For the week of June 21st, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will bring Ilya Naishuller's thriller Nobody, starring Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, RZA, Aleksey Serebryakov, and Christopher Lloyd. Originally set to release in the summer of 2020, Nobody was pushed back several times due to the coronavirus pandemic, eventually being released in March 2021 and topping the box office in its first weekend. The film received positive reviews and made over $26 million at the domestic box office, for a global total of over $61 million. This week, the film comes to Blu-ray and 4K UHD with Dolby Atmos audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K disc. Extras include an audio commentary with Odenkirk and Naishuller, deleted scenes and multiple featurettes.
Also new from Universal this week is a three-disc set for The Umbrella Academy: Season One, starring Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, and Elliot Page. Synopsis: A dysfunctional family of superheroes comes together to solve the mystery of their father's death, the threat of apocalypse and more.
New from Warner Bros Home Entertainment this week is a Blu-ray for Batman: The Long Halloween Part One, the first of two DCAU films which will adapt the acclaimed 1990s graphic novel of the same name in which Batman must hunt a killer who strikes on holidays. The second part of the film, Batman: The Long Halloween Part Two, is set to be released on August 10th, 2021, with a combined edition of the film set for 4K UHD release later in the year. Included with the Blu-ray of Batman: The Long Halloween Part One is the DC Showcase Animated Short: "The Losers" along with a sneak peek at the second film. Those who want to get a head start can head over and check out the screenshots for the first part in Randy Miller's Blu-ray review here.
Another new theatrical release this week comes from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, with Evan Spiliotopoulos' film The Unholy, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Cary Elwes, William Sadler, Katie Aselton, and Diogo Morgado. Originally titled Shrine and based on a book by that name from English author James Herbert, The Unholy actually had its principal photography interrupted by the pandemic and was eventually completed under social distancing, once CDC guidelines allowed film production to resume. It was released theatrically in April 2021 and so far has grossed about half of its over $30 million box office domestically and half internationally.
Next up this week, from Shout Factory is Shawn Linden's film Hunter Hunter, starring Camille Sullivan, Devon Sawa, Summer H. Howell, Nick Stahl, and Lauren Cochrane. Synopsis: In the remote wilderness, fur trapper Joseph Mersault (Devon Sawa, Idle Hands, The Fanatic) and his family struggle to make ends meet. Believing their traps are being hunted by a returning rogue wolf, Joseph leaves his wife, Anne (Camille Sullivan, Unspeakable), and daughter, Renée (Summer H. Howell, The Midnight Man), on their own as he launches a determined search to catch the apex predator in the act. Growing increasingly anxious as Joseph's absence continues on, Anne reaches new heights of paranoia when a mysterious and severely injured man appears on her doorstep — and soon the threat of a predator in the woods becomes a threat much closer to home. "An extraordinary entry in the modern horror canon" (Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle), Hunter Hunter is a heart-stopping, deep-woods thriller that will stick with you no matter where you are …
The, from Lionsgate Home Entertainment comes Abel Ferrara's film Siberia (2019), starring Willem Dafoe, Dounia Sichov, and Simon McBurney. Synopsis: Clint (Dafoe) tends bar at a snowbound roadhouse whose patrons speak a language he doesn't understand, and things may not be what they seem. Desperate for answers, he drives a sled team to a nearby cave, but finds no peace. Are the spirits that confront him mere figments of his imagination — or will they slowly tear his body and soul to pieces? This mind-blowing psychological thriller is directed by Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant) and stars Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man).
Moving on to catalog titles, without doubt the biggest one this week has to be Severin Films' The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection. The massive box set contains eight Blu-rays with five of Lee's feature films in new 2K or 4K remasters: The Castle of the Living Dead,Challenge the Devil (AKA Katarsis), Crypt of the Vampire, Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace and The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism, as well as all 24 episodes of the anthology television series hosted by Lee, Theatre Macabre, which are taken from new 2K masters of the original camera negatives. The eighth Blu-ray is a bonus disc with several featurettes and interviews, while a CD disc with the original soundtrack for The Castle of the Living Dead is also included. To top it off, the set comes with an all-new 88-page book by Lee biographer Jonathan Rigby.
Finally this week, don't forget to check out Arrow Video's slate, including the three-disc, five-film box set of Italian Poliziotteschi films, Years of Lead: five Classic Italian Crime Thrillers, for which a full review can be found here. Also from Arrow this week, however, is Yasuzo Masumura's Irezumi, starring Ayako Wakao, Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto and Kei Satô. The 1966 film, about a young woman who is forcibly tattooed with a an image of a large demonic spider across her back, was recently given a new 4K remaster and the Arrow disc is the first release of that remaster outside of Japan. Reviewer Jeffrey Kauffman says in part: "This is a really ravishing looking transfer that offers abundant detail levels and an often gorgeously suffused palette. Reds and purples are especially evocative throughout the film and pop really well". For more information on the extras and to see screenshots of the new 4K master from the 1080p Blu-ray, please see Jeffrey Kauffman's full review here.