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Looking for something good and geeky to watch? Check out this week's notable sci-fi DVD & Blu-ray releases:

9 (DVD & Blu-ray)
I never got around to watching this dark animated feature produced by Tim Burton and Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov. It features a great voice cast – Martin Landau, Elijah Wood, Crispin Glover, John C. Reilly, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Connelly – and a suitable-looking post-apocalyptic setting. Sadly, 2009 wasn't the year of the tiny stitch people, since everyone else seemed to ignore 9's theatrical run too. Judging by the sophisticated visuals in the trailer, this looks like a good Blu-ray rental.

Paranormal Activity (DVD & Blu-ray)
Director Oren Peli's freaky no-budget fright fest gets two DVD releases, a standard edition and a "Limited Collector's Edition" featuring an unrated version of the flick and an "alternative ending" (or is it the film's original ending?), plus a goofy film cell and T-shirt. The Blu-ray also features both cuts of the film.

Princess of Mars (DVD)
Peter warned you about this Asylum cash-grab presumably based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars series back in August. If you can't wait until 2012 for Pixar's version of the story, Traci Lords and Antonio Sabato Jr. stand ready to punish you for your impatience in this Z-grade straight-to-DVD affair.

Jennifer's Body (DVD & Blu-ray)
Writer Diablo Cody and director Karyn Kusama attempted to make a smart and schlocky horror movie about the strange personal relationship between two very different girls. Critics balked and audiences stayed away, but Jennifer's Body has a few things going for it. Amanda Seyfried turns in a nice performance, Megan Fox looks good in, well, almost anything, especially a cheerleading outfit, and Adam Brody is a hoot as an arrogant and murderous pop singer.

Looking for something good and geeky to watch? Here are this week's notable DVD and Blu-ray releases:

Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Series Collection
I was never a big fan of Stargate: SG-1, but its goofier, action-oriented spinoff hooked me from the start. I counted Atlantis as one of my favorite guilty pleasures for years, but I really grew to love the show's amusing -- if thinly drawn -- characters, its game cast, and its silly but somehow engaging stories and plots. It's no BSG or Firefly (what is, really?), but Atlantis delivers fine fun and fantasy while riffing on age-old sci-fi tropes. The DVD set features all five seasons and some really gorgeous packaging. Stargate fans will be glad to know the set is priced under $150 at most online retailers.

Trick 'r Treat
I haven't seen X-Men scribe Michel Dougherty's horror anthology yet, but people (and by "people" I mean "the Internet") tell me its destined to become a Halloween classic (read our own Peter Hall's review at Horror Squad.). The studio inexplicably botched the film's theatrical release, but it's available today on DVD and Blu-ray to give you fresh nightmares and put Rob Zombie to shame.

More of this week's DVD releases after the jump.