Nearly a year after its surprising drop on Netflix after the Super Bowl, The Cloverfield Paradox arrives on both Blu-ray and DVD this week, making it just one of the highlights of this week’s batch of home media releases. The horror comedy You Might Be the Killer also arrives on both formats this Tuesday, and Scream Factory has Mermaid: Lake of the Dead on tap this week as well.
Other notable releases for February 5th include a Special Edition version of The Possessed from Arrow Video, Black Magic, Nazi Overlord, American Poltergeist: The Curse of Lilith Ratchet, and The Cloverfield 3-Movie Collection.
The Cloverfield Paradox (Paramount, Blu-ray & DVD)
Producer J.J. Abrams takes you deeper into the Cloverfield universe than ever before with this mysterious sci-fi thriller. Orbiting Earth on the brink of a devastating energy war, scientists prepare to test a device that could provide unlimited power or trap them in a terrifying alternate reality. Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Brühl and Chris O’Dowd, The Cloverfield Paradox is the ultimate journey into the unknown.
Mermaid: Lake of the Dead (Scream Factory, Blu-ray & DVD)
Once a young woman sent to a tragic and watery grave, she has since become something unholy. Cursed to swim the waters in which she met her untimely death, the mermaid has risen once again. This unspeakable wraithlike creature hungers for love — and has set her hook for Marina's fiancé, Roman. The bond between Marian and Roman is steadfast and true. But if you spurn the mermaid, she'll punish you and take from you that which you love most. Now locked in a desperate battle with pure, undying evil, Marina must overcome her fear of the dark water to save all that she holds dear from a terrifying fate.
The Possessed: Special Edition (Arrow Video, Blu-ray)
The Possessed is a wonderfully atmospheric proto-giallo based on one of Italy’s most notorious crimes, the Alleghe killings, and adapted from the book on that case by acclaimed literary figure Giovanni Comisso.
Peter Baldwin (The Ghost, The Weekend Murders) stars as Bernard, a depressed novelist who sets off in search of his old flame Tilde (Virna Lisi, La Reine Margot), a beautiful maid who works at a remote lakeside hotel. Bernard is warmly greeted by the hotel owner Enrico (Salvo Randone, Fellini's Satyricon) and his daughter Irma (Valentina Cortese, Thieves Highway, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire), but Tilde has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Bernard undertakes an investigation and is soon plunged into a disturbing drama of familial secrets, perversion, madness and murder...
Co-written by Giulio Questi (Death Laid an Egg, Arcana) and co-directed by Luigi Bazzoni (The Fifth Cord, Footprints on the Moon), The Possessed masterfully combines film noir, mystery and giallo tropes, whilst also drawing on the formal innovations of 1960s art cinema (particularly the films of Michelangelo Antonioni). A uniquely dreamlike take on true crime, The Possessed is presented here in a stunning new restoration.
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You Might Be the Killer (Screen Media, Blu-ray & DVD)
Directed by Brett Simmons (Husk, Monkey’s Paw, and Animal) and starring Alyson Hannigan (Buffy, How I Met Your Mother), Fran Kranz (Cabin in the Woods), Keith David (The Thing), Brittany S. Hall (Ballers), and Patrick Reginald Walker (The Resident), You Might Be the Killer is the story of Sam (Kranz), a regular guy who finds himself on the run from a masked serial killer who has been brutally murdering his fellow camp counselors.
Desperate, Sam reaches out to his friend Chuck (Hannigan), who is an expert in all things horror. She becomes Sam's lifeline as he tries to evade death by avoiding common horror tropes and save his friends. But when Chuck challenges everything that Sam tells her, Sam must piece together what is really going on at the camp, as he races to uncover the haunting truth of the masked maniac’s identity and the mask’s supernatural powers… all before it’s too late!
ALSO AVAILABLE THIS WEEK:
American Poltergeist: The Curse of Lilith Ratchet (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD)
Black Magic (4Digital Media, DVD)
The Cloverfield 3-Movie Collection (Paramount, Blu-ray & DVD)
Havana Darkness (Gravitas Ventures, Blu-ray & DVD)
Hostel/Hostel 2 Double Feature (Mill Creek Entertainment, Blu-ray)
Nazi Overlord (Asylum, DVD)
Queens of Scream (Mill Creek Entertainment, Blu-ray)
Heather A. Wixson was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, until she followed her dreams and moved to Los Angeles in 2009. A 14-year veteran in the world of horror entertainment journalism, Wixson fell in love with genre films at a very early age, and has spent more than a decade as a writer and supporter of preserving the history of horror and science fiction cinema. Throughout her career, Wixson has contributed to several notable websites, including Fangoria, Dread Central, Terror Tube, and FEARnet, and she currently serves as the Managing Editor for Daily Dead, which has been her home since 2013. She's also written for both Fangoria Magazine & ReMind Magazine, and her latest book project, Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume One will be released on October 20, 2021.
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