4K Ultra HD – UK Edition – Warner Bros. - 111 min - 23 May 2022
Video format
• Intermediate Master: 4K
• Standard HDR: HDR10
• Ratio: 2.39
Soundtrack
• English DTS-HD MA 5.1
• English (Quebec) Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles
• English
• French
It is brought to the attention of our dear readers as well as the viewing equipment specified and used by each tester of the MaG team, the rendering may differ from one installation to another, whether or not it is calibrated, as well as personal preferences and expectations may influence the rating. Moreover, the images in the article are not representative of the edition tested.
WORK – Strange case Emily May
Madison had a traumatic childhood until she was caught under the wings of a charming foster family. Now an adult, her troubling past catches her up in the form of nightmares, during which her friend Gabriel commits cruel murders. She wonders if these were just dreams or whether these murders are actually real...
Far from the dreadful movie to the Insidious or Counseling the same director, Malignant is a deformed giallo that compensates for the mismatch of his script with furibar artistic freedom. As a technically chiaded and plastically dated nanar, this horrific work up to the bottler (it assumes its outrages from end to end) pushes all the pottery thoroughly in its last straight line (deviating to possible), where WTF sequences to the particularly graphic violence arrive one behind the other. In short, an unforgettable « nightmare » baroque clinically bleak!
IMAGE – The hidden face of evil
Influenced by the giallo and more particularly the works of Dario Argento, the beautiful photograph signed Michael Burgess sees its strangeness accentuated by the present UHD HDR10 transfer.
With an unshakeable definition (the Seattle city's undergrounds will have no more secrets for you) and incredibly sharp details even thinner than in HD (see wounds), it unravels a colorimetric palette to the otherwise more debrided primary (including greens and reds), mischievously more assertive contrasts where blacks (underlighted places are more threatening) and whites (with raised purity) express fully, and light sources strongly stylized with greatly increased vivacity (neons, light that crosses windows).
Yet, however clinical, the image is somewhat affected by the presence of « ghost » a very light video noise coming « haunt » darkest passages.
SON – Gabriel, you burn my mind...
Private mixing Dolby Atmos (this was already the case in dark rooms), this attractive soundtrack must be « content » a solid encoding DTS-HD MA 5.1.
The voices are of great clarity, the dynamic plays the yo-yo with our nerves, the atmospheres (quietly it hears) that like to torment us effectively use allocated speakers, the music gets angry at the slightest opportunity and the bass really lack weight.
Even if less valiant, the VF(Q) defends itself rather well in its genre with well deployed spatialization (but necessarily not as precise as the VO) and a certain extent.
CONCLUSION – Under the Devil's control?
Like a terato, this series B dreaming Z is a work « abnormal » which is manifested by a confusing exploitation of its own cinematic references (Brian De Palma, Brian Yuzna, Dario Argento, David Cronenberg, etc.)... Naturally more blatant in 4K Ultra HD!
Artistic note
7
Video quality
8.5
Audio quality
9
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