Halloween 4K UHD (1978)

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by Ruined

Seems lionsgate never fixes anything. Even with their early pressings rotting away on the shelf and releasing highly aliased transfers like young guns, no action taken.

So not expecting anything.

They offered replacements for one season of Little House on the Prairie for a subtitles screw-up. Yet they dind't offer replacements for the final season's last disc which had a major audio foul-up.

[skinjob69]

Just got my copy in the mail. Replaced the case in my scream set with a 3 disc 4k version and added this to it.

I love that I've been able to continuously upgrade that set by replacing cases and adding discs with alternate versions or additional content. It's up to 23 discs now still with room to grow.

On that note, I hope this sells well and we see 4k versions of II & III in the near future.

[crissrudd4554]

Originally Posted by Alhlan Ain Ajeeba

No, that was confirmed only for USA version. We aren't sure yet if the uk version has the 2007 blu.

I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by bradnoyes

Damn...

[Dave Mack]

Originally Posted by mar3o

I always disliked that scene. That knife was not nearly long enough to go through his entire body and out his back and dig deep enough into the wall to pin him to it and hold his weight. It's an absurd scene. I love the film, but that scene was ridiculous.

Exactly. It's a very eerie image and horrifying idea but the knife would indeed have to be sword length fir it to happen. Interestingly nobody I have ever watched the film with over the years, (and I'm talking LOTS of different people) have ever noticed/mentioned it.

[steelstring41]

Originally Posted by MikeRoda

I'm extremely disappointed with the 4K version, I did not get the 35th version on Blu, I just have the original blu from years ago. This new 4K version is so pale it looks dead. I'm not sure what happened to the colors. I think Halloween is the movie I've bought the most in my life, and this version is my least favorite, in fact, I'll never watch it.

I have to agree with you on the color. I don’t own any previous home releases of Halloween but the first thing I noticed in the opening scenes was that it is rather lacking in color saturation.

I’m sure that in the resolution and black level departments it’s got some good things going for it, but I don’t think this is a title that is going to make people jump on the 4k bandwagon who have been on the fence about it.

[JohnCarpenterFan]

Watched this the other night. The HDR looks phenomenal and is pretty tasteful. Color timing is extremely similar to the 35th anniversary to the point you'd think they were from the same master, sorry for those that wanted to spam the thread with "OMG Dan Candy change the color for millionth time".

Lack of original mono is a travesty though. I don't have the technology to sync the original mono to the UHD's image so I guess I'll just watch the corrected 35th anniversary disc from the box set whenever I want to watch the film in the future. How could they **** up another Halloween release with this issue when it had already been fixed? What the hell?

Still, the Blu-ray looks great. I'll miss the extra vibrancy in the daytime scenes but the blue lighting looks slightly stronger on the Blu-ray than it does on the UHD.

Out of curiosity, I checked out the older master on the Blu-ray that came in the UHD package and... wow was that master a piece of shit. I can't believe it was once considered a great disc, it's a complete eyesore.

[bobbyh64]

Dan Candy. Nice. That’s his silly John Candy-esque altar ego. Let’s all start referring to him by that name now.

[TheSweetieMan]

[Martoto]

Is EVERYBODY a male between 30-39?

[rocknblues81]

Originally Posted by Dave Mack

Exactly. It's a very eerie image and horrifying idea but the knife would indeed have to be sword length fir it to happen. Interestingly nobody I have ever watched the film with over the years, (and I'm talking LOTS of different people) have ever noticed/mentioned it.

I don't think about it too much because the scene is so eerie. I'm assuming that most feel the same way.

[rocknblues81]

Originally Posted by Martoto

Is EVERYBODY a male between 30-39?

I'm 37.

[gaz2810i]

Received mine in the UK today from WOWHD in the USA... Haven't checked it out yet but very excited to see how it looks.

[bobbyh64]

Originally Posted by Martoto

Is EVERYBODY a male between 30-39?

Damn, just remembered I forgot to put in my age to see how I compare. Can someone post the results for males between 30-39?

[bradnoyes]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I was like, "hmm, let's see if I can ace this thing in 3 moves..."

[reputation]

Picked up my copy from Target today. For some reason all of them were in the back, but I was happy to see the copy I got wasn't damaged slipcover wise. My Halloween collection stays complete!

[TheSweetieMan]

Originally Posted by rocknblues81

I'm 37.

I’m 32.

[RudyC]

this is a nice comparison of screenshots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siUjBgohQ-A

[Alhlan Ain Ajeeba]

I have a theory about why they didn't put in the 2013 blu in the 4k combo pack. In my opinion the 2013 blu is still 1 of the best looking catalog titles. Its basically the 4k disc before the color was drained out and in 1080p downscaled from 4k. They didn't want people to see that it was only a minimal improvement from blu to 4k.

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by Alhlan Ain Ajeeba

Its basically the 4k disc before the color was drained out and in 1080p downscaled from 4k.

The UHD actually has more color.