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• Puritan | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A disgraced medium finds that a new client opens a world of devious intrigue.

• The Stranger | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture. I did it to prove that I could put out a movie as well as anyone else." True, set beside Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, or even The Trial, The Stranger is as close to production-line stuff as the great Orson ever came. But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. The shadow of the Second World War hangs heavy over the plot. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi, Franz Kindler, to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. The script, credited to Anthony Veiller but with uncredited input from Welles and John Huston, is riddled with implausibilities: we're asked to believe, for a start, that there'd be no extant photos of a top Nazi leader. The casting's badly skewed, too. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive--and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. What's more, Spiegel chopped out most of the two opening reels set in South America, in Welles' view, "the best stuff in the picture". Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clock tower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: not much in the way of extras, except a waffly full-length commentary from Russell Cawthorne that tells us about the history of clock-making and where Edward G was buried, but precious little about the making of the film. Print and sound are acceptable, but though remastering is claimed, there's little evidence of it. --Philip Kemp

• Classic Dracula Collection - Dracula/Dracula/House Of Dracula | DVD | (09/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dracula (1931 & 1999 version with new soundtrack by Phillip Glass) : Although there have been numerous screen versions of Bram Stoker's classic tale none is more enduring than this 1931 original. Towering ominously among the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains Castle Dracula strikes fear in the hearts of the Transylvanian villagers below... Illuminated by the haunting presence of Bela Lugosi as the Count Tod Browning's direction makes full use of crisp black and white cinematography to create that class chill... House Of Dracula: Dracula appears at Dr. Edelman's office on the pretense of a cure for his vampirism his real intention is the Doctor's beautiful female assistant...

• Metamorphosis | DVD | (19/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dr. Peter Houseman is a brilliant geneticist who is working on a serum which will stop human aging but his colleagues don't believe in his work. When his university funding is threatened by his sceptical benefactors the doctor takes a desperate measure to justify his work. He administers the serum to himself but the results are unexpected and horrendous.

• Shot At Glory, A / Mean Machine | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A Shot At Glory / Mean Machine Box Set

• BEYOND DARKNESS (2-Disc Special Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Scream - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (19/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Scream (2022) | Blu Ray | (05/04/2022) from £14.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A