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25 September 2011 11:00 PM, PDT | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »

Now that our new house is settling, we wanted to bring back our weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Releases posts. We are calling this weekly post “Home Invasion”. If you plan on purchasing these items via Amazon, all you need to do is click on the buttons provided or on the artwork and not only do you get the same price you normally would with Amazon, but you help us out a little bit as well – which is all we ask because this list does take some time to put together.

All Descriptions are from Amazon.com unless otherwise noted. We have excluded the Netflix code on this particular post. This is due to all of the changes with Netflix and their DVD mailing program. If you want us to include the code in future Home Invasion posts, where you just click a button to add it to your queue, leave us a comment below. »

- Andy Triefenbach

15 June 2011 4:18 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »

Criterion will release The Phantom Carriage (or Körkarlen in its native Swedish), the 1920 silent film by the acknowledged father of Swedish cinema, Victor Sjöström, on Blu-ray and DVD on Sept. 27.

Death's chariot awaits at the stroke of midnight in The Phantom Carriage.

Mixing drama, fantasy and horror, the movie concerns an abusive alcoholic (portrayed by Sjöström himself) who takes to heart a legend that claims that the last person to die on New Year’s Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death’s chariot and work to collect fresh souls for the next year.

Based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, the innovative silent classic is filled with groundbreaking-for-their-time special effects. It’s also reportedly the film that inspired Ingmar Bergman to get into the business of making movies (which worked out pretty well for him).

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- Laurence

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