Anything for Jackson (2020)

[BijouMan]

RLJE Films, in association with SHUDDER, will bring to Blu-ray Justin G. Dyck's Anything for Jackson (2020), starring Sheila McCarthy, Julian Richings, and Konstantina Mantelos. The release will be available for purchase on June 15.

[Randy Miller III]

I wanted to give this thread a courtesy bump since the site review is live. A surprisingly effective movie with some pretty solid scares. Check it out!

Anything for Jackson Blu-ray Review

[4Dblu]

Yup, Blind Buy....

[Mikeyos]

I watched this on Shudder and really enjoyed this so I'm eager to buy a copy for myself. This film felt like walking into a haunted maze where there was a new scare/something grotesque around every corner. The scares are pretty solid which makes this movie a lot of fun. I'll also never

[Show spoiler]look at dental floss in the same way.

[DocHalsey]

Picked this up at Best Buy today based on the Rotten score.

Picture quality is stylistically more or less expected for not being a big budget thing. Tons of digital grain/noise—feels over the top, even if you like grain like I do. Blacks not particularly dark and the whole movie feels like it has the brightness turned up on my calibrated LED and Panasonic 420. A fair number of lighting and overall brightness inconsistencies between shots.

My biggest issue with the Blu-ray is many darker areas have a ton of digital/compression artifacting/flickering. I’d expect this in streaming, but not on a disc of basically any quality. I have no idea why the review on this site doesn’t call that out and in fact said the opposite. Feels like a really lazy transfer from Shudder.

Audio quality is fine and not particularly memorable. Some good ambient surround in the tears throughout. Not much of a score or theme to speak of.

As for the movie itself…Some fun dark humor. The wife/grandma is pretty well acted. The victim (avoiding spoiler here) feels like a missed casting opportunity (same goes for the Ian character), but understand this is an indie. Some creepy scenes for sure and a great premise overall. I feel like this script with some more seasoned pros and budget behind it could’ve been an instant classic, making a lot of the great ideas throughout feel much more impactful. Still a great watch for horror fans, but I’d look for a used copy or a sale.

If you’re a streaming fan and have Shudder, definitely check it out.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by DocHalsey

Picked this up at Best Buy today based on the Rotten score.

Picture quality is stylistically more or less expected for not being a big budget thing. Tons of digital grain/noise—feels over the top, even if you like grain like I do. Blacks not particularly dark and the whole movie feels like it has the brightness turned up on my calibrated LED and Panasonic 420. A fair number of lighting and overall brightness inconsistencies between shots.

My biggest issue with the Blu-ray is many darker areas have a ton of digital/compression artifacting/flickering. I’d expect this in streaming, but not on a disc of basically any quality. I have no idea why the review on this site doesn’t call that out and in fact said the opposite. Feels like a really lazy transfer from Shudder.

Audio quality is fine and not particularly memorable. Some good ambient surround in the tears throughout. Not much of a score or theme to speak of.

As for the movie itself…Some fun dark humor. The wife/grandma is pretty well acted. The victim (avoiding spoiler here) feels like a missed casting opportunity (same goes for the Ian character), but understand this is an indie. Some creepy scenes for sure and a great premise overall. I feel like this script with some more seasoned pros and budget behind it could’ve been an instant classic, making a lot of the great ideas throughout feel much more impactful. Still a great watch for horror fans, but I’d look for a used copy or a sale.

If you’re a streaming fan and have Shudder, definitely check it out.

The flickering can sometimes be inherent to a digitally shot film, depending on what was used, as can noise.

[KingMadness]

Originally Posted by DocHalsey

Picked this up at Best Buy today based on the Rotten score.

Picture quality is stylistically more or less expected for not being a big budget thing. Tons of digital grain/noise—feels over the top, even if you like grain like I do. Blacks not particularly dark and the whole movie feels like it has the brightness turned up on my calibrated LED and Panasonic 420. A fair number of lighting and overall brightness inconsistencies between shots.

My biggest issue with the Blu-ray is many darker areas have a ton of digital/compression artifacting/flickering. I’d expect this in streaming, but not on a disc of basically any quality. I have no idea why the review on this site doesn’t call that out and in fact said the opposite. Feels like a really lazy transfer from Shudder.

Audio quality is fine and not particularly memorable. Some good ambient surround in the tears throughout. Not much of a score or theme to speak of.

As for the movie itself…Some fun dark humor. The wife/grandma is pretty well acted. The victim (avoiding spoiler here) feels like a missed casting opportunity (same goes for the Ian character), but understand this is an indie. Some creepy scenes for sure and a great premise overall. I feel like this script with some more seasoned pros and budget behind it could’ve been an instant classic, making a lot of the great ideas throughout feel much more impactful. Still a great watch for horror fans, but I’d look for a used copy or a sale.

If you’re a streaming fan and have Shudder, definitely check it out.

Late replay but hopefully it helps. About a third of the way through and I was getting annoyed with exactly the same problems. I have an LG CX and a Panasonic 820 so I knew it shouldn’t look like it was streaming when it’s a disc. I started messing with the settings and when I moved my gamma from 2.2 to 2.4 it cleaned right up and stoped all the flicking and looked like the review said it should. Hopefully this helps anyone else that has a problem.

[joonskeezle]

I watched this more as a curiosity than anything; Yannick Bisson (star of Murdoch Mysteries) has a small role in it, and I figured seeing him in a horror movie would be surreal (and it was, though not nearly as surreal as later seeing him in Another WolfCop.)

Wound up liking the whole movie more than I thought I would.

[therealjondoe]

Down to 8.99 on Amazon