Mutants and demons and Elvis, oh my!

The week’s mainstream DVD offerings include “Race to Witch Mountain,” “Obsessed” and “The Soloist,” but I always look for the special stuff. Here are some, uh, suggestions.

“Elvis Presley: The 4 Ed Sullivan Shows: The Performances”: Not sure why these videos are being released just now, but they’re bound to thrill Elvis fans. They include his Sullivan show spots, including the one on Jan. 6, 1957, performance when Sullivan – for publicity if nothing else – had the camera operators shoot Presley from the waist down. Included are other home videos, such as an Aug. 6, 1955, show.

“Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Second Season”: If you haven’t caught any of this low-key HBO comedy series, which stars Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, you might want to give it a try. It’s big on irony.

“Nature’s Grave”: Ever wonder what happened to Jim Caviezel, the actor whose career went off track after he starred as Jesus in 2004’s “The Passion of the Christ”? He’s been reduced to making film such as this, which was released theatrically in 2008 under the title “Long Weekend.” He stars with Claudia Karvan as a husband-wife duo whose attempt to put some excitement back into their marriage turns into “a horrific battle for their lives (when) they unknowingly stumble onto an untouched beach that doesn’t take kindly to human intruders.”

“Mutant Chronicles”: Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman and John Malkovich star in this adaptation of what Wikipedia calls “a pen-and-paper role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world.” Here’s what the Village Voice has to say about what passes for a plot, which starts out with a civil war between various human groups: “Amidst the feud – an overeager production designer’s World War I–meets-steampunk hell of grimy noir hues and candy-apple CGI plasma splatters – a long-buried seal is accidentally broken, releasing a near-infallible horde of Necromutants, former humans with bone scimitars for arms and a zombie-like bloodlust.” Not bad, but even that seems tame compared to this …

“Demon Warriors”: This comes straight from OnVideo.org, “A police investigator learns of a group of invincible warriors who must die and be resurrected to achieve superpowers; he decides to infiltrate the group but becomes seduced by his new powers and immortality.” Oh hell yeah!