[Home Invasion] Blu-Ray & DVD Releases for May 7, 2013

Home Invasion is a weekly post every Tuesday which shows you what is being released on Blu-Ray & DVD today! We scoured through Amazon to bring you everything you might be interested in. Our Picks of the Week are releases that we are looking forward to checking out, have reviewed and/or were are Picks of the Week on the DTB Podcast. All descriptions are courtesy of Amazon.com unless noted otherwise. If you are thinking about purchasing any of these items, by clicking via the links provided, you are supporting DTB. Thank you!

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This Tuesday is packed! Warner Brothers has issued some re-releases in steelbook form today as well as some other quality releases today from Severin Films, Impulse Films, Vinegar Syndrome and more.

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Some of you may be asking why is this a pick of the week. While I felt the film was a very mixed bag, there are elements of solid material here. The girls in the film are solid and at times the scares work. There is enough in this film that is worth a watch. We know the original short is on this release along with a commentary and some featurettes. However, we didn’t receive a copy for review so we are unable to tell you the length of said featurettes.

Guillermo del Toro, the Academy Award-nominated writer of Pan’s Labyrinth, presents this supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When the young sisters are found alive in a decrepit cabin, their uncle (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones) and his girlfriend (Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty) take them in. As they try to introduce the children to a normal life, Annabel (Chastain) begins to wonder if the traumatized girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.

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I am so happy this film is on Blu-Ray as I was a huge fan of this film. If you have never seen it, it is worth a look!

Robin Williams delivers his ‘finest hour’ (USA TODAY) in ‘one of the most absorbing, effective thrillers in years’ (NBC-TV). Sy ‘the photo guy’ Parrish (Williams) has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins’ lives become fuller, Sy’s only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he’s part of their family. When ‘Uncle’ Sy’s picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next ‘has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological thrillers!’ (THE NEW YORK OBSERVER)

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●    NEW – Cast Rehearsals
●    NEW – Lensing One Hour Photo
●    NEW – Main Title Test
●    NEW – Sy’s Nightmare Elements
●    NEW – Storyboards
●    NEW – Poster Explorations
●    Commentary by Mark Romanek and Robin Williams
●    The Charlie Rose Show
●    Sundance: Anatomy of a Scene
●    Cinemax Featurette
●    Trailer and TV Spots[/toggle]

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Shane Carruth’s Primer made such an impact in the independent film world as well as the genre of heady sci-fi that his latest film, Upstream Color, will grab the attention of those interested in the genre. While the option to purchase the film sight unseen – unless you were lucky enough to see it at Sundance or SXSW – might be off putting for some, I have been told that the experience is worth it.

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A woman (Amy Seimetz) is abducted and hypnotized with an organic material harvested from a specific flower. When she falls for a man (Carruth), the two come to realize he may also have been subjected to the same process. They search urgently for a place of safety within each other and struggle to assemble the fragments of their wrecked lives, unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world.

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Steelbook Releases

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Other Releases this Week

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