4K Ultra HD – Edition EN – Paramount Pictures – 87 min – 21 September 2022
Video format
• Intermediate Master: 4K
• Standard HDR: Dolby Vision
• Ratio: 2.39
Soundtrack
• English DTS-HD MA 7.1
• Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
• English
• French
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WORK – The teeth of the cellar
When a violent hurricane struck his hometown of Florida, Hayley ignored the evacuation orders to search for his missing father. She finds him seriously injured in the basement of the family home and realizes that they are trapped by alligators as the flood progresses rapidly...
Product by Sam Raimi and implemented by Alexandre Aja, this roller coaster horrifico-bestial is a closed-door controlled catastrophe, where the anxiety suspense is as delectable as the fierce attacks of its very angry alligators. An old-fashioned B series with dreadful efficiency.
IMAGE – In troubled waters
Extremely neat, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer to perfect definition and optimal compression (even under water) delivers very clear images.
The details are even more impressive than in 1080p (the texture of the brick walls, the precision of the wounds), the colorimetric palette worn on the grey (and red during bites) shades is more strongly calibrated (bath caps, vegetation, yellow K-Way), the contrast rate that is always as balanced is much more striking (cf. the increased density of suitable blacks and the shine enhanced with purified whites) and the light sources with a much more striking intensity (outdoor light through the openings of the cellar, fumigants, torch lamp) stimulate as never all the planes.
SON – Ah! Cro, cro, cro, cro 🎶
Although the storm is not sufficiently sounded in the basement of the house (while it overwhelms us outside with its violent winds and torrential rain), this large and striking mixing (even the small VF) does not lack any effects (the movements and movements of the crocodiles, the barking of the dog) or atmospheres (drops of water, cracks of wood) interspersed with massive bass (thunder and flood).
Due to the weather of a rare violence that falls over the place of action, activate a virtualization DSP flows from source.
CONCLUSION – In the eye of the alligator
As the storm strikes, the French filmmaker who has long-lasting success in Hollywood plunges back into horror with this basement of fear, whose ambient claustrophobia is accentuated by the present 4K Ultra HD (A/V performances « alligatoresques »)!
Artistic note
8
Video quality
10
Audio quality
9
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