{"id":518160,"date":"2026-06-25T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518160\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:30:13","slug":"zach-creggers-barbarian-finally-getting-physical-release-on-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518160\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Cregger’s Barbarian finally getting physical release on Blu-ray"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the best horror<\/a> movies<\/a> in recent years is finally getting a physical release. Zach Cregger\u2019s Barbarian<\/a> will receive a 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray SteelBook this summer after a lengthy and public campaign from the director. Barbarian\u2019s long-awaited physical release features some unsettling art from Creepy Duck Design that silhouettes the film’s nightmare Airbnb<\/a> against a red sky.<\/p>\n

An exciting aspect of Barbarian’s physical release are the bonus features. There will be an audio commentary track from the film\u2019s writer-director, Zach Cregger, and producer Roy Lee. There will also be the feature Behind Barbarian, which includes interviews with Cregger, as well as the title cast and crew, on the film’s defining horror elements and its points of inspiration. There will also be deleted scenes.<\/p>\n

Cregger has been advocating for Barbarian<\/a> \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bto get a physical release for years. \u201cI have banged the drum, made phone calls, and tried my best to get some sort of physical media,\u201d Cregger said to Bloody Disgusting<\/a> about a year ago. \u201cI\u2019m not making headway, and it kind of bums me out.\u201d It appears he finally got through to someone at 20th Century Studios.<\/p>\n

Barbarian was Cregger\u2019s directorial debut, and it gave this founding member of The Whitest Kids U’ Know comedy troupe cache in horror overnight. The film received critical acclaim while grossing over $45 million on a $4.5 million production budget. Cregger followed it up last year with the even bigger hit Weapons<\/a>, which made $270 million on a $38 million budget. It received some award-season buzz, something rare for horror, and Amy Madigan\u2019s performance in the movie earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.<\/p>\n

All eyes are on Cregger\u2019s next film, Resident Evil<\/a>, another adaptation of the game series that has generated quite a bit of nervous optimism. While Paul W.S. Anderson\u2019s six Resident Evil movies and Johannes Roberts\u2019 2021 reboot<\/a> have a fairly bad reputation, Cregger brings prestige to the production. The director describes himself as a big fan of the games, and you can tell because the film\u2019s trailer references the incredibly specific gaffe of accidentally wasting ammo after missing a shot on a stationary lock.<\/p>\n

The movie will be a reboot, and instead of following the series\u2019 usual suspects like Leon Kennedy or Claire Redfield, the film will center on a regular dude who finds himself caught in the middle of this zombie apocalypse: it basically seems like what would happen if the player were transported to Raccoon City during the events of Resident Evil 2. It\u2019s in theaters on Sept. 18.<\/p>\n

Barbarian’s physical release is scheduled for Aug. 11. The SteelBook release includes both a 4K UHD Blu-ray and a standard Blu-ray disc. For audio, it will have English, French, and Spanish 5.1 DTS-HDMA and Dolby 2.0 Digital Descriptive Audio for English. There will also be subtitles for those languages.<\/p>\n


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It\u2019s off Netflix and Max, and Amazon Video is next, so catch it now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the best horror movies in recent years is finally getting a physical release. Zach Cregger\u2019s Barbarian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-518160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}