You can bring Dredd 3D and its special brand of justice home this coming January 8th

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

DREDD 3D’s mediocre box office veritably broke my little fanboy heart.  For a film I so loved, one that actually completely lived up to the enormous level of hype to which it had been vaulted by months and months of anticipation, to crumble away in such a miserably short time? I still can’t decide if it makes me sad or mad, but either way it was crime.

This is probably about 1% hyperbole, by the way.  Maybe 2%.  I truly loved every single thing about this film, from the spot-on acting that was at turns terrifying and unexpected and exciting to the Cliff Martinez-quality score to the visceral and unforgivingly vicious violence to the smart and well-paced script to the tight editing and measured momentum.   It was also, to my mind and without a doubt, the best melding of comic book source material and genuinely good genre filmmaking we’ve seen in at least the last five years.

Thankfully I won’t have to wait much longer to rewatch it in all its genre-honoring glory, as DREDD 3D is all geared up and ready to release through the mediums DVD/Blu-ray, Digital Download, On Demand, and Pay-Per-View on January 8th, 2013.  You can pick up the 3D Blu-ray for $39.99 and the DVD for $29.95.

These special features are marked “subject to change” in the press release, but I imagine that’s more a precautionary measure rather than a legitimate concern.

3D Blu-ray and DVD special features:

– “Mega-City Masters”: 35 Years of Judge Dredd” featurette
– “Day of Chaos: The Visual Effects of Dredd 3D” featurette
– “Dredd” featurette
– “Dredd’s Gear” featurette
– “The 3rd Dimension” featurette
– “Welcome to Peachtrees” featurette
– Dredd Motion Comic Prequel

Specs and such:

– Run Time: 95 minutes
– Blu-ray Closed Captioned: English SDH
– DVD Closed Captioned: English
– Subtitles: English and Spanish
– Blu-ray Format: 1080P High Definition 16×9 Widescreen (2.40:1)
– DVD Format: 16×9 Widescreen (2.40:1)
– Blu-ray Audio Status: 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Optimized for 11.1 Neo X, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and English 2.0 Dolby -Digital DVD Audio Status: English and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital