The Stranger - BLU-RAY

Ten-disc set includes The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)After escaping a date with the guillotine, Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) sets up a new lab and creates a body from cadaver parts to house the brain of his hunchbacked assistant. Unfortunately, a head injury turns the Baron's latest Inchsynthetic manInch into a murderous monster who cannot control his rage. This creepy, surprisingly compassionate entry in the Hammer series features Francis Matthews, Lionel Jeffries, and Michael Gwynne as the creature. 90 min. C/Rtg NR The Snorkel (1958)Paul Decker (Peter Van Eyck) thought he'd been ingeniously clever in fatally gassing his wife and staging it to look like suicide. His teenage stepdaughter (Mandy Miller), though, has her doubts... and the more she digs, the more he seeks an opening for a repeat performance. Effective Hammer thriller co-stars Betta St. John, Grégoire Aslan, William Franklyn. 74 min. BW/Rtg NR The Camp on Blood Island (1958)At an isolated POW internment camp in Malaya, the sadistic Japanese commandant has openly vowed to slaughter all occupants in the event of his country's surrender. With news of Allied victory imminent, a British officer (Andre Morell) acts to suppress the information from his captors, and to arm the prisoners for the inevitable. Lurid Hammer offering co-stars Carl Mohner, Walter Fitzgerald, Edward Underdown; Val Guest directs. 81 min. BW/Rtg NR Yesterday's Enemy (1959)When his detachment is cut off deep in the jungles of WWII-torn Burma, a British officer (Stanley Baker) goes to shocking and barbarous lengths to extract Japanese intel from a captured informer... and then faces long odds in his quest to spare his men similar mercy from the occupying forces. Harrowing war story from Val Guest co-stars Leo McKern, Guy Rolfe, Gordon Jackson. 95 min. BW/Rtg NR The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)Hammer Films' pulls the old swit

Eight-disc set includes Spider-Man (2002)A bite from a genetically altered arachnid turns timid high schooler Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) into a web-spinning wallcrawler who learns through tragedy to become a hero, in the hit screen rendition of Marvel Comics' flagship character. Kirsten Dunst is Parker's love interest Mary Jane Watson, and Willem Dafoe is scheming scientist Norman Osborne, who uses his technology to become the armored, bat-glider-riding Green Goblin. With Rosemary Harris, James Franco, J.K. Simmons; Sam Raimi directs. 121 min. C/Rtg PG-13 Spider-Man 2 (2004)Two years after receiving his spider-powers, life hasn't gotten any easier for college student/crimefighter Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire). With his grades slipping and his personal life at an all-time low, Parker hangs up his red and blue costume. But when New York is threatened by a new menace-tentacled terror Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina)-will Spidey return to save the day? Director Sam Raimi's smash hit sequel also stars Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons. 128 min. C/Rtg PG-13 Spider-Man 3 (2007)As Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) has his hands full dealing with life in the public eye and the effects of an alien symbiote that has attached itself to him in the form of a sleek new costume, he must also contend with a former friend (James Franco) who's adopted the mantle of the New Goblin, the granular goon the Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), and rival photographer Eddie Brock (Topher Grace), who joins with the alien to create the villainous Venom. Also stars Kirsten Dunst, J.K. Simmons, and Bryce Dallas Howard. 139 min. C/Rtg PG-13 The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)Well-received reboot for the Marvel Comics screen franchise casts Andrew Garfield as gifted but troubled teenager Peter Parker, imbued with a spider's abilities in the wake of a laboratory accident. Using his newfoun

Try as he might, timid twentysomething record store clerk Bear (Michael Johnston) couldn't get past the friend zone with co-worker and lifelong crush Nikki (Inde Navarrette). Stumbling upon a magical knickknack that promised one wish, he asked for her to fall in love with him-but as her immediate adoration began crossing into dangerous mania, he'd discover too late to be careful what you... well, you know. Acclaimed shocker also stars Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter. 108 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.