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For devotées of deep-dish horror fare, Savant has a new review up at film.com for Criterion's revelatory new disc of Carl Dreyer's Vampyr. I've already watched it three times, and it's still a mysterious work of art.

Online forums sometimes provide a venue for uninformed hotheads, but they also score the occasional scoop: over at the Classic Horror Film Board, frequent poster and informed author Tom Weaver has leaked the following Warner double bills as Best Buy exclusives, out just ten days from now on July 29:

Allied Artists' trippy World Without End with the Cinemascope rarity Satellite in the Sky,
Jim Danforth's stop-motion triumph When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth with Hammer's Moon Zero Two and
the xenophobic anti-Commie Battle Beneath the Earth with the Yul Brynner post-apocalyptic survival film The Ultimate Warrior.
They're said to be all 16x9 transfers with the original art on covers, and priced at $19.97. Now all we have to worry about is finding them for sale at our local Best Buys. To paraphrase a friend's email, Warner's must be being paid up front to guarantee a profit on the deal, but Best Buy neither promotes these titles or makes them easy to order online. Often, they're hard to find in the stores. What's in it for Best Buy, besides irate customers? Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson