Oct. 8 New Home Entertainment Releases Include ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Via Premium Digital, ‘A Quiet Place: Day One,’ ‘MaXXXine,’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’ on Disc

John Latchem

October 8, 2024

Among the new home entertainment releases arriving Oct. 8 are Beetlejuice Beetlejuice for premium digital sale and rental, and disc releases for A Quiet Place: Day One, MaXXXine and Kinds of Kindness.

Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequel to the director’s 1988 film Beetlejuice, debuts for premium digital purchase and rental on Oct. 8 from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. In the sequel, Michael Keaton returns to his iconic role as Beetlejuice alongside Oscar nominee Winona Ryder (“Stranger Things,” Little Women) as Lydia Deetz and two-time Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (“Schitt’s Creek,” The Nightmare Before Christmas) as Delia Deetz, with new cast members Justin Theroux (Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi, The Leftovers), Monica Bellucci (Spectre, “The Matrix” films), Arthur Conti (“House of the Dragon”) in his feature film debut, Emmy nominee Jenna Ortega (“Wednesday,” Scream VI) as Lydia’s daughter Astrid, and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe (Poor Things, At Eternity’s Gate). The film has earned $402.8 million at the global box office. It arrives on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD Nov. 19.

Fresh off a successful PVOD release, the summer mega-hit Twisters will be released for digital rental or purchase at non-premium pricing on Oct. 8 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The film follows tornado researcher Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones), who after a devastating tornado encounter gives up chasing storms across the Oklahoma prairie to safely study them on screens in New York City. Lured back to the field by her friend Javi (Anthony Ramos) and a once-in-a-lifetime scientific opportunity, Kate crosses paths with Tyler (Glen Powell), a charming daredevil and self-proclaimed tornado wrangler whose thirst for tornado-tracking adventures made him a social media sensation. As storm season intensifies with terrifying phenomena unlike anything seen before, Kate and Tyler realize they may need to work together if they are to have any chance of taming, and surviving, an unprecedented outbreak of destructive tornadoes. It arrives on Blu-ray Disc, DVD and 4K Ultra HD disc Oct. 22

Paramount Home Entertainment’s A Quiet Place: Day One arrives on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and in a collectible 4K Ultra HD Steelbook Oct. 8. The third installment in actor-director John Krasinski’s sci-fi horror franchise stars Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o and generated $261.79 million at the global box office. The film takes viewers back to the first day of the invasion by deadly creatures who hunt by sound in New York City.

Lionsgate will release A24’s horror film MaXXXine on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray Disc and DVD Oct. 8. The third and final installment of Ti West’s “X” trilogy  (X, Pearl) set in 1980s Hollywood, MaXXXine follows adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) who finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past. The film also stars Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon. The film has earned $22 million at the global box office.

Searchlight Pictures’ Kinds of Kindness will be released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on Oct. 8. Kinds of Kindness is a triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life, a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person, and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader. From Oscar-nominated director Yorgos Lanthimos, the dark comedy features a cast led by Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe. Kinds of Kindness won the 2024 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award for Jesse Plemons.

Decal/Neon’s animated family comedy Robot Dreams will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc Oct. 8 from Distribution Solutions. In the film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Feature Film, Dog and Robot’s friendship blossoms to the rhythm of 1980s NYC, until Dog is forced to abandon Robot at the beach. Will they ever meet again? The film features the talents of Ivan Labanda, Albert Trifol , José García Tos, Luis Mediavilla and Molina Esther. Robot Dreams made $4.56 million at the global box office.

Paramount Home Entertainment will release “NCIS: Hawai’i The Final Season” on DVD Oct. 8. The 15-disc DVD collection “”NCIS: Hawai’i — The Complete Series,” featuring 54 episodes, including four crossover episodes and two hours of special features, will be released the same day. The spin-off series stars original “NCIS” cast member LL Cool J with Vanessa Lachey as they head a team tracking down a group of convicts that have escaped onto the island, locate a high-profile Russian prisoner known as “The Chemist,” and race to neutralize a mysterious terrorist group before they can strike again. The three-disc final season also includes two featurettes — “Ruah’s Rules: Directing ‘NCIS’ and ‘NCIS: Hawai’i,’” and “‘NCIS: Hawai’i Season 3’ — The Third Wave” — and a gag reel.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release season one of the Netflix original political/FBI  drama “The Night Agent” on DVD Oct. 8. The collection includes several bonus features, including a commentary track with producer Shawn Ryan on the first episode; 12 deleted scenes; a blooper reel; and featurettes on the visual effects in episodes one and 10. Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, “The Night Agent” centers on a low-level FBI agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast-moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office. The series was a Netflix hit in the early spring of 2023, topping Nielsen’s weekly top 10 list of streamed content in U.S. households for several weeks. Its peak week was the seven-day period that ended April 2, 2023, with more than 3 billion minutes streamed.

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment will release Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Series on DVD Oct. 8. The set includes all 120 episodes of the Larry David-starring HBO comedy series, along with all previously released special features including “The Seinfeld Reunion: It Could Only Happen on Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Also available on Oct. 8 on DVD is Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Twelfth and Final Season. “Curb Your Enthusiasm” stars “Seinfeld” mastermind Larry David as an over-the-top version of himself. The comedy series, which has just concluded its run with a much-ballyhooed finale with a brief appearance by Bruce Springsteen, shows how seemingly trivial details of one’s day-to-day life can precipitate a catastrophic chain of events. The series also stars Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman, Cheryl Hines, J.B. Smoove, the late Richard Lewis, Ted Danson, Vince Vaughn and Tracey Ullman. In Season 12, Larry accidentally champions an important political cause, takes part in a country club controversy, and attempts to restore his public image. The finale, which aired April 7, picked up after Larry’s image as a liberal hero was shot because he gave Bruce Springsteen COVID. In the episode, titled “No Lessons Learned,” Larry stood trial for giving a bottle of water to Auntie Rae (Ellia English) while standing in line at a poll, in violation of a controversial new Georgia voting law.

MVD Entertainment Group Oct. 8 releases a DVD of the documentary sequel CIA Drugs R Us!, the follow-up to 2018’s Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists. The doc continues a focus on the U.S. government’s alleged use of drugs for social control in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s through the targeting of activists, underground gangs and music celebrities such as the late John Lennon, Kurt Cobain and Tupac Shakur. The film details the CIA’s Project MK-Ultra alleged involvement with the Charlie Manson Family and activist actors, the Black Panthers, the antiwar Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the church sex abuse of the Keepers. The DVD includes 18 minutes of bonus features.

The thriller Disciples in the Moonlight will be released on DVD and through digital retailers Oct. 8 from Distribution Solutions and Pinnacle Peak. In the film, a reluctant leader heads up a team of seven Christians intent on smuggling Bibles to underground churches in a future America where the Bible is illegal and danger is around every corner. The film stars Ivan Labanda, Albert Trifol , José García Tos, Luis Mediavilla and Molina Esther.

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The Criterion Collection Oct. 8 releases on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD disc the double feature of I Walked With a Zombie and The Seventh Victim, two 1943 films produced by Val Lewton. As head of RKO’s ‘B’-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton, working with directors such as Jacques Tourneur and Mark Robson, brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion and psychosexual unease. In director Jacques Tourneur’s I Walked With a Zombie, a young nurse (Frances Dee) takes a job caring for a comatose woman on a Caribbean island but soon finds herself plunged into a mysterious world where the ghosts of slavery haunt the present and witch doctors have the power to summon the living dead. Director Mark Robson’s The Seventh Victim marks the film debut of Kim Hunter as a young boarding-school student who, in search of her missing sister (Jean Brooks), travels to New York’s bohemian Greenwich Village, where she uncovers a sinister shadow world of devil worshippers and murder. Both films feature new 4K digital restorations with uncompressed monaural soundtracks. The 4K Ultra HD combo pack includes a 4K disc of the films and a regular Blu-ray disc of the films with bonus materials.

The 2011 Polish gay/lesbian drama Suicide Room will be released on Blu-ray Disc Oct. 8 from Altered Innocence and MVD Entertainment Group. In the film, young Dominik is pressured to succeed by his wealthy and successful power couple parents and with only 100 days to go before final exams, Dominik is on target to graduate with top marks and gain entry into the finest university. After a dare at a school formal where he gets to kiss his crush, Aleksander, the social media Dominik is so invested in explodes with commentary about the event. Daunted by the thought of returning to school where even Aleksander mocks him, he reverts from real life and logs into the virtual world. Cloaked in his avatar, Dominik meets Sylwia, who introduces him to the “Suicide Room” where he meets others just like him. Soon enough Dominik struggles to decipher what is real as common virtual experiences bleed dangerously into reality.

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