Welcome to the inaugural edition of ComingSoon.net’s weekly sneak peek at this Tuesday’s major DVD and Blu-ray releases! Using the gallery below, you’ll be able to navigate through some of the key films that are set to hit store shelves on October 15, 2013. For the complete list of October DVD releases, click here, and the complete list of Blu-ray releases can be found here.
October 15 2013 Releases
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Weird Science
John Hughes' Weird Science hits high definition for the first time ever. Although the disc is without any special features, fans should be pleased to return to the strange sci-fi fantasy world that inspired both a television series and an upcoming remake.
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Vikings: Season One
The first nine episodes of History's "Vikings" come home as a three-disc set. Catch up on the adventures of Ragnar, a would-be Viking chieftain, and his family before the the series returns for a second season in 2014.
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The Stranger
Orson Welles followed Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons with this moody postwar thriller, now restored for Blu-ray from a Library of Congress 35mm print. Kino Lorber brings The Stranger to HD alongside an audio commentary from film historian Bret Wood, four complete Welles Wartime Radio broadcasts and the complete short documentary "Death Mills," which had its footage featured in the 1946 film.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Complete Series
Cartoon Network's popular take on the Star Wars galaxy came to a close earlier this year. Now it's all available in a single, expansive 14-disc set that collected all five seasons. If you've been buying the sets individually, The Complete Fifth Season also arrives by itself on Tuesday.
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Pacific Rim
Having grossed over $400 million worldwide, Guillermo del Toro's epically-scaled sci-fi action tribute to the Kaiju (giant monsters) genre comes to home video in a deluxe, feature-packed special edition Blu-ray combo pack. It also hits shelves Tuesday in a 3D version.
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Maniac
Elijah Wood takes the lead in director Franck Khalfoun's update on William Lustig's gorey cult classic, starring as Frank, the quiet owner of a mannequin store who is driven to brutally hunt down and murder any woman who enters his life.
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Love Actually
Ten years after it first hit theaters, writer-director Richard Curtis' Love Actually has found its place as a modern Christmas classic. This 10th Anniversary release boasts a brand-new digital restoration, a commentary track and a number of behind-the-scenes featurettes.
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Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
Let Me Explain brings to the screen Hart's sold-out 2012 Madison Square Garden stand-up performance, cut alongside footage from Hart's performances all over the world.
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In the Mouth of Madness
Two legends of horror collide as John Carpenter adapts H.P. Lovecraft. The finale of a thematic "apocalypse" trilogy that Carpenter began with The Thing and Prince of Darkness, In the Mouth of Madness hits Blu-ray for the first time with a commentary by Carpenter and cinematographer Gary B. Kibbe.
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The Hitch-Hiker
Actress-turned-writer-and-director Ida Lupino helmed this 1953 film noir classic (the only classic noir to have been directed by a woman), based on the true story of serial murderer Billy Cook. It comes to Blu-ray from Kino Lorber in a new edition transferred from a Library of Congress 35mm archival print.
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The Heat
Teaming Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarhty, Bridesmaids director Paul Feig turned his new action comedy The Heat into a box office hit earlier this year, grossing more than $225 million worldwide.
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The Haunting
Robert Wise's (The Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story) 1963 adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel, "The Haunting of Hill House," is still considered one of the scariest movies of all times five decades later.
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Eyes Without a Face
Georges Franju's 1960 horror masterpiece comes to Blu-ray just in time for Halloween in a feature-packed Criterion Collection edition that includes the same extensive special features as their 2004 DVD release.
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