Amityville 3-D 3D Blu-ray (1983) [Region Locked / Free]

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by hotandserious

They just replied on FB re: Amityville 3:
We'll confirm the "3D" in the Summer.

So that sounds like a Yes!

Thanks for getting this info! Amityville Horror series has some good scares here and there so this will be on my radar, especially the 3D disc.
I'm still thinking about that old lamp stand in one movie that really was creepy. It's been many years, I'm pretty sure that was from Amityville 2 or 3? The flies by the windows

[Show spoiler] in the attic, the demon monster face in the picture photo, the evil face in the window from outside, good stuff!

[UFAlien]

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

I'm still thinking about that old lamp stand in one movie that really was creepy. It's been many years, I'm pretty sure that was from Amityville 2 or 3?

Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes was about a possessed lamp. And it was hilarious. A CBS TV movie starring Patty Duke.

I'm all for this box set. I think the original Amityville Horror looks pretty good on Blu as-is, but I'll love having the theatrical sequels in HD. And maybe we can get some actual special features, which the original release lacks. I'm not super-fond of the video quality we've seen from a lot of Scream Factory's Blu-rays, as it tends to be a bit filtered, but it's still better than DVD and I like the movies well enough to splurge unless they're somehow awful, literal upscales.

As for Amityville 3D, I REALLY hope it's in 3D. The movie is pretty dreadful flat, but the 3D gimmicks are very fun. I have a standard-def field sequential 3D copy, but the quality's pretty poor. A nice, pristine BD3D would be excellent.

[Student Driver]

Originally Posted by UFAlien

As for Amityville 3D, I REALLY hope it's in 3D. The movie is pretty dreadful flat, but the 3D gimmicks are very fun. I have a standard-def field sequential 3D copy, but the quality's pretty poor. A nice, pristine BD3D would be excellent.

That copy you have is probably copied from the Japanese VHD, which was a so-so quality analogue capacitance format roughly equivalent to CED in video quality (and defects); barely above VHS. I appreciated getting to see stuff in 3D thanks to the VHD copies that were floating around, but like you, I'm definitely interested in seeing a proper transfer.

[UFAlien]

It wasn't a VHD source, actually; it was sourced from the UK anaglyph DVD, and then separated back into left and right image files. It was done well enough that it does look better than just watching it in anaglyph, and the colors are mostly pretty good, but there's quite a bit of encoded ghosting when a clean enough separation couldn't be achieved. Oddly enough, for most of the movie one of the eyes actually has more image area than the other (the top letterbox bar is thinner), which is a... strange and somewhat uncomfortable mismatch. There's also one scene in which the right eye view is out of focus, but that (sadly) may have actually been a problem from the original filming. I suppose we'll find out!

[Student Driver]

Oh, interesting, haven't seen any of those conversions. Probably does look better, then.

[UFAlien]

In terms of detail maybe, though the VHD probably didn't have the crosstalk problems. But hopefully we'll get a pristine 1080p Blu-ray 3D and not have to worry about the tradeoff anyway!

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by UFAlien

Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes was about a possessed lamp. And it was hilarious. A CBS TV movie starring Patty Duke.

As for Amityville 3D, I REALLY hope it's in 3D. The movie is pretty dreadful flat, but the 3D gimmicks are very fun. I have a standard-def field sequential 3D copy, but the quality's pretty poor. A nice, pristine BD3D would be excellent.

Thanks UFAlien. All I remember is a floor lamp with a rounded top and mood music, but as a kid, it was effective enough. A possessed lamp. That is original.

Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack had a ghost episode about a possessed bunk bed as a note.