Eventually, Christine begins to drain away Arnie's humanity, as she takes possession of his soul. Since John Carpenter is one of those director's that effectively make use of the full Panavision aspect ratio, watching the severely cropped full screen version is a complete waste of time. Sure, there is some evidence of film grain, however sharpness and detail are excellent. Colors are faithfully rendered with natural looking flesh tones and strong saturation. Reds, which tend to be problematic on video, are flawlessly recreated on this DVD without any chroma noise or distortion.
Blacks are velvety, while the contrast is incredibly smooth.
Digital compression artifacts couldn't be readily detected. However, there is definite channel separation across the forward soundstage. Additionally, dialogue reproduction is very clean and John Carpenter's musical score sounds quite good. Spanish and Portuguese language soundtrack are also encoded onto the DVD, as are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai subtitles. The interactive menus contain a tiny bit of animation and sound, but are otherwise quite basic.