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Disc 1 contains the film on 4K Ultra HD. An epic tale of humankind in which our actions, and the consequences that follow from them, reverberate across past, present and future: a single soul is transformed from a murderer into a savior, and one act of kindness sends ripples through the centuries that spark a revolution. Adapted from David Mitchell's best-selling novel.

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This is only for the bonus disc and contains the new feature-length documentary "What Is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas" (hosted by Jon Donahue, with new interviews with the Wachowskis, Tom Tykwer, author David Mitchell and the cast and crew), the seven vintage featurettes from the original Warner Bros. Blu-ray (A Film Like No Other, Everything Is Connected, The Impossible Adaptation, The Essence of Acting, Spaceships, Slaves & Sextets, The Bold Science Fiction of Cloud Atlas, and Eternal Recurrence: Love, Life and Longing in Cloud Atlas), and the extended first look trailer.

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The first two feature films of the most beloved comedy team in movie history make their Blu-ray debut from ClassicFlix, remastered and beautifully restored, in Laurel and Hardy - The Restored Features, Volume 1. In the mid-1920s, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were both hard-working comedians for producer Hal Roach, making silent audiences laugh as individual performers. They began working as a team in 1927's Putting Pants on Philip, and their two-reel comedies soon led the pack at Roach, powered by their great popularity with moviegoers. Four years later Roach gave the pair a shot at features, and this collection holds their first two: Pardon Us (1931, in its theatrical version) and Pack Up Your Troubles (1932). In Pardon Us, restored by ClassicFlix, Stan and Ollie become guests of the state after foolishly selling a policeman some of their homemade beer. A spoof of MGM's acclaimed prison drama The Big House (1930), it features many of the wonderful supporting players from the Roach lot, including June Marlowe, James Finlayson, Walter Long, Wilfred Lucas, Tiny Sandford, Harry Bernard, Otto Fries and Charlie Hall. Pack Up Your Troubles, restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation with funding from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, finds the Boys overseas during World War I, unleashing their patented brand of comic mayhem. Their favorite nemesis, Finlayson, returns, joined by Don Dillaway, Jacquie Lynn, Mary Carr, Richard Cramer, Tom Kennedy, Charles Middleton, Grady Sutton and Billy Gilbert, as well as co-director George Marshall, who appears on screen as a vengeful Army chef.

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Love, ambition and class collide in the world of Broadway. Fay Wray stars as Lora Nixon, a chorus girl engaged to wealthy composer Donald Ogden (Phillips Holmes); after their marriage, his mother cuts him off financially. While the couple struggles to get by and he pursues his symphony, their relationship is put to the test. Broadway producer Robert Courtland (William Powell), meanwhile, has feelings for Lora but stays a gentleman. The film features musical numbers by Helen Kane, whose lively presence anticipates Betty Boop.

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After their college-age son dies in a car accident, Anne and Paul try to start over by moving to the New England countryside. What they don't know is that their new home hides a dark supernatural secret, fueled by ancient rage and watched over by townspeople cursed to guard it. The grieving parents must now push through their sorrow and fight both the living and the dead as the house's insatiable hunger threatens to pull their souls – and their lost son's soul – into the abyss forever.

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Porn producer Jack Horner dreams of turning adult films into art. When he discovers young Eddie Adams, he rechristens him Dirk Diggler and makes him the biggest star the industry has ever seen - but fame sends Dirk sliding into sex, drugs and violence, and the only question is whether he can pull himself together before it destroys him.

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Six young tourists looking for an off-the-beaten-path thrill hire an 'extreme' tour guide who, ignoring every warning, takes them into Pripyat - the abandoned city that once housed the Chernobyl reactor's workers. Stranded there after dark, they discover they are not alone.

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David Byrne answers America’s fractured political moment with the uplifting power of song in this joyous film of the Broadway version of his celebrated American Utopia tour. Shot with immersive immediacy by director Spike Lee, the performance weaves twenty-one songs, new and classic, together with Byrne’s distinctive reflections on the nation — its dangers, its promise, and its capacity for change. Choreographed by Annie-B Parson in the inventive minimalism that has become a hallmark of Byrne’s live shows, the film alternates communal exuberance with hymnlike grace, arguing for music as an agent of protest, change, and above all unity.

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David Byrne answers America’s fractured political moment with the uplifting power of song in this joyous film of the Broadway version of his celebrated American Utopia tour. Shot with immersive immediacy by director Spike Lee, the performance weaves twenty-one songs, new and classic, together with Byrne’s distinctive reflections on the nation — its dangers, its promise, and its capacity for change. Choreographed by Annie-B Parson in the inventive minimalism that has become a hallmark of Byrne’s live shows, the film alternates communal exuberance with hymnlike grace, arguing for music as an agent of protest, change, and above all unity.

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The Gingerdead Man is back, joined by his depraved buddies Ebee the Evil Bong, the Gingerweed Man and others, for a rampage across the whole GDM series, tearing out the silliest, splatter-happiest moments from the films you love. It's a sugary flood of blood, babes and monstrous baked goods that will leave you wanting seconds — a murder-thon best enjoyed with friends, so gather them round and dig in.

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Melvin Hoover is a hopeless bumbler — unless he's dancing on roller skates. He works as a lowly go-fer at Look magazine, though he pretends to be a big-shot photographer, and he's thoroughly in love with Broadway chorus girl Judy LeRoy. Melvin has convinced Judy that he can make her a star by landing her on the magazine's cover. Now he actually has to pull it off!

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Sangwon, an actress recently returned to South Korea, is staying temporarily with her friend Jungsoo and her cat. Across the city, the aging poet Uiju lives alone, his own cat recently dead. Each of them receives a visitor that day - Sangwon her cousin Jisoo, Uiju a young actor, Jaewon - both young people seeking guidance on a life in the arts. As the two pairs talk and drink the day away, each ordering ramyun noodles with hot pepper paste, the similarities between the encounters multiply until they seem like more than mere coincidence.

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Marjorie Lawrence is a prima donna purely in the professional sense: a leading Wagnerian soprano with the voice and stamina the composer's works demand, and an inspiration to anyone who fights back after personal tragedy. This is the celebrated story of her climb from outback girl to famous diva, and of her later struggle against polio.

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Ben, an alcoholic who has drunk his way through his family, his friendships and finally his career, deliberately burns what remains of his life and travels to Las Vegas intending to drink himself to death in one last binge. On the Strip he hires Sera, a streetwise prostitute, in what seems like just another stop on his path of self-destruction — but their encounter instead becomes a brief refuge on the way down, as the two lost souls form an unexpected connection.

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Disc 1 contains the first 26 Lippy the Lion cartoon shorts, from "See-Saw" through "Crazy Cat Capers". They make an unlikely pair: Lippy the Lion, an upbeat, ever-cheerful lion (voiced by Daws Butler) who is always hunting for excitement, and Hardy Har Har (voiced by Mel Blanc), a gloomy, down-on-his-luck hyena who never cracks a smile — and the two are never apart. Forever chasing the next big score, the endlessly optimistic Lippy drags the reluctant Hardy into one misadventure after another, Hardy's constant 'oh dear, oh my' worrying serving as the comic foil to escapades that range from the Wild West and deserted islands to country clubs and racetracks. Wherever they go, the duo can be counted on to stumble into desperate danger every single time.

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Disc 2 contains Lippy the Lion cartoon shorts 27–52, from "Phoney Pony" through "Together Mess". They make an unlikely pair: Lippy the Lion, an upbeat, ever-cheerful lion (voiced by Daws Butler) who is always hunting for excitement, and Hardy Har Har (voiced by Mel Blanc), a gloomy, down-on-his-luck hyena who never cracks a smile — and the two are never apart. Forever chasing the next big score, the endlessly optimistic Lippy drags the reluctant Hardy into one misadventure after another, Hardy's constant 'oh dear, oh my' worrying serving as the comic foil to escapades that range from the Wild West and deserted islands to country clubs and racetracks. Wherever they go, the duo can be counted on to stumble into desperate danger every single time.

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Haruka has just started at a new school, where her classmates bully and torment her — with one exception: Mitsuru, the only friend who makes school and life bearable for her. Then things turn catastrophic when her home burns down, killing her parents and injuring her sister. Now Haruka wants justice, and blood.

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This documentary looks at the life and career of Ernie Coombs, the much-loved creator and host of the classic Canadian children's series Mr. Dressup, and the enduring mark he and the program left on generations of Canadian viewers.

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O.C. and Stiggs are two sharp teenagers waging a personal vendetta against their middle-class neighbour Mr. Schwab after his insurance company cancels O.C.'s grandfather's retirement policy. Created by Ted Mann and Tod Carroll for National Lampoon - the magazine that paved the way for Animal House - the characters were brought to the screen by Robert Altman in a blazing satire of 1980s America. Precursors to screen delinquents like Wayne and Garth and Beavis and Butt-Head, the pair have been called "cooler than Ferris, as savage as the Heathers" (Hunter Stephenson). Shot with a visual anarchy to match its acerbic script, the film features a sensational cast including Jane Curtin, Paul Dooley, Jon Cryer, Dennis Hopper and Melvin Van Peebles, and makes its US Blu-ray debut.

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One of the 1980s' most eccentric comedies, Pee-wee's Big Adventure turned Pee-wee Herman, the manic oddball created and played by actor-comedian Paul Reubens, into a pop-culture touchstone and an icon for misfits everywhere. The film was Tim Burton's first as director, and his eye-popping visual flair is already unmistakable. It follows the cheerfully irreverent Pee-wee on a cross-country road trip to get back his prized stolen bike, unfolding like a live-action cartoon packed with bizarre characters, gaudy Americana and surreal detours — a joyous tribute to imagination and to childhood itself.

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Disc 1 contains Pee-wee's Big Adventure in 4K Ultra HD (the set's Blu-ray copy is Disc 2). One of the 1980s' most eccentric comedies, Pee-wee's Big Adventure turned Pee-wee Herman, the manic oddball created and played by actor-comedian Paul Reubens, into a pop-culture touchstone and an icon for misfits everywhere. The film was Tim Burton's first as director, and his eye-popping visual flair is already unmistakable. It follows the cheerfully irreverent Pee-wee on a cross-country road trip to get back his prized stolen bike, unfolding like a live-action cartoon packed with bizarre characters, gaudy Americana and surreal detours — a joyous tribute to imagination and to childhood itself.

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Disc 2 contains Rabid on Blu-ray, presented from the set's new 4K scan of the original camera negative, along with the set's bonus features: audio commentaries by David Cronenberg, by William Beard, and by Jill C. Nelson with Ken Leicht; the interviews "Becoming Cronenberg" with Paul Corupe, "Inside Rabid" with Violet Lucca, "Young and Rabid" with Susan Roman, "Independent Spirit" with Ivan Reitman and "Northern Exposure" with Don Carmody; an archival interview with David Cronenberg; the "From Stereo to Video" video essay by Caelum Vatnsdal; the original theatrical trailer, TV spot and radio spots; and an image gallery. After experimental plastic surgery, a young woman develops a craving for human blood, and the people she attacks become rabid, bloodthirsty zombies who spread the contagion to others, until it erupts into an epidemic across the city.

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Disc 1 contains Rabid in 4K Ultra HD (the set's Blu-ray copy is on Disc 2). After experimental plastic surgery, a young woman awakens with a taste for human blood. The people she feeds on become rabid, bloodthirsty zombies who pass the infection to others, and the outbreak escalates into a citywide epidemic.

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Disc 2 contains the Integral Version of Re-Animator (105 minutes) on Blu-ray, plus the set's legacy bonus features (including the Re-Animator: Resurrectus documentary, isolated score, interviews, deleted and extended scenes, and trailers) and commentary tracks. Restored in 4K for its 40th anniversary, Stuart Gordon's cult classic — adapted from H.P. Lovecraft — follows Herbert West, a brilliant but unhinged medical student who invents a serum that can bring the dead back to life, with horrifying consequences. A blend of grotesque horror and dark humor, the film shocked audiences on its release in 1985 and became an instant cult classic.

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Disc 1 contains Re-Animator (the 86-minute Unrated Version) in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision, plus the set's new bonus features (including Re-Animator at 40, Piece by Piece: Cutting Re-Animator, The Horror of It All, and Re-Animating a Horror Classic) and commentary tracks. Restored in 4K for its 40th anniversary, Stuart Gordon's cult classic — adapted from H.P. Lovecraft — follows Herbert West, a brilliant but unhinged medical student who invents a serum that can bring the dead back to life, with horrifying consequences. A blend of grotesque horror and dark humor, the film shocked audiences on its release in 1985 and became an instant cult classic.

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Ashura, the Holy Maiden of Hell, holds a power capable of destroying humanity. Buddhist monks seal her in a deep cave so she cannot fall into evil hands — but the kindhearted Abbot Jiku grants her wish to spend seven days living in the human world.

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Rancher Clay Hardin learns that Roy Stuart, a San Antonio saloon owner, is secretly running a cattle-rustling operation. Hardin's attempts to see Stuart brought to justice trigger a killing, divided loyalties, and a final shootout at the Alamo.

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Disc 1 contains the feature film on 4K UHD with two audio commentaries: a new commentary by novelist and critic Tim Lucas, and an archival commentary by director Roy Ward Baker, Christopher Lee, and Hammer film historian Marcus Hearn. Christopher Lee is back as Count Dracula, terrorizing a village that has dared to resist his reign of evil. A young man searching for his missing brother stumbles into the Count's castle with his girlfriend and finds himself at the mercy of predatory brides, blasphemy, and sadistic cruelty. Hammer fans consider this 1970 entry the most ferociously violent of the series; it co-stars Patrick Troughton, Dennis Waterman, Michael Gwynn, and Jenny Hanley under director Roy Ward Baker.

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Frank, a West Berlin schoolteacher, spends his nights cruising the city's public toilets, cinemas and bars for anonymous sex. When he falls for Bernd, a gentle cinema usher, and they move in together, Frank's compulsion to keep cruising steadily undermines the domestic life they are trying to build.

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Disc 2 contains Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) in 4K UHD, with an audio commentary by director Michael Pressman moderated by Gillian Wallace Horvat, the featurettes John Du Prez to the Rescue, Hard Cores, The Secret of the Edit and Behind the Shells (the 1991 featurette), the theatrical trailer and an image gallery. The Turtles face the Shredder once more, this time battling over the last canister of the ooze that created them — ooze the Shredder intends to use to build an army of new mutants of his own.

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Disc 3 contains Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) in 4K UHD, with an audio commentary by director Stuart Gillard, the featurettes Daimyos & Demons and Rebel Rebel, the alternate UK opening, the theatrical trailer and an image gallery. Swept back in time to feudal Japan, the Turtles must rescue April and bring down the evil Lord Norinaga.

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Disc 1 contains Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) in 4K UHD, with two audio commentaries (director Steve Barron, and Dave Baxter), the featurettes Rising When We Fall, Turtle Talk, O'Neil on the Beat, Wet Behind the Shells, Beneath the Shell and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turf, the alternate UK version via seamless branching, an alternate ending, alternate Korean footage, theatrical trailers and an image gallery. Four humanoid turtles, trained in ninjitsu by their mentor, must learn to fight as a team to stand against the menace of the Shredder and the Foot Clan.

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Andy Kaufman's provocative comedy frequently outraged the audiences it dared to confront their own presumptions. Drawing on never-before-seen footage and intimate recollections, filmmaker Alex Braverman traces Kaufman's brief but impactful life and career — and as the line between performance and reality keeps blurring in our own time, Kaufman's genius resonates more than ever.

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In 1873 Pittsburgh, steel divides the city into rich and poor, master and worker, powerful and powerless. Paul Scott, the progressive son of a steel mill owner, falls for Mary Rafferty when she takes a job as a housemaid at the Scott mansion; her father is a laborer crippled in a mill accident. The two fall desperately in love, but a bloody strike may tear the city — and the lovers — apart.

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Disc 1 contains the film on 4K Ultra HD. Former U.S. soldier Chris Vaughn comes back to his hometown and finds it overrun by crime and corruption, so he sets out to clean the place up.

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Disc 1 contains the first 26 Wally Gator cartoons, from "Droopy Dragon" through "Baby Chase." Easygoing Wally Gator (voiced by Daws Butler) never quite learns that there's no place like home. Curious and fond of the good life, the people-loving alligator keeps slipping out of the city zoo where he lives, usually in some ridiculous disguise, despite the best efforts of zookeeper Twiddle (voiced by Don Messick). Each escape lands him in a bigger jam — mistaken for a dragon by medievalist monster fighters, nearly used as an ingredient in a witch's potion, even working as a stunt gator in Hollywood — and he is always glad to get back to Twiddle and the zoo, at least until he wanders off again the next day.

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Disc 2 contains the remaining 26 Wally Gator cartoons, episodes 27-52, from "Gosh Zilla" through "Carpet Bragger." Easygoing Wally Gator (voiced by Daws Butler) never quite learns that there's no place like home. Curious and fond of the good life, the people-loving alligator keeps slipping out of the city zoo where he lives, usually in some ridiculous disguise, despite the best efforts of zookeeper Twiddle (voiced by Don Messick). Each escape lands him in a bigger jam — mistaken for a dragon by medievalist monster fighters, nearly used as an ingredient in a witch's potion, even working as a stunt gator in Hollywood — and he is always glad to get back to Twiddle and the zoo, at least until he wanders off again the next day.

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Master thief Lupin III steals a fortune from a casino, only to find the bills are counterfeit — and the printing plates behind them worth far more. Tracing the money to the tiny European nation of Cagliostro, he and his colorful gang clash with its mysterious count over the count's forced marriage to the last princess of Cagliostro, battling fearsome assassins and a trap-filled castle to rescue her and uncover the secret of the lost Cagliostro fortune.

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Anna and Mark's marriage has collapsed into a psychotic spiral of shouting matches, violence and self-harm. Mark assumes his wife's lover is the sinister Heinrich, but he has no idea she is actually hiding a demonic, tentacled creature in an empty apartment, visiting it there and prepared to do anything to keep it safe.

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Patrick Oliphant was a giant slayer: a fearless stunt pilot who flew dangerous maneuvers just to blow off steam, and who took on presidents, popes and the American corporate class with his pen. An Australian transplant, he spent five decades as America's most renowned and feared political cartoonist, attacking corruption, collusion, greed, hypocrisy and arrogance with biting wit and masterful draftsmanship, whatever the size or status of his targets. A Savage Art tells the story of his life and celebrated career through interviews with Pat, his family, friends and colleagues, archival footage and hundreds of his cartoons. The film also traces the history of political cartooning and the impact cartoonists have had through the ages — and argues that in today's climate of partisanship and corporate media control, voices like Oliphant's are essential to checking the powers that be.

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Anaconda is an action-packed thriller starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Academy Award winner Jon Voight and Eric Stoltz. A documentary crew headed by anthropologist Steve Cale (Stoltz) and director Terri Flores (Lopez) ventures into the Amazon — the world's most isolated jungle — in search of a lost and forgotten civilization. Early in the journey they rescue Paul Serone (Voight), a Paraguayan guide who joins the expedition; but Serone is really a poacher hunting a legendary giant snake. When he hijacks the boat and its crew to pursue the creature, he steers the expedition straight into the path of the deadly monster — a wild, scare-a-minute thrill ride.

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An unconventional, deeply committed physician works to treat patients left motionless and seemingly unreachable by the after-effects of encephalitis, the neurological illness that struck many victims in the 1920s. Based on a true story.

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After their vessel is sunk crossing the Timor Sea in World War II, a young troop of Australian soldiers fights to stay alive on a rapidly dwindling life raft. Stranded hundreds of miles from help, they face clashes among themselves, enemy attacks, and the attentions of one enormous, ravenous great white shark. A uniquely terrifying tale from Kiah Roache-Turner, director of Wyrmwood and Sting.

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Disc 1 contains Catch Me If You Can in 4K Ultra HD (the set's Blu-ray copy is Disc 2) Based on a true story: Frank W. Abagnale worked as a doctor, a lawyer, and a copilot for a major airline — all before turning 21. A master of deception and a brilliant forger, his check fraud has netted him millions, much to the frustration of the authorities. FBI Agent Carl Hanratty has made catching Frank his mission, but Frank stays one step ahead of him, taunting him into continuing the pursuit.

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Disc 1 contains Dead of Night in 4K Ultra HD (the set's Blu-ray copy is Disc 2) At an isolated country estate, a group of strangers mysteriously brought together takes turns recounting supernatural tales. A racing driver who cheats death is haunted by terrifying premonitions; a teenager's game of hide-and-seek turns macabre; a young couple's antique mirror releases a horrific power from its past; two rival golfers wager stakes that may haunt the winner; and a celebrated ventriloquist slides into madness and murder as his dummy takes on a mind of its own. And once the stories end, one final nightmare may still await them all. Ealing Studios united four directors — Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti and Robert Hamer — for a classic chiller that remains among the most influential horror films ever made.

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As the Demon Slayer Corps prepares for the coming final battle against Muzan Kibutsuji, its highest-ranking swordsmen, the Hashira, begin a rigorous training program. With faith and determination in their hearts, Tanjiro and the Hashira embark on a new chapter.

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As the Demon Slayer Corps prepares for the coming final battle against Muzan Kibutsuji, its highest-ranking swordsmen, the Hashira, begin a rigorous training program. With faith and determination in their hearts, Tanjiro and the Hashira embark on a new chapter.

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As the Demon Slayer Corps prepares for the coming final battle against Muzan Kibutsuji, its highest-ranking swordsmen, the Hashira, begin a rigorous training program. With faith and determination in their hearts, Tanjiro and the Hashira embark on a new chapter.

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Disc 2 contains Dogma on Blu-ray (the set's 4K Ultra HD copy is Disc 1) Two troublemaking angels expelled from heaven have found a way back in: passing through a newly blessed church entrance would restore their souls under Catholic dogma, but exploiting that loophole would prove God fallible — and unmake all of existence. Jesus' last descendant is enlisted by Rufus, the unknown 13th Apostle, to stop the fugitive angels, aided along the way by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob.

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Two fallen angels exiled from heaven discover a loophole in Catholic dogma: by entering a newly consecrated church and having their souls restored, they can re-enter paradise. But their success would prove God fallible and erase everything God ever created. The last living descendant of Jesus is recruited by Rufus, the unknown 13th Apostle, to stop the fugitive angels, aided along the way by two unlikely prophets, Jay and Silent Bob.