The Evil Dead (UK - DVD R2 | BD)
We can now bring you confirmed specs for the new DVD and Blu-ray releases...
Title: The Evil Dead (IMDb)
Starring: Bruce Campbell
Released: 11th October 2010
SRP: £6.99 (DVD) £17.99 (BD)
Further Details:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the DVD and Blu-ray release of The Evil Dead for the 11th of October, priced at around £6.99 and £17.99 respectively. A list of confirmed specs can be found below, along with the artwork.
News by Chris Gould
Starring: Bruce Campbell
Released: 11th October 2010
SRP: £6.99 (DVD) £17.99 (BD)
Further Details:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the DVD and Blu-ray release of The Evil Dead for the 11th of October, priced at around £6.99 and £17.99 respectively. A list of confirmed specs can be found below, along with the artwork.
DVD Release
- Video: 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer
- Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles: English, English SDH, Italian, Hindi
- New Commentary with Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell
- One By One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of the Evil Dead
- Treasures from the Cutting Room Floor
- At the Drive-In
- Discovering Evil Dead
- Make-Up Test
Blu-ray Release
- Video: 1.85:1 Widescreen Transfer (1080p)
- Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- New Commentary with Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell
- Picture-in-Picture: Join us! The Undying Legacy of The Evil Dead
- One By One We Will Take You The Untold Saga of the Evil Dead
- Treasures from the Cutting Room Floor
- At the Drive-In
- Discovering Evil Dead
- Make-Up Test
- BD-Live
News by Chris Gould
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Still the wrong AR though...
I'm glad the DVD has decent extras. DVD fans shouldn't be dissapointed. Still, it's Blu-Buy for me.
Chris, this is being presented in what is allegedly Raimi's preferred aspect ratio.
Kev & Nick W
Kev & Nick W
Forgive me chaps, but I've heard of the AR controversy but I'm a little unsure as to what it means. Are you saying that the image has been cropped?
The US Anchor Bay release is getting some great reviews...I wonder if this will be a direct port?
toonloon wrote: Forgive me chaps, but I've heard of the AR controversy but I'm a little unsure as to what it means. Are you saying that the image has been cropped?
The Evil Dead was shot in 16mm with a 1.33:1 aspect ratio (roughly the shape of an old square TV shape) - in order to get it to fill a widescreen TV, it has been reformatted, meaning that a significant amount of the image has been cropped (around a fifth).
No matter how carefully this is done (some directors take a certain degree of care and examine how to crop each shot individually), there will always been shots that will look awful, with tops of heads missing, etc.
The Wilson Bros
The Evil Dead was shot in 16mm with a 1.33:1 aspect ratio (roughly the shape of an old square TV shape) - in order to get it to fill a widescreen TV, it has been reformatted, meaning that a significant amount of the image has been cropped (around a fifth).
No matter how carefully this is done (some directors take a certain degree of care and examine how to crop each shot individually), there will always been shots that will look awful, with tops of heads missing, etc.
The Wilson Bros
Wilson Bros wrote: Chris, this is being presented in what is allegedly Raimi's preferred aspect ratio.
Kev & Nick W
That may be, but there are a lot of framing issues in the 1.85:1 version. Most notably near the very end.
Kev & Nick W
That may be, but there are a lot of framing issues in the 1.85:1 version. Most notably near the very end.
As we mentioned in our previous post - when you crop parts of an image, there are always going to be shots that are compromised.
Oh, and more digital tinkering has been going on - this time of Lucas-like proportions; the shot of the Oldsmobile crossing the bridge near the start of the film has had the visible crew-member (possibly producer Robert Tapert) digitally airbrushed out.
There are apparently one or two other changes, but we can't remember them off-hand.
The Wilson Bros
Oh, and more digital tinkering has been going on - this time of Lucas-like proportions; the shot of the Oldsmobile crossing the bridge near the start of the film has had the visible crew-member (possibly producer Robert Tapert) digitally airbrushed out.
There are apparently one or two other changes, but we can't remember them off-hand.
The Wilson Bros
So in your expertise Wilson Bros, would you say this is worth purchasing when I already own the Book of the Dead (foam book) edition from years ago!?
losthighway wrote: So in your expertise Wilson Bros, would you say this is worth purchasing when I already own the Book of the Dead (foam book) edition from years ago!?
Well, there are different extras between the two editions, and with the Blu you lose the Fanalysis documentary and the original commentary tracks.
But then, from the excellent Evil Dead Trilogy box set, you don't get the contents of the 4th disc, containing:
The Living Love the Dead
Dead Good Marketing
Bruce Campbell: Geek or God?
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Antihero - Evil Dead inspired Music Video.
There will be an upswing in quality with the Blu, but this is all relative to the materials used to create the master. With the lower-budget origins of the movie, it won't be night-and-day. Then we come to the aforementioned tinkering, but it's worth noting that even the Elite LaserDisc/DVD versions saw Raimi ordering a couple of changes to it. We are certainly not in favour of such digital monkeying-around, but you just have to accept it.
In the end, if you can get it cheap enough, buy the Blu as a companion-piece to the superb Book of the Dead, as it will give the movie the multiplex experience rather than all the grimy fun of the drive-in...
...and the Blu will not smell like rubber johnnies.
THE WILSON BROS
Well, there are different extras between the two editions, and with the Blu you lose the Fanalysis documentary and the original commentary tracks.
But then, from the excellent Evil Dead Trilogy box set, you don't get the contents of the 4th disc, containing:
The Living Love the Dead
Dead Good Marketing
Bruce Campbell: Geek or God?
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Antihero - Evil Dead inspired Music Video.
There will be an upswing in quality with the Blu, but this is all relative to the materials used to create the master. With the lower-budget origins of the movie, it won't be night-and-day. Then we come to the aforementioned tinkering, but it's worth noting that even the Elite LaserDisc/DVD versions saw Raimi ordering a couple of changes to it. We are certainly not in favour of such digital monkeying-around, but you just have to accept it.
In the end, if you can get it cheap enough, buy the Blu as a companion-piece to the superb Book of the Dead, as it will give the movie the multiplex experience rather than all the grimy fun of the drive-in...
...and the Blu will not smell like rubber johnnies.
THE WILSON BROS
Wilson Bros wrote: losthighway wrote: So in your expertise Wilson Bros, would you say this is worth purchasing when I already own the Book of the Dead (foam book) edition from years ago!?
Well, there are different extras between the two editions, and with the Blu you lose the Fanalysis documentary and the original commentary tracks.
But then, from the excellent Evil Dead Trilogy box set, you don't get the contents of the 4th disc, containing:
The Living Love the Dead
Dead Good Marketing
Bruce Campbell: Geek or God?
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Antihero - Evil Dead inspired Music Video.
There will be an upswing in quality with the Blu, but this is all relative to the materials used to create the master. With the lower-budget origins of the movie, it won't be night-and-day. Then we come to the aforementioned tinkering, but it's worth noting that even the Elite LaserDisc/DVD versions saw Raimi ordering a couple of changes to it. We are certainly not in favour of such digital monkeying-around, but you just have to accept it.
In the end, if you can get it cheap enough, buy the Blu as a companion-piece to the superb Book of the Dead, as it will give the movie the multiplex experience rather than all the grimy fun of the drive-in...
...and the Blu will not smell like rubber johnnies.
THE WILSON BROS
I bought the Trilogy Boxset ages ago second hand on eBay and was very pleased with it. (It was in the DvdReview 501 you must own) I double dipped on the R3 Army of Darkness for the improved picture quality but it was cheap from DDDHouse. I'm a big Raimi fan but currently the boxset I have will fulfill my Evil Dead needs. As the Bros have said I will wait until the BD price drops before I give in to temptation.
Well, there are different extras between the two editions, and with the Blu you lose the Fanalysis documentary and the original commentary tracks.
But then, from the excellent Evil Dead Trilogy box set, you don't get the contents of the 4th disc, containing:
The Living Love the Dead
Dead Good Marketing
Bruce Campbell: Geek or God?
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Antihero - Evil Dead inspired Music Video.
There will be an upswing in quality with the Blu, but this is all relative to the materials used to create the master. With the lower-budget origins of the movie, it won't be night-and-day. Then we come to the aforementioned tinkering, but it's worth noting that even the Elite LaserDisc/DVD versions saw Raimi ordering a couple of changes to it. We are certainly not in favour of such digital monkeying-around, but you just have to accept it.
In the end, if you can get it cheap enough, buy the Blu as a companion-piece to the superb Book of the Dead, as it will give the movie the multiplex experience rather than all the grimy fun of the drive-in...
...and the Blu will not smell like rubber johnnies.
THE WILSON BROS
I bought the Trilogy Boxset ages ago second hand on eBay and was very pleased with it. (It was in the DvdReview 501 you must own) I double dipped on the R3 Army of Darkness for the improved picture quality but it was cheap from DDDHouse. I'm a big Raimi fan but currently the boxset I have will fulfill my Evil Dead needs. As the Bros have said I will wait until the BD price drops before I give in to temptation.
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