DVD previews: 'Wish I Was Here,' 'Deliver Us From Evil'

Here's a look at DVDS coming out Tuesday, Oct. 28:

"Wish I Was Here" (R, 120 minutes, Universal): Billed as a comedy, the film has its funny moments, but don't be fooled: It's a tear-jerker. Ten years after "Garden State," actor and writer Zach Braff explores another infinite abyss in this story of a father trying to stay afloat during a chaotic time. For all its fairy tale reveries and songs from the Shins, the movie digs up real emotions. Contains language and sexual content. Extras include deleted scenes, a "Directing While Acting" featurette, outtakes and commentary.

"Deliver Us From Evil" (R, 118 minutes, Sony): Director and co-writer Scott Derrickson tries way too hard to crank up the tension, setting the entire film in what looks like monsoon season in the Bronx, and ensuring that no scene is lit by more than a police-issue Maglite. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer seems to think he's making an R-rated version of a "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, ratcheting up his signature mix of supernatural hoo-ha and comedy with violence and gore. True to form, it's a loud and hysterical effort, where quiet and creepy would have better served the material. Contains violence and language. Extras include commentary and a making-of featurette. Also, on Blu-ray: an all-access look at creating a demonic presence, behind-the-scenes breakdown and interviews.

"Child of God" (R, 104 minutes, Well Go USA): "He was of German and Irish bloods. His name was Lester Ballard - a child of God, much like yourself, perhaps," the narrator Sheriff Fate (Tim Blake Nelson) says in the opening minutes of this spare and horrific portrait of depravity. Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's 1973 novel by actor-filmmaker James Franco (who co-wrote the screenplay with Vince Jolivette), "Child of God" is shot without bells and whistles. Franco's hand-held camerawork draws the story forward as unfussily as a shepherd leads a sheep, and yet with a kind of ghastly grandeur. As Lester, an angry, violent homeless man who may be borderline developmentally disabled, mad, or both, Scott Haze is both riveting and revolting. Contains violence, nudity, sex and obscenity. No special features.

Also: "Life of Crime," "The Prince," "Behaving Badly," "The Mystery of Happiness" (Spain), "One Day Pina Asked" (France), "Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story," "Plastic," "Bound By Flesh," "Running From Crazy," "The Complete Jacques Tati," "Beethoven's Treasure Tail," "Free Fall," "Grace: The Possession," "The Vanishing" (1988), "A Star for Christmas," "America: Imagine the World Without Her," "LFO" (Sweden), "Nightbreed: The Director's Cut," "Beneath," "Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings," "The Reckoning," "In Search of Ancient Mysteries" (1973), "Thomas & Friends: The Christmas Engines" and "Care Bears: Belly Badge Rock."

Television series: "WKRP in Cincinnati: The Complete Series," "Masterpiece Mystery!: Death Comes to Pemberley," "Vera Set 4," "Accused Series 1 & 2" and "Lovejoy Series 3."