For the April 6th, Alliance Entertainment has a Blu-ray and 4K UHD release for Timur Bekmambetov's Mercy (2026), starring Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson, Kali Reis, Annabelle Wallis, Chris Sullivan and Kylie Rogers.
Description: In the near future, a detective (Chris Pratt) stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced A.I. Judge (Rebecca Ferguson) he once championed, before it determined his fate.
Alliance Entertainment's Blu-ray releases of Mercy contain the film's Dolby Atmos audio, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc.
New on Blu-ray from Shudder is the anthology film V/H/S/Halloween, starring David Haydn, Samantha Cochran, Teo Planell, Lawson Greyson, Stephen Gurewitz and Jeff Harms.
Description: The found footage franchise returns with a collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashing a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.
With tales from directors Bryan M. Ferguson, Casper Kelly, Micheline Pitt-Norman, R.H. Norman, Alex Ross Perry, Paco Plaza, and Anna Zlokovic.
Shudder's Blu-ray of V/H/S/Halloween contains filmmaker commentaries, behind-the-scenes of "Diet Phantasma" and "Coochie Coochie Coo", a deleted scene from "Kidprint", an uninterrupted cut of "Diet Phantasma", a "Diet Phantasma" commercial and a "Diet Phantasma" gallery.
New on Blu-ray from KimStim is Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay's Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, starring Tadeusz Janiszewski, Wioletta Kopanska and Andrzej Klak.
Description: Twenty years after their last feature, the Quay Brothers return to the work of Polish author and visual artist Bruno Schulz (The Street of Crocodiles) for inspiration. A son's visit to his dying father begins with a phantom train ride to a decaying, otherworldly sanatorium, where he experiences seven fragmented "manifestations" of a parental entity. Applying their meticulously handcrafted, stop-motion puppet animation and musical sensibilities, along with moments of live action, they translate Schulz's metaphorical language to the screen. The "degraded" sense of reality that the filmmakers admire in the writer's work minimizes characters, narrative, and the spoken word, aspiring instead to a visualization of the metaphysical.
Presented by Academy Award Winning Filmmaker, Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer, Inception, Interstellar), Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass is otherworldly, anti-war statement of stark, macabre beauty.
KimStim's Blu-ray of Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass contains a theatrical introduction by the Quay Brothers, The Art Teacher from Drohobycz - Bruno Schulz by the Quay Brothers, a Q&A on stop motion animation with the Quay Brothers from the Garden Cinema in London and a trailer.
New on Blu-ray from Oscilloscope Laboratories is Bernhard Wenger's Peacock (Pfau – Bin ich echt?) (2024), starring Albrecht Schuch, Anton Noori, Julia Franz Richter, Salka Weber, Theresa Frostad Eggesbø and Maria Hofstätter.
Description: At MyCompanion, the cultured and confident Matthias is available – for a reasonable fee – to fill any social role you desire, from 'the perfect son' to the 'enlightened boyfriend', or even 'pilot dad' to impress your classmates at Bring Your Parent to School Day. But while Matthias is at the top of his professional game, his personal life begins to crumble as he detaches from his own identity and burrows deeper into his fictitious lives. Bernhard Wenger's PEACOCK is a biting and hilarious social satire about the masks we wear in the pursuit of human connection.
Oscilloscope's Blu-ray of Peacock contains a Q&A with Bernhard Wenger moderated by Jordan Crucchiola, two of Wenger's short films and a theatrical trailer.
New on Blu-ray from Altered Innocence is Diego Céspedes' The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (La misteriosa mirada del flamenco), starring Tamara Cortes, Matías Catalán, Paula Dinamarca, Pedro Muñoz, Luis Dubó and Vicente Caballero.
Synopsis: Set in a remote Chilean mining town in 1982, Diego Céspedes' dazzling debut feature follows young Lidia, who grows up within a vibrant queer household led by drag performers and trans women. When a mysterious illness--rumored to spread through the gaze between men--sows fear and hysteria, the community becomes the target of suspicion and violence. Through Lidia's eyes, Céspedes crafts a haunting allegory of love, myth, and prejudice that reimagines the early AIDS era as a queer western with poetic intimacy and desert-dry surrealism.
Chile's Official Submission to the 98th Academy Awards® for Best International Feature Film and winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo recalls the emotional vibrancy of Almodóvar and continues Chile's proud legacy of queer cinema--marking Céspedes as one of the most exciting new voices in world cinema.
Altered Innocence's Blu-ray of The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo contains a trailer. For a full release breakdown, read Brian Orndorf's Blu-ray review.
New on Blu-ray from Angel Studios is Brandt Andersen's I Was a Stranger, starring Yasmine Al Massri, Yahya Mahayni, Omar Sy, Ziad Bakri, Constantine Markoulakis and Jason Beghe.
A doctor, a soldier, a smuggler, a father, and a captain. Each one on their own journey. Their paths cross in a desperate pursuit of safety and belonging. Set across four countries and inspired by real stories from the frontlines of the refugee crisis, this sweeping drama captures the heartbreak, danger, and fragile beauty of those who dare to start over when the world gives them nothing.
Angel Studios' Blu-ray of I Was a Stranger contains behind-the-scenes and the short film Refugee.
Turning to catalog titles, Kino Lorber has a new Blu-ray edition of Raoul Walsh's The Thief of Bagdad (1924), starring Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston, Sôjin Kamiyama and Anna May Wong. Sourced from a 4K restoration by Photoplay Productions, Kino presents The Thief of Bagdad with the original Mortimer Wilson score (performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony) in 2.0 or 5.1 audio options. Extras include audio commentary with film historian Anthony Slide, an introduction by Orson Welles, nineteen minutes of outtake footage, special effects test footage and an optional six-minute musical prelude.
Also coming from Kino is a new two-disc Blu-ray 3D edition of Allan Silliphant's The Stewardesses (1969), starring Christina Hart, Ronald South, William Condos, Anita de Moulin, Paula Erikson and Kathy Ferrick. Previously released by Kino in 2016 (a single-disc release), this new edition of The Stewardesses is also presented in both Blu-ray 3D or 2D, but adds an audio commentary with author and film historian David Del Valle and producer / archivist Miles Hunter, the documentary How How The Stewardesses Took Off (2006), the 3D short film Parisienne Life (1953), a 3D alternate opening title, 3D outtakes and test footage and a radio spot. Also included are the extras from the 2016 release, the 3D short film Experiments in Love (1977) and a 2D-only theatrical trailer for The Stewardesses. All 3D extras are also playable in anaglyph (red / blue) 3D or 2D and a pair of anaglyph 3D glasses is included.
Note: The trailer posted below is advertising a DVD edition of The Stewardesses from 2009 and does not reflect the 3D / 2D remasters by the 3-D Film Archive.
Coming to 4K UHD from the Criterion Collection is Charles Vidor's Gilda (1946), starring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray and Joe Sawyer. Sourced from a new 4K master, Criterion presents Gilda with LPCM Mono audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras replicate Criterion's 2016 Blu-ray edition and include an audio commentary with film critic Richard Schickel, an interview with film noir historian Eddie Muller, a featurette with directors Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann, the Hollywood and the Stars episode "The Odyssey of Rita Hayworth" (1964) and a trailer for the film. Also included is an essay by critic Sheila O'Malley.
Coming to Blu-ray from Film Masters is the Monster Mayhem Collection (1957-1958), a two-disc set featuring Richard E. Cunha's films Frankenstein's Daughter and Giant from the Unknown (both 1958) on the first disc and Kenneth G. Crane's Monster from Green Hell and Nathan Juran's The Brain from Planet Arous (both 1957) on the second disc. Extras include audio commentaries with Tom Weaver (for Frankenstein's Daughter, Giant from the Unknown and, with "The Weaver Players", The Brain from Planet Arous), Stephen R. Bissette (on Monster from Green Hell) and archival audio commentary on Giant from the Unknown with Gary Crutcher. Also included are featurettes on Richard E. Cunha and Nathan Juran, Missouri Born: Films of Jim Davis and a booklet with essays by Tom Weaver on all four films. For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
Coming to Blu-ray from Arrow Video is the Wandering Ginza Butterfly Collection (1972), a double-feature of Kazuhiko Yamaguchi's Wandering Ginza Butterfly (銀蝶渡り鳥), starring Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tsunehiko Watase, Akiko Koyama, Tomiko Ishii and Kôji Nanbara and Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler (銀蝶流れ者 牝猫博奕), starring Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Shingo Yamashiro, Fujio Suga, Junzaburô Ban and Tamase Mitsukawa. Sourced from HD masters provided by Toei, Arrow presents both films with Japanese: LPCM Mono audio and optional, newly-translated English subtitles. Extras include a new audio commentary with Japanese cinema experts Patrick Macias and Matt Alt (hosts of the Pure TokyoScope podcast), archival audio commentary with Japanese cinema expert Chris D. (both on Wandering Ginza Butterfly), a new interview with Macias and Alt, an archival interview with Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, an archival appreciation of Meiko Kaji by Japanese action and pink film expert J-Taro Sugisaku and trailers for both films. Limited edition content includes a "collectors' booklet featuring new writing on the films by Asian cinema expert Camille Zaurin". For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
Coming to Blu-ray from Lightyear Entertainment is Ray McKinnon's Randy and the Mob (2007), starring Ray McKinnon, Walton Goggins, Lisa Blount, Tim DeKay, Bill Nunn, Brent Briscoe. The film, which is making its worldwide debut on Blu-ray comes with McKinnon's Oscar-winning short film The Accountant (2001) (which will also be available separately on the same day), as well as a making of featurette and a theatrical trailer. For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
Finally this week, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Cartoon Network has a Blu-ray for the animated miniseries Over the Garden Wall: The Complete Series (2014), featuring the voices of Elijah Wood, Collin Dean, Melanie Lynskey, Christopher Lloyd, Samuel Ramey and Jack Jones. Warner presents Over the Garden Wall: The Complete Series with DTS-HD MA 2.0 audio. Extras include commentaries, the original pilot, Behind Over the Garden Wall, alternate title cards, deleted animatics and composers cuts.