Blu-ray, DVD Release: Flesh + Blood (1985)

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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Available now
Price: DVD $16.29, Blu-ray $17.49
Studio: Capelight/MPI

A deliriously violent medieval epic from genre master Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls), Flesh + Blood sees a savage and amoral band of mercenaries take revenge on the noblemen who betrayed them.

In Western Europe, 1501, a small army of mercenaries led by the charismatic and mercurial Martin (Rutger Hauer, The Rite) reclaim a heavily fortified castle for its owner Arnolfini, who then betrays the band and ejects them from the city by force. Swearing revenge, Martin leads a violent assault on the nobleman and ends up accidentally kidnapping the beautiful Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Heart of Midnight), the fiancée of Arnolfini’s son Steven, who in turn pledges to wipe out the mercenary group once and for all.

With its vision of a brutal and morally bereft Medieval Europe, the film shocked audiences who had become used to the highly romanticised depictions of the era commonly seen on the big screen.

Bonus Features:

  • Audio commentary by director Paul Verhoeven
  • Interview with director Paul Verhoeven
  • Interview with screenwriter Gerard Soeteman
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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.