Flesh tones generally look accurate, but the film's variable lighting situations do have a noticeable effect. Blacks are very solid and there is good level of shadow detail to be found in the image. The climatic scene in the hedge maze greatly benefits from the improved detail, depth and reduction in appreciable film grain. Clean dual layer authoring keeps digital compression artifacts from becoming noticeable. The 5.1 channel mix isn't overdone and seems to be maintaining a reverence for the intentions of the film's monaural soundtrack.
Music gets the biggest boost from the remix, which utilizes the original stereo musical recordings.
Additionally, the music extends into the rear channels, which serves to enhance the track's musical presence. The surround encoding and the increased fidelity of the music envelops the viewer, thus giving the new track added creepiness, which builds even more tension than the monaural track did. Sound effects are directional, but do not sound particularly forced, which they sometimes do in certain remixes that go out of their way to advantage of all the discrete channels. There are a few jarring sound effects that jump out at the viewer from the rear speakers, but the surround channels are not used to excess. Dialogue is fully intelligible and the actor's voices are a bit more full bodied than they were in the on the Laserdisc edition of the film.