True arbiters of good taste know that there is nothing better than sitting down with a glass of fine Merlot to watch a made-for-TV horror movie from the ’70s. Among the very best are Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, The House That Would Not Die and Where Have All the People Gone.

Add to that list The Norliss Tapes, created by cult icon Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker). This 1973 oddity was intended as a pilot for a series, but the network suits passed on it (fools!). Roy Thinnes plays David Norliss, an investigative reporter intent on blowing the lid off various mysterious occult phenomena. Enter ’70s goddess Angie Dickinson, who’s a wealthy widow dying to know why the corpse of her husband has gone psycho and is attacking her. The great hook behind the whole movie is that Norliss has disappeared and his agent has to figure out what happened to him by listening to the tapes of evidence he’s left behind. Perfectly stupid creepiness.

Speaking of the ’70s, Paramount has just released a new-and-improved, special-edition, deluxe, ultimate, quintessential, must-have-until-the-next-special-edition-DVD-comes-out version of Grease. There are sing-along features and never-before-seen making-of recollections by both John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, but the best part is the packaging: the DVD is wrapped in a mini black leather coat. Clearly Paramount doesn’t overestimate the intelligence of the average Grease fan: the packaging includes this warning about the letterbox widescreen version: “The black bars on the top and bottom of the screen are normal.” —Matthew Hays