We’re ending the year with a bang, with a wide variety of steelbooks, 4K collector’s editions and limited-edition Blu-rays arriving just in time for the festive season. This month is more stacked than usual, so let’s not waste any more time before diving into it.
As always, release dates are subject to change, so keep an eye on our site for updates on all forthcoming titles.
Monday, 2nd December
Can you believe its been 30 years since Pulp Fiction first hit our screens? We’re marking the occasion with this anniversary collector’s edition, featuring Quentin Tarantino’s crime comedy classic in remastered 4K, alongside lobby card reproductions, photo sheet, collectible stickers, and a pop-up recreation of the iconic Jack Rabbit Slims dance sequence.
Recent hits getting the 4K collector’s edition treatment this week include Godzilla Minus One, which arrives in a four-disc deluxe edition featuring a 64-page booklet on the making of the movie, and a whole host of bonus features. On the steelbook front, supernatural Blumhouse horror The Black Phone is getting a UK-exclusive, and strictly limited to 2,500 copies, collector’s edition rerelease.
Other steelbook releases this week include the 25th anniversary collector’s edition of Galaxy Quest, the first wave of Laika stop motion rereleases with Coraline and The Boxtrolls, and cult martial arts comedy Kung Fu Hustle. Next up, Arrow Video have a limited-edition 4K set of The Great Escape and a box-set of the Critters franchise, and Criterion are inducting Terry Gilliam’s harrowing The Fisher King and David Lynch’s indescribable noir Lost Highway in 4K into their collection.
Also coming to 4K this week is recent cult hit Strange Darling, a non-linear thriller that would make a great double bill with Pulp Fiction, long awaited blockbuster sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and one of Michael Caine’s most beloved roles in Get Carter, which arrives courtesy of the BFI. Finally, we go back to the sixties for the second season of Doctor Who on Blu-ray, visit Elvira’s Haunted Hills with 101 Films, and get introduced to the works of experimental filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman in a Second Run collection.
Monday, 9th December
Return to Middle-earth with the Lord Of The Rings 4K giftbox. In addition to featuring the theatrical and extended editions in gorgeous high-definition, it comes with your very own one ring replica – nothing is more precious than this!
Arrow has an eclectic mix of titles this week, led by dystopian Sylvester Stallone action-adventure Demolition Man and bonkers Korean western The Good, The Bad And The Weird, both in 4K. They're joined by Abel Ferrara’s singular take on the vampire movie, The Addiction, and The Last Video Store, a B-movie throwback to the heyday of VHS.
Barbra Streisand’s big-screen breakout in Funny Girl, which bagged her a Best Actress Oscar, comes to 4K from Criterion, whilst darker laughs are provided in the form of found-footage shocker Creep, which gets a limited-edition Blu-ray release from Second Sight. Next up, the BBC’s acclaimed TV movie The Stone Tape, a singular blend of sci-fi and supernatural horror, has been remastered for a new generation courtesy of 101 Films, and the week closes out with Indicator’s 4K remaster of French filmmaker Jean Rollin’s The Escapees, a demented Parisian tale of two women who escape from a mental asylum.
Monday, 16th December
The next wave of Laika steelbooks lead this final week of pre-Christmas releases, with Paranorman and Kubo And The Two Strings making their long-awaited 4K debuts. They’re not the only animated titles getting steelbooks this week, as all four seasons of anime sensation Attack On Titan hit shelves, with the fourth and final season getting a limited edition “final chapters” set, complete with artwork and booklet.
Also arriving on 4K, at long last, are two M. Night Shyamalan classics; The Sixth Sense and Signs. One of Shyamalan’s directorial influences, Alfred Hitchcock, returns this week too, with some of his early silent work remastered and released for the first time in a Blu-ray boxset.
Radiance has three limited-edition releases this week; a box set of three “heresies” by Oscar-winning Spanish provocateur Luis Bunuel, Japanese noir Yokohama BJ Blues, and Swedish procedural thriller The Man From Majorca. 88 Films have a typically depraved selection this week too; erotically charged Italian nunsploitation effort The Story Of A Cloistered Nun, surrealistic Japanese period piece Watcher In The Attic, and French softcore effort Madame Claude.
The only other release in December is on Monday, 30th, when Treasured Films close out 2024 with a limited-edition release of cat-and-mouse hitman thriller King Of The Ants. What a way to end the year!
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