judging by that review's screenshots this is a serious improvement in all areas. The old Blu-ray appeared to be heavily processed while this one is very Scream 2 was shot on 35mm film using Panavision Panaflex Platinum cameras and Panavision Primo and C-Series lenses, capturing the images anamorphically. This disc uses a new 4K restoration of the film’s original camera negative and creates a 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. compared to the overengineered Blu-ray. Hair colors dazzle, natural greens leap off the screen, and all variety of colors are solidly grounded in reality. For this Blu-ray edition, the same assortment of supplements are carried over from the previous DVD release.

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clothes of a variety of 90s colors that are well served by the Blu-ray's carefully considered color palette output, featuring neutral contrast with only the to the original, right down to throwing an "old school" cordless landline phone in for seemingly no other reason than to keep the connection, so to Long familiar with the genre, director Wes Craven clearly shows he's having fun with the material and many of its self-referential aspects. He doesn't shy away from satirizing the horror films of his peers or his own works. He knowingly exposes many of the flaws in a worn-out plot structure as well as admiration for some its finer features, namely the mystery and suspense. The legendary director shows the careful hand of an experienced filmmaker, pacing the scares and tension with a patience that builds. The camera lingers with moody silence just long enough before breaking into typical jump tactics. It's a technical characteristic that can be appreciated as the work of a skilled storyteller, and Craven reveals he hasn't lost touch of that with 'Scream.' Note that Paramount has also released 'Scream' to remastered Blu-ray. That disc is not included in this set.

Cutting straight to the chase, the new 4K image for Scream 2 is every bit as impressive as that of the 4K release of the first film. Scream 2 had an atrocious previous 1080p release, marred as it was with all manner of digital issues such as artificial sharpening, edge enhancement, an insanely bright neon colour wash and slathering’s of DNR. This new 4K release scrubs all of that away and lets the true filmic image underneath really shine… by making the world of movies integral to its plot, it must be hyper aware of truth but also forward thinking in terms of how Scream (or 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 characters and returning favorites. This film shares the same sort of scenes where such information is revealed in exposition as the characters letdown following up that experience. This is fine in a vacuum, however, with format appropriate clarity to faces, adequate intimacy to skin details and

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Paramount's 1080p image for Scream is sharp and revealing. It is clearly the lesser of the two images when compared with the concurrently 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

Conclusion

The beauty of Scream was always its simplicity. Never overt, fiercely intelligent with it and superbly realised, the simplicity of the film allowed everything else about it to be brought to such a vivid life that in a genre whose films tend to act as gaudy time capsules for the period they were made, Scream remains a vibrant, effective, and very modern horror film. Even after twenty-five years . believe that the killer, or killers (there are always two) are amongst them. As the body count mounts, three former Woodsboro heroes – Dewey