The DVD releases this week feature some big titles and a sequel to a 1980’s action film. On Tuesday, the following films will be released on DVD:
SAMURAI COP 2: DEADLY VENGEANCE
The long awaited sequel to the cult classic! It’s 25 years later, and Detective Frank Washington is forced to team up with his long estranged partner Joe Marshall to solve a series of assassinations.
Starring: Mathew Karedas, Mark Frazer, Bai Ling, Kayden Kross, Tommy Wiseau
Directed by: Gregory Hatanaka
Studio: Cinema Epoch
Based on a science fiction novel by the same name, The Martian is astronaut Mark Watney. During a manned mission to the red planet, a fierce storm leaves Watney presumed dead and therefore left behind by his crew. Now stranded, Watney must survive the hostile environment of Mars with few supplies while trying to find a way to signal Earth that he is still alive and in need of rescue.
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Matt Damon, Michael Pena
Studio: 20th Century Fox
All the comical characters are reunited when cave dwelling Grandpa Vlad comes for an impromptu family visit. Understanding the generation gap has never been more challenging for Mavis and Jonathan than with Grandpa Vlad turns Hotel Transylvania upside-down with his old-school way of thinking. The loveable crotchety old-timer and his estranged son, Dracula, learn to resolve their differences through haphazard adventures, secret twists and turn, and a lot of goofy mistakes.
Directors: Genndy Tartakovsky
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Courtney Collins and her 9-year-old sons, Dylan and Zach, move into a home in the country. What they don’t know is that the Babylonian god, Bughuul, has chosen this home for his pagan sacrifices and several families were murdered in it. Bughuul attempts to possess and corrupt one of the boys. He pressures the boy to kill his mother and brother and film the event with an 8mm camera so that it can consume the boy’s soul. Can Deputy So & So, who failed once before to stop Bughuul, succeed in saving Courtney and her sons from this sinister deity?
Directors: Ciaran Foy
Studio: Universal Studios
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 5: THE GHOST DIMENSION
When a family of four moves into their new home in Palo Alto, CA, things begin to happen! Supernatural occurrences take place after one of the two children finds video footage of Kristi and Katie being taught paranormal powers by their cult-involved grandmother twenty years prior. If finding that video tapes wasn’t enough for the children, they also discover a camera which holds proof of supernatural phenomena that the human eye cannot behold.
Actors: Chris Murray
Studio: Paramount