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Halloween horror flicks new to DVD this week

Published: Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007 12:24 a.m. MDT
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"Deadly Friend" (1986; R for violence, language). Wes Craven's revisionist "Frankenstein" has Kristy Swanson (the original "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") brought back to life by a teenage genius. Not scary, not funny.

"Dr. Giggles" (1992; R for violence, sex, nudity, language) is an asylum escapee (Larry Drake) who giggles as he kills. Ugly.

Extras: Widescreen, audio commentary (on "The Hand"), featurette (on "Someone's"), trailers (each film available separately, $14.97)

"Elvira's Movie Macabre: Blue Sunshine/Monstroid" (Shout, 1981; R for violence, language; two discs, $14.99).

"Elvira's Movie Macabre: Gamera, Super Monster/They Came From Beyond Space" (Shout, 1981, not rated, two discs, $14.99).

"Elvira's Movie Macabre: Maneater of Hydra/The House That Screamed" (Shout, 1981, PG, two discs, $14.99). These are low-budget to no-budget Z-movies, some even dubbed from lousy prints. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson) introduces and cuts into the films from time to time (taken from her TV-hosting series) with goofy double-entendres and puns.

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Extras: Widescreen (also available in the "Elvira" series: "Count Dracula's Great Love"/"Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks," "Legacy of Blood"/"The Devil's Wedding Night" and "The Doomsday Machine"/"Werewolf of Washington")

Recent films

"Evening" (Focus/Universal, 2007, PG-13, $29.98). All-star cast bolsters this slow soap opera about a dying woman (Vanessa Redgrave) who tells her daughters (Toni Collette and Regrave's real-life daughter Natasha Richardson) about a fling 50 years earlier with her true love. Claire Danes plays Redgrave as a young woman, and Glenn Close, Meryl Streep and Streep's daughter Mamie Gummer are also on hand.

Extras: Widescreen, deleted scenes, featurettes

"Next" (Paramount, 2007, PG-13, $29.99). Silly but enjoyable sci-fi nonsense with Nicolas Cage as a Vegas magician who can see two minutes into the future. Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel co-star.

Extras: Widescreen, featurettes, trailer

"The TV Set" (Fox, 2007; R for language; $27.98). Close-to-the-bone, foul-mouthed satire of television has a writer (David Duchovny) trying to hang onto his integrity after he sells a TV script. Sigourney Weaver steals the show as a pompous but dim executive.

Extras: Widescreen, deleted scenes, audio commentary, featurette

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