The Shallows, Warcraft, The Neon Demon and lots and more come home September 27
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s look at all the top titles arriving this week on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD. Check out the gallery viewer below for a look at the major new releases, catalogue films and television collections hitting shelves and/or VOD beginning Tuesday, September 27, 2016.
We’re kicking off the week with clips from two new September 27 releases that you can check out in the players at the bottom of this page. In the first, we’ve got a deleted scene from the 20th Century Fox comedy Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. Then, in the second player, we’ve got a scene from Rob Connolly’s Edge of Winter, starring Suicide Squad‘s Joel Kinnaman and Spider-Man: Homecoming‘s Tom Holland. Edge of Winter comes home this week on DVD only.
If you missed it’s debut last Friday, click here to watch the first ten minutes of Taika Waititi’s delightful adventure Hunt for the Wilderpeople, available this week on DVD.
Shout! Factory delivers a packed-with-special features double feature of both Bill and Ted films with the new Bill and Ted’s Most Excellent Collection. They’ve also got the debut of the recent animated feature Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdomand, joining the Scream Factory label, Frank LaLoggia’s Lady in White. The 1988 supernatural thriller arrives with both cuts of the eerie tale.
Music Box Films releases a Blu-ray of Anne Fontaine’s recent WWII drama The Innocents,while the supernatural action classic Highlandergets a brand-new transfer for a 30th anniversary edition.
Lionsgate is relaunching the classic Vestron Video label this week with deluxe editions of 1986’s Chopping Malland 1987’s Blood Diner. If that’s not enough horror, there’s also a new edition of John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London(boasting a pristine new transfer), Arrow‘s new restoration of the 1988 creature feature Slugs and Unearthed Films‘ deluxe take on the 2015 giallo Francesca, packaged with the film’s original soundtrack CD.
Warner Archive is also getting in on the Halloween fun with three new double feature DVD-R reissues of their out of print Val Lewton collection. Look for The Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship, Isle of the Dead / Bedlamand The 7th Victim / Shadows in the Dark. If that’s not enough classic horror for you, they’ve also brought back their Hollywood’s Legends of Horror Collection, which includes six tales of terror from the 1930s, including Doctor X, The Return of Doctor X, Mad Love, The Devil Doll, Mark of the Vampire and The Mask of Fu Manchu).
Also from Warner Archive is a new DVD release for Tobe Hooper’s 1995 The Mangleras well as one for both the 1991 manga adaptation The Guyver(starring Mark Hamill) and its sequel, 1994’s Guyver: Dark Hero.
Stepping outside the horror genre, Warner Archive also brings to HD Clint Eastwood’s 1997 mystery Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which arrives on Blu-ray for the first time ever September 27.
Leading the small screen charge this week is The Film Detective‘s Blu-ray debut of 1955’s Patterns. Boasting a screenplay by Rod Serling, Patterns originally aired as part of Kraft Television Theater and earned the Twilight Zone creator his first Emmy.
Rounding out the week’s television titles is Shout! Factory‘s Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. IIIre-release. Since taking over the rights and releasing new sets, Shout! has also been backtracking and reissuing the long-out-of-print collections published by Rhino. Volume III includes The Atomic Brain, The Unearthly, The Sidehackers and the second volume of MST3K shorts.
Also now available digitally is Steven Zaillian’s terrific HBO mystery The Night Of. All eight episodes can be bought individually or as one season set.
You can check out cover art for all the September 27 releases in the gallery viewer below alongside a listing of each release’s special features (where applicable).
September 27, 2016: This Week on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD