Allison Tyler stars as Angelia, a college student whose mother recently committed suicide. While in group therapy she meets Brian (Zack Stewart) who also is dealing with a recent suicide of a parent, his father. They connect immediately and are in the process of helping each other move on when they receive video tapes showing their parents in the days before they committed suicide. Someone was stalking them. And when more apparent suicides of their friends and family turn up, it is clear something is wrong and they have to figure it out before whoever is behind this comes after them.

Like I said, this is a suspense / horror film coming out direct-to-DVD the Tuesday after Halloween, so expectations are quite low. If the studio had any real faith in the movie, they would have released it before Halloween hoping to grab a few Halloween horror movie night rentals. With that in mind, the movie isn't as bad as I feared. It's still not good, as there are some serious plot holes in the movie. (For instance, it's hard to fake a suicide, especially how it is seen in the movie. If you knock a guy unconscious and stick him inside a running car in a garage, the autopsy is going to show the blow to his head. And an autopsy would be standard in a suicide.) The pacing is a little slow, while there are not as many scares as a movie like this should have. Fans of the genre might enjoy it, as long as you go in knowing that it is a suspense / horror and not torture porn or a teenage slasher. But even here, there's not enough replay value to warrant purchasing over just renting.

The only extras are some deleted scenes with audio commentary by the director, Will Gordh. There are eight of them with a total running time just under 21 minutes, most of which were cut for pacing reasons.

Night Watcher is a movie that is worth checking out for fans of the genre, barely, and the DVD is only worth a rental.

Season One lasts 39 episodes and includes three major storylines, the first of has Zorro battling against Capitán Monastario. After his defeat, Zorro must move on to stop Magistrado Galindo, who plans to rule all of California, while the season ends with Zorro matching wits with the Eagle, who was the power behind Magistrado Galindo.

Extras on this 6-disc set start with an introduction by Leonard Maltin, while the rest of the bonus features are found on disc six. This includes the first two of the hour long specials that appeared on Walt Disney Presents in 1960. The Life and Legend of Zorro is a 12-minute featurette on the creation of the character and its many incarnations in popular culture, especially the creation of this show. Finally, there's a short excerpt from the Fourth Anniversary of the Mickey Mouse Club TV show with Walt Disney discussing Zorro, which at the time had not yet aired on TV.

Season Two doesn't follow the same format, but there are more stories, most of which are a few to several episodes long. The first of these pits Zorro against bandits that were targeting supply ships that were heading into Monterey, the colonial capital. Don Diego and Bernardo stay in Monterey and Don Diego gets into a rivalry over the affections of Ana María Verdugo. Annette Funicello guest stars as Anita Cabrillo, a young girl who comes into Los Angeles to reunite with her rich father, only no one has heard of him. (This part was written for Annette Funicello as her 16th birthday gift, because she had a crush on Guy Williams.)

Extras on Season Two start with the second two hour-long movies first seen on Walt Disney Presents in 1961. Behind the Mask is an eight-minute featurette on Guy Williams, the actor who played Zorro. Finally, there's A Trip to the Archieves, which is an 11-minute featurette at some of the props from the show, as well as some of the merchandise made that are considered collector's items now.

Both DVDs have play all buttons, subtitles, and proper chapter placements.

The character of Zorro was first created by Johnston McCulley back in 1919 and was an immediate hit with the public and was first adapted for the big screen just a year later. In the years since then, more than a dozen movies have been made featuring the character, as well as more than few TV shows, and this should come as no surprise, as the character is a near perfect example cinematic, swashbuckling hero. Walt Disney Treasures - Zorro - Season One and Season Two are worth picking up, especially if you grew up on the show, but also if you are a fan of the character in general.

Wrong Turn 3 - Left for Dead - Buy from Amazon: DVD or Blu-ray
One of several late reviews that I needed to get to this week. This is not the one I as looking forward to the most.

The film follows up on the first two films, which focuses on the rampant killing of random teenagers who happen to stumble into their territory. In this installment, the victims are a group of prisoners that were being transported to a new prison. However, there are a few twists. Firstly, one of the guards is on his last day on the job before he retires; granted, he's retiring to go back to school, but it is still a massive cliché. Secondly, one of the prisoners is planning a prison break on the trip. Thirdly, one of the other prisoners is an undercover agent trying to find out who is in on the break, and who his partners are on the outside. Oh yeah, there are also a group of teenagers on vacation that we meet in the beginning, but they are mostly there to be quick victims. Mostly.

There's a card game called Grave Robbers from Outer Space that is a parody of B-movie horror films. You play characters like "The Baby Sitter", travel to locations like "The Cabin in the Woods", and get attacked by monsters like a "Masked Stalker". All of these are master clichés. I bring up this game, because one of the cards is called, "We've Seen Your Breasts, Now You Must Die!" In this movie, one of the teenage victims takes her top off early in the movie, and literally a minute later she is attacked and killed. In the card game, this is obviously meant as a joke. Here I'm not so sure. With Wrong Turn 3, I think the filmmakers were serious, which is terrible news, as clichés abound in this movie. However, this wouldn't be a terminal flaw, if the movie provided enough kills to please genre fans. It starts out well with a few quick kills in the first seven minutes, but then it slows down and the plot takes over. The plot isn't bad, and if the film was "Serial Killers vs. Inbred Mutants, who will kill off the other side first?", I could recommend the movie to fans of the genre. But there are not enough kills, the kills we see are not inventive (and there are some terrible CG effects), and the Mutants are barely side characters in the film.

Looking at the extras on the DVD and Blu-ray, there's not much to talk about. There's a three-part making featurette and two deleted scenes that run less than 90 seconds combined. There are no additional extras on the Blu-ray, nor are their presented in High Definition. Speaking of High Definition, neither the video nor the audio is anything special. In fact, cheap looking CG effects look even worse in High Definition. The only good new is the Blu-ray actually costs less than the DVD on Amazon.com.

With the release of Wrong Turn 3 - Left for Dead it is clear that the franchise has simply ran out of steam and neither the DVD nor the Blu-ray are worth picking up, even for fans of the genre. You would have to be a hardcore fan of the franchise to even bother renting this film.