4K Ultra HD – Edition EN – ESC Editions – 138 min – 24 May 2023
Video format
• Intermediate Master: 4K
• Standard HDR: HDR10+ and Dolby Vision
• Ratio: 1.78
Soundtrack
• English DTS-HD MA 5.1
• English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
• 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 – The hammer mime
After being resurrected to the morgue by a mysterious and sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to the city of Miles County on Halloween night where he targets Sienna Shaw, a teenager, and Jonathan, her younger brother.
Overwhelming pastiche of the 80s slasher, Terrifiing 2 Trash spill « great puppet » carrying to the naked enucleations, strippings and other lacerations. The staging of Damien Leone often made in the mismeasurement, the artisanal SFX (prosthetic effects to the old) do not lack enthusiasm and the murders, filled with tripails and hectolitres of hemoglobins, are horribly sadistic. Regressive to desire and extremely gore, this « midnight movie » For informed public has brought his evil clown into the Pantheon of Horrific Creatures of 7th Art. For lovers of the genre, a delicious sweetness!
IMAGE – Blood full screen
Less brilliant for free than the Blu-ray, the much more coherent image of this UHD Dolby Vision transfer (or HDR10+ depending on your hardware) better controls its contrasts (places are darker) and alives, without unwelcome oversaturation, its joyfully excessive colorimetric palette.
Blacks (slightly bluish) are no longer washed out, scenes plunged into darkness become more prominent, colors are more «badass » (the blood is now well red and no longer dark orange) and the lights appear as more supported and dazzling than in CSD (the reflections and the glow inflamed on the mystic sword have more punch).
The peasy grain added in post-prod is less dirty and more homogeneous thanks to a better encoding (which annihilates the parasitic tingling as it passes), the finer details are returned more neatly (the barback is more « appetizing ») and the resolution, without excavating a substantial gap with its counterpart 1080p, brings an extra slight veil of sharpness to the background (the benefits of a DI 4K).
SON – Trick or treat?
Very vigorous (the dynamic leaps) and expansive (blood-throwing) during the violent attacks of Art the Clown, this soundtrack of great clarity remains nonetheless wise the rest of the time.
Back channels are only required to break down the signed score Paul Wiley and broadcast some atmospheric atmospheres, the LFE channel is rarely felt and the sound design is far less crazy than the work it sounds. There is no doubt that these are the limits of a budget of $250,000.
No difference in mixing between VO and VF (in catastrophic dubbing) even though the integration of voices is much more natural on the first.
CONCLUSION – Who's laughing now?
On board this ghost train that blooms good horror bis, don't make the grimace and let yourself go according to its evil mime Marceau. Murdered cruel adept at uncomplexed carnages, it presents a nightmare of clown number whose bloody high facts are even more carnivalesque in 4K Ultra HD!
And so as not to miss anything of his promising career, the limited collector edition embarks All Hallows Eve (2013, 83′, VOSTFR DTS-HD MA 2.0) and the first Terrifiing (2016, 85′, VOSTFR DTS-HD MA 5.1) in superb HD copies. Gore to laugh or what?!
Artistic note
7
Video quality
8.5
Audio quality
7.5
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Did you watch the whole movie? I read everywhere that it was absolutely awful. Was that so horrible?
En général un film classé gore c’est le but .Je confirme c’est bien dégueulasse mais jouissif car les maquillages old school sont vachement réussis.
Oui, en effet, la bande-annonce laissait présager le meilleur à ce niveau-là. En fait j’aime le gore dégueulasse façon Re-Animator, mais avec le temps j’aime de moins en moins le torture porn et son côté ”pervers” avec la caméra qui s’attarde longuement sur les mutilations et les blessures.
Est-ce qu’ici c’est du gore expéditif façon ”slasher” ou est-ce qu’on a droit à de longues scènes de torture? Le film est long en plus !
En tout cas il a l’air très réussi visuellement et la performance de l’acteur qui joue le clown est sidérante.
Il y a un peu des deux à dire vrai… Parfois ce sont des meurtres expéditifs (mais bien graphiques) et parfois des meurtres bien sadiques (et encore plus gores) qui font durer le plaisir ! 😉
C’est noté, je finirai par le regarder en détournant le regard par moments alors ^^
Je regarde TOUJOURS les films en entier, que j’aime ou non l’œuvre en passant. Dans le cas présent, c’est méchant et gorasse à souhait ! 🙂
Toujours pas vu perso mais j’ai rencontré celui qui a porté le projet pour qu’il sorte en France lors des festivals. En discutant et après lecture de vos messages, il faudra que je prenne le temps de le regarder, ça c’est sûr.
Bizarrement hors les scènes de violences sexuelles, je suis de plus en plus insensible à la violence en vieillissant. L’inverse de toi Ummagumma ! ^^ Faudra aussi que je rattrape The Sadness que j’avais loupé en festival. ^^
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