UK Blues...

Lots of interesting stuff on its way in the UK, and a surprising amount of it is exclusive to UK Blu-ray at the moment: in October we get another Hammer restoration batch in The Devil Rides Out (with documentary, restoration featurette, one of the old World of Hammer TV episodes, and a commentary with Christopher Lee, Marcus Hearn - who's been penning those beautiful books from Titan - and Sarah Lawson), Rasputin The Mad Monk (with two new documentaries, another TV episode of World of Hammer, and a commentary by Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Francis Matthews and Suzan Farmer), plus The Mummy's Shroud (featuring a couple of new documentaries plus trailers).  All very exciting that this is happening.  Also though, they've been around for a while but Second Sight are bringing some fantastic stuff to HD: following their recent announcements for the Brian Yuzna and Stuart Gordon material that I'm really looking forward to, there are also plans to put David Cronenberg's The Brood and Scanners on the shelves around the end of the year (they're also looking at releasing Scanners 2 and 3 at the same time).  Of course these have all previously been released to DVD in the UK by Anchor Bay, so I expect these new Blu-rays to be much improved (the 'unrated' version of The Brood on the UK DVD was a bit messy).