‘The Ring’ adds few new wrinkles

The Ring

Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson

DreamWorks, $15 for VHS;

$20 for DVD

Gore Verbinski (“Mouse Hunt”) directed this silly but eerie psychological thriller about a video that comes with a curse: Anybody who watches it dies a week later. Watts plays a reporter who tracks the tape down and views it, knowing she has only seven days to unlock its mystery and save herself. Unfortunately, the only extra of note that appears on both the DVD and VHS is a 15-minute film created by Verbinski that cleverly mixes deleted scenes with footage from the mysterious video.

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The Osbournes -- The First Season

Ozzy, Sharon, Jack

and Kelly Osbourne

Miramax, $30

*#@%$*#! The entire first season of the Emmy Award-winning MTV reality series starring the befuddled heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne, his manager-wife Sharon and their teenage children, Jack and Kelly, has arrived in a two-disc set, available in the censored TV version and a version that allows the viewer to choose bleeped or unbleeped playback. There are also deleted scenes, lengthy interviews with the unconventional family, a boring photo gallery and an equally snoozy outtake reel. Another misfire is Ozzy’s 10 commandments of life. On the plus side are the Ozzy translator, which provides subtitles for his mangled, muffled English, and audio commentary from Sharon and Jack.

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Star Trek IV -- The Voyage Home

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy

Paramount, $25

The special editions of the first three films based on the “Star Trek” TV series have been fun-filled and informative digital excursions, and the two-disc set of this 1986 adventure -- one of the best and most accessible of the “Trek” features -- is equally a kick.

The first disc includes breezy conversation between Shatner and Nimoy, who also directed this funny film, which has the “Trek” crew going back in time to modern-day San Francisco, and text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda, co-authors of “The Star Trek Encyclopedia.”

The second disc features a nifty featurette in which three scientists talk about the possibility of time travel. It also offers interviews with several actresses who played Capt. Kirk’s love interests either on the TV series or in one of the films. There are other short features on the creation of the whales used in the film, a sweet tribute to “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry by his son, a storyboard and production gallery.

-- Susan King