Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD Release: Black Butterfly

Digital Release Date: July 25, 2017, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 25, 2017
Price: DVD $16.97, Blu-ray $24.99
Studio: Lionsgate


The dark 2017 thriller Black Butterfly centers around two strangers, a writer and a drifter, who begin a deadly game of dominance and control amidst the threat of a brutal serial killer.

Antonio Banderas (Machete Kills),  Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Velvet Goldmine) and Piper Perabo (Looper) highlight this remake of the 2008 French thriller of the same name.

As a serial killer’s latest slaying shakes up a remote Colorado town, desperate writer Paul (Banderas) offers drifter Jack (Meyers) shelter at his isolated cabin. Does Jack’s violent behavior make him a suspect in the murders menacing the area? Or is the killer’s story even more terrifying?

The Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD editions of  the film contain the following special features:

  • Commentary with Director Brian Goodman and Co-Writer Marc Frydman
  • Black Butterfly: Backstage” Featurette
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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.