Pound of Flesh | Blu-ray & DVD (Entertainment One)
Get your organs ready for Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Pound of Flesh! This upcoming action-thriller re-teams the martial arts star with Ernie Barbarash (Favela), the director behind 2011’s Assassination Games and 2012’s 6 Bullets. Van Damme’s son, Kristopher Van Varenberg (Enemies Closer), Darren Shahlavi (Ip Man 2), John Ralston (Degrassi The Next Generation), William B Davis (The X-Files) and Charlotte Peters are co-starring.
The plot line of Pound of Flesh is reminiscent of Park Chan-wook’s 2002 thriller, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance:
In China to donate his kidney to his dying niece, Deacon (Van Damme), an former black-ops agent, awakes the day before the operation to find he is the latest victim of organ theft. Stitched up and pissed-off, Deacon descends from his opulent hotel in search of his stolen kidney and carves a blood-soaked path through the darkest corners of the city – brothels, fight clubs, back-alley black markets, and elite billionaire estates. The clock is ticking for his niece and with each step he loses blood.
Pound of Flesh will be getting a North American theatrical/VOD release date on May 15, 2015, followed by its Blu-ray & DVD release on June 23, 2015.
Updates: Via the Hollywood Reporter, Pound of Flesh will feature fight scenes coordinated by veteran choreographer and stuntman John Salvetti (Donnie Yen’s Flash Point, Special Identity). | Ernie Barbarash, the director of Pound of Flesh, spills some details about his upcoming film in this video. He mentions that it is an “action movie that’s very character driven.” | Bruceploitation actor Huang Kin Long (aka Bruce Le) recently visited the set. So what does Le look like today? Well, here’s a photo (courtesy of Impact) of him with Mike Leeder, Darren Shahlavi and Mike Moller on the set of Pound of Flesh. Simply amazing!
First “real” trailer re-edited with some extra footage not seen in the first “leaked” teaser. | 2nd trailer. | After a series of trailers consisting of broken links, unofficial leaks (and other unexplained uploads), here’s the film’s first official full trailer. | 10-minute featurette.
Watch the newest trailer (via FCS) – and, don’t forget… Pound of Flesh is hitting VOD on May 15, then Blu-ray & DVD on June 23, 2015. Pre-order it today!
BREAKING NEWS: Read our our review for Pound of Flesh!
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jcvd and darren, will be blood to wash and a mountain raining kicks. the masters are back
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I gotta admit this could go either way. Van Damme is very frustrating for every balls to the wall flick (Universal Soldier 3 and 4, JCVD and (to a certain extent) Expendables 2) he makes ill-advised moves that show him in a different light. Now I liked Until Death…and Assassination Games was alright… but Alien Uprising, Enemies Closer and Dragon Eyes were atrocious. So, i’m looking forward to such with reservation.
enemies closer was a good movie
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isn’t that Impact’s Mike Leeder as the thug being choked out?
Sure is. 🙂
It’s not exactly difficult to cut a kick-ass trailer, even for a subpar movie, but I sure am hoping “Pound of Flesh” lives up the pre-release hype.
I agree. It’ll be nice to see an “action-packed” JCVD flick, but then again, you can easily make a movie seem like it has a lot of hand-to-hand action (i.e. Assassination Games). Regardless, it’ll be nice seeing Van Damme go back to his roots and not play a mentor, bad guy or co-star.
This is an outstanding show case of talent in every sense , JCVD’S on screen presence , ERNIE BARBARASH , (director) and JOHN (Super Scraps) SALVITTI (Fight Choreographer/Stuntman) this movie is sure be BANGING from start to finish!!! If this film is like the trailer’s I have seen LOOK OUT cause it “s gonna smash ya!!!
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This trailer has been removed… Does anyone have a new link where I can watch it??
Trailer has been fixed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azGjitaDyYA
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Haven’t seen this yet