Dracula - BLU-RAY

After starring in the title role on Broadway, Bela Lugosi became forever identified with the bloodsucking count in director Tod Browning's Gothic film adaptation. Follow Dracula from his Transylvanian castle to England as he ensnares the unwary in his diabolical schemes. With Dwight Frye, Helen Chandler, Edward Van Sloan. 75 min. Standard; Soundtracks English DTS HD stereo Master Audio, Spanish DTS mono, French DTS mono, German DTS mono, Italian DTS mono; Subtitles English (SDH), Spanish, French, Mandarin, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish; audio commentary; featurettes; revised version with Philip Glass score; theatrical trailers. Also includes the 1931 Spanish-language version starring Carlos Villarías. Two-disc set.

Bram Stoker's bloodsucker legend is updated to contemporary times, as Professor Van Helsing and his assistant try to track down the ages-old Count, freed after a century of captivity and rejuvenated after leaving a slew of victims in his path. Their search takes them to America, where Dracula seeks to avenge himself by claiming Van Helsing's estranged daughter. Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Jeri Ryan and Gerard Butler star. 99 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack English.

Shot on videotape and originally aired on ABC's late-night series Wide World Mystery, these two features exquisitely demonstrate Dan Curtis' gift for blending 19th-century literature with psychological horror. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, a petulant young Adonis (Shane Briant) indulges in the most decadent pursuits that 19th-century society can provide. While Dorian seems impervious to age and free of guilt for his transgressions, his moral disintegration is foretold in the portrait hidden in his study. In a haunting and sexually-charged adaption of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, Lynn Redgrave stars as Miss Cubberly, a governess hired to tend two orphans (Jasper Jacob, Eva Griffith) in a country manor. She believes the estate is haunted by the spirits of a former governess and her lover, and her pursuit of the truth leads Miss Cubberly to the brink of insanity.