By Peter Covino
Lifestyles Editor

With the lights turned down low and the hour approaching midnight, I’ve got to admit I jumped a few times watching  Insidious  at home earlier this week.

And while it may not quite live up to the billing of being the scariest horror film since Poltergeist or The Exorcist, this fright film does deliver the goods, well at least for the first hour or so.

Insidious, available in both Blu-ray and DVD (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) is big on the creep factor.

Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson play the by-now, stereotypical couple, who move into their dream home only to find, this is not home-sweet-home.

They have three small children, and at first all is well, but things deteriorate rapidly, after one of their children falls into what appears to be a coma during an exploratory trip to the attic.

Weeks go by, and the youngster is still in a coma, but now the family also is beginning to see ghostly visions and other weird manifestations in the home.

It gets so bad, the family moves out of the house, but before they are even through unpacking, they find the evil spirits have followed them.

So it wasn’t the house that was haunted after all.

They get a spiritualist type (Barbara Hershey) and her assistants to take on the house and the spirits and soon we find out there is more here than just the average haunting.

The ending here is a lot like Poltergeist and that proves to be a let down. But for much of the time, Insidious is a fairly solid entry in the horror genre.

Bonus materials include three behind-the-scene featurettes: Horror 101: The Exclusive Seminar, On Set with Insidious and Insidious Entities.

Insidious was produced by the same team responsible for Paranormal Activity and is directed by James Wan.

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Some people still avoid the water because of Jaws.

Shark Week Restless Fury (part of the Discovery Channel’s popular Shark Week series) won’t do anything to change that. But it certainly will help with the education of one of the planet’s most misunderstood creatures.

There is a lot here on two-discs for those who both like the idea of being frightened by these awesome fish of the deep, and learning more about what they are all about.

The discs contain some ten segments involving everything from a shark attack survival guide to a segment (Sharkbite Beach) where shark bite survivors share their stories about shark encounters.

The new DVD premieres just in time for the debut of the newest Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, premiering July 31.

Also recently released is the Travel Channel’s Man Vs. Food Season 3.

Maybe even a Great White would not stand a chance with Adam Richman’s appetite for food, and Richman is back with a whole new season  (20 episodes) filling his seemingly bottomless stomach.

The season’s food challenges include the five pound grilled cheese challenge at Met Bar & Grille in Cleveland, and the impossibly hot wing challenge at Chicken or the Egg in New Jersey.