Bobby soon finds himself isolated from everyone, including his elderly grandmother, who seems to know the name of evil that has come calling for the boy. While the wide screen transfer is nice, the movie would have been better served with an anamorphic enhanced picture. The image is relatively sharp and well defined throughout, although the daylight sequences do fair better than the interiors for overall clarity. Colors are well reproduced, with natural to slightly more vivid saturation. There is also a sepia toned sequence that is also pleasingly rendered.
Blacks appear fairly accurate and the image produces a decent amount of shadow detail.
There are a few blemishes on the film element utilized for the transfer, but nothing severe. The film s soundtrack is listed as two-channel Dolby Digital stereo, but my receiver was producing a better than fair amount of surround information. Eerie sound effects and music found its way into the rear channels, so I am willing to bet that this is a deliberate surround sound mix. Overall, the sound mix is quite effective, which is somewhat surprising, considering the film s budgetary constraints. Personally, I look forward to Tomaselli s next feature, which I hope will meld a stronger script and larger budget to the director s keen visual style.