New movies to be released this week on DVD

Baghead (2008) *** Though its scares are scarce, "Baghead" provides what nine out of 10 dead-teenagers movies lack: specifically, a realistic sense of character that gives moviegoers a reason to identify with the would-be victims.

The Duchess (2008) **½ Fans of period drama will find things to like about this movie; it’s not as ludicrous as "The Other Boleyn Girl," for instance, and it’s not overly long or ponderous.

Eagle Eye (2008) *½ Idiotic, if reasonably kinetic, this movie — in which Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan spend the better part of two hours urgently answering phone calls and dodging hurtling machinery — is every bit as over-edited as it is under-thunk.

Ghost Town (2008) *** Once Tea Leoni’s character comes on the scene, the movie starts to bubble along nicely. Not just because Leoni is a screwball heroine worth, er, screwballing — at 42, she’s more attractive than ever — but because her character is given a weight and texture that’s rare in a movie of this type.

Savage Grace (2008) ** The film includes graphic omnisexual and incestuous couplings and has an air of free-floating dread but, especially given its subject matter, it’s oddly vacuous — it rarely takes hold emotionally even when its people hit bottom with a resounding thud.