Brand new factory sealed dvd double feature is Out Of Print (OOP) in all formats. Neither film in this set is being manufactured anymore as a stand-alone either.

EVIL: A Psychologist (Richard Crenna) and his wife (Joanna Pettet) buy an apparently haunted house which they intend to turn into a drug-rehabilitation center. Although a friendly spirit tries to warn Pettet of the dangers ahead, the sceptical Crenna barges on regardless until he unwittingly removes a symbolic cross that locks the evil in the basement.

First thing they know, people and animals are going crazy at the height of electric storms, the house trembles as though it were 1906 again and there's a corpse in the dumbwaiter. The evil goes on the rampage, killing several of his patients and eventually he encounters the Devil himself.

An extremely fast-paced, tightly constructed film in the tradition of, but far superior to, 'Legend of Hell House', the film milks the haunted house sub-genre for all its worth. Effectively blending suspense and horror with credible psychoanalizing (Crenna's scepticism introduces a rational/supernatural opposition reminiscent of 'Night of the Demon').

TWICE DEAD: A superior variation of 'Last House On the Left' with a Hollywood ghost-story twist. A downwardley mobile family move into the decaying mansion where a 1930's actor committed suicide; the neighborhood has declined too, and a gang of violent punks loiter outside, threatening to rape Jill Whitlow and kill her brother Scott, while the ghost protects the family.

In a three-act structure: the film sets up its conflicts, then has the gang lured to the house by Scott (a drama major who has become obsessed with the '30s actor's famous trickery) and terrorized by bogus horror stunts, with a second go-round as the gang return to act bloody revenge only to have the ghost dispose of them through genuine supernatural intervention.

The contrast between jokey mock horrors (an 'Alien'-style rubber phallus exploding from a thug's crotch) and real deaths (a couple fried during sex by a faulty electric blanket) is effective, allowing the film to pull off a smooth mood switch between light and sombre.