This Week on Blu-ray: October 13-19

For the week of October 13th, Paramount Home Media Distribution will release a Blu-ray / 4K UHD combo pack for Christopher McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett.

Description: Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – The Final Reckoning.

Paramount's 4K UHD release of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning contains the film's Dolby Atmos audio, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include three audio commentary tracks: one with Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise, another with McQuarrie, editor Eddie Hamilton and first assistant director Mary Boulding and a third with composers Max Aruj and Alfie Godfrey and score producer Cécile Tournesac. An isolated score track is also included. Additional extras are on a dedicated bonus Blu-ray disc and include multiple featurettes, a deleted footage montage and featurettes on the Olifants River Canyon (both with optional commentary by McQuarrie) and the biplane transfer (with optional commentary by McQuarrie and Cruise), as well as promo spots and multiple still galleries. In addition to standard packaging, a Limited Edition SteelBook will also be available.

New on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is Zach Cregger's Weapons (2025), starring Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong and Amy Madigan.

Description: When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

Warner's Blu-ray releases of Weapons contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras include the featurettes Director Zach Cregger: Making Horror Personal, Weaponized: The Cast of Weapons and Weapons: Texture of Terror. In addition to standard packaging, a Limited Edition SteelBook will also be available. For full release breakdowns, read Randy Miller's Blu-ray review, 4K UHD review and 4K UHD SteelBook review.

Also coming from Warner are several Blu-rays and a 4K UHD upgrade from their Warner Archive Collection. They are:

John Cromwell's The Racket (1951), starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, William Talman, Ray Collins and Joyce MacKenzie. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents The Racket with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include audio commentary with Turner Classic Movies host Eddie Muller and the film's original theatrical trailer.

Mervyn LeRoy's Lovely to Look At (1952), starring Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Marge Champion, Gower Champion and Ann Miller. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original Technicolor camera negatives, Warner Archive presents Lovely to Look At with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include Tom and Jerry short Dog Trouble (1942), the Pete Smith Specialty short Have You Ever Wondered? (1947), and the film's original theatrical trailer.

A remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), starring Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Christopher Lee, Melvyn Hayes and Valerie Gaunt. Sourced from a new 4K master, Warner Archive and Hammer Films present The Curse of Frankenstein with a choice of DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono or DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras are spread over the 4K UHD disc and two Blu-rays and include a new audio commentary with author and critic Kim Newman, horror anthologist and writer Stephen Jones and author Barry Forshaw (British Gothic Cinema) and the new featurettes Recreating the Creature, A Fitting Vocation / Topped and Tailed, Good or Tuesday?, Painting with Fine Brushes and Beside the Seaside, as well as a featurette on the new 4K master. Also included are two legacy audio commentary tracks: one with Hammer experts Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby and another with writer / producer Dr Steve Haberman and filmmaker and film historian Constantine Nasr, as well as the archival featurettes Frankenstein Reborn, Life With Sir, The Resurrection Men, Hideous Progeny, Torrents of Light and Diabolus in Musica, an alternative version of the Eyeball Scene, promotional materials and an image gallery.

Delmer Daves' A Summer Place (1959), starring Troy Donahue, Sandra Dee, Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Constance Ford and Beulah Bondi. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Warner Archive presents A Summer Place with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the Looney Tunes short A Witch's Tangled Hare (1959) and the film's original theatrical trailer.

Dick Richards' Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975), starring Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips, Alex Rocco, Charles Martin Smith and Harry Dean Stanton. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Warner Archive presents Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the film's original theatrical trailer.

Finally from Warner is a Blu-ray release for Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Series (2000-2024), starring Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines, Susie Essman and J.B. Smoove. The 24-disc set contains all 12 seasons of the series on Blu-ray for the first time worldwide.

New on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Walt Disney Home Entertainment is Matt Shakman's The Fantastic Four: First Steps, starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph Quinn, Ralph Ineson and Julia Garner.

Description: Set against the backdrop of a '60s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel's First Family faces a daunting challenge. Forced to balance being heroes with their family bond, they must defend Earth from a space god and his enigmatic herald.

Disney's 4K UHD release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps contains Dolby Vision HDR and the film's Dolby Atmos audio. Extras include audio commentary with Matt Shakman and production designer Kasra Farahani, the featurettes Meet The First Family, Fantastic Futurism and From Beyond and Below, a gag reel and deleted scenes. In addition to standard packaging, a Limited Edition 4K UHD SteelBook, as well as a second Amazon Exclusive 4K UHD SteelBook and a Walmart Exclusive Blu-ray with Pop-Up Slipcover will also be available.

Turning to catalog titles, the Criterion Collection has a 4K UHD upgrade for Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage) (1960), starring Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, François Guérin, Edith Scob, Juliette Mayniel and Alexandre Rignault. Sourced from a new 4K master, Criterion presents Eyes Without a Face with French: LPCM Mono audio, optional English subtitles and in SDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include Franju's documentary Blood of the Beasts (Le Sang des bêtes) (1949), two interview excerpts with Franju on Blood of the Beasts and horror cinema, a 2013 interview with Edith Scob and excerpts from the documentary Les grand-pères du crime (1985), about screenwriters Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Also included are trailers and "essays by novelist Patrick McGrath and film historian David Kalat".

Coming to Blu-ray from Radiance Films is the box set Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories Vol. 2 (1960-1970), a three-disc set containing Tokuzô Tanaka's Demon of Mount Oe (大江山酒天童子) (1960) and The Haunted Castle (秘録怪猫伝) (1969) and Kimiyoshi Yasuda's Ghost of Kasane Swamp (怪談累が淵) (1970). All three films are presented from new 4K masters, with Japanese: LPCM Mono audio and optional English subtitles. Extras include select-scene audio commentary on Ghost of Kasane Swamp by horror film scholar Lindsay Nelson, new interviews with period film historian Taichi Kasuga (on Demon of Mount Oe), J-Horror filmmaker Mari Asato (on The Haunted Castle) and J-Horror filmmaker Norio Tsuruta (on Ghost of Kasane Swamp), new visual essays by Tom Mes (on Demon of Mount Oe) and ghost story scholar Zack Davisson (on The Haunted Castle) and trailers for all three films. Limited edition content includes an "80-page perfect bound book featuring new writing by Amber T, Jasper Sharp, and Tom Mes, plus archival writing by Daniel O'Neill and original ghost stories The Goblin of Oeyama and The Vampire Cat". For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.

Also coming from Radiance is a Blu-ray for Harry Kümel's Malpertuis (1971), starring Orson Welles, Susan Hampshire, Michel Bouquet, Mathieu Carrière, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Walter Rilla. Sourced from a new 4K master, Radiance presents Malpertuis with lossless audio and optional English subtitles. Extras include new interviews with Harry Kümel and author and gothic horror expert Jonathan Rigby, audio commentary with Kümel and assistant director Françoise Levie, the 2005 documentary Malpertuis Archive and 2005 featurettes Orson Welles Uncut, Susan Hampshire: One Actress, Three Parts and Malpertuis Revisited, Belgian television interviews from 1971 with Michel Bouquet and Harry Kümel, the 100-minute Cannes cut of the film (in SD), Kümel's short film The Warden of the Tomb (1965) and a trailer. Limited edition content includes an "80-page perfect bound booklet featuring new writing by Lucas Balbo, Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, David Flint, Willow Catelyn Maclay, Jonathan Owen".

Also this week, Kino Lorber has a number of titles coming to Blu-ray and 4K UHD. They are:

José Giovanni's Last Known Address (Dernier Domicile connu) (1970), starring Lino Ventura, Marlène Jobert, Michel Constantin, Paul Crauchet, Alain Mottet and Béatrice Arnac. Sourced from a 2020 4K master, Kino presents Last Known Address in French, with optional English subtitles. Extras include a new audio commentary with film historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson and a theatrical trailer.

Jess Franco's Death Packs a Suitcase (Der Todesrächer von Soho) (1972), starring Horst Tappert, Fred Williams, Barbara Rütting, Elisa Montés, Luis Morris and Siegfried Schürenberg. Kino presents Death Packs a Suitcase with audio commentary with film historians Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson.

A remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Don Edmonds' Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975), starring Dyanne Thorne, Gregory Knoph, Tony Mumolo, Maria Marx, Nicolle Riddell and Jo Jo Deville. Sourced from a new 4K master, Kino presents Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS with DTS-HD MA 2.0 audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include a new audio commentary with film historians Kat Ellinger and Evgueni Mlodik, along with audio commentary with Dyanne Thorne, Don Edmonds and producer David F. Friedman (moderated by humorist Martin Lewis). An included remastered Blu-ray additionally features an interview with Don Edmonds from 2007, a trailer and a stills gallery. For a full release breakdown, read Svet Atanasov's 4K UHD review.

José Giovanni's Boomerang (Comme un boomerang) (1976), starring Alain Delon, Carla Gravina, Dora Doll, Louis Julien, Christian de Tillière and Monique Chaumette. Sourced from a 2021 4K master, Kino presents Boomerang in French, with optional English subtitles. Extras include a new audio commentary with film historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson and a theatrical trailer.

Georges Lautner's Cop or Hood (Flic ou Voyou) (1979), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Georges Géret, Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset and Julie Jézéquel. Kino presents Cop or Hood in French, with optional English subtitles. Extras include a new audio commentary with film historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson and a theatrical trailer.

Finally from Kino this week comes a remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Phillip Noyce's The Bone Collector (1999), starring Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker, Michael McGlone and Luis Guzmán. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative (approved by Phillip Noyce), Kino presents The Bone Collector with a choice of lossless 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include two new audio commentaries: one with film historians Steve Mitchell and Edwin Samuelson and another with novelist / critic Kim Newman and writer / journalist Barry Forshaw. Also included is audio commentary with Phillip Noyce, a Spotlight on Location featurette and a newly remastered theatrical trailer.

Coming from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment this week is a new edition of Robert Zemeckis' Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy (1985-1990), starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson and James Tolkan. Previously released in 2020 for the trilogy's 35th anniversary, this new 40th anniversary edition contains a bonus disc with new the extras 40 Years Later: Reflecting on the Future, Back to Hill Valley, Untold Stories of Back to the Future, TCM Classic Film Festival Panel and A Mystery in History. In addition to the box set, Universal will also release new individual SteelBooks for Back to the Future (which also contains the new bonus disc), Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III.

Finally this week, Lionsgate Home Entertainment have three catalog titles coming to 4K UHD. They are:

Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder (1990), starring Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Jason Alexander. Sourced from a new 4K master, Lionsgate presents Jacob's Ladder with a choice of the original theatrical stereo or DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio options and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include the new documentary On the Rungs of Jacob's Ladder, as well as audio commentary with Adrian Lyne, audio commentary with Mike White (of The Projection Booth podcast), a making of featurette and the featurettes Building Jacob's Ladder, Prepare the Way Where is the Ladder?: The Locations of Jacob's Ladder, Hidden in Plain Sight: Spirituality in Jacob's Ladder and Something's Wrong with My Head: Vietnam War Trauma and Jacob's Ladder, deleted scenes and a trailer gallery.

Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects (2005), starring Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Forsythe, Ken Foree and Matthew McGrory. Sourced from a new 4K master, Lionsgate presents the R-rated version of The Devil's Rejects with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include two audio commentaries, deleted scenes, several short featurettes and a bonus Blu-ray disc with the feature-length documentary 30 Days in Hell: The Making of The Devil's Rejects.

Eli Roth's Knock Knock (2015), starring Keanu Reeves, Lorenza Izzo, Ana de Armas, Aaron Burns, Ignacia Allamand and Dan Baily. Lionsgate presents Knock Knock with Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio. New extras include The Art of Seduction: Looking Back on Knock Knock and an Establishing Shot featurette with Eli Roth, as well as a theatrical trailer. Additional extras include two audio commentaries, a making of featurette, deleted scenes and a stills gallery.

Note: Lionsgate's 4K UHD releases of Jacob's Ladder and Knock Knock are currently exclusive to the Lionsgate Limited website, while The Devil's Rejects is currently an Amazon exclusive. All three releases are only available in SteelBook packaging.