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Burnt Offerings
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Up the ancient stairs, behind the locked door, something lives, something evil, from which no one has ever returned.
A couple and their twelve-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer where things aren’t quite what they seem. Every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself…
Director: Dan Curtis
Cast: Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Bette Davis, Eileen Heckart
Cast: Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Bette Davis, Eileen Heckart
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Burnt Offerings (1976), directed by Dan Curtis, Kino Lorber remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical dual mono and two commentary tracks.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074258/
Video encoded in two-pass 14.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available.
Note : An unusual little haunted house movie here, from Dan Curtis, the guy behind Trilogy of Terror, and it's pretty good, with the original take that it's not exactly ghosts in the house, but rather the house itself that's evil and tormenting the inhabitants. It also has an extremely stacked cast, including Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, and Lee Montgomery.
Writer Ben Rolf, his wife Marian, and their son Davey tour a large, rural mansion they want to rent for the summer. The owners, the strange but welcoming Allardyce siblings, offer it at a bargain price, with one condition: Their elderly and reclusive mother will continue living on the top floor, and the Rolfs will provide her with meals during their stay. Since the old woman is so private, they will not interact with her, but rather just leave her food outside her door. Eagerly accepting, the Rolfs arrive along with Ben's aunt Elizabeth, and Marian quickly becomes taken with the home and caring for it, as well as wearing old clothes she finds in her bedroom, and distancing herself from the rest of the family. She also explores the sitting room, which holds a huge collection of photographs from different eras, apparently all of previous inhabitants of the house. Strange things start happening during their stay; after Davey hurts himself, a dead plant comes back to life, Ben cuts his hand, and a broken light bulb starts working again, and Ben is haunted by visions of a grinning hearse driver. With each accident or mishap, the house appears to repair itself. After Ben's aunt becomes ill and dies, he insists on leaving, but the house doesn't seem to want to let the family go...
This is an ok transfer, not great, but we need to talk about the cinematography in this film. I've mentioned the trend towards flary, gauzy photography from about the mid-70s to the early 80s before, but I've never seen it as pronounced as here, where almost every shot that has any amount of bright light in it makes me want to reach for some eye drops. Maybe it's an attempt at a subjective point of view, seeing the world through Oliver Reed's perpetually plastered eyes, but whatever it is, it's pretty distracting. The dual mono track sounds fine, and the commentary track is interesting, featuring both the director, the co-writer, and Karen Black herself.
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IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074258/
Video encoded in two-pass 14.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available.
Note : An unusual little haunted house movie here, from Dan Curtis, the guy behind Trilogy of Terror, and it's pretty good, with the original take that it's not exactly ghosts in the house, but rather the house itself that's evil and tormenting the inhabitants. It also has an extremely stacked cast, including Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, and Lee Montgomery.
Writer Ben Rolf, his wife Marian, and their son Davey tour a large, rural mansion they want to rent for the summer. The owners, the strange but welcoming Allardyce siblings, offer it at a bargain price, with one condition: Their elderly and reclusive mother will continue living on the top floor, and the Rolfs will provide her with meals during their stay. Since the old woman is so private, they will not interact with her, but rather just leave her food outside her door. Eagerly accepting, the Rolfs arrive along with Ben's aunt Elizabeth, and Marian quickly becomes taken with the home and caring for it, as well as wearing old clothes she finds in her bedroom, and distancing herself from the rest of the family. She also explores the sitting room, which holds a huge collection of photographs from different eras, apparently all of previous inhabitants of the house. Strange things start happening during their stay; after Davey hurts himself, a dead plant comes back to life, Ben cuts his hand, and a broken light bulb starts working again, and Ben is haunted by visions of a grinning hearse driver. With each accident or mishap, the house appears to repair itself. After Ben's aunt becomes ill and dies, he insists on leaving, but the house doesn't seem to want to let the family go...
This is an ok transfer, not great, but we need to talk about the cinematography in this film. I've mentioned the trend towards flary, gauzy photography from about the mid-70s to the early 80s before, but I've never seen it as pronounced as here, where almost every shot that has any amount of bright light in it makes me want to reach for some eye drops. Maybe it's an attempt at a subjective point of view, seeing the world through Oliver Reed's perpetually plastered eyes, but whatever it is, it's pretty distracting. The dual mono track sounds fine, and the commentary track is interesting, featuring both the director, the co-writer, and Karen Black herself.
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