The Fog (1980) 4K UHD

[Martoto]

I left the menu sitting with the TV spot option highlighted. After a minute, a feature called "The Fog: Behind The Effects For The Teaser Trailer." started playing automatically. This is on the extras BD.

Apologies if posted already.

[EvilJames]

Originally Posted by Martoto

I left the menu sitting with the TV spot option highlighted. After a minute, a feature called "The Fog: Behind The Effects For The Teaser Trailer." started playing automatically. This is on the extras BD.

Apologies if posted already.

Mine did the same when “Outtakes” was highlighted - though I’m pretty sure the teaser itself hasn’t made its way onto the disc!

[Martoto]

Originally Posted by EvilJames

Mine did the same when “Outtakes” was highlighted - though I’m pretty sure the teaser itself hasn’t made its way onto the disc!

Yeah. It's perverse.

Either something technical went wrong with these menus or some licensing issue deprived them of music. It just feels weird that they're silent given how animated they are.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Martoto

Yeah. It's perverse.

Either something technical went wrong with these menus or some licensing issue deprived them of music. It just feels weird that they're silent given how animated they are.

I feel the same way, having an animated menu be completely silent is almost unsettling. It's the same with They Live though and is preserved on all six discs (BD + UHD + extras for both movies) so I doubt it's an error. As you say, maybe they were scored but licensing issues meant that they had to pull the music.

Something else about the menus is that they're blindingly bright in HDR on my TV. I'm usually someone who chimes in and says "I didn't have a problem with x being too bright" but on these menus they're aggressively bright. I like to leave the credits running on movies to hear the music, I'm odd like that, and going from sitting in darkness for two or three minutes to the main menu was downright uncomfortable for my eyes. Noted the same on Deer Hunter's UHD as well, when the country select screen first came up (being stark white with a stylised illustration of De Niro) I was quite sure it could be seen from space.