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The Amazing Mr. X has an amazing number of releases available. (Don't you just love how I reuse words from the titles? I hope so because I don't play to stop anytime soon).

There are a number of DVD releases that each appears to be just another fly-by-night company getting money for public domain movies that you could burn to DVD yourself with the right software. There are a few multi-movie packs out there as well. For the most part these all give the same specs. There are a few exceptions: there's a 3D offering, an “enhanced” disc, and a remastered release under the title of “The Spiritualist.”

I got mine in a pack of 50 “Horror Classics.”

Video:

1.33: This is the TV standard “full-frame” ratio. The image is dark at times and can be trashy. It's a bit fuzzy and grainy as well. Some of the extremely dark ghostly scenes come across far better than I would have expected even though some of the earlier scenes are far too dark.

Audio:

1.0 mono: The audio occasionally pops and skips and is slightly low level, but it is mostly clean and clearly understandable.

Packaging:

This particular disc is housed in a cardboard sleeve contained in a Velcro-fastened box. You can read about the set as a whole in great detail in the Horror Classics (50 pack) guide.

Extras:

There are no extras of any kind.

Other Editions:

The 3D disc seems to me to be too limited technologically to be worth the effort. This was not a 3D movie, and the disc doesn't offer anything else enticing.

The “enhanced” DVD gives no details on what exactly being “enhanced” entails.

The DVD entitled “The Spiritualist” is the only one that offers any noteworthy remastering. Unfortunately I can't tell you if it is truly all that great or not. It doesn't offer anything else of note.

Beyond that, all releases list the same specs of 1.33 video and mono audio, and none make any mention of any extras.

Final Thoughts:

This is a film I would consider buying a better edition of, but only “The Spiritualist” DVD appears to offer any substantial upgrade from the 50 pack version I already have. Unfortunately, that one is too costly for what it offers. Unless you decide you want to drop the cash on that version just go for the best deal you can find.