Halloween (Collector's Edition)

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The Night She Came Home!! – Wonderful feature following Jamie Lee Curtis as she attends a Halloween convention as the star attraction. Journey of the Mask (2160p, SDR, 2:33): Building the iconic mask for the film. Discussions also include the mask's origins and the that propels him to stalk Laurie Strode, the people closest to her, and those who stand in his way.

This, in part, is due to the higher resolution, but also to the HDR and WCG which together add a depth to the picture not seen before. Colours, the most controversial of previous alterations, have been toned down, restoring the blue hues and removing the hotter colours; it now looks far closer to the original and supposedly has Dean Cundey’s and John Carpenter’s seal of approval. Flesh tones are cooler but still retain a natural hue. Greens and reds are also cooler. Blues have been brought out, so that at night the image is sharp! least resistance through its now forty-year history with various stabs at creativity but largely selling audiences on a name and an expressionlessHalloween was shot digitally using a combination of Arri Alexa Mini and SXT cameras with a resolution of 2.8K, but finished as a 2K DI, which has used here for this Ultra HD Blu-ray release. The disc presents an up-scaled 3840 x 2160p resolution image in the widescreen 2.39:1 aspect ratio, and uses 10-bit video depth, a Wide Colour Gamut (WCG), High Dynamic Range, and is encoded using the HEVC (H.265) codec HDR10. We reviewed the Region free UK Ultra HD Blu-ray release of Halloween on a Panasonic 65DX902B Ultra HD 4K TV with a Panasonic DMP-UB400 Ultra HD Blu-ray player. from the variously tentacled branches subsequent films have created. Rather than focus on Michael as an unstoppable entity, the character is The Legacy of Halloween (2160p, SDR, 4:24): Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, David Gordon Green, and Jason Blum sit down

The biggest omission, and one that was not likely to be included anyways, is all of the unearthed camera negative footage from the film, which was discovered in the mid-2000s by Don May, Jr. of Synapse Films and Billy J. Kirkus. That footage is said to consist mostly of silent alternate takes and outtakes (at least, according to what Don May has actually seen of it). Unfortunately, nobody seems interested in utilizing it at this point, for whatever reasons. All that can be seen of it are a few watermarked stills and a Panaglide camera test. delivers a solid image, one that bests the Blu-ray largely through a more solidified color spread under the HDR encoding. The DTS:X audio is strongIt’s difficult to imagine a small, independent horror film not only spawning sequels, but an entire franchise dedicated to its leading boogie man. Michael Myers has been scaring audiences since 1978 in varying fashions, having been essentially rebooted twice. Yet the simplicity and effectiveness of John Carpenter’s original Halloween, complete with one of the most recognizable pieces of film score in the history of cinema, still stands tall above the many films that followed in its wake. It’s often blamed for the slasher glut of the 1980s, though one would argue that Friday the 13th, a blatant attempt at ripping off Halloween, was where that trend truly began. Now, over forty years since its release, it’s still paying dividends whereas many of the franchises that it spawned are either forgotten, sitting on the shelf, or in creative limbo. than the 1080p image can produce. The HDR colors are not revelatory, either, but they do make for the biggest area of improvement on the UHD disc.

intensive, weighty notes. The subwoofer is used in a complimentary fashion for musical support and does not extend itself prodigiously at any point in later in the film that's next to impossible to praise without spoiling the reveal, but it's the one legitimate left-field surprise in an otherwise rote movie Audio Commentary - With John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis who chat amiably about the production, both technical and anecdotal in what is a very enjoyable listen. Like so many of its contemporaries, Halloween was shot on digital, reportedly at a resolution of 2.8K and upscaled to 4K for this UHDDeleted/Extended Scenes (2160p, SDR, 12:35 total runtime): Included are Extended Shooting Range - Deleted Suicide Thoughts,