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• Between Midnight and Dawn (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/06/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Genre stalwarts Edmund O'Brien (711 Ocean Drive), Mark Stevens (The Snake Pit), and Gale Storm (The Underworld Story) join forces in Between Midnight and Dawn, an influential film noir tale of police on the beat. Childhood friends Rocky and Dan grew up to be Los Angeles patrolmen, cleaning up the streets of the city as they flirt with radio operator Kate. The pair then become engaged in a battle of wills with ruthless racketeer Garris, who escapes their clutches and swears violent revenge... Helmed by Gordon Douglas (I Was a Communist for the FBI), Between Midnight and Dawn is exciting hybrid of stylised film noir and realistic police procedural. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with author and entertainment journalist Bryan Reesman (2021) Categorically Dependable (2021, 16 mins): writer and critic Kim Newman assesses the long, eclectic career of director Gordon Douglas Dizzy Detectives (1943, 19 mins): comedy short starring the Three Stooges in which the trio play police officers on the trail of a psychopath and a criminal mastermind Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• 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