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Not since Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Psycho have a witnessed as futile an exercise in filmmaking as this latest outing from former kings of comedy Peter and Bobby Farrelly.

Based on the hit Scandinavian crime series The Bridge, this Franco-British co-production relocates the action to the Channel Tunnel. Don't let its status as a remake put you off – this is brilliant TV that even fans of the original should enjoy thanks to the high quality of the writing, acting and production. Unfortunately, this set is compromised by only offering 'lossy' 5.1 mixes alongside its LPCM stereo tracks. At least we have no complaints about the 1080i imagery.

Stephanie Meyer didn't so much rewrite the rule book on vampires as completely throw it out of the window with her dreary saga of the love between a pouty living girl and a brooding undead boy who sparkles in the sunlight.

The Twilight Zone: Season 1 does a spectacular job of demonstrating why this 50-year old TV series had such a lasting impression on all who watched it. Hosted by creator Rod Serling, this half-hour sci-fi anthology series lived up to its promise of transporting its adult viewers to ‘a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man… This is the dimension of imagination’, one where anything could happen and usually did. What stands out today (about from how well made the show was) is how marvellously subversive it all was, mixing its thrills and chills with liberal doses of social criticism that somehow bypassed the TV censors of the time.

It hasn't received the same kind of TLC that Hammer has been giving its classic chillers on Blu-ray in the UK, but this US hi-def outing for The Vampire Lovers is still worth importing. The AVC 1.85:1 1080p transfer exhibits minor damage and sparkles, but is a vast improvement on previous home releases. The disc also includes some choice extras include a commentary and a 20-min interview with the delightful Madeline Smith. Best of all, while Shout's discs are usually locked to Region A (as the sleeve on this one also states) our Blu-ray proved to be region-free! Check before you buy!

The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season is a must-see for any fan of the undead. Coming from the same channel that gave us Mad Men and overseen by Frank ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ Darabont, this adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book is probably the best thing to feature the living dead since Romero’s original zombie trilogy. This is truly adult horror; an intelligent and intense show that focuses as much on the everyday horrors the survivors must endure as it does on flesh-eating corpses. Of course, if you are just here for the zombies, then rest that it also packs more gore and thrills into its six episodes than all of the Resident Evil films put together.

Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his band of survivors decide to set up home in an abandoned prison, but after crossing paths with 'The Governor' (David Morrissey), they soon learn that the living can be even more dangerous than the (un)dead…