Monday, July 13, 2020

MVD Entertainment Group Bestows Marquee Collection Status On The Blu-ray Debut Of Director Michael Hurst's New Blood On Oct. 13


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
MVD Entertainment Group has selected Oct. 13 for the Blu-ray debut of director Michael Hurst’s 1999 action flick, New Blood.   This will be a Marquee Collection promotion.

Remember back at the dawn of DVD when the studios were doing day-and-date DVD and VHS releases (whoa, do you even remember VHS?), that’s when New Blood was first available on DVD.   Household penetration for the new format was under ten percent and new releases came at a premium.   If you can find a copy of New Blood on DVD from back then, good for you … but for most, it is an unseen DVD release.

That all changes on Oct. 13 with MVD’s Marquee Collection promotion of Hurst’s all-action, all-star thriller on both DVD and for the first time on Blu-ray!!

Scheming and scamming is the name of the game as Alan White (played by John Hurt — Alien, The Elephant Man, Midnight Express, etc.) has a problem, his daughter, Emma, is dying in the hospital, in desperate need a heart transplant.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
The film begins with him wounded and discovered by the police at a remote farmhouse.   It is total carnage … eight dead bodies!!!  

We now skip back to the night before and Emma’s twin brother, Danny (Nick Moran — as Scabior in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Part 2, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, etc.) — who is the perfect match — but he’s a reckless criminal and has little regard for his sister’s condition.

This all changes when his latest scheme goes south.   Him and his little band of cutthroats — the “New Blood” — were onto a big kidnapping score, but the proverbial “stuff” hit the fan, the mark was killed and poor Danny has been mortally wounded … not dead quite yet, but the clock is ticking.  

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyHe finds his father — he hasn’t seen him in like eight years — and proposes a “deal.”   He knows he’s a walking dead man, but he needs his father to pull off one last con, it will only take a few hours, and then his heart can be used to save his sister.   He believes that his sacrifice will also save his friends.

This edge-of-your-seat thriller has a predetermined destiny — that farmhouse — but the getting there makes for a night of thrills and suspense like none other.  Danny will die, that’s a certainty, but will Emma live … and what of dear old dad!! 

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey



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