"Actor: Mantan Moreland"

• Night Of The Living Dead / Revenge Of The Zombies | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This value-for-money Zombie Double Feature is billed as "Flesh Creepers, Volume 1", and offers a double billing of George A Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Steve Sekely’s rather less fondly remembered Revenge of the Zombies (1943). Night of the Living Dead is a masterpiece, but it has also slipped through a copyright loophole which means it has been issued on video and DVD by a great many distributors in as many variant versions. This one isn’t ruined by colorisation or dodgy new footage as a couple of rival releases are, but it is soft-looking print, free of censor cuts but very washed-out-looking. The background notes inexcusably get the date of the film wrong, crassly tagging it "think Blair Witch 1964", and mention the existence of extras-filled special DVD editions, which rather rubs in the fact that this no-frills effort has none of the commentaries or documentaries found on other releases. Revenge of the Zombies is a sluggish hour-long wartime B-picture, with John Carradine underplaying for once as a Nazi scientist creating an army of zombies (ie: a handful of shuffling extras) in the Louisiana swamplands. Comedy relief Mantan Moreland has the best moments and the trudging-around-the-backlot zombies ("things walkin’ ain’t got no business to be walkin’") are fun, but it isn’t especially good of its kind. On the DVD: The Zombie Double Feature presents both films in "horrorscope", which means letterboxing and blurry image. The only extra is a list-like essay about the habits of flesh-eating zombies in Romero films.--Kim Newman

• Horror Classics 5: King of the Zombies/Revolt of the Zombies | DVD | (26/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.55

• Charlie Chan in the Chinese Cat | DVD | (01/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'Expert Is Merely Man Who Make Quick Decision-And Is Sometimes Right.' -Charlie Chan Number Three Son Tommy comes to the aid of a damsel in distress - by offering Charlie Chan's services - in this top-notch whodunnit fare' (Variety) starring Sidney Toler and Benson Fong. Leah manning (Joan Woodbury) has never stopped searching for her father's murderer, although the police and DA gave up a long time ago. And now, to add insult to injury, an 'expert criminologist' has written a 'novel' accus...