Warner Bros. has released Zach Creggers’ Weapons on 4K UHD as well as on standard Blu-ray.

The intriguing 2025 horror movie is both original and derivative of classic horror films of the 1960s fromVillage of the Damned to Rosemary’s Baby, the former in the setup of the film and the latter in its most talked about performance.

17 out of 18 students in a Pennsylvania teacher’s third grade class disappear at 2:17 a.m. Suspicion falls on the teacher played by Julia Garner as well as the lone student in her class who doesn’t disappear played by newcomer Cary Christopher. Becoming involved in the search for answers are Josh Brolin as a concerned parent of one the missing boys, Alden Ehrenreich as a local cop, Benedict Wong as the school principal, and Austin Abrams as a local drug addict.

Adding a bit of levity to the proceedings before showing her darker side, Amy Madigan channels Ruth Gordon as the witch next door in Rosemary’s Baby to great effect.

In an era in which there’s another horror film around every corner, this one stands out.

Warner Archive, just in time for Halloween, has released a 4K UHD upgrade of 1957’s The Curse of Frankenstein on three discs.

The British horror film ushered in the second wave of big box-office classic horror films that the filmgoing public hadn’t seen since Universal’s reign of the genre in the early 1930s with Dracula, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, and The Bride of Frankenstein.

1958’s follow-up release of Horror of Dracula is better and scarier, but without The Curse of Frankenstein, the first to star Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, that probably would not have gotten made.

Cushing and Lee star as Victor Frankenstein and his monster in this with Hazel Court as Elizabeth, Robert Urquhart as Paul Kempe, Melvin Hayes as young Victor, Valerie Gaunt as Justine, and Paul Hardmuth as Professor Bernstein.

The film is shown in three aspects ratios, two on the first disc and one on the second.

On the first disc are the UK theatrical ratio of 1:6:1 with a newly recorded 2025 commentary by Kim Newman, Barry Forshaw, and Stephen Jones, and the open matte ration of 1:37:1 with a previously released 2022 commentary by Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby.

Also included are three documentaries and two trailers.

On the second disc is the U.S. theatrical aspect ratio of 1:85:1 with two commentaries, a newly recorded 20025 one with Heidi Honeycutt and Toby Ross, and the previously released 2020 commentary with Dr. Steve Hoberman and Constantine Nasr.

Also included are seven documentaries.

The third disc, which is a standard Blu-ray, features seven more documentaries.

Also newly released by Warner Archive are Blu-ray upgrades of 1951’s The Racket, 1952’s Lovely to Look At, and 1959’s A Summer Place.

The Racket, directed by John Cromwell, is a remake of the 1928 Oscar nominated film of the same name. Both were produced by Howard Hughes.

The original film was based on a Broadway play that starred Cromwell as a police captain and Edward G. Robinson as an unnamed caricature of Al Capone in roles played by Thomas Meighan and Louis Wolheim in the 1928 film and Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in the 1951 film.

The femme fatale singer in the stage version was named Irene Hayes, but the filmmakers thought it would be funny to change her name to Helen Hayes for the 1928 film in which she was played by Marie Prevost. For the 1951 version, in which she was played by Lizabeth Scott, the character was renamed Irene Hayes. Another change was that Ryan’s character was no longer a caricature of Al Capone.

Eddie Muller’s commentary from the film’s 2016 DVD is included as an extra.

Mervyn LeRoy’s Lovely to Look At is a remake of 1935’s Roberta, which began as a novel and then as a celebrated musical by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach.

The 1935 version starred Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Fred Astaire, and Ginger Rogers and featured such songs as “Smoke Get in Your Eyes”, “You’re Devastating”, “Yesterdays”, “ I Won’t Dance” and “Lovely to Look At” which was written for the film and received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.

The somewhat revised 1952 technicolor version starred Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Red Skelton, Ann Miller, and Marge and Gower Champion.

It’s okay, but Grayson lacks the emotional pull of Dunne’s heartbreaking version of “Smoke Get in Your Eyes” and the Champions, though excellent dancers, don’t quite measure up to Astaire and Rogers’ singing and dancing to “I Won’t Dance”.

Delmer Daves’ A Summer Place was a huge box-office hit in 1959 thanks to the best-selling theme song and its steamy storyline in which teenagers Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue fall in love at the same time as her father (Richard Egan) and his mother (Dorothy McGuire) rekindle their long-ago romance while her mother (Constance Ford) plots and his father (Arthur Kennedy) drinks his life away.

Dee looks lovely, Donahue tries but can’t act, Egan is Egan, and McGuire looks like a saint even while carrying on an extramarital affair, but the best acting is done by nasty Ford and wisecracking Kennedy.

Monterey, California, filling in for the Maine Coast, has never looked better.

Happy viewing.