Scream 2 (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray)

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Studios & Distributors: Dimension Films | Konrad Pictures | Craven-Maddalena Films | Miramax | Maven Entertainment | Lionsgate | Paramount Home Entertainment Two years have passed since the killings in Woodsboro. We now find the surviving cast members at Windsor College. Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) has been released from prison and is making the rounds, trying to cash in on his newfound stardom. Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) has written a best-selling novel, The Woodsboro Murders, which is being adapted into a film – Stab. But as the premiere date approaches, a new wave of murders start to occur on the college campus. Dewey (David Arquette) deduces that it’s a copycat killer, but there might be something a bit more sinister at work. Reuniting with Sidney (Neve Campbell) and Randy (Jamie Kennedy), they try to piece things together and catch the killer.

Sadly and again, all are as per the previous 1080p release and all are lightweight and hardly worth bothering with, commentary aside. details inherent to the original material; faces, clothes, buildings and natural elements around campus, as well as odds and ends inside homes, all To call this a vast improvement over the 2011 Blu-ray would be a gross understatement. Paramount's new 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD release is stellar,Second time around does this new iteration of the Scream franchise no favours at all, with this just released 4K disc from Paramount going out of its way to remind you exactly what’s so wrong with the film itself... Sadly, it misses Wes Craven. With him at the helm, another entry would have continued to be about something else. But without him, it now becomes about him. Which, while noble, robs the film of being anything other than a soulless remake, with none of the rich vein of humour or depth that made the first film so unique and special. Nearly thirty years after the first film coined the term ‘meta’ and we’re still asked to think that naming characters after horror directors is clever? the new 4K image for Scream 2 is every bit as impressive as that of the 4K release of the first film Every one of the well-meaning cast and crew are so enamoured by the minutiae of how they’ve painstakingly and slavishly recreated the look, the locations, the shots, the everything of the first film, even down to the directors of this – Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett – telling us with huge smiles that when they didn’t know what to do, they’d just watch the first film and ‘do their version of that’, that it soon becomes obvious this is more than just a basic remake of the first film. The subwoofer is given some clean, tightly calibrated low-end work to play with, from the killer pounding on some glass at 1:22:53, to the score, which when ramped up, gives off some solid range on both ends. The music wraps-around effectively, or at least as strongly as the theater crowd in the opening scene. They scream, yell, and holler with the best of them, this DTS-HD mix capturing the world’s most annoying theater to perfection. Extras

That horrible trilogy blu-set can now well and truly be banished as Paramount rounds out this first trilogy with a picture that is every bit as good as those on the previous films 4K releases. It really does show how far we’ve come in terms of understanding what constitutes a ‘good image’ and with the technology and format to finally realise it, we’re continuing to get some truly outstanding refreshes of these older releases that really do warrant a double or even triple dip. I’m very pleased to say that yet again, this disc gives us Scream 3 as it always should have looked. Glorious.Scream 2 slashes onto the 4K Ultra HD format where it’s shown with a 2.35 widescreen aspect ratio and given a 2160p high-definition transfer. This one looks fairly good in 4K however nothing I’d call incredible, albeit an okay upgrade over the previous Blu-ray versions. Detail is sharp and well defined especially on close-ups while colors appear nicely balanced. On the negative side, I did notice some jittering on some of the motion shots, especially the more distant ones.