Great John Carpenter Film in a lovely Shout Factory restoration featuring a wonderful 5.1 soundtrack embellishing composer Jack Nitzsche's warm and wistful score.
Who doesn't love John Carpenter movies? I've seen this only once in a theater & still I remember most about it & was impressed. Guess I'm off to check good 'ol Deep Discount after this.
Carpenter had certainly come a long way since his other "star" movie: Dark Star
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Now I do own a Blu-Ray of this & have LMAO several times with it. Esp good with friends. A film so cheap & cheerful. Have you noticed how upside down ice cube trays with lights are used for push buttons on the ships control panel?
Since you mentioned Shout Factory this is my recent purchase from them:
Now this was one of my 1st Laserdisc's I bought. I do not own a DVD but I have a DL'ed HD version from an earlier release. Man Oh Man the Shout Factory version is amazing by comparisons. It is incredible that such video & audio quality can be had from a 1974 film. It has nice bright highlights, solid blacks with a full range of tones in between. It has great color balance while the earlier one had sort of what I call fluorescent light color. The sound is a real treat too. Now at the opening number with the Juicy Fruits singing it is so forward balanced & stereo like I had to check my rear speaker power amp & make sure it was turned on. It was. The surround sound ramps up quickly & apply's to music & some scary sound FX.
And of course the movies story is classic mash up so good it's always good to watch one more time. There is a whole DVD of extras & bonus features that usually don't interest me but each one was an excellent & valid contribution.
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