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Originally Posted by osmos512
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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Very cool you got to see it recently! The final explosion was the best pop out effect when I saw it as a kid as well. I remember thinking the heads were circling the guys head sitting in front of me.
I still have the DVD ripped with 3D, but much prefer to have the Oppo convert the BD to modern 3D, several of the effects kinda work. Hopefully a professionally converted one will be included on the BD in the 4K box set.. just putting it out there lol.