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    恶魔之夜 ( 1957 )

    7.3

    Night of the Demon 双碟

    分 类: 电影 类型: 恐怖

    国 家: 英国

    主 演: 达纳·安德鲁斯/佩吉·卡明斯/尼尔·麦吉尼斯/莫瑞斯·德纳姆

    清晰度: 1080P 视频: AVC, 23.976fps, 16:9

    大 小: 88.28GB 片长:

    字 幕: 英语

    音 频:

    英语, 1.0声道, DTS-HDMA, 48KHz

    标 签: 原盘

    人 气: 6 更新: 2019-02-16

American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].







Presented in aspect ratios of 1.75:1 and 1.66:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted 1080p transfers, Night of the Demon arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Indicator/Powerhouse Films.

The release is sourced from a recent remaster that was prepared by the BFI and features four different presentations of the film: Original Full-length Version (in 1.75:1 and 1.66:1), U.S. Reissue Version (in 1.75:1 and 1.66:1), UK Theatrical Cut, and U.S. Theatrical Cut. I chose the Full-length Version in 1.75:1 and later on did some comparisons with the other presentations. The screencacaptures that are included with our review appear in the following order:

1. Screencaptures #1-20: Full-length Version.
2. Screencaptures #22-30: U.S. Theatrical Cut.

Generally speaking, the basic characteristics of the Full-length Version are fine. Depth and clarity, for instance, are pleasing, and the grading is convincing. However, there are certain source limitations, and in some areas it is actually easy to tell that there is room for additional optimizations. For example, early into the film there is small but noticeable shakiness inside the frame, and the same effect sporadically reappears later on. Furthermore, while density levels are indeed good, on a larger screen it is pretty easy to see that grain exposure does not have the solid evenness that usually gives a film that attractive tightness. In fact, where the effect is most noticeable it is also easy to see that definition isn't optimal (see examples in screencaptures #2 and 11). So, ideally there should be superior ranges of finer nuances and they ought to be visible during the daylight and nighttime footage. The U.S. Theatrical Cut offers some marginal improvements in select areas and actually brings back some of the missing nuances, but it also has elevated contrast and sharpness levels that make it look noticeably harsher (see screencaptures #26, 27, and 29), and for this very reason I prefer the 'softer' appearance of the longer version. A few scattered tiny blemishes remain, but there are no large damage marks, cuts or torn frames to report. (Note: This is a Region-Free Blu-ray release. Therefore, you will be able to play it on your player regardless of your geographical location).


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