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Hello, everyone! We have an eclectic group of films headed to Blu-ray and DVD this week, including the latest Purge entry, a cannibalistic comedy featuring the likes of Pat Morita and Michael Berryman, feature films helmed by both David Nelson (of Ozzie & Harriet fame) and John Russo, plus so much more. Arrow Video is keeping busy this week with their new releases of Death Screams and Children of the Corn in 4K, and Vinegar Syndrome is showing some love to Auntie Lee’s Meat Pies and Girls School Screamers as well. Severin has put together Blu-ray releases for A Day of Judgment and Midnight, and if you missed it in theaters earlier this year, you can catch up with The Forever Purge this Tuesday when it comes home on all formats.

Other home entertainment releases for September 28th include Blood Conscious, Harvest of Horrors, Know Fear, and The Purge: 5-Movie Collection.

A film that I somehow missed while growing up, Scarecrows is a bit of an oddity in comparison to the rest of the ’80s horror genre landscape. Not a slasher movie nor a traditional monster movie, William Wesley’s directorial debut is part caper-gone-awry/part paranoia-fueled thriller and does a nice job of creating a palpable sense of tension even while contending with the constraints of a minuscule budget. It also ups the creep-out factor with some strikingly cool killer scarecrow designs and features some of the most incredible nighttime cinematography, as well. Scarecrows may be one of the more overlooked cult classics from the ’80s, but thankfully Scream Factory is here to finally show this deserving film some love with a great new Blu-ray release.

Scarecrows digs right into its story, picking up with an elite group of thieves as they’re escaping on a hijacked plane with their loot in tow.