Christopher Walken is ideally cast as the film s version of Whitley Strieber. Walken is a perfect embodiment of all the character s eccentricities and is especially good during the hallucinatory hypnosis sequences. Lindsay Crouse is a bit remote as the writer s wife Anne, but it s always a challenge keeping up with Walken. Frances Sternhagen never disappoints and here she delivers another impressive performance as psychiatrist Janet Duffy. The transfer is clean, sharp and offers up a very good level of detail.
Colors have natural saturation and flesh tones appear quite pleasing.
There are no signs of chromatic distortion anywhere during the presentation. Blacks are accurately rendered and the picture provides a healthy level of shadow detail. The smoothly authored DVD doesn t display any signs of digital compression artifacts. Sound quality is pleasant, without any overbearing sound effects that call attention to themselves. Dialogue is cleanly reproduced and maintains full intelligibility.