We have a lot of catching up to do! For this update, we have the latest info on a handful of horror titles hitting DVD, Blu-ray and VOD from this week until late August. We've got releases from Lionsgate, Anchor Bay, 20th Century Fox and smaller distributors like Jinga Films and Brain Damage, so, peruse the gallery here for a breakdown of titles, release dates and special features!
DVD & Blu-ray Update 6-23-14
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The Walking Dead S4
Street Date: August 26, 2014
Anchor Bay brings The Walking Dead's fourth season to DVD & Blu-ray.
Expect bonus features, including never-before-seen production footage, deleted scenes and audio commentaries with ultra-exclusive content.
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The Walking Dead S4
Street Date: August 26, 2014
Packaging for Anchor Bay's "limited edition tree walker" release.
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Rosemary's Baby
Street Date: August 19, 2014 (DVD & Blu-ray)
Lionsgate is handling the home video release of this NBC mini-series, a remake, re-adaptation...whatever you want to call it.
Special features include:
- "Fear is Born: The Making of Rosemary's Baby" featurette
- "Grand Guignol: Parisian Production Design" featurette
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The Addicted
Release Date: June 24, 2014 (DVD)
Brought to you by Revolver Entertainment. 25 years after a patient in a drug rehab clinic commits suicide, 4 friends decide to spend a night in the abandoned clinic to try and film some of the reported paranormal goings-on. Shortly thereafter, an up and coming TV journalist is persuaded to spend a night in the clinic with 3 of her friends to try and film some of the spooky activity that is rumored to be going on. In the course of one night, Nicole, her boyfriend and their two friends discover the sickening truth about the history of the clinic and have to face a very real possibility that they might never leave.
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City of Lust
Street Date: July 1, 2014 (DVD, VOD)
From Brain Damage Films. Arianna is a young woman who moves to the city to escape a traumatic family life in the suburbs. She works as a cosmetologist and is showing early signs of formaldehyde poisoning. New to the city and lonely, she reaches out to a female sex line operator. They agree to meet and soon begin a volatile relationship. An altercation at work results in Arianna losing her job. Then, people in her life begin to turn up dead. With Arianna's health, career, and new relationship all disintegrating before her eyes, how much longer can she, and those around her, survive?
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The Harsh Light of Day
Street Date: July 22, 2014 (DVD)
From Jinga Films.
Daniel Shergold (Dan Richardson), a writer on the occult, is a happily married man until the day his wife is murdered, and he is left paralysed in a brutal, seemingly random attack, by a group of masked intruders. When the police are unable to find the perpetrators, Daniel is left in a pit of bitterness and anger. Desperately seeking vengeance, Daniel is brought to the attention of a mysterious stranger who changes everything. He offers Daniel something he hadn't dared hope for, something that shouldn't even be possible. He will help him walk, help him search, help him find vengeance - and it soon becomes clear that his wife's murder wasn't entirely without purpose. All this, but at one hell of a price...
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Varsity Blood
Street Date: August 19, 2014
From Image Entertainment.
This football season, Hogeye High’s Warriors and cheerleaders are out for blood. Unfortunately, someone is out for theirs, and they’ll be forced to take one for the team. After the big Halloween football match, the students are joined by an uninvited guest dressed as their high school mascot armed with a bow and arrow, a battle-axe, and an insatiable appetite for butchery. Soon, they find themselves fighting for more than the winning score as terror becomes the name of the game.
Special features include behind-the-scenes footage.
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Oculus
On Digital HD: July 29, 2014
Street Date: August 5, 2014 (DVD, Blu-ray)
Mike Flanagan's supernatural thriller comes to DVD and Blu-ray bringing with it the following special features, courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
- Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy
- Inside The Mirror: Creating Oculus
- Original Oculus 33 Minute Short Film with Optional Commentary by Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy
- Commentary by Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy
- Theatrical Trailer
