This week's new DVD & Blu-ray

Strigoi – The Undead One of the truly marvellous things about horror is that every country has their own unique collection of beasts and ghouls in their folklore. For movie fans that means we get such oddities as the long-haired ghosts of Japan's Ringu, the unusual Swedish vampires of Let The Right One In and the colossal Norwegian monsters of Troll Hunter. We also get, from Romania, the Strigoi. Part vampire, part zombie, these blood-drinking creatures are just part of the weird landscape that British director Faye Jackson pitches us into with her totally independent feature debut. It's a curious world, where a story that concerns crooked local officials and a murder mystery merges with more outlandish themes. The cheekily named Vlad, a local ex-medical student, returns to his remote town. He finds his family being swindled out of their land, but then the dead start reappearing. Jackson has her cast deliver their dialogue in English which just adds to the unusual mood, with some wonderfully dour humour. "Want me to check the video surveillance?" the local cop jokes dryly while searching a very basic farmhouse. Strigoi is released via Eureka, one of the dozens of small, labour-of-love independent film distributors who lost their stock in the riots (this release is going ahead as planned). Without such companies willing to go the extra mile we'd never get to see films like Strigoi. Not that there really are many films like Strigoi, but you get the point. DVD, Eureka La Jetée & Sans Soleil Two must-haves from director Chris Marker: the first an enigmatic time travel tale, the second an inspiring and resonant quasi-documentary. DVD, Optimum Winnie The Pooh New Pooh admirably sourced from AA Milne, with old-school animation, and narration by John Cleese. DVD, Disney The Big Lebowski Always welcome reissue (and stunning new Blu-ray) of perhaps the most re-watchable movie ever. Blu-ray & DVD, Universal Scream 4 The Scream-iest Scream yet, a horror film that thinks horror films are stupid. Hey, wait a minute... Blu-ray & DVD, EV