However, the image looks quite good throughout, with the transfer providing a sharp, stable image. Certainly 35mm looks better than Super 8 or video footage that was transferred to film, but each format manages to shine during the presentation. Depending on the circumstance, film grain can be very apparent or totally absent. Colors tend to appear strong and appealing. Blood reds and eerie greens, which appear extensively are completely solid and are reproduced without chroma noise or smearing.
Blacks are generally deep and accurate, especially during black and white sequences.
Clean dual layer authoring nicely hides all traces of digital compression artifacts. The Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack is aggressively mixed and sometimes can be a jarring as the film's visuals. Sound effects sometimes leap out at the viewer and are sometimes more modestly deployed and pan around the soundstage more naturally. The surround channels are well represented in the mix, sometimes calling more attention to themselves than the forward soundstage. Dialogue reproduction is clean and maintains full intelligibility, even though there are times when the track seems to be awash in sound.