The Full Moon Entertainment action adventure sci-fi film The Primevals will be released on Blu-ray Disc Sept. 10 from MVD Entertainment Group.
In the film, deep in the Himalayas, a group of Sherpas subdue and kill a towering humanoid creature. Its remains — including a brain that appears to have undergone some kind of surgery — wind up under the supervision of Dr. Claire Collier (Juliet Mills, Beyond the Door), who believes it to be one of the legendary Yeti. Joined by her former student Matt Connor (Richard Joseph Paul), a longtime believer in the creatures’ existence, big-game hunter Rondo Montana (Leon Russom, The Big Lebowski), and others, Dr. Collier leads an expedition into the mountains to track down more of the abominable snowmen. Their trek results in an encounter with a tribe of primitive hominids — which in turn leads to the far more frightening discovery of beings they never could have expected or imagined.
Stop-motion FX wizard David Allen’s (Batteries Not Included, Puppet Master) long-planned passion project was shelved in the 1990s after Allen passed away from cancer. Finally completed in 2023 by Full Moon and former Allen associate Chris Endicott (Avengers: Endgame), The Primevals is a retro-fantasy adventure, employing a wild array of 100% hand-rendered, stop-motion special effects and a rich orchestral score from composer Richard Band.
The release includes the trailer.
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In the film, at the behest of their mother, three estranged sisters meet at a twisted, life-size doll house owned by their late father in order to collect a vast inheritance; however, they are soon plunged into a nightmare as they are stalked by a merciless killer hell bent on revealing a sinister family secret.
Decal Releasing/Neon’s thriller Mother’s Instinct will be released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD Sept. 17 from Distribution Solutions.
Illumination’s Despicable Me 4 will be released at regular digital pricing (after a premium run) on Sept. 10, and on Blu-ray Disc, DVD and 4K Ultra HD disc Sept. 24 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
The film follows Zelma (Dagmara Dominczyk, HBO’s “Succession”), who navigates through a series of romantic encounters, each one shaping her understanding of love and marriage. With unflinching honesty, she grapples with the conflicting forces of passion and disillusionment and her own desires, fears, and insecurities, painting a raw and intimate portrait of the human heart.
The film celebrated its world premiere earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it took home both the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast.
Creature With the Blue Hand, originally released in Germany as Die Blaue Hand, was bought by Roger Corman’s New World Pictures and released in the United States in 1967 as the alternate version Creature With the Blue Hand. This release is presented for the first time on Blu-ray in North America. A mystery-thriller about a series of grisly murders, it’s one of several German films based on the novels of Edgar Wallace, many adaptations of which starred Kinski. Directed by Alfred Vohrer, the film also stars Harald Leipnitz and Carl Lange.
The film has earned $21.2 million at the global box office.
The collection includes more rarely seen, thought-lost and new classics of folk horror, most making their disc debuts including the North American disc premieres of the Severin Films original productions To Fire You Come at Last directed by Sean Hogan and the documentary Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic directed by David Gregory, which will have its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival on Oct. 12.
