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.
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.
He 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!!
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