Suitably re-released around Halloween, this classic John Carpenter ghost story has rightly assumed something of cult status of late.

In the accompanying documentary, Carpenter says it was something of a critical flop when first released in 1979, partly because people were expecting more blood and evisceration.

But what it lacks in ketchup, it certainly makes up for with superb Hitchcockian suspense as a boat-load of long-dead sailors return to wreak their wicked revenge on the coastal town complicit in their murder 100 years before.

It's a film with some wonderfully memorable scenes: Jamie Leigh Curtis unwisely standing with her back to a cadaver in the morgue and Father Malone meeting his nemesis in the church are two which spring to mind.

The additional material includes another documentary made in 1980, the usual trailers and outtakes and a hilarious "storyboard to film comparison".

The movie was partly inspired by a trip Carpenter and his writing partner Debra Hill made to a foggy Stonehenge.

A nice little package if you're a horror fan.

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