Evil Dead Trilogy [DVD]

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As of 2013, there is still only really one standout Blu-Ray release; the 2011 US Lionsgate Evil Dead II 1. This should have an unedited running time of 37m 38s, meaning about ten minutes of footage has been removed.

Please let us know of any major releases that we are not aware of or have edits for current release information.The picture quality is very good in both video quality and sound, it is in English and has no subtitles. e. the 2010 ED 1 that AB first put out and the 2011 25th Anniversary ED2) repackaged into one case, which makes it a pretty sweet deal. Emily, of course, used to be known as Emily Bouffant and presented the much missed and often hilarious Blue Review show on the now defunct cable channel Live TV.

First time watchers won’t mind the build-up and all, but for the rest of us we just want to get to the gore. I've read on another forum that the handful of awkward-framing instances in the widescreen version have been re-framed for this release. There are some shots that wound up in the finished film, but a good percentage is previously unseen material. In other words, adding black bars on the bottom and top of the image created the widescreen presentation of the film on disc one. I can't say there's a heap more detail, like we're counting every individual hair on Bruce's head, since we seem to have pretty well hit the limit of what was captured on film.This transfer also has noticeably adjusted contrast levels and higher widescreen framing, all of which you can see from the comparison screenshots below. Both releases look almost identical, but the Limited Edition has a green band running across the top of the front cover with the words Limited edition - includes bonus special features DVD. The film itself is transferred from the Japanese 1985 'Herald Videogram' laserdisc, as detailed above. Anchor Bay released it as a bare-bones non-anamorphic DVD in 1998 and then spruced it up as an anamorphic special edition with the laserdisc extras in 2000. Likely, when the original blu-ray was being produced, some changes were made after the 4K scan, and some were made in 1080p.

Disc 1 is just the UK PAL version of the US NTSC Book Of The Dead DVD as above, but the bonus disc contains the open matte version of The Evil Dead, which is the same transfer as was used on the earlier Anchor Bay 1-5 picture disc DVD releases, and has the zooming editing tweak as previously mentioned. And the blu was so cheap, too; it was like a budget release except really a top shelf, first class special edition. The only things you'd be missing out on if you got that set would be the ED extras from the limited edition, and the 4k UHD stuff, which if you don't have a 4k player is off the table for most folk anyway.Their business model was easily better and more entrepreneurial than the grasping film-funding structure of the UK, and industry figures here could do with taking a look at what Raimi did rather than bemoan the lack of public funding available. Entertainment Magpie Limited t/a Music Magpie is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority FRN 775278. The 'skin' of the book is made of latex and will smell quite badly for a few weeks, but this will wear off.