September 18 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases

Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s September 18 Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD column! As you can see, we’ve added a video player at the top highlighting this week’s releases, and you can find more detailed write-ups of different titles below! Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon!

New Movies on Blu-ray/DVD

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard return to the park to save the remaining dinosaurs endangered by an active volcano. The Blu-ray includes Pratt’s Jurassic Journals and much more!

Siberia

Keanu Reeves stars as an American diamond trader in Russia who begins a love affair while searching for his missing partner. Click here to read our previous interview with Reeves about the film!

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

Based on the local legends and stories of people who ve visited the real-life abandoned hospital, this Korean horror flick follows the crew of a horror web show who plan to stream live from inside the asylum.

Criterion Corner

My Man Godfrey

The Criterion Collection reissues on Blu-ray this sparkling Depression-era screwball comedy starring William Powell as a “forgotten man” that comes into the lives of a wealthy Manhattan family. The disc features outtakes, Depression-era newsreels and a Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1938.

Reissues

Big Wednesday

Warner Archive issues John Milius’ autobiographical and overlooked 1978 surfing film starring William Katt, Jan-Michael Vincent and Gary Busey. The disc features a retrospective doc and a commentary by Milius.

Cabin Boy

This Chris Elliot vehicle became something of a national punchline when it was released in 1994, but its reputation as a cult fantasy goof has only grown with time. Kino Lorber’s fantastic new Blu-ray edition features a new interview with Elliot and director Adam Resnick, as well as a commentary by the two as they talk about how the project evolved out of originally being a movie for its producer Tim Burton to direct.

The Hired Hand

Part of string of semi-independent films made at Universal after the success of Easy Rider that also included American Graffiti and Silent Running, Peter Fonda’s directorial debut is an elegiac neo-western co-starring Warren Oates. It follows a man who abandoned his family to explore the open territory who decides to return home.

Horrors of Malformed Men

Cult director Teruo Ishii (Blind Woman’s Curse) helmed this 1969 film, a nightmarish, hallucinogenic tale drawn from the fevered imagination of Japan’s celebrated pioneer ofero-guro (erotic grotesque) literature, Edogawa Rampo.

Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead & Phantasm IV: Oblivion

The third and fourth film in director Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm saga come to Blu-ray in new editions that even The Tall Man would approve of.

Scream For Help

Directed by Michael Winner (Death Wish) and written by Tom Holland (Fright Night), this 1984 thriller follows a young girl who uncovers a plot by her stepfather to murder her wealthy mother.

Boris Karloff Collection (DVD) 

This is the fabled package of four films that Boris Karloff made towards the end of his career as co-productions between Columbia Pictures and Mexico’s Azteca Films. Unable to travel to Mexico due to ill health, Karloff shot footage for all four pictures in America under the direction of cult fav Jack Hill. Includes Dance of Death, Torture Zone, Alien Terror and Cult of the Dead.

New on Digital HD

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) calls on the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) to escalate the drug war in unscrupulous ways.

Beyond the Sky (exclusive clip) (in theaters and VOD/Digital HD on September 21)

Chris Norton has been hearing about alien abductions his entire life but, in his gut, he knows they are not real. Setting out to disprove the alien abduction phenomenon once and for all, he attends a UFO convention to meet alleged abductees and reveal the truth behind their experiences. Check out the exclusive clip below!

American Dresser (exclusive clip)

Academy Award Nominee Tom Berenger (Platoon) plays John Moore, a recently widowed, hard-edged Vietnam veteran who takes the ride of a lifetime. He fixes up his American Dresser motorcycle and sets out on a cross-country road trip with his best friend, Charlie (Keith David). Check out our exclusive clip below!

TV on Blu-ray and DVD

Murdoch Mysteries: Home For the Holidays

Dashing detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) must solve a holiday whodunit in this feature-length special of the award-winning mystery series set in Edwardian Toronto.

Ben 10: Omni-Tricked

While on a seemingly endless summer vacation with his Grandpa Max and Cousin Gwen, Ben Tennyson discovers an alien watch, the Omnitrix. This amazing device gives Ben the ability to transform into any one of ten spectacular and powerful aliens!

Madam Secretary: Season 4 (DVD)

It s never politics as usual for Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni). In Season 4, McCord faces everything from international issues to personal upheavals.