Scream (2022) [Blu-ray] [Region A & B & C]

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The audio fares a great deal better, making up for some of the distracting artifacts, but supplements are nothing new and are simply carried over from a previous release. Still, essential tones are nice and lively, skin tones are healthy, and whites and blacks are contextually fine, just not super dynamic.

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Hopefully gone are the days of artificially manipulating the image to what studios think audiences want to see and if 4K does nothing else but give us film as it simply looked (or as close to as possible in the digital world) in the cinema, then long may it reign supreme in the home video market. All the while, facial complexions appear healthy with a rosy-peachy tone in the cast and revealing lifelike texture, making for a fantastic step-up over the previous Blu-ray. Not in a smart arse, sly wink at the audience way, but in a way that has us all pause, just for a moment, to think about us bathing in the gruesome excess of someone’s real life portrayed as shallow entertainment. Sidney and her Woodsboro friends are all experts on horror films, and suddenly they find themselves living scenes very much like the thrills they have experienced vicariously for years.The best moments in Scream are undoubtedly the lunatic finale where the denouement of who is actually visiting this carnage on peaceful little Woodsboro is delivered with an absolutely hilarious blend of big laughs and real thrills, all the while mining virtually each and every well worn cliché of horror movie climaxes. Aside from a few exceptions, the genre seemed to limp along in a daze of formulaic rubbish, and audiences (myself included) were in need of something new. For this UHD release of Scream 2, Paramount has simply repurposed the existing, and still very good, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.

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Still, the inhabitants of this small area feel as if the tragedies are so fresh that they could have occurred yesterday. Scream may be a play on convention, but after twenty-five years, the slasher classic remains a frightfully good time at the movies, full of mystery and the standard cheap thrills. For more about Scream and the Scream Blu-ray release, see Scream Blu-ray Review published by Martin Liebman on April 5, 2022 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.

Moving onto 6 min 03 sec as Barrymore is looking out of her window at her soon to be very dead boyfriend, the highlights of her tears on her cheek are wonderfully bright, while the balance of the highlights down the edge of the phone she’s holding look perfectly natural, showing a sympathetic and not overt use of HDR to bring the image to life. and uses 10-bit video depth, a Wide Colour Gamut (WCG) in conjunction with both HDR10 and Dolby Vision flavours of High Dynamic Range, and is encoded using the HEVC (H. A robust, palpable low-end meets every punch, thrust, gunshot and crash with plenty of weight and force. A near faultless blend of self-awareness, humor and outright scream-worthy scares, this is a film that knows you know what to expect, and it plays with those expectations like a cat with a cornered mouse.