The Patriot - DVD

Written and directed by InchAlienInch scripter Dan O'Bannon, this ghoulish shocker serves up heaping helpings of gory terror and camp humor. A toxic gas re-animates a dead body which, once it's remains are burned, creates acid rain that turns a cemetery full of corpses into monstrous zombies with (in the first film to feature it) a taste for human brains. Thom Matthews, James Karen, Clu Gulager, and Linnea Quigley star. 91 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English. Three-disc set.

Director Francis Ford Coppola's landmark adaptation of Mario Puzo's best-selling novel of Mafia life in 1940s New York earned Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor. Marlon Brando stars as aging mob boss Don Vito Corleone, who weighs the appointment of a rightful successor to head his Inchfamily businessInch from among his three sons hot-headed first-born son Sonny (James Caan), weak-minded Fredo (John Cazale), and college-educated war hero Michael (Al Pacino). With Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Richard Castellano. 177 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Dolby Digital Restored mono, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles English, French, Spanish; audio commentary by Coppola.

Six-disc set includes Batman Begins (2005)Christopher Nolan's reinvention of the Batman saga follows Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), enraged by parents' murder, to Tibet, where he trains with a ninja clan led by the mysterious Ra's Al Ghul. Returning to Gotham, Wayne takes on the mantle of the Dark Knight and, with the help of stalwart butler Alfred (Michael Caine) and honest cop Sgt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman), wages war on the city's lot of criminals. With Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Morgan Freeman, and Cillian Murphy. 140 min. C/Rtg PG-13 The Dark Knight (2008)With Gotham City held in the grip of organized crime, Batman (Christian Bale), Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman), and D.A. Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) vow to clean up the streets. But their plan doesn't allow for the Joker (Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner Heath Ledger), a psychotic, clown-faced criminal whose unbridled chaos results in Dent's transformation into the disfigured, dual-minded Two-Face. Christopher Nolan's blockbuster follow-up also stars Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman. 153 min. C/Rtg PG-13 The Dark Knight Rises (2012)Eight years after Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) hung up his cape and cowl, Gotham City's crime rate is at an all-time low. That is, until a powerful terrorist leader called Bane (Tom Hardy) arrives to hold the entire city hostage. Now, it's up to Batman, Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman), young cop John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and the sleek and sexy Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) to bring Bane down. Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman also star in the final chapter in Christopher Nolan's successful saga. 165 min. C/Rtg PG-13 Widescreen; Soundtrack English.