Just in time for Halloween, Criterion Collection has released a special edition of Georges Franju's 1960 horror classic Eyes Without a Face (French with English subtitles), in which Pierre Brasseur's psychopathic Doctor Génessier pursues his magnificent obsession: reconstructing his daughter's mangled face. Ultimately (and horribly), he must steal somebody else's to finish the job. Edith Scob, playing the daughter, manages to haunt despite an eerie facial prosthetic. Like an injured butterfly, she flutters through the corridors of her father's mansion, waiting with anticipation and guilt for the next victim to arrive. Features include interviews with Franju as well as his disturbingly graphic doc about the slaughterhouses of Paris, Blood of the Beasts.

Also new to DVD is the three-part sci-fi series The Martian Chronicles. Rock Hudson stars as the commanding officer of an American colonization mission in Mars. The first installment takes place circa 2004 (via 1980) and Hudson's troops are stunned to find that the red planet's inhabitants are less than overjoyed by their invasion. Somehow those silly aliens have it in their oversized craniums that humans are only good for two things: bombing each other and exploiting natural resources. Go figure. » Sarah Rowland