Some films stay with you long after you've pressed the stop button. This 1976 Spanish film (also known as Quin Puede Matar a Un Nio?) is such a film, as unflinching and unsettling as Hitchcock's The Birds. With a direct Catholic sensibility that causes you to question your mores as deeply as do the film's characters, Who Can Kill a Child? tells the tale of a couple that, on vacation, finds an island filled with strange, creepy children. Somehow, these kids have killed all the adults on the island and now have their eyes set on the couple. The DVD contains two great featurettes with the film's director and cinematographer, which answer a lot of maddening questions the viewer will have after the movie's over. Who Can Kill a Child? is long overdue in getting the recognition and praise it deserves. Louis Fowler
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Twisted Sister: The Video Years (NR)
Rhino Entertainment
Twisted Sister may have been one of the most ridiculously stupid bands to come out of the '80s, but its party appeal has kept "We're Not Gonna Take It" in rotation. What really made the guys stars were their music videos and appearances. Dressed head-to-toe in make-up and lingerie, Dee Snider and his crew made mini-movies, which were usually slapstick atrocities that had them spitting in the face (both literally and figuratively) of whatever authority was around. The Video Years puts all these MTV staples in one place, along with a rare 1982 British performance with Motorhead and the full Twisted Live concert film, which, while completely dated, is still a fun throwback. Still, this DVD is for fans only, if there are any true ones left. Louis Fowler
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Delivery (NR)
Lightyear Video
If you don't love pizza, you might as well be a communist. But what of our pizza delivery guys? How do we know what evil lurks in their hearts? That's the very basic premise of the thriller Delivery, shot for just $6,000. Montgomery Goth is a lonely, depressed pizza guy with a traumatic past. When a series of events warps Monty's already-fragile worldview, he starts a pepperoni-fueled reign of terror all over town. This could be a typical slasher flick, but director Jose Zambrano Cassella instead delivers a real, moving character study of a man pushed to the brink of loneliness and emerging with a new identity of total madness. It's also great evidence that we've got some ultra-low-budget filmmakers who are actually crafting real films with passion. Louis Fowler
