until next week!

Upgrade: Amazon - $19.99

Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life but when Grey, a self-identified technophobe has his world turned upside down his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.

Upgrade (Blu-ray) 

Brainscan: Amazon - $26.99

A teenager is part of an interactive video game where he kills innocent victims. Later, the murders become real.
Brainscan (Blu-ray) 

Mary Shelley: Amazon - $22.99

The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and 18 year old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, which resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley (Blu-ray) 

Wonder Women: Amazon - $25.99

An evil woman makes a good living by kidnapping famous athletes, chopping them up and selling their remaining viable parts to the elderly rich until an insurance detective catches on and saves the day.

Wonder Women (Blu-ray) 

Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder: Amazon - $19.99

A demon is summoned to take the soul of a young boy, who has the potential to become a saint. If the demon succeeds, it will open a doorway to Hell, blazing a terrifying trail of destruction, possession and mayhem and destroy humanity. Now the fate of the world hinges on the final outcome of a renegade priest's battle with the soul eating SHADOWBUILDER.

Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder (Blu-ray) 

Drop Dead Delilah: Amazon - $25.99

The matriarch of a family living in an old Southern mansion finds that a killer is loose in the house, searching for a $50,000 fortune rumored to be hidden there, and murdering anyone getting in the way.
Dear Dead Delilah (Blu-ray) 

The Horror of Party Beach: Amazon - $26.99

Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community.

The Horror of Party Beach (Blu-ray) 

American Animals: Amazon - $19.99

Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
American Animals (Blu-ray) 

Tag: Amazon - $22.99

A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to travel all over the country.

Tag (Blu-ray) 

Freedom Fighters The Ray: Amazon - $18.99

All his life, Ray Terrill has fought injustice, dreaming of making a real difference like his older brother, a Marine who was killed in Afghanistan. One day, he stumbles upon a dying Super Hero from another Earth and is stunned to find that this Super Hero looks just like him—because it is! The dying Ray Terrill of Earth-X transfers photokinetic energy to this Earth’s Ray, making him a Super Hero – The Ray. However, Ray quickly learns being a Super Hero isn’t all hanging muggers from streetlamps and fighting giant robots. As the evil Nazi New Reichsman of Earth-X, led by Overgirl, close in, The Ray must learn to harness his powers by coming to terms with his true self, even if that means also finally coming out of the closet to his parents.
Freedom Fighters: The Ray (Blu-ray) 

Lucifer (Season 3): Amazon - $41.99

Entering its third season, the story of the original fallen angel continues. As Season Two came to a close, Lucifer took care of a little problem called Mom, aka Charlotte. But now he’s facing an even greater challenge – finding out who kidnapped him, and why his angel wings are back. There is also a new commanding officer, Marcus Pierce, an accomplished police lieutenant who is everything Lucifer is not – strategic, reserved and well-respected. When Pierce develops a connection with Decker, Lucifer's devilish traits are inflamed.
Lucifer: The Complete Third Season (Blu-ray) 

Book Club: Amazon - $19.99

Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.

Book Club (Blu-ray) 

Mind Game: Amazon - $16.99

The film follows Nishi, a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, the film follows Nishi as he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place. Nishi (and some friends) attempt to break out of their trap, and discover what it truly means to be alive along the way. This is a mind-bending trip that uses some of the most innovative animation ever created. 

Mind Game (Blu-ray) 

Woman Walks Ahead: Amazon - $15.99

The story follows Catherine Weldon, who moved from Brooklyn to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull keep the land for his people. Weldon wrote letters to the federal government on behalf of Sitting Bull and lived on the land for several years with her son.
Woman Walks Ahead (Blu-ray) 

Once Upon A Time (Season 7): Amazon - $49.99

In the town of Storybrooke, Maine, not everything is as it seems. When Henry, the adopted son of the town's mayor, goes searching for his birth mother, he begins to unravel a web of secrets connected to his adoptive mother and her relationship to the strange amnesia afflicting the town's residents. While all of the people in Storybrooke are actually fairytale characters, only the mayor remembers the magical past. As Henry's quest progresses, however, the real stories of the town's residents come to light. Together with Emma, his birth mother, and their friends, including Jiminy Cricket, Snow White, Prince Charming and other fairytale legends, Henry fights to restore love and magic to the town. This often puts him at odds with his adoptive mother, the evil queen who cursed the town's residents.

Once Upon a Time: The Complete Seventh Season (Blu-ray) 

Child's Play 2: Amazon - $13.99
 Child's Play 3: Amazon - $13.99
Bride of Chucky: Amazon - $13.99
 Seed of Chucky: Amazon - $13.99

Chuckie's back as the doll possessed by the soul of a serial killer, butchering all who stand in his way of possessing the body of a boy. Chucky hooks up with another murderous doll, the bridal gown-clad Tiffany, for a Route 66 murder spree with their unwitting hosts, two eloping high-school graduates. Glen is the orphan doll offspring of the irrepressible devilish-doll-come- to-life Chucky and his equally twisted bride Tiffany. When production starts on a movie detailing the urban legend of his parents' lethal exploits, Glen heads for Hollywood where he brings his bloodthirsty parents back from the dead. The family dynamics are far from perfect as Chucky and Tiffany go Hollywood and get rolling on a new spree of murderous mayhem--much to gentle Glen's horror. Chucky can't believe that his child doesn't want to walk in his murdering footsteps, and star-struck Tiffany can't believe that the movie will star her favorite actress, Jennifer Tilly, who soon becomes an unwitting hostess to this new family in more ways than one.

Child's Play 2 (Blu-ray) 

Child's Play 3 (Blu-ray)
Temporary cover art 

Bride of Chucky (Blu-ray) 

Seed of Chucky (Blu-ray)
Temporary cover art 

Bound: Amazon - $29.99

Violet is the sexy mistress of Ceasar, a money launderer for the Mob. The comfortable Family lifestyle has become drudgery--until Violet meets Corky. Corky, a convicted thief out on parole, is hired as the maintenance person in the exclusive apartment complex where Violet and Ceasar reside. After forming a strong friendship with Corky, Violet wants out of the Mob lifestyle and sees Corky's theft expertise as her ticket to a fresh start. If Corky is willing to steal the two million dollars in cash stashed in the apartment that Ceasar must deliver to Marzzone the next day, together the women can escape the Mafia. However, when Ceasar discovers the money missing, he reacts differently than they anticipated... to say the least. Bound together against the wrath of Ceasar, Violet and Corky must rely on their instincts to survive.

Bound (Blu-ray) 

The Flash ( Season 4): Amazon - $36.99

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.

The Flash: The Complete Fourth Season (Blu-ray) 


-The Impostor

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