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

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signs of wear and tear. Detail is naturally high. The picture is sharp and crisp, revealing excellent details across the board, including basics like faces That horrible trilogy blu-set can now well and truly be banished as Paramount rounds out this first trilogy with a picture that is every bit as good as those on the previous films 4K releases. It really does show how far we’ve come in terms of understanding what constitutes a ‘good image’ and with the technology and format to finally realise it, we’re continuing to get some truly outstanding refreshes of these older releases that really do warrant a double or even triple dip. I’m very pleased to say that yet again, this disc gives us Scream 3 as it always should have looked. Glorious.

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 . Q&A with Cast and Crew: Included are What's Your Favorite Scary Movie? and Why Are People So Fascinated By HorrorComedy had always been a big part of the previous entries, but it never felt overt, coming more from the combination of smart characters and the situation they were placed in. Here though, not only do you have Parker Posey pratfalling like in a Jim Carrey movie, but shoe-horned in cameos from the likes of Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob hint at a level of smug-satisfaction, likely driven by studio honchos The Weinstein’s basking in the reflected glory of their golden goose and their place atop the Hollywood hills...granted these are almost blink and you'll miss ‘em, but it’s enough to show that Craven (or possibly new writer Ehren Krueger, replacing franchise stalwart Kevin Williamson) had completely changed his mind set to the prominent tone of the whole film. 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. over the 2011 disc which appeared, based on the Blu-ray.com screenshots, grossly processed. This is a well-rounded

details inherent to the original material; faces, clothes, buildings and natural elements around campus, as well as odds and ends inside homes, allMusic Videos (SD) — Two selections are offered. The first has Master P in "Scream" and the second shows Kottonmouth Kings performing "Suburban Life." 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. included one new extra in the form of a retrospective/thinly veiled pitch for the new 2022 Scream film. Below is a list of what's included. The

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 Also 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. 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 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. 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,digital processing artifacts and residue. Here, the picture is faithful to its cinematic roots. The grain is even and consistent and details are naturally

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, 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. Time has been kind to Scream 3…possibly because of what came after film-wise…sadly because of what followed from its studio head…but probably because the jarring humour in the film can now largely be accepted…if not entirely welcomed or liked. It still retains its superb central cast and with a better and cleverer narrative than the previous film, despite losing some its focus on its set-pieces, it’s a case of so close. Yet we have to remember that it has incredibly illustrious predecessors and in any other franchise, this would likely be remembered more fondly than it is. Brash, fun and bloody, Scream 3 is much better than memory serves…but still not as good as what came before. 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?

Sure, contrast is well-balanced and bright, giving the picture an attractive cinematic pop, but there are also many scenes showing distracting noise and slightly poor resolution. Fine object and textural details are fairly stable, with some great clarity and strong definition, especially in close-ups, but this is equaled with several instances of softness and a bit of mushiness in trees from a distance. The biggest culprit is the same which plagued the first movie — edge enhancement that ranges from very minor to annoyingly obvious. 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, Note that Paramount has also released 'Scream' to remastered Blu-ray. That disc is not included in this set. To call this a vast improvement over the 2011 Blu-ray would be a gross understatement. Paramount's new 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD release is stellar, 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.