Ghostface returns in a horror sequel that tops the DVD releases for the week of April 5.
“Scream”: Woodsboro has another masked killer on the loose in this fifth installment, or “requel,” of the slasher franchise that launched a quarter-century ago. Neve Campbell returns as final girl Sidney Prescott, this time passing on the torch to a new generation.
“What made ‘Scream’ so revolutionary in 1996 was its ironic self-reflection — a slasher movie that plucked the genre from the straight-to-VHS discount bin and held it up as art by dissecting all of the rules and conventions of its formula, while turning a mirror on the media landscape,” Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh writes. “This new ‘Scream’ is plenty sentient, too. There’s much to say about the state of the industry, from juicy debates over the notion of “elevated horror” vs. retro schlock, as well as the tendency to constantly reboot and remake.”
Also new on DVD
“Death on the Nile”: Kenneth Branagh, who also directs, reprises his role as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this Agatha Christie adaptation about a murder case aboard an Egyptian riverboat. Also starring Armie Hammer, Gal Gadot and Annette Bening.
“Parallel Mothers”: Penelope Cruz reunites with director Pedro Almodovar for their seventh collaboration, a Spanish-language drama about two women who bond after meeting in a maternity ward.
“CSI: Vegas: Season 1”: William Petersen and Jorja Fox are back as Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle respectively in this CBS reboot of the Sin City procedural.
“Jockey”: A veteran jockey aims to win one more title before getting out of horse racing in this drama starring Clifton Collins Jr., Moises Arias and Molly Parker.
“The Desperate Riders”: Western about a gunman who saves a boy and is then convinced to help rescue his kidnapped mother, with the help of a gunslinger they meet along the way.
“The Handmaid’s Tale: The Complete Fourth Season”: Elisabeth Moss returns as June in the Hulu drama based on the novel by Margaret Atwood, with the fourth season finding her striking back as a rebel leader even as her quest for justice and revenge threatens to consume her.
“The Ice Demon”: Russian horror film in which terrifying supernatural incidents start to occur after a man, missing for 10 years and presumed dead, is found in a coma and returned to his wife, now remarried, and daughter.
“The Immortal”: Featuring flashbacks that show Ciro Di Marzio’s youth in Naples before becoming a gangster, this movie is both a prequel and sequel to the third season of the Italian crime drama “Gomorrah.”
“Vicious Fun”: A film critic for a national horror magazine unwittingly finds himself trapped in a self-help group for serial killers and must attempt to blend in.
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“The King’s Daughter”: In this historical fantasy epic, King Louis XIV, played by Pierce Brosnan, commissions a voyage to the lost city of Atlantis to capture a mermaid for her powers of immortality, while his headstrong daughter seeks to free her new aquatic friend.
