Halloween 4K UHD (1978)

[Croweyes1121]

Originally Posted by OneWayFilms

Can someone PLEASE tell me if the BROADCAST TELEVSION CUT is on disk 3 or not???

It’s there. I shared screenshots of it a few pages back.
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=8974

[OneWayFilms]

Originally Posted by croweyes1121

it’s there. I shared screenshots of it a few pages back.
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=8974

whew.....thank you!!!!!!:d

[TheDarkBlueNight]

Originally Posted by tazz13

has anyone in Canada ever ordered online through Sunrise Records? how are they in terms of packaging, shipping etc.?

I've had mixed experiences. They ship all orders from Edmonton about once a week via UPS. So for East coast, it takes a while to receive, though it's not too bad.

If a title goes out of stock by then, they'll automatically cancel it and ship the rest. This is a major problem when you place pre-orders, as they'll also wait until the last release date to ship the whole order.

Used to ship everything in boxes (well packed), but recently I've received lettermails from them, so not that protected.

Prices can be good, especially for Universal titles on a 12-month window form release. Boutique titles are usually way more expensive, aside from rare sales. The Halloween 4K CEs are rather surprisingly at decent prices.

I haven't tried to return anything, but their policy states you need to ship the returns. So you can't just take it to a store.

For in-stock items with good prices, it's a good option. For pre-orders, I wouldn't recommend them.

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by Pi905

More detail visible in the trees here: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?a=2&x...6&l=1&i=2&go=1

There's more detail in the Shout disc, especially on the road. The Lionsgate has more grain, but it's not more detailed.

[Telemachus]

Prices will never be this low again for the boxed editions. I think I got them all for $25 on average, plus I just ghost ordered Part 4 for $15 after a $10 credit popped up on Amazon. People will be trying to sell the boxes for these for $15-20 each easily someday (or more, hi Wetmovie). 5 is a pig but I will probably end up ordering it just because. Get them now lads

[Camellott89]

Amazon sucks… but I do like the hands on customer service lol

[jstxanothrxstory]

Got 1 and 3-5 in today from Amazon Canada. (For some inexplicable reason, II wasn’t able to be fulfilled so it got cancelled from my order. Somehow…)

Anyway, the first film came in the non-Viva case, while 3 & 4 are in eco cases and 5 is a Viva Elite non-eco case.

[K9 Mark V]

Amazon is still sitting on my H1 for another week or so, I honestly don't know when H2 is going to be shipped.

Is it just me or has Amazon really been lacking when it comes to pre-order titles recently? Black Widow isn't available until the end of the month, they delayed my Clockwork Orange pre-order (which I cancelled and ordered from Best Buy), and now this whole Halloween thing.

[tazz13]

Originally Posted by TheDarkBlueNight

I've had mixed experiences. They ship all orders from Edmonton about once a week via UPS. So for East coast, it takes a while to receive, though it's not too bad.

If a title goes out of stock by then, they'll automatically cancel it and ship the rest. This is a major problem when you place pre-orders, as they'll also wait until the last release date to ship the whole order.

Used to ship everything in boxes (well packed), but recently I've received lettermails from them, so not that protected.

Prices can be good, especially for Universal titles on a 12-month window form release. Boutique titles are usually way more expensive, aside from rare sales. The Halloween 4K CEs are rather surprisingly at decent prices.

I haven't tried to return anything, but their policy states you need to ship the returns. So you can't just take it to a store.

For in-stock items with good prices, it's a good option. For pre-orders, I wouldn't recommend them.

Yeah that's about my experience. For pre-orders they are useless. Currently only the first one is in stock and the rest either say shipping in 1-2 months, currently unavailable, or in the case of Halloween 5 you can only buy it used from a third party currently priced at $57.

I just broke down and bought them all through Shout. I'll have to wait a couple weeks, but I'll at least get them in a somewhat predictable timeframe and probably packaged better.

[cheez avenger]

I & III just arrived from Amazon. Will watch the first one tonight.

[toasted]

Ordered I & II from BB and they both got here today. Watching the OG tomorrow and maybe II on Thursday.

[DaylightsEnd]

Originally Posted by CreasyBear

There's more detail in the Shout disc, especially on the road. The Lionsgate has more grain, but it's not more detailed.

That transfer is off an IP, not the OCN, and there IS more of a "grainy-looking appearance". That's not the same as "a more filmic and natural grain" from a transfer off an OCN, however. It's just more "noisy" as a result of how it was generated, and I wonder if it may be further exacerbated by a kiss of digital sharpening. I also don't see the new Shout transfer as being deliberately "scrubbed of its natural grain", which would mean that the Lionsgate transfer is actually the more "unnatural" of the two, in its resulting "grain structure".

Some folks are making the Shout H1978 out to be practically scrubbed of all natural grain, but it's nowhere near The Thing's 4k uhd transfer, which, despite being gorgeous, really DOES look a bit overly grain-managed, at times. It's occasionally almost too pristine. The Thing 4k, while I really enjoy it, just barely rides the line of "almost-distractingly-not-grainy-enough". The Shout Halloween 1978 transfer doesn't hit me that way, at all. And it's nice to have some Cundey blues back in play, too.

[thechewdefense]

Originally Posted by steel_breeze

Bit of Pandora's box, but I'll have a go... with more info than you wanted.

1990's Criterion LaserDisc: By all accounts (and I owned this too, so I can vouch for it), this is the color timing that matched the original look of Halloween on film. LAST RELEASE to feature the "un-filtered original mono".

whats the difference between the "filtered" and Unfiltered mono track? I assume criterion tech owns the rights to it * thus Shout couldn't use it

[DaylightsEnd]

Originally Posted by thechewdefense

whats the difference between the "filtered" and Unfiltered mono track?

The mono track was subsequently filtered. Me no likey. The low and high frequencies both seem excessively attenuated and the whole track lacks punch, depth, fidelity, and power, leaving it fairly anemic.

[Casual_G4m3r]

Well, I just popped in the new 4k disc, and flipped through it a bit. Eh....I think it looks fine on my setup.

Either I am not overly fussed, or I am sitting too far from my set, but i don't see any glaring issues. Generally, when I think of compression issues, they seam to rear their ugly heads in darker scenes. While quickly flipping through this disc, I didn't notice anything sticking out like a sore thumb or anything.

Out of curiosity, I had to pop in the T.V. edit, to see how it looks. It's pretty rough, I'll admit, but I am still really glad that it's included here. As well as the extended cut, which seems to fare better, but still falls far short of either UHD release.

A lengthier review will come eventually, once I have had the time to properly digest the set, and give it a serious viewing.

All in all, I am very pleased with this purchase, and am even more excited to pick up the rest in the set.

[Camellott89]

Originally Posted by MrPlatinum

The Night He Came Home!

A film by John Carpenter

[steel_breeze]

Originally Posted by thechewdefense

whats the difference between the "filtered" and Unfiltered mono track? I assume criterion tech owns the rights to it * thus Shout couldn't use it

There're multiple re-posts in the many pages of this thread with comparisons between the filtered and unfiltered mono tracks. Basically, they're both absolutely authentic; the "filtered mono" that's been used for the past 20 years is the real deal, but I guess someone along the way tried to use noise reduction on it or something, so it lacks some of the presence and "pop" of the unfiltered track. I find it to be absolutely "fine", and it's my go-to track every single time I watch Halloween. Do I wish it were "unfiltered"... yes. But I ain't losin' sleep over it.

[JCRW82]

Originally Posted by thechewdefense

whats the difference between the "filtered" and Unfiltered mono track? I assume criterion tech owns the rights to it * thus Shout couldn't use it

Yet Another Halloween (1978) Laserdisc-Blu-ray Mono Comparison - YouTube

[TravisTylerBlack]

Originally Posted by captainjoe

Just popped it in to check it out on my Sony OLED with DV and it looks very good. The compression artifacts are minimal with DV and the grain structure looks solid. I think this is similar to some of the Studio Canal discs where the HDR 10 layer isn’t encoded as well and the Dolby Vision layer fixes a lot of the issues

I had a feeling this would be the case. It's almost a tradition with John Carpenter films on 4K at this point hahaha - Excited for my copy to arrive on Thursday!

[steel_breeze]

Originally Posted by JCRW82

[Show spoiler]Yet Another Halloween (1978) Laserdisc-Blu-ray Mono Comparison - YouTube

The more I see (and hear) these comparisons, the more I think a lot of it could be alleviated by adjusting the EQ on my receiver. I feel like I could make a "special setting" for Halloween that would help bridge the gap. I certainly don't have the gear or the know-how to mux the LaserDisc track onto my 4K image, so that's not an option for me.