Horror
Rod Lott
You don’t have to know who Coffin Joe is to take in “Embodiment of Evil,” but it sure as hell helps — and let’s make that Hell with a capital H.

Comedy
Rod Lott
The self-proclaimed mistress of the dark’s second movie, 2001’s “Elvira’s Haunted Hills,” gets another DVD release in a “special enhanced edition,” and that wording should give you a clue as to the comedy’s wavelength of humor.