Cinema Epoch, 1972: It’s intriguing to see a cast and crew of professionals doing their best to crank out an ersatz-Hammer horror potboiler that actually deals with one of the most essential concerns facing all of us—death and dying— whether we’re comfortable with it or not.

Eureka Pictures, 2001: It’s the huge cast that sells this movie, a delightfully irreverent, low-budget comedy that lovingly mocks the ’80s summer camp genre. Although critics widely panned “Wet Hot American Summer,” those of us guarding the Video Vault believe they failed to properly digest the movie’s tongue-in-cheek satiric punch.

Daiei Film Corp., 1969: Cinema is a visual medium, and few films deal so thoroughly with the phenomenon of looking and being looked at, the irony here being, of course, that the chief voyeur is blind (and it is no coincidence that the object of his obssession is a model).

Paramount Pictures, 1985: In the rural Maine town of Tarker’s Mills, the brutal decapitation of a drunk railroad worker kicks off a spree of grisly murders that leave the local authorities baffled. Two young siblings, narrator Jane and her paraplegic younger brother Marty (Haim), have reason to suspect a ferocious werewolf is behind all the bloodshed. Their ensuing investigation reveals that the pious Reverend Lowe (McGill) may have a hand (or paw) in the killings, but who will believe them?