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Like so many of these public domain movies there so many different releases of Attack of the Giant Leeches they could choke a giant leech.

There are numerous stand-alone DVD's and even more combos with a variety of other movies. I even found a Blu multi-pack. Just make sure you're getting the black-&-white classic rather than the newer one.

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

Video:

N-A widescreen: The non-anamorphic widescreen image bugs me. It's presented in a 1.33 ratio but within that the image is matted to be widecreen so the effect is like watching the film through a window, at least on a widescreen TV it is. Despite that, the quality is quite decent for a movie of this age. It's relatively clean though it's still a bit fuzzy and contains some trash.

Audio:

1.0 genuine mono: The same applies to the audio, it's solid for such an old film. It's easy to make out all the dialogue.

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 Attack of the B's Blu collection seems to be part of a slowly growing trend (or perhaps attempt at a trend) of using Blu's storage capacity to fit a lot of movies on a single disc. 18 public domain films (some very common, some fairly rare) reside on a single disc in standard 480i definition (no HD here). The best I can say for these is that they seem to occasionally present the original image ratios and may be very slightly improved quality over some of the cheaper DVD budget packs. Otherwise they offer nothing special aside from being exceptionally self-space friendly. They offer no extras and can be somewhat hard to find.

There's no sense in me talking to you about other specific releases because they all look to be exactly the same. I can't find a single one that stands out as potentially being different from what I've already described. The only difference is that most specs list it as being in the 1.33 full frame ratio while my copy is widescreen (if you can really call it that).

Final Thoughts:

The 50 pack offers a version of the film that is not only acceptable but actually probably as good as you're going to get without someone putting it through a remastering process which I haven't seen happen yet. I can tell you that the 50 pack is a bargain, but I'm sure some of those other copies will be decent as well.