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Here's yet another old public domain movie with so many releases to sort though it may make you want to kill a shrew. Yes, I'm talking about The Killer Shrews!

There are several stand-alone DVD's and enough various combo packs to choke a giant rodent, even a Blu collection.

I got mine in a 50 pack of “Horror Classics” which seems to be the standard print of the film.

Video:

1.33: There is no widescreen version. The picture has the typical trash and fuzziness inherent in most of these old unrestored flicks. It's pretty average as far as quality, maybe even a little above average.

Audio:

1.0 mono: The audio has the standard white noise, but at least the dialogue is 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:

I couldn't find any release that stands out among the others. They all list the same specs with no mention of any remastering, and offer no extras of any kind. There is a colorized version, though.

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.

Final Thoughts:

The 50 Horror Classics pack is a good choice for the simple fact that you'll actually get some good movies along with this one. Other than that just grab up whatever cheap bargain you happen to find.