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ouching down just as season two prepares to take flight, (out now, DVD) centres on the bewildered passengers of a plane to New York which vanishes to proceedings. We said: “Though there’s plenty of scope for drama here, the main characters are simply not engaging enough to make any of it particularly worth watching.” Half-hour short (out now, Blu-ray) is post-apocalyptic Euro-SF from 1962, told in a montage of frozen monochrome stills. Survivors of WWIII search for a way to defy the time barrier and ensure their future by sending a man’s soul to the past. This poetic, deeply French exercise in fourth-dimensional existentialism was a key influence on . It’s partnered with , a documentary on memory by the same director, Chris Marker. Face-eating tarantulas and a rusty nail/eyeball interface are among the gory highlights of (13 January, Blu-ray), Lucio Fulci’s surreal 1981 horror about a hotel containing a gateway to Hell. Shameless Films’s special edition has a new 2K scan. Fresh extras: interviews with the co-writer and two cast, plus four versions of the prologue – the standard sepia, the original colour footage, a new “golden toning” take, and the B&W one which was a fan-enraging error on the previous Blu-ray! That’s a nice bit of trolling right there. We said: “As close as you can come to having a very unpleasant nightmare while staying fully conscious.”

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