What’s New on DVD and Blu-Ray

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Home video this week is swarmed with small-release indie features. For those of you who like to turn on a movie before bed, you may want to give The Nightmare a try. A documentary exploring the concept of sleep paralysis, The Nightmare features horrific recreations of visions seen by people even as they can’t move. Perhaps watching this just as you’re drifting off will give you the kind of nightmare featured in the film, and give you a deeper appreciation of the phenomenon.

Other notable releases include Strangerland and The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. Strangerland is the female-directed Aussie movie about a family new to the Outback who finds themselves in crisis when their kids go missing. Complex, contradictory, ambitious, and messy, Strangerland is one of the more fascinating failures of the year. Far more crowd-pleasing is The 100-Year-Old Man, a film that seems to take the piss out of Forrest Gump by centering on a mentally-challenged pyromaniac, who is in no way a savant, as he goes through life meeting up in Europe’s biggest events. It’s light and fluffy, but that’s about it.

In cult films, La Grande Bouffe is being released uncensored by Arrow Films this week. An Italian film about rich people who go to a remote cabin to eat and screw themselves to death, La Grande Bouffe has been in multiple versions for years after being butchered by the censors. Pitch black in that foreign 1970s way, La Grande Bouffe is a satire that must be seen to be believed. Despite winning the FIPRESCI award at Cannes, this is a film I never thought would get any sort of respect.

As a final note: Shout Factory’s new release of Hackers is not a new transfer or remaster. Damn.

Blu-Ray and DVD

  • 25 Years Louder Than Hell: The W.O.A. Documentary
  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
  • About Elly
  • Atlantis: Season 2, Part 2
  • Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem
  • Black & White & Sex
  • The Blacklist: The Complete Second Season
  • Cub
  • Day for Night
  • Diggstown
  • Ejecta
  • Face to Face
  • La Grande Bouffe
  • La Sapienza
  • Lambert and Stamp
  • Little Boy
  • Navajo Joe
  • The Nightmare
  • Once upon a Time: The Complete Fourth Season
  • A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die
  • The Seventh Dwarf
  • Strangerland
  • A Town Called Hell
  • Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
  • Z Storm

Blu-Ray

  • Burn, Witch, Burn!
  • The Couch Trip
  • Future Diary: Complete Series
  • Hackers
  • The Hunger
  • Nomads
  • Psycho Beach Party

DVD

  • 5 to 7
  • 10 Cent Pistol
  • Amy Winehouse: Inside & Out
  • Babyfirst: Anytime Adventure
  • Babyfirst: Fun With Friends
  • The Beginners Bible: Volume 3
  • Below the Belt
  • Book Club
  • Bottoms Up
  • Castles in the Sky
  • Catching Faith
  • Clue Club: The Complete Animated Series
  • Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Daniel Goes to School
  • The Deadline
  • Fast N’ Loud: Speed Demons
  • The Fight for Water: A Farm Worker Struggle
  • Flesh & Bullets
  • The Front
  • Frontline: Obama At War
  • Gentleman’s Fate
  • The George Lopez Show: The Complete Fifth Season
  • Grey’s Anatomy: Complete Eleventh Season
  • Hammer Film Collection Volume 1-5
  • Hanky Panky
  • Harry and Walter Go To New York
  • Hoodies vs Hooligans
  • Interface
  • It Happened Here
  • J. De Bono: Sharks
  • The Jeff Foxworthy Show: The Complete Series
  • The John Way Story
  • Kantemir
  • The Kid From Spain
  • The Killing: The Complete Fourth Season
  • Knifed Up: The Evolution of Cosmetic Surgery
  • Lost and Found
  • The Love Letter
  • Madison
  • Merely Players
  • Mighty Machines: Super Pack
  • Mike & Molly: The Complete Fifth Season
  • NCIS:LA – Seasons 1-6
  • NCIS:LA – Season 6
  • NCIS:NO – Season 1
  • NCIS: Seasons 1-12
  • NCIS: Season 12
  • Nickelodeon Favorites: Celebrate Fall!
  • No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie
  • Oz: The Complete Second Season
  • Palmy Days
  • The Phantom of Paris
  • Rawhide: Season 2, Volume 2
  • Rebel: The Complete Series
  • Redemption
  • The Riot Club
  • Roman Scandals
  • Rookie Blue: Season Five, Volume One
  • The Royals: The Complete First Season
  • The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
  • Seventeen
  • Sir Ivan: I Am Peaceman
  • Sister Code
  • Soaked in Bleach
  • Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things
  • Strike Me Pink
  • Teen Titans Go: Season 2, Part 2: House Pests
  • TV Guide Spotlight: Animal Stars
  • TV Guide Spotlight: Crime Stoppers
  • TV Guide Spotlight: Game Shows
  • TV Guide Spotlight: Westerns
  • The Untouchables: Season One
  • Way for a Sailor
  • Welcome Back, Kotter: The Final Season
  • The Whereabouts of Jenny
  • The Wife Killer
  • Wodehouse in Exile
  • WWE: Batteground 2015