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- Robert Harris
There used to be a bit of a visceral thrill to putting a Blu-ray disc in a player and wondering what the quality would be like.
I don't mean this in a nasty or demeaning way, but Columbia / Sony, has stolen that bit of "pleasure."
When superlative Columbia quality continually translates into its licensed product, that era of wondering what something will look like is at an end.
The thrill is gone.
And it becomes very obvious once the first frames of original photography of Tom Holland's 1985 Fright Night hit the screen.
The image harvest and uncompressed audio are boringly perfect.
Fright Night is a sweet little film. It's one of those horror productions that my son used to refer to as "funny-scary" when he'd request bedtime entertainment. The artwork on the laserdisc was another story. That was down and out, plain old "scary."
This is a wonderfully fun film from the '80s, with the leads playing serious roles with wonderful twinkles of fun in their eyes. It's for folks who grew up on the horror classics and all the legends and minutia that went with them. Roddy McDowall, one of my favorite actors of all time (if you've not seen him in How Green Was My Valley, you're deprived) is wonderful as a washed up B movie actor, relegated to introducing horror and sci-fi films on TV. Chris Sarandon plays his role to the hilt.
Anyone who has not experienced the original Fright Night needs to spend 106 minutes with it, and just have fun.
If I had a rating system in stars, or dots, codfish, or whatever, the image quality of this disc would have a images filled. As a Blu-ray image, probably because it's based upon a new 4k image harvest from a perfect IP, it's perfect, and by that I mean 100%.
A wonderful little film, that remains great fun, on an absolutely perfect Blu-ray disc. Since I have one, and it appears that Ron Epstein has another, that leaves 2,998 in the wild. Don't let this one get away.
Worth the price of admission?
Yes.
Recommended.
RAH
I don't mean this in a nasty or demeaning way, but Columbia / Sony, has stolen that bit of "pleasure."
When superlative Columbia quality continually translates into its licensed product, that era of wondering what something will look like is at an end.
The thrill is gone.
And it becomes very obvious once the first frames of original photography of Tom Holland's 1985 Fright Night hit the screen.
The image harvest and uncompressed audio are boringly perfect.
Fright Night is a sweet little film. It's one of those horror productions that my son used to refer to as "funny-scary" when he'd request bedtime entertainment. The artwork on the laserdisc was another story. That was down and out, plain old "scary."
This is a wonderfully fun film from the '80s, with the leads playing serious roles with wonderful twinkles of fun in their eyes. It's for folks who grew up on the horror classics and all the legends and minutia that went with them. Roddy McDowall, one of my favorite actors of all time (if you've not seen him in How Green Was My Valley, you're deprived) is wonderful as a washed up B movie actor, relegated to introducing horror and sci-fi films on TV. Chris Sarandon plays his role to the hilt.
Anyone who has not experienced the original Fright Night needs to spend 106 minutes with it, and just have fun.
If I had a rating system in stars, or dots, codfish, or whatever, the image quality of this disc would have a images filled. As a Blu-ray image, probably because it's based upon a new 4k image harvest from a perfect IP, it's perfect, and by that I mean 100%.
A wonderful little film, that remains great fun, on an absolutely perfect Blu-ray disc. Since I have one, and it appears that Ron Epstein has another, that leaves 2,998 in the wild. Don't let this one get away.
Worth the price of admission?
Yes.
Recommended.
RAH