ROUND UP

(out now, 4K/Blu-ray), Tim Burton’s madcap early effort, sees a ghostly couple summoning “bio-exorcist” Betelgeuse (a wired Michael Keaton) to scare off their home’s and goth. The Blu-ray extras are carried over: three episodes of the spin-off toon; a music-only track; trailer. An HMV-exclusive Cine Edition comes with a poster and patch. Whoop. We reviewed the surreally nightmarish Swedish/Danish film (out now, Blu-ray/VOD) in issue 325, when it was set for theatrical release, but Covid-19 put paid to that. It follows a bickering couple out camping, who are attacked by a freakish fairytale trio – over and over, style. We said: “Some will find both its repetitiousness and enigmatic approach deeply frustrating. However, those willing to surrender to the film’s rhythms should find it disturbingly eerie.” Finally, (out now, VOD/download – pictured) adapts an enigmatic six-page China Miéville story, in which a stag with flaming antlers appears on a council estate. Writer/director Tom Harberd’s moody 24-minute short effectively brings this startling vignette to life, and has a stab at articulating what it might mean. Samuel Anderson (’s Danny Pink) is appealingly soulful as the sensitive hero of this strange fable.