There are more blemishes on the film element than I'd care to see, but none of them are particularly large or bothersome. Colors are strongly rendered, although the flesh tones sometimes appear a little pale. The film makes great use of color filters to create nightmarish monochromatic effects, which are rendered without any form of distortion. Blacks appear very accurate, although shadow detail is limited, leaving some of the darker sequences looking a little murky and lacking in depth. However, the murkiness works to the films advantage, since the viewer never knows what s lurking in the dark.
Contrast is smooth and the image has pretty good depth in well-lit scenes.
Digital compression artifacts remain out of sight during the presentation. The Dolby Digital monaural soundtrack definitely gets the job done, but it isn't what anyone would refer to as high fidelity. Dialogue is crisp and fully intelligible, although the voices sound a tad thin in places. The sound effects have a bit more oomph in the lower registers than I was expecting, but nothing ground shaking to be found here. Les Baxter's atmospheric music sounds fine, although this is an area where the age of the recordings becomes most noticeable.