Watership Down is a rather faithful adaptation of Richard Adams’ book, as well as a milestone work of independent animation.

Helmed by none other than Bill Condon, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh is full of “gotcha” loud-noise scares so heavy-handed and prevalent they betray the film’s at-times’ successful atmospheric Southern Gothic tone.

Upon its release in 2000, Supernova had a legendary, infamously rocky production history. Behind-the-scenes creators included uncredited directors Walter Hill (as Thomas Lee) and Francis Ford Coppolla, coming aboard at different times to “rescue” what studio heads considered a rapidly sinking ship. Just as they did with their jaw-dropping Maniac Cop 3 making-of, Shout Factory’s Supernova featurette pulls no punches; the included mini-doc further establishes the company’s Scream Factory sub-division releases as valuable slices of genre film history.

Geraldine Jeffers hitches a train to Palm Beach, where she plans to get a divorce and grant her husband, Tom, his financial freedom—and find herself a new, wealthier husband willing to take her as a trophy wife.

Three Sides Live, reissued here for the first time on Blu-Ray and stand-alone DVD, stands as the ultimate mid-period Genesis show.

In Safe, director Todd Haynes and star Julianne Moore created a perfect film, and achieved a collaborative symbiosis for the ages. The sturdy folks at the Criterion Collection heve saved the film from relative obscurity with a pristine renovation and repackaging that highlights an irreproachable artistry and singular vision.

Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits belongs to the same school of batshit crazy, fantasy-driven kids’ movies that only could have been made in the 1980s.

The Night Porter‘s subject matter—a romantic relationship between a camp survivor and one of her Nazi oppressors—was controversial in 1974, and feels just as taboo today.

It Happened One Night was in many ways a predecessor to the modern romantic comedy, and its dynamics will still feel familiar to the current-day viewer.