Red Scorpion Blu-ray Officially Announced and Detailed

Independent British distributors Arrow Films have officially announced and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of Joseph Zito's Red Scorpion (1988), starring action star Dolph Lundgren, M. Emmet Walsh, and Al White. The Blu-ray will be available for purchase in the UK on February 6th.

Lundgren stars as Nikolai Rachenko, a deadly, highly skilled agent for the Russian army and an all-round a killing machine whose brutal efficiency and single minded determination to serve the motherland leaves behind a trail of battered bodies and bloodied enemies. Nikolai's latest mission involves infiltrating an African rebel army seeking to defy its new communist rulers and take out their leader. But as he gets to know his enemies and the dignified Bushmen he encounters, he begins to slowly realize that all he has been taught was a lie. Now, this Cold War rebel is ready to turn the tables on his Soviet masters and kick all kinds of ass!

Special Features:

• Brand new High-Definition transfer of the film (1080p)
• Introduction to the film by star Dolph Lundgren
• UK exclusive audio commentary by director Joseph Zito, moderated by filmmaker and genre scholar Howard S. Berger
• "All Out Of Bullets" – Dolph Lundgren remembers Red Scorpion
• "Music With Muscles" – composer Jay Chattaway on the soundtrack of Red Scorpion
• Original trailer
• Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork
• Double-sided fold-out artwork poster
• Collectors' booklet featuring brand new writing on the film by author Calum Waddell