Halloween 4K UHD (1978)

[BobSimms]

Isn’t the 2013 grade the one that turns the green leaves of Los Angeles into golden brown “autumn” leaves? I hate that. It most certainly isn’t closer to the “original color timing” (whatever that might have been) than the 2007 disc. It’s just a matter of personal preference for me.

[steel_breeze]

Originally Posted by Diskmaster

It has the original colour timing.

It has the "original Blu-ray color timing"; don't be fooled by that weird verbiage on the disc descriptions.

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by Diskmaster

No the 2013 added lots of blue and made things way greener than they ever were. 2007 is way better and more accurate.

Wrong. The 2013 transfer restored the original look of the original theatrical exhibition in 1978. This is how the film looked before all the DVDs and Blu-rays altered the film's colors in order to make it look and feel more like autumn.

[Telemachus]

But what about the LaserDisc

[BobSimms]

The 2013 is darker and desaturated compared to the 2007. The desaturation elicits a “yuck” reaction in me, for whatever reason. The version I’ve seen the most over the course of my life has been the Media VHS (the one that came right after the very first “Meda” videocassette release), which I bought circa 1987. It could be that my memory of that presentation is incorrect, but the 2007 Blu-Ray feels closer to what I remember being the original home video color grade, regardless of how accurate to the original 35mm theatrical showings that might have been.

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by Diskmaster

The 2007 is closest to the original as it does not have Cundey's tinkering as they managed to sneak it by him untampered. The ridiculous revisionist blue in all of the night scenes were added by Cundey later on. Even look at Terror In The Aisles there is no blue in those same scenes it looks like a natural film of the period which is how it should stay.

The 2007 disc uses one of those notorious divimax transfers that Anchor Bay used to create during the mid and late 2000s. Many of them have been proven to look absolutely wrong. Halloween is no exception. But be happy to believe what you believe. More power to you.

[Kyle15]

[bobbyh64]

Originally Posted by Diskmaster

No it did not. If 2013 is correct liek you say then what does that make both the 4ks which look different from the 2013 and even eachother? Anything Cundey touches is revisionist and is never how it looked originally but how Cundey wants it to look right then and there.

I thought the first 4K (Lionsgate) looked very similar to the 2013 Blu-ray.

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by Diskmaster

The 2007 is closest to the original as it does not have Cundey's tinkering as they managed to sneak it by him untampered. The ridiculous revisionist blue in all of the night scenes were added by Cundey later on. Even look at Terror In The Aisles there is no blue in those same scenes it looks like a natural film of the period which is how it should stay.

Mike?

[waxHead]

Stop feeding.

[Telemachus]

It's that time of the year again!!

[DR Herbert West]

I really hate that 2007 disc.

[bobbyh64]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

I really hate that 2007 disc.

The best thing about it is the legacy commentary with Carpenter, Hill, and Curtis.

[jess1581]

Originally Posted by bobbyh64

The best thing about it is the legacy commentary with Carpenter, Hill, and Curtis.

Word. I'm still glad it's included in the 4K set.

[jstxanothrxstory]

Originally Posted by BobSimms

Isn’t the 2013 grade the one that turns the green leaves of Los Angeles into golden brown “autumn” leaves? I hate that. It most certainly isn’t closer to the “original color timing” (whatever that might have been) than the 2007 disc. It’s just a matter of personal preference for me.

Just because the movie was filmed in the spring doesn’t mean the leaves are supposed to be green. They had bags of dead leaves that they utilized during production to try and mask that it was being filmed in March/April.

[jstxanothrxstory]

Originally Posted by Diskmaster

Anything Cundey touches is revisionist and is never how it looked originally but how Cundey wants it to look right then and there.

Yet his supervised transfers on the 2013 Blu-Ray and both 4Ks look closer in colour timing to every pre-2003 release, notably the 1998 orange VHS set that used the original camera negative for its transfer. Go figure.

[jstxanothrxstory]

Originally Posted by bobbyh64

The best thing about it is the legacy commentary with Carpenter, Hill, and Curtis.

Originally Posted by jess1581

Word. I'm still glad it's included in the 4K set.

My unpopular opinion is that I’ve always hated that commentary track. I’m typically not a fan of the “take multiple individual interviews and splice them together for a commentary track,” and it feels like most of the stuff they mention in the commentary is just repeated in the Halloween Unmasked and A Cut Above the Rest documentaries. It predates them since it’s from the laserdisc, but it’s one of the things I don’t give a repeat listen to.

[KubrickKurasawa]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

Halloween has already been released twice on Ultra HD, and both completely different restorations afaik, there will definitely be a third somewhere. If Shout even just reencoded their current disc and sprung for Criterion's mono track it's definitive.

Shout with that IPod gen 1 MP3 Mono Soundtrack! Exactly how I remember this in the theaters

[BobSimms]

Originally Posted by jstxanothrxstory

Just because the movie was filmed in the spring doesn’t mean the leaves are supposed to be green.

You must love the 4K restoration of Picnic at Hanging Rock, too.

[jstxanothrxstory]

Originally Posted by BobSimms

You must love the 4K restoration of Picnic at Hanging Rock, too.

Or you could've just also included the second half of my post that explains my sentence that you quoted.