The collector-friendly fiends at Anchor Bay Entertainment are furnishing fright-film fans with a fresh quartet of cult terror titles in digitally remastered deluxe collector's editions tagged at $14.98 each. After surfacing in ragged condition on several low-rent labels, Alfred ("Tanya's Island") Sole's 1976 Alice, Sweet Alice receives the royal treatment here - an uncut 108-minute transfer featuring three minutes of "extras" and supervised by archivist/auteur William ("Maniac Cop") Lustig.

Sole's eerie indie stars Paula Sheppard as a disturbed tyke suspected of strangling her younger sister (Brooke Shields, in her film debut). The same label lavishes similar care on Larry ("It's Alive") Cohen's 1976 exercise in cosmic weirdness God Told Me to (a k a Demon), wherein NYC cop Tony LoBianco's obsessive inquiry into an outbreak of random, seemingly religious-themed slayings brings him face to face with a far odder, almost "X-Files"-styled plot; the late comic Andy Kaufman debuts as a doomed patrolman. George Romero's modern vampire variation Martin and the Italo zombie sequel Return of the Blind Dead complete the fearsome foursome, available now in area vid stores.

KILLER THRILLERS

In the thriller arena, a pair of presidential paranoia exercises arrive in early August: Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane and Alan Alda in Murder at 1600 (Warner), followed by the low-profile Shadow Conspiracy (Hollywood Pictures), starring Charlie Sheen, Linda Hamilton and Donald Sutherland. Elsewhere, James Garner and Marlee Matlin top-line in the made-for-cable suspenser Dead Silence (HBO); Paramount puts out the medical nail-biter Contagious, with Lindsay Wagner, Elizabeth Pena and Tom Wopat; and the erotic thriller Exit in Red, starring Mickey Rourke; and New Yorker Video introduces Claude Chabrol's French suspense outing La Ceremonie. All are priced for rental.

LIBERTY BELLE

Liberty Home Video (800/331-4077) springs a treat for vintage cliffhanger buffs by debuting the fetching Frances Gifford in the 1941 Edgar Rice Burroughs-based 15-chapter serial Jungle Girl ($29.99). The same label also issues a pair of cult-fright faves: Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace ($14.99), with Cameron Mitchell, and EvaBartok and Cornel Wilde in the hitherto elusive made-for-TV terror tale Gargoyles ($19.99).

IN LIVID COLOR

Speaking of George Romero (as we were a few paragraphs back), Best Film & Video (800/527-2189) intros a digitally colorized edition of that Pittsburgh-based frightmeister's 1968 scare classic, Night of the Living Dead. Now "Dead" heads have their choice of the original black-and-white flick, Tom Savini's pale 1990 color remake or Best's colorized original. Shop and compare!

HEP "KATZ"

In a lighter vein, Rhino releases a brace of double-episode cassettes ($12.95 each) of Comedy Central's cult cartoon series Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist. The two tapes feature animated appearances by such notable "patients" as comics Gary Shandling, Ray Romano, Jon Stewart, Judy Tenuta and Emo Phillips.

PHAN MAIL

Dear Phantom: Where can I buy the movie Class of 1984? I believe Michael J.

Fox was in it. - Rick Millman, Freehold, N.J.

A: Originally out on the Vestron label, Class is no longer in circulation, but Video Vault (800/VAULT-66) has copies available on a mail-order rental basis. Michael Fox (before he added the J.) plays a student. A few requested cassettes we've uncovered: Unknown Island, Frank Buck in Tiger Fangs and Tim Moore in Boy! What a Girl! (Foothill Video, $7.95 each, 805/726-7533); the martial-arts compilation film Cinema of Vengeance (Luminous Film & Video, $25.00, 516/289-1644); The Old Man and the Sea (Warner, $19.95) and Bob Hope in They Got Me Covered (HBO, $14.95), from Critic's Choice Video (800/367-7765).