Scream 2 (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray)

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underneath that misguided comedy tone, there is a clever and intelligent commentary trying to get out... Secondary Audio: German DD 5.1 | Spanish (Castilian) DD 2.0 | Spanish (Latino) DD 2.0 | French DD 2.0 | Italian DD 2.0 | Japanese DD 2.0 The Dolby Vision color grading does not push tones to the extreme, but natural greens are appropriately deep and vibrant, as is a yellow school bus, After another killing, this time of a sorority sister (SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR) tossed off the balcony, the panic begins to set in and soon Dewey and Gale figure out what the killer is doing: he’s recreating the killings from the year before, offing people with similar names from the victims in Woodsboro. Stunned by what they’ve found, they now realize Sidney is in real danger so the town’s sheriff has his “two best detectives” protecting the girl. I guess the word “best” is all relative as we’ll learn later on towards the third act… Like its predecessors, Scream 3 was shot on 35mm film using Panavision Panaflex Platinum cameras and Panavision C-Series lenses, capturing the images anamorphically. This disc uses a new 4K restoration of the film’s original camera negative and creates another wonderful native 3840 x 2160p resolution image with the original aspect ratio of 2.39:1 faithfully preserved using a 10-bit video depth, both High Dynamic Range flavours (HDR10 and Dolby Vision) and encoded using the HEVC (H.265) codec.

Audio: English (DTS-HD MA 5.1), German (Dolby Digital 2.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0), Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0), Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0) Scream 2' arrives in pretty much the same condition as its predecessor, meaning the studio should have remastered the horror series before releasing onto the high-def format.Sadly, it misses Wes Craven. With him at the helm, another entry would have continued to be about something else. But without him, it now becomes about him. Which, while noble, robs the film of being anything other than a soulless remake, with none of the rich vein of humour or depth that made the first film so unique and special. Nearly thirty years after the first film coined the term ‘meta’ and we’re still asked to think that naming characters after horror directors is clever? costume. The grading may not have that "wow" factor to it, but the faithfulness to the film's intended color timing is very welcome. It's a good, well defined, and refined 4K image is obvious; fans who have been living on the decade-old Blu-ray will find this to be a very welcome addition to Note that Paramount has also released 'Scream' to remastered Blu-ray. That disc is not included in this set. Of course, there’s nothing wrong per se with this film – it very competently inserts Tab A into Slot B in doing what it sets out to do: be the now ubiquitous ‘legacy sequel’ (thanks to The Force Awakens, it’s a carbon copy plot of the original film with original cast members cameoing to hand the baton over to a new, younger cast to continue its fan milking for many more entries to come…). The kills are bloody, the holy trinity of original cast show up and do very little (with the exception of David Arquette who actually is fantastic as a very different Dewey Riley, possibly because he’s actually given a decent amount of screentime (unlike his returning co-stars Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox) and the new young cast are exactly like the old young cast, only with half the charisma and a quarter of the depth.

clothes but extending to various environments, such as kitchens, bedrooms, classrooms, and other critical plot locations where the story unfolds in all thrilled, and there are few UHDs that prove so drastically better than their Blu-ray counterparts as this. Sadly, that speaks to the bad state in which Whilst only maybe film nerds knew the rules of a horror movie when the first Scream came out, a year later when this sequel hit cinemas, everyone knew the rules of being a ‘sequel’… bigger, more excessive and just worse. These weren’t just rules, these were recognisable facts in all but the hardiest of cases (Jim Cameron notwithstanding). Plot: What’s it about? Video: How does it look? Audio: How does it sound? Supplements: What are the extras? The Bottom Line Plot: What’s it about? Sadly and again, all are as per the previous 1080p release and all are lightweight and hardly worth bothering with, commentary aside.offering a practically perfect filmic appearance that boasts a very fine grain structure, unlike the previous Blu-ray which was defined by a morass of eye, and the one on the right is focused on the right eye. The girl on the left has a brown eye, the girl on the right a blue eye, providing the only color the midpoint, center, and in white, with a red "2" scrawled over it. The rear panel is similarly bleak in color. A bloody knife fills the bottom third. The top

the old Blu-ray palette, but here, the colors breathe in natural beauty and firm command of tonal accuracy. More than that, the extremes are handled Languages: English – United States, French – Parisian, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish – Castilian, and Spanish – Latin American;

of its darkly humorous glory. The picture may not achieve the level of 2160p perfection as the best of the best on the market, but the feel for a solid, digital processing artifacts and residue. Here, the picture is faithful to its cinematic roots. The grain is even and consistent and details are naturally The Dolby Vision color grading brings new life to the image with a natural and eye-catching color grading which is far more exact, nuanced, and bold

artificially sharped and actually made to look worse. At this resolution, and with this master, the image capably reveals exact textures and fine pointAlso consider the profiteering – the movie studio handed out those costumes, reflecting the dollar-making obsession that led to people donning O.J. Simpson masks after those grisly murders. Directly too, Scream 2 engages in the political posturing around violence in the media, which was less about movies in the mid-’90s than videogames, but it fits. When the killer reveals their plot, the snide jab about Christian groups paying for his defense isn’t wrong. Seeing the movie industry burn is a far right conservative dream. Scream 2 slashes onto the 4K Ultra HD format where it’s shown with a 2.35 widescreen aspect ratio and given a 2160p high-definition transfer. This one looks fairly good in 4K however nothing I’d call incredible, albeit an okay upgrade over the previous Blu-ray versions. Detail is sharp and well defined especially on close-ups while colors appear nicely balanced. On the negative side, I did notice some jittering on some of the motion shots, especially the more distant ones. Featurette (SD, 7 min) — Very EPK-style material meant simply to promote the movie and features interviews with the cast and crew, talking about the usual fluff of returning for a sequel. And so, with the benefits of time and a healthy sense of getting over ones-self, do Sid, Gail and Dewey get the send-off they deserve? Not quite…but it’s clear to see that underneath that misguided comedy tone, there is a clever and intelligent commentary trying to get out and now, with nearly a quarter of a century to get over that initial disappointment felt so keenly on release, it’s an awful lot easier to see the positives in what really should have been the trilogy capper for this still-fantastic cast of characters.