Bluray Tuesday Featuring: Solo: A Star Wars Story, The [REC] Collection & Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich

September 25th 2018

The last Bluray Tuesday of September has arrived! There are some solid and collection worthy releases being put out today. Starting off with Solo: A Star Wars Story. When the trailer was first released, Solo looked like a weak cash grab. I had no intention of checking out right away but decided to buy tickets last minute and I was thoroughly surprised by how much I enjoyed the film. This week's number one pickup for me. Target will carry a bonus disc version as its exclusive in a book packaging and Best Buy will carry an exclusive steelbook. Long awaited US Bluray release of The [REC] Collection from Scream Factory finally comes out today with a new scan of all 4 films in the series. The first and second are the only ones I've seen so I'm looking forward to checking the rest out. Next up on Bluray and 4K Ultra HD is Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich which looks promising but for some reason falls flat. Vinegar Syndrome this week releases Body Melt and The House on Tombstone Hill. Both have really cool covers but blind buys for me. Severin is releasing Absurd and Anthropophagous for the first time on Bluray and if you order directly from Severin's site you can get an exclusive plushie from the Anthtopophagous film. Rounding out the week is comedy Uncle Drew, slasher film The Row, and 4K release of 1978's Halloween for it's 40th anniversary. So what will you buy, rent or skip this week? Let us know in the comments. Until next week!

Solo: A Star Wars Story: Best Buy - $22.99

4K: Best Buy - $29.99

Young Han Solo finds adventure when he joins a gang of galactic smugglers, including a 196-year-old Wookie named Chewbacca. Indebted to the gangster Dryden Vos, the crew devises a daring plan to travel to the mining planet Kessel to steal a batch of valuable coaxium. In need of a fast ship, Solo meets Lando Calrissian, the suave owner of the perfect vessel for the dangerous mission -- the Millennium Falcon.

 

 

Steelbook: Best Buy - $34.99

 

Bonus Disc: Target - $32.99

 

The [REC] Collection: Amazon - $49.99

[REC]: 
Late-night TV host Angela and her cinematographer are following the fire service on a call to an apartment building, but the Spanish police seal off the building after an old woman is infected by a virus which gives her inhuman strength.

[REC] 2: A doctor and a SWAT team enter a quarantined building where a virus has turned the residents into a pack of ravenous monsters.

 [REC] 3:  Newlyweds (Leticia Dolera, Diego Martín) watch their wedding reception descend into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

[REC] 4: Survivors of a strange contagion which turns humans into ghouls find themselves aboard a ship where a doctor is trying to isolate the source of the outbreak.

 

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich: Amazon - $14.99

4K: Amazon - $18.99 

Recently divorced and reeling, Edgar returns to his childhood home to regroup his life. When Edgar finds a nefarious looking puppet in his deceased brother's room, he decides to sell the doll for some quick cash. Girl-next-door Ashley and comic book pal Markowitz, join Edgar for a doomed road trip to an auction celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose when a strange force animates the puppets at the convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree that's motivated by an evil as old as time.

 

 

The Row: Amazon - $14.99

An incoming college freshman must endure cruel hazing rituals and somehow evade a demented serial killer who is targeting her sorority sisters.

 

Anthropophagous: Amazon - $26.99

Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror - the Anthropophagus Beast.

  

The Bride: Amazon - $27.99

This gothic tale, inspired by the indelible themes and characters originally brought to life by Mary Shelley, follows Frankenstein's creations as they search for their place in the world — the gorgeous Eva by declaring her independence, and her grotesque intended mate Viktor by learning self-worth from a compassionate circus dwarf. Can Dr. Frankenstein survive when the monster returns to claim his intended?

 

Absurd: Amazon - $27.99

A priest comes to a small town to help get rid of a monster whose blood coagulates very fast. This creates problems as the monster is very hard to kill and then decides to go on a killing spree of its own.

 

The Baby: Amazon - $25.99

A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. The problem is, the baby is twenty-one years old.

 

Halloween (1978) 4K: Amazon - $17.99

Fifteen years ago, Michael Myers brutally murdered his sister. Now, after escaping from a mental hospital, he’s back to relive his grisly crime again, and again...and again.

 

American Psycho 4K: Amazon - $16.99

Patrick Bateman is a Wall Street yuppie, obsessed with success, status, and style, with a stunning fianceé. He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose. Based on the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the film offers a sharp satire to the dark side of yuppie culture in the 80s, while setting forth a vision that is both terrifying and chilling.

 

Exorcist 2: The Heretic: Amazon - $29.99

It's four years after 12 year old Regan was possessed by Pazuzu...and supposedly exorcised of the demon. Recovering from the effects of personally hosting evil, Regan is still plagued by memories of those horrific events. A Vatican investigator discovers that the evil in Regan, apparently exorcised, is only dormant.

 

Body Melt: Amazon - $25.99

Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.

 

The House on Tombstone Hill: Amazon - $25.99

Eight friends go to fix up an old house that Mark has purchased. Upon arriving they find the grave of Annabelle (the former owner) in the back yard. She had killed her husband back in the 40's. Bob (one of Mark's friends) smashes the headstone and awakens Annabelle, this begins the carnage. But the dead don't stay dead and the living can't escape as the house locks down to keep them in.

 

The Day of the Jackal: Amazon - $25.99

A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

 

The Swarm: Amazon - $21.99

A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities, killing thousands of people.

 

Memories Within Miss Aggie: Amazon - $25.99

Memories Within Miss Aggie is a 1974 pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano and starring Deborah Ashira, Eric Edwards, and Harry Reems. The film pays homage to both Damiano's previous skin flick The Devil in Miss Jones and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.

 

Gotti: Amazon - $14.99

Raised on the streets of New York, young John Gotti found his way into the Gambino crime family, eventually having the boss removed and becoming head of the powerful family. His wife asked only one thing from John: to never expose their children to his profession. But he broke the vow, and John Jr. took his place as his father's Capo.

 

Molly: Amazon - $9.99

In a post apocalyptic world where bullets have become currency and medicine is rare, a clan of marauders uses a home brewed drug to turn innocent people into rabid beasts to have them fight each other in their fighting pits for their entertainment. When their leader discovers rumors of a girl with superpowers roaming the beach near their fort, he sends his best people out to capture her. Meanwhile, the girl, Molly, has discovered a young child, living alone in a cabin in the wasteland, waiting for the return of her parents, who are probably dead. Molly has to protect the child and fight off the marauders at the same time.
 

 

Uncle Drew: Amazon - $19.99

 4K: Amazon - $24.99

After draining his life savings to enter a team in the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem, Dax (Lil Rel Howery) is dealt a series of unfortunate setbacks, including losing his team to his longtime rival (Nick Kroll). Desperate to win the tournament and the cash prize, Dax stumbles upon the man, the myth, the legend UNCLE DREW (NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving) and convinces him to return to the court one more time. The two men embark on a road trip to round up Drew's old basketball squad (Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Webber, Reggie Miller, Nate Robinson, and Lisa Leslie) and prove that a group of septuagenarians can still win the big one.

 

 

DC's Legends of Tomorrow (Season 3): Amazon - $24.99

Time Master Rip Hunter travels back in time to the present day where he brings together a team of heroes and villains in an attempt to prevent Vandal Savage from destroying the world and time itself.
 

 

   - The Impostor