Spooky videos to treasure

It’s time for things that go bump in the night and on the screen. This year’s Halloween videos include two major classics of creepiness getting their DVD debuts from the Criterion collection. “Island of Lost Souls” (1932) is the first and by far the best version of H.G. Wells’ novel “The Island of Dr. Moreau.” Wells hated the movie for changing his story and emphasizing sex in the form of a panther woman with long nails who’s supposed to mate with the shipwrecked hero. That’s one of many amazing elements, including the atmospheric design, surprisingly grisly and disturbing moments of surgical sadism, a...