I got the blu-ray from Umbrella.
STEPHEN KINGS SILVER BULLET (BLU-RAY) - Umbrella Entertainment
SK actually was too busy to do the screenplay at the time, but Dino de Laurentiis coaxed him into doing it. It seems he didn't visit the set, but the producers did visit him at his home.
It's great seeing it again. When you haven't seen a film for a long time (I probably hadn't seen it since the eighties) it feels almost brandnew again - certainly with good image and the correct aspect ratio, which you probably never saw on VHS or tv.
I had totally forgotten how big Jane's (Marty's sister) role was in it and her performance by Megan Follows. Also that she narrated it looking back on her life (which makes it feel similar in tone to a lot of written SK stories and books).
When you think of the film, you think of the boy, the uncle, the reverend - you forget about the sister.
Also Terry O'Quinn was still an unknown to me at the time and since (because of The Stepfather and Lost) not anymore.
In terms of image and sound the blu-ray is not great. Everything looks sharp enough when it's close, but everything a little further away is a bit unsharp. Also the sound is rather low, especially the music is very in the background. You can turn your volume up, of course, but when it's low in the first place, you never get it to sound really full in volume.
But I suppose they did the best with it they could, because in every other sense (the extras) it seems every care was taken.
There is about an hour of extras: interviews with producer Martha Schumacher/De Laurentiis (wife of Dino), two special effects artists and the reverend himself, Everett McGill. The special effects interview is the most fun. Only the main werewolf was designed by Carlo Rambaldi, and there was a big shouting match in Italian when Dino saw the result. The two artists think it just wasn't what Rambaldi was very good at designing. There is no word it was at the request of SK that the wolf looked plain (but I still have the commentary to listen to).
There is a commentary by director Daniel Attias (who's debut it was, and he went on to be an in demand tv director; he's actually returning to King for the upcoming Castle Rock series) and an interview/isolated score by composer Jay Chattaway. So in terms of extras it's quite solid.
STEPHEN KINGS SILVER BULLET (BLU-RAY) - Umbrella Entertainment
SK actually was too busy to do the screenplay at the time, but Dino de Laurentiis coaxed him into doing it. It seems he didn't visit the set, but the producers did visit him at his home.
It's great seeing it again. When you haven't seen a film for a long time (I probably hadn't seen it since the eighties) it feels almost brandnew again - certainly with good image and the correct aspect ratio, which you probably never saw on VHS or tv.
I had totally forgotten how big Jane's (Marty's sister) role was in it and her performance by Megan Follows. Also that she narrated it looking back on her life (which makes it feel similar in tone to a lot of written SK stories and books).
When you think of the film, you think of the boy, the uncle, the reverend - you forget about the sister.
Also Terry O'Quinn was still an unknown to me at the time and since (because of The Stepfather and Lost) not anymore.
In terms of image and sound the blu-ray is not great. Everything looks sharp enough when it's close, but everything a little further away is a bit unsharp. Also the sound is rather low, especially the music is very in the background. You can turn your volume up, of course, but when it's low in the first place, you never get it to sound really full in volume.
But I suppose they did the best with it they could, because in every other sense (the extras) it seems every care was taken.
There is about an hour of extras: interviews with producer Martha Schumacher/De Laurentiis (wife of Dino), two special effects artists and the reverend himself, Everett McGill. The special effects interview is the most fun. Only the main werewolf was designed by Carlo Rambaldi, and there was a big shouting match in Italian when Dino saw the result. The two artists think it just wasn't what Rambaldi was very good at designing. There is no word it was at the request of SK that the wolf looked plain (but I still have the commentary to listen to).
There is a commentary by director Daniel Attias (who's debut it was, and he went on to be an in demand tv director; he's actually returning to King for the upcoming Castle Rock series) and an interview/isolated score by composer Jay Chattaway. So in terms of extras it's quite solid.
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