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Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), directed by Terence Fisher, US uncut version, Shout! Factory 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical stereo, three commentary tracks, and English subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059127/
Video encoded in two-pass 11.5 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available.
Subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : Time to raise the stakes again with another Hammer Studios Dracula film, this time the second in the series to feature Christopher Lee. Yes, I skipped Brides of Dracula so you could have a hol-Lee, jol-Lee Halloween, but I'll do it later. This time, there's no Van Helsing, (well, except for a flashback to the first film during the credits), but rather our friend from last week's Hammer film, Andrew Keir, as a gun-toting monk and expert on vampirism. This is the US version, which is in this case the uncut one, UK censorship cut about 12 seconds of blood and seduction, and we all know that's what we're here for.
Father Sandor is a voice of reason in the countryside, speaking out against superstition about vampirism, now that Dracula's been destroyed for a good decade. He runs into a group of English tourists, and turns serious when he learns they're planning to visit Karlsbad, for unspecified reasons. They pay no mind, and end up at a creepy castle that at first seems abandoned, but then is revealed to be kept "always ready for guests" by order of its late owner, and attended by a weird butler. Soon enough, throats are slit, blood is mixed with vampiric ashes, and Dracula materializes, although it seems the ashes from his voice box were missing, since all he does in this film is hiss. Sandor and the surviving English tourists must join forces to ice this sucker once and for all.
Sadly, this Shout! Factory "4k remaster" is extremely denoised, and so really doesn't gain anything from being scanned in 4k at all, there's no fine detail, and grain is reduced to slightly flickering blotches. The color is also quite faded and not very consistent. Still, it is what it is, and some of the cinematography is quite nice despite all this. Stereo track is fine, the commentary tracks are good, especially the cast one, as Lee is always fun to listen to.
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General : Matroska / 7.67 GiB / 1 h 30 min / 12.2 Mb/s
Video : HEVC / Main10@L4@Main / 11.5 Mb/s / 1 920 x 812 pixels / 2.35:1 / 24.000 FPS / *Default
Writing library : x265 3.5+1-f0c1022b6:[Linux][GCC 12.1.0][64 bit] 10bit
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 259 kb/s / 2 channels / Original theatrical stereo / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 164 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by author Troy Howarth / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 132 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by filmmaker Constantine Nasr & writer/producer Steve Haberman / English
Audio #4 : AAC LC / 128 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by cast members Christopher Lee, Suzan Farmer, Francis Matthews, and Barbara Shelley / English
Text #1 : VobSub / 5 789 b/s / English SDH
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
00:08:08.792 : Chapter 2
00:14:10.375 : Chapter 3
00:20:06.542 : Chapter 4
00:26:30.208 : Chapter 5
00:34:58.417 : Chapter 6
00:42:42.208 : Chapter 7
00:50:23.583 : Chapter 8
00:55:52.792 : Chapter 9
01:02:47.750 : Chapter 10
01:10:25.917 : Chapter 11
01:20:18.125 : Chapter 12
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Encoded from Dracula Prince Of Darkness US.mkv [29.6 Mb/s]
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