Source : United States (4K UHD) / France (Blu-ray) | Publisher : Shout Factory (4K UHD) / Rimini Editions (Blu-ray) | Release date : 05 September 2023 (4K UHD) / 29 February 2024 (Blu-ray)
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 1.85
Dolby Vision / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 6.5 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 7.5
Video format
1080p24 – Ratio 1.85
CSD / BT.709 – AVC encoding
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
French DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 6.5 | Video : 7.5 | Audio : 7.5
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Test equipment and condition (Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster : Philips 65OLED908 (Filmmaker Mode | Dolby Vision Filmmaker)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar (DTS Neural:X), SVS SB-4000
WORK - A new world just for them
Following the passage of a comet, humanity is largely decimated. Regina and her young sister Samantha are among the few survivors. They find refuge in the studio of a local radio station that continues to broadcast. In a world now without rules, the two sisters decided to go back to their wardrobes in shopping malls. But some survivors, partly irradiated, have been transformed into zombies...
Cult in the USA but unknown from around us, this amazing cocktail Pink Lady based on ten movie of the 80s mix horror, science fiction and comedy with as carefree as energy. Very appreciated by Joss Whedon (his Buffy Summers is inspired by one of the heroines), Dawn of the Dead cushy where women take things in hand celebrates the thirst to live from two teenage girls to the strong temperament (the delured Catherine Mary Stewart and ingenue Kelli Maroney) having survived the apocalypse. And since they are endearing, a real charm emerges from their misadventures with a pop-sweet atmosphere despite a crappy scenario and handcrafted SFX, where only the makeups of David B. Miller (to whom one owes the face of Freddy Krueger) exit the lot. A very friendly B-series petite.
IMAGE - Brushings, zombies and uzis
Coming from a 4K scan of the original negative, the UHD Dolby Vision transfer from the 4K Ultra HD edition dominates without difficulty its HD counterpart (published 10 years ago with the same publisher) and chooses as never before the very colorful photograph of the chef op Arthur Albert.
The wear of time (white dots, scratches and dust) has been carefully gummed, the silver grain (more imposing on rigged planes) is well returned by a particularly healthy encoding (an average bitrate measured at 90.4 Mb/s) and despite a hint of softness of that (imputable to the use of filters and optical prints), the details displayed are much better solved than in the past (faces, deserted city and outfits). The colorimetric palette increases in heat and fergue (red-orange from the sky), deep contrasts (see black levels) and light sources in punch (public lighting, neon signs).
Inevitably below, the Blu-ray of Rimini Editions (which uses the previous Master 1080p of Shout Factory) remains no less good bill... Especially Comet Night had not yet had the honours of an HD release in France! Generally soft although close-ups are not lacking in accuracy, this stable but somewhat speckled image (dirty in places) exhibits a pleasant 35 mm patina and attractive colours (the illustrious red filters) very well saturated.
SON - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Identical between the two discs, the VO dual mono (the original mixing) is by far the most balanced soundtrack. Dynamic and very solidly restoring its effects (ball gusts) as its memorable playlist from the 1980s (Cyndia Lauper, Stallion, Revover, etc.), it also delivers perfectly audible dialogues where they are sometimes overwhelmed by background music on version 5.1 (reserved for 4K Ultra HD). A sound track that did not have much of a multichannel (if not the artificial ventilation of the wind at the back), in addition to adding parasitic breath where there is none in 2.0.
Even if the dubbing is nice like everything else, the French track dual mono suffers from too prominent voices coming to crush the atmospheres. In fact, an acoustic imbalance predominates.
CONCLUSION - Life goes on
Whether you're opting for the American 4K Ultra HD or the French Blu-ray (a three-part collector digipack edition containing a 24-page booklet written by Marc Toullec) that finds its place in the Angoisse Collection by Rimini Éditions, this bariole tribute to vintage science fiction will be even more tastyly kitsch on physical media!
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