We have rounded up some of the latest horror/science fiction genre DVD & Blu-ray releases in the UK for the week beginning 10th October 2022.
UNIVERSAL CLASSIC MONSTERS: ICONS OF HORROR COLLECTION VOL.2
From Universal Pictures, home of the monsters since the era of silent movies, comes a second volume of Universal Classic Monsters: Icons of Horror Collection, showcasing four more of the most iconic monsters in motion picture history: The Mummy, The Bride of Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera, and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Starring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester and Claude Rains in the roles they made famous, these iconic films set new standards for horror with groundbreaking makeup, cinematography and special effects that have withstood the test of time.
Out now on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray from Universal
THE BALLAD OF TAM LIN
Hollywood enchantress Ava Gardner (The Killers) casts a glamorous, beguiling spell across this eerily evocative, unjustly overlooked folk horror. Loosely based around the traditional Scottish ballad, and shot in the border country, it would be the sole directorial credit of legendary Planet of the Apes actor, Roddy McDowall.
Swinging-London photographer Tom Lynn (Ian McShane, Lovejoy), the current bedroom favourite of beautiful, wealthy widow Mrs Cazaret (Gardner), joins his lover and a kooky coven of bright young things for decadent debauchment at a remote Scottish moorland retreat. But when Tom falls instead for local girl Janet (Stephanie Beacham, Dracula AD 1972), daughter of the local vicar (Cyril Cusack, Farenheit 451), he must face the fiery fury of a woman scorned: drug-fuelled, dangerous, deadly games…
Out now on Blu-ray from Bfi
THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND – Series 2 – Final Season
Season two of The Walking Dead: World Beyond concludes the epic story of Iris (Aliyah Royale), Hope (Alexa Mansour), Elton (Nicolas Cantu), and Silas (Hal Cumpston) – four friends who journeyed across the country on a mission that transformed everything they knew about themselves and the world. As they face off against the mysterious Civic Republic Military and fight for control of their own destiny, goals will shift, bonds will form and crumble, and innocence will be both lost and found.
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Acorn
THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND – Season 1-2
Now a decade into the apocalypse, sisters Hope and Iris Bennett have grown up inside the walls of one of the few remaining first-world communities. The sisters’ scientist father conducts research over one-thousand miles away in a research facility run by the Civic Republic, an ally of Omaha, but one that does not reveal its location to outsiders. When the sisters receive a message that their father might be in a danger, they defy their own community’s rules and enlist their friends Elton and Silas to embark on a cross-country quest to save him. Leaving their sheltered upbringing behind, these teenagers learn how to fight threats both living and dead as they travel through a beautiful but decaying and dangerous world. This boxset features both seasons of the post-apocalyptic drama where goals shift, bonds form crumble, and innocence is both lost and found.
Out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Acorn
DITCHED
On a routine prison transfer a veteran paramedic, Melina, awakens in her overturned ambulance with a vicious prisoner still strapped to a gurney. Gradually she is joined by a rag-tag group of survivors including a couple of police officers, another prisoner, and some paramedic colleagues. They soon realise that their vehicles have been crashed into a ravine in the forest deliberately. The highway – and freedom – is only 100 yards away but a murderous group of masked marauders is stalking them and has engineered events and hand-picked everyone there. But why were they chosen, what is the killers’ plan and who will survive the night?
Out now on DVD from HIGH FLIERS
STALKER
Returning to an eerily empty hotel, young horror actress, Rose Hepburn, finds herself suspended on the 12th floor of an old freight elevator, trapped dangerously high with an unwanted companion. Left with no phone signal, and with no other way to reach hotel staff, tensions escalate when Rose discovers the identity of the mysterious man is Daniel Reed, a camera operator who is seemingly obsessed with her. A fascinating, slow burn horror, showcasing spectacular performances from leads Sophie Skelton (Outlander) and BAFTA-winner Stuart Brennan, and featuring wrestling legend Bret Hart.
Out now on DVD from Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
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