*** Released on 3-17-2026 ***

***Blu-ray discs require a Blu-ray player, PS3, PS4, PS5, XBOX One, or other Blu-ray device. Blu-rays will not playback in a DVD player. ***

*** To watch the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc one is required to own a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player capable of playing back native 4K Blu-ray discs ***

*** Region free 4K Blu-ray disc and region A Blu-ray disc for North America Blu-ray players. To use included digital code, digital code requires USA IP address that accesses a USA website. ***

The Substitute 4K Blu-ray disc is factory new and factory sealed (includes the slipcover). Native 4K Dolby Vision HDR with lossless 13.1 Dolby Atmos. English SDH and Spanish subtitle options. Comes with one BD-100 4K Blu-ray disc and one BD-50 Blu-ray disc.

Lionsgate Limited Extras:
• Power Achieved Is Power Perceived: Director Robert Mandel on The Substitute
• Color Grade Is in Session
• Bullet Points: Storyboard-to-Film Exploration
• Theatrical Trailer

In this action-thriller favorite, now on 4K for the first time, a mercenary faces off against one of his most formidable enemies: a high school gang. Shale (Tom Berenger) is an ex-Vietnam vet reeling from a botched covert operation. Returning home, he reunites with his girlfriend, Jane (Diane Venora), a high school teacher who’s hospitalized after a beating by the Kings of Destruction gang. Hunting Jane’s attackers, Shale goes undercover as a substitute teacher, and uncovers a cocaine highway running through the school involving gang leader Lacas (Marc Anthony) and the school’s shady principal, Rolle (Ernie Hudson). Summoning his mercenaries, Shale goes to war with the Kings of Destruction – and rival guns for hire – on the unusual battleground of a high school, but for the usual stakes: life…and death.