Evil Dead 2 4K UHD (1987)

[andreasy969]

Originally Posted by Agent Kay

I could check that again if you needed it?

Yes, that'd be cool.

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by andreasy969

Yes, that'd be cool.

It's there, it's in the new master I would bet.
It was never as good as the master on the first.

[4kUltraBD]

I watched this disc last night, and I don't hate this transfer. In fact, I thought it looked pretty good overall. Nice usage of HDR (very similar to how it was applied to the first film), and the colors had a nice pop to them, with reds, yellows, blues, and greens looking the best IMO.

As is with older vfx shots, you do have some bad looking shots here and there, but I suspect that it's all down to the source materials used, as overall, it looks quite good IMO. It's not perfect, no, but not what I consider a disaster either. As such, like the original ED 4k, this will become my go-to version to watch.

I have the code from the BBY steelbook up for trade, if anyone is interested.

[Sage00]

I bought the 2 pack steelbook from Best Buy the other day and Evil Dead 2 UHD disc won’t play. I get a white screen, or the screen shows what I played last on my player. Best Buy couldn’t do anything to help me out. Does anyone have any advice? I was going to contact Lionsgate next.

[waxHead]

Originally Posted by Sage00

I bought the 2 pack steelbook from Best Buy the other day and Evil Dead 2 UHD disc won’t play. I get a white screen, or the screen shows what I played last on my player. Best Buy couldn’t do anything to help me out. Does anyone have any advice? I was going to contact Lionsgate next.

Here's a post from Geoff D in the Evil Dead 4K thread about Samsung players having issues with the first disc in the set. If you have a Samsung, that could be the issue:

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Samsungs have a problem with the country-select screen on StudioCanal UHDs (I know this was released by Lionsgate in the US, but it was encoded by SC) because of the way that country-select screen has been encoded. Try this: load it up, let it get to the weird screen but don't press stop, just press enter on the remote, see what happens.

Originally Posted by dj_intrepid

Once the white bar appeared, pressing the enter button caused the player to advance to the main menu. Thank you for the recommendation! I truly appreciate it!

[BluProofie]

I have a Samsung and have never had a problem with SC discs.

[Sage00]

Originally Posted by BluProofie

I have a Samsung and have never had a problem with SC discs.

I’m glad you’ve been so fortunate. I’ve run into a few issues with some Arrow releases, and now this.

[Sage00]

Originally Posted by waxHead

Here's a post from Geoff D in the Evil Dead 4K thread about Samsung players having issues with the first disc in the set. If you have a Samsung, that could be the issue:

Holy crap, it worked! Thank you, you saved me a ton of time and headache!

[waxHead]

Originally Posted by Sage00

Holy crap, it worked! Thank you, you saved me a ton of time and headache!

Nice! Glad it was that simple

[Geoff D]

When in doubt, mash a few buttons on the remote

[cheecheung]

For those that own the U.K. Studio Canal release, does it have Dolby Vision? The specs for Evil Dead released by Sony U.K. state it has Dolby Vision yet here on the forum they said it does not. Was wondering if this is the case for the sequel?

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by cheecheung

For those that own the U.K. Studio Canal release, does it have Dolby Vision?

It does.

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by cheecheung

For those that own the U.K. Studio Canal release, does it have Dolby Vision? The specs for Evil Dead released by Sony U.K. state it has Dolby Vision yet here on the forum they said it does not. Was wondering if this is the case for the sequel?

UK 1 is just HDR10
UK 2 is the same as the US

[Nguss]

Just watched both Evil Dead 1 and 2 last night in 4k. Evil Dead 2 looks pretty great to me (although I am far from an expert). I am glad I bought this in particular - I remember watching it on VHS and laughing all the way through it - forgot how much I enjoyed this film.

Hope to check out Zombie tonight - i did a quick comparison with the Arrow blu ray and it looks like a significant improvement.

It is so weird that years ago it was almost impossible to see Evil Dead and Zombie uncut in the UK, then you could watch them with cuts and now you can pick up uncut Evil Dead up in the shops and in 4K too.

[happydood]

Originally Posted by waxHead

Here's a post from Geoff D in the Evil Dead 4K thread about Samsung players having issues with the first disc in the set. If you have a Samsung, that could be the issue:

Thank for referencing that. I just picked this up and I have a Sony player rather than a Samsung, but the disc causes wonkiness on my set-up as well. I'm running hdmi out of my player and into my receiver for sound, so I had to turn off control for HDMI on the player as it confuses the ARC connection between my receiver and TV. In essence, I can play discs with it on, but if I pause or fast-forward, the ARC kicks in and I have to manually get up and turn it back to the player. This disc turned control for HDMI on again on its own after I chose the U.S. as my region. Weird.

First world problem, I guess, with this one disc, but irritating.

[El Sleezo]

Happy to have won the slipcover lottery from Amazon.

[Purploros]

Would raising the volume be enough to “correct” the audio, or is the dynamic range compressed like Disney’s At-mouse mixes?

[Laservampire]

I know the saturation on the 25th anniversary Blu was a bit much, but damn the orange and teal tint on the 4K is absurd.

[happydood]

So, I bought this way back in February and was waiting for the right time to sit down and watch the whole show. (I know this movie backwards and forwards so I wasn't in a hurry. And just attended the Evil Dead exhibit at The Mystic Museum last weekend.) And surprise! I had none of the issues I had before when I first popped it in to look at a couple of scenes. No issues with the receiver getting confused and switching inputs. I paused the disc a couple of times just to check and it resumed without a hitch. Weird. Between this and a subtitle issue I had only one time on Bram Stoker's Dracula, I'm wondering if I got a glitchy player- I picked it up on Ebay- but I haven't had any other issues at all and I think I've played something at least every other day since getting it last November.

As to Evil Dead 2- I like how it looks and was impressed most of the time, but there were one or two shots where Annie and Bobbi Jo's make-up popped so much that I wondered if this was what Sam Raimi intended. To be fair, when I say I know this movie backwards and forwards, it's because of watching on VHS and DVD, then different DVD, then Blu-ray, then different Blu-ray, and now this UHD. And I know many 4k discs are giving us something that looks better than what we saw in theaters- or at least something different- and it's complicating my feels all over the place.

[Agent Kay]

It's nowhere near as good as the first for quality