I saw Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare at the New Beverly last Friday, with the 10 minute FreddyVision finale presented in Anaglyph 3D. I had a terrible experience the last time the Bev screened 3D for Creature from the Black Lagoon, which suffered from constant misalignment and ghosting. But since the FreddyVision 3D sequence isn't available outside of an out-of-print DVD, I figured it was now or never. And if it was bad, I wouldn't have to endure it for more than 10 minutes.
The print of Freddy's Dead was in fantastic shape, nary a scratch on it. The Nightmare on Elm Street series has some of the best special effects I've ever seen in horror, and they hold up to this day. So I had high hopes for the FreddyVision sequence...which turned out to be as unwatchable as the Bev's 3D print of Creature. All but a handful of shots had fatal ghosting; one lens looked correct, but the other could see both images at almost all times. The only shot that was unscathed was the final explosion, which is easily one of the best popouts I've ever seen, and earned a huge round of applause.
Are anaglyph 35mm prints known to develop ghosting over time? Or were they always this unwatchable?
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