Joey’s Home Movies for the week of August 19th – numerous 4K and SteelBook new releases

Welcome back to My Home Movies! Today we don’t have any notable new releases to discuss. However, we do have plenty of 4K and SteelBook reissues hitting the shelves. They’re mostly horror variants, which is interesting to note. They’re obviously more for collectors, but I’m sure some of you out there still value physical media. Add in a new release from the Criterion Collection this week, and there are undoubtedly options for those shopping around. Read on to find out more…

Joey’s Top Picks

Again, there isn’t necessarily a choice this week as there are all sorts of re-releases, so I’ll give you two very different options. There’s the original Dracula in a 4K SteelBook for fans of a classic, while Red eyes is getting a 4K edition. It’s admittedly a lot of horror, as I mentioned above, so anyone looking to get a head start on Halloween viewing could very well do here. Whatever your type of scary movie, as you’ll see below, there’s something for you!

Also available this week

Beetlejuice (4K)

I can barely wait for it (4K)

The China Syndrome (Blu-ray)

evil Dead (4K)

Frankenstein (4K SteelBook)

Green border

Halo: Season 2 (TV)

Hannibal Rising (SteelBook)

I spit on your grave (SteelBook)

joker (4K)

La Brea: The Complete Series (TV)

The Last Unicorn (4K)

Leatherface (SteelBook)

Let him go (4K)

Scary (SteelBook)

Tremors: 7-movie collection

Wolf Creek (SteelBook)

You will never find me

You are next (SteelBook)

Criteria Corner

Not a pretty picture

From the Criterion Collection: “Groundbreaking filmmaker Martha Coolidge made her feature film debut with this unflinchingly personal hybrid of documentary and fiction. Centering on an intense reenactment of Coolidge’s rape experience in her youth, the film casts Michele Manenti (also a survivor) as the director’s younger self, and observes the actress and her colleagues engaging in a profound dialogue about what it means to relive those traumatic memories and their attitudes toward consent and self-blame. A risky experiment in metacinema, it broke new ground with its uncompromising examination of date rape. Not a pretty picture brings a surprising immediacy to questions about the representation of sexual violence on screen and the limits of artistic catharsis.”

Stay tuned for more information next week…

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