10 Of The Best Upcoming 4K And Blu-Ray Horror Releases

Snowy slasher series Cold Prey is getting a boxset edition courtesy of Second Sight Films. In Roar Uthaug's Norwegian trilogy, a mysterious and brutal serial killer known as the Mountain Man stalks the snow covered landscape in search of victims.

As always, Second Sight's boxset release comes stacked with extras, including a new audio commentary with Uthaug and star Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, short films, deleted scenes, bloopers, new writing from Matt Donato, JA Kerswell, Justin LaLiberty, Paul Lê, Ariel Powers-Schaub and Nathaniel Thompson, and more.

Pre-order the Cold Prey trilogy boxset for July 6 release right here.

Saturn's Core's dedication to releasing underground SOV oddities continues with Dead Hunt, the final film from low-budget maestro legend Don Dohler (Night Beast, The Alien Factor, Fiend). In Dead Hunt, ten genre film critics from the HORRORDVDZONE website converge at a warehouse for a party on the eve of attending a local horror convention. Unfortunately for the unsuspecting guests, a mysterious masked assassin begins murdering the attendees using a variety of gruesome methods; recreating the notorious kill scenes from the various movies reviewed on their website.

The new release of Dead Hunt comes with audio commentaries both archive and new, bloopers, extended scenes and more. Grab your copy via Vinegar Syndrome right here. 

Treasured Films continues its streak of releasing obscure, underseen Japanese horror gems with this new release of Hiroki Yamaguchi's Hellevator: The Bottled Fools. The dystopian sci-fi horror is set almost entirely in a transport elevator that shuttles citizens between futuristic towns stacked on top of one another. Claustrophobia, paranoia, and violence abounds.

Hellevator: The Bottled Fools comes with an A3 poster and magnet for those who love their trinkets, plus new writing on the film from Pieter-Jan Van Haecke and Jonathan Clements, a new video essay, making-of featurette, new interview with Yamaguchi and more.

Pre-order Hellevator: The Bottled Fools here for a July 29 release (while Hellevator is a Region B only release, if you're the proud owner of a region-free player but outside of the U.K., Diabolik DVD has you covered for pre-orders.

Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin took his bloody brand of horror to Egypt with Lee Cronin's The Mummy, a modern spin on the classic undead monster. Starring Jack Reynor and May Calamawy, Cronin’s take on the classic horror story focuses on a family broken by grief when their young daughter disappears into the desert without a trace. But, when she returns eight years later — looking exactly the same, only discovered inside an ancient sarcophagus — she brings with her a living nightmare, and a curse that will haunt her entire family.

The new release of Lee Cronin's The Mummy comes with an audio commentary from Cronin himself, making-of, deleted scenes and more.

Pre-order Lee Cronin's The Mummy here for July 14 release.

Filmmaking prodigy Alice Maio Mackay continues her hot streak of being one of horror's most exciting modern names with The Serpent's Skin, her sixth (!!) feature at just 22 years old. In The Serpent's Skin, starring Alexandra McVicker, Avalon Fast, Jordan Dulieu, Scott Major and Charlotte Chimes, follows Anna, who, after escaping her transphobic hometown, meets goth tattoo artist Gen. They bond over shared supernatural abilities, but Gen's tattoo work accidentally conjures a demon before their romance can bloom.

Dark Star's Blu-ray release of The Serpent's Skin comes with two of Mackay's previous shorts, The Serpent's Nest and Tooth 4 Tooth. Although the Limited Edition Slipcover version is sold out, the Standard Edition of The Serpent's Skin is still well worth grabbing. Order yours via Vinegar Syndrome right here.

After ten years and five massive seasons, Netflix's game-changing sci-fi horror series Stranger Things wrapped up late last year, as Mike, Dustin, Eleven et al's adventures in the Upside Down came to an epic conclusion. Arrow Films is giving Stranger Things a release fitting for such a cultural juggernaut, with the Deluxe Edition 4K UHD boxset including all forty-two episodes, interviews, commentaries, extras, new writing and so much more.

That Netflix should even allow a physical media release of one of its biggest properties is pretty remarkable in itself, as the streaming giant is notoriously cagey about its shows or movies being accessible offsite. If the Deluxe 4K UHD Edition is a little far out of your price range but you still want to be part of the party, Arrow is also offering a standard 4K UHD set, a Deluxe Blu-ray set, and a standard Blu-ray set.

Pre-order Stranger Things The Complete Series Deluxe Edition 4K UHD right here for release on July 27.

Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a screeching metal assault on all senses, and while its two sequels, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer and Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, haven't quite achieved the same level of cult success, they're still very much worth owning, especially if you're a fan of WTF cinema from Japan's vast canon of the genre.

In Bullet Man, a bland and cautious American office worker living in Tokyo  begins a violent and bizarre metamorphosis, his flesh transforming into metal, his body expressing his repressed rage and lust for revenge after his young son is killed. Unearthed Films' new release of Bullet Man comes with a new audio commentary with ctor Eric Bossick and Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes, and more.

Order Tetsuo: The Bullet Man for release later this month here.

Easily one of the most disturbing movies of all time, the “piss-yourself terrifying” British apocalyptic drama Threads is coming to 4K UHD for the very first time thanks to Severin Films. First broadcast on BBC2 in 1984, Mick Jackson and Barry Hines’ BAFTA-winning Threads, which currently has a series in development from the makers of Adolescence, follows the fallout of a nuclear bomb dropped over the English city of Sheffield, painting a nightmarish picture of life after the apocalypse and attempts at survival through nuclear devastation.

Severin Films’ new 3-disc release of Threads is scanned from the original 16mm A/B rolls for maximum grisliness, and comes packed with extras and special features, including audio commentary with Jackson moderated by the legendary Kier-La Janisse and Severin Films’ David Gregory, audio commentaries, interviews, a feature length documentary on the production of Threads and its effect on the people of Sheffield, and much more.

Pre-order Threads for a July 27 release right here.

If you're new to the filmography of Japanese auteur Takashi Miike and looking to get into his work ahead of his upcoming supernatural horror film with brat superstar Charli xcx, might we suggest Visitor Q to ease you in? It's a wholesome drama that follows a family's coming together after the arrival of a mysterious stranger. Especially great to watch with your mom or da-yeah, sorry we can't keep that up. For the unfamiliar, Visitor Q is one of Miike's most delightfully perverse and truly shocking movies, and that's saying something from the man who directed Gozu and Audition.

New Wave Video's landmark new Blu-ray release of Visitor Q was transferred from the original master tape, and comes with new interview with Miike, new introduction by filmmaker and historian Andrew Leavold, new video essays, new writing from Michelle Kisner and yours truly, and much more.

Pre-order Visitor Q for release later this month right here.

Rob Schmidt'sWrong Turn is the latest cult release to get a full bells'n'whistles boxset from Umbrella Entertainment, with the backwoods slasher coming with a 48-page booklet featuring behind the scenes material and essays, new interviews from producer Robert Kulzer, actor Julian Richings, VFX supervisor Dennis Berardi, and makeup effects artist Shane Mahan, deleted scenes, making-of featurette, and more.

Pre-order Wrong Turn for a July 8 release right here.