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The Changeling (1980), directed by Peter Medak, Second Sight 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 5.1 remaster, original theatrical stereo, two commentary tracks, and subtitles in English, French, and German.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080516/
Video encoded in two-pass 13.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available.
Image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned. Text subtitles converted to SRT.
Note : Last week when I uploaded The Others, I mentioned that was almost my favorite ghost story, and the reason for the "almost" is this, a slowly-winding gothic machine of claustrophobic tension, subtle implications, and horrible secrets that does an enormous amount with very little. It's one of the later films from the 70s period of prestige horror, when A-list actors and directors would do films like The Exorcist, Don't Look Now, The Omen, and Carrie. The great George C. Scott stars, Trish Van Devere and Melvyn Douglas are very solid in supporting roles, but it's that ominous haunted house that's really the star, its dense, clammy darkness, weird nocturnal noises, and insuppressible need to get the secret out in the open. It's no coincidence that Scott's character is a musician and composer, with the importance of sound, musical and not, in the story. Just a tour the force of subtle creepiness.
Oh, and fun fact, we've previously seen Melvyn Douglas in The Old Dark House from 1932, one of his earliest roles, alongside Boris Karloff, and this, nearly 50 years later, was one of his last films. A very impressive career.
John Russell is a composer from New York who relocates to Seattle after his wife and daughter are killed in a car accident in front of him. He rents a vacant old mansion from the local historical society, and sets to working, composing a new tune, but is interrupted by strange banging noises and an apparition in the bathtub. Investigating a piece of broken glass outside, he finds his way through a boarded-up door into an old attic, where he finds a wheelchair and a child's toys, including a music box that plays the exact same tune he just composed. With the help of Claire from the historical society, he starts investigating the possible identity of the ghost, believing it to be a young girl who died in an accident outside the house in 1909, but a seance hints at a deeper, darker secret.
This 4k remaster is honestly not great. Like all previous copies of this film, it's extremely grainy and with crushed blacks, probably scanned from an interpositive. I've applied a very conservative grain reduction (in retrospect, I could have been a little less conservative) and encoded at a fairly high bitrate to conserve as much as possible, and the encode is fairly transparent. 5.1 and stereo tracks both sound good, both commentary tracks are interesting.
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General : Matroska / 10.6 GiB / 1 h 46 min / 14.2 Mb/s
Video : HEVC / Main10@L4@Main / 13.0 Mb/s / 1 920 x 1 036 pixels / 1.85:1 / 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS / *Default
Writing library : x265 3.5+1-f0c1022b6:[Linux][GCC 12.1.0][64 bit] 10bit
Encoding settings : cpuid=1111039 / frame-threads=5 / wpp / pmode / pme / no-psnr / no-ssim / log-level=2 / input-csp=1 / input-res=1920x1036 / interlace=0 / total-frames=0 / level-idc=0 / high-tier=1 / uhd-bd=0 / ref=5 / no-allow-non-conformance / no-repeat-headers / annexb / no-aud / no-eob / no-eos / no-hrd / info / hash=0 / no-temporal-layers / open-gop / min-keyint=24 / keyint=240 / gop-lookahead=0 / bframes=8 / b-adapt=2 / b-pyramid / bframe-bias=0 / rc-lookahead=40 / lookahead-slices=0 / scenecut=40 / no-hist-scenecut / radl=0 / no-splice / no-intra-refresh / ctu=64 / min-cu-size=8 / rect / amp / max-tu-size=32 / tu-inter-depth=3 / tu-intra-depth=3 / limit-tu=0 / rdoq-level=2 / dynamic-rd=0.00 / no-ssim-rd / signhide / no-tskip / nr-intra=0 / nr-inter=0 / no-constrained-intra / strong-intra-smoothing / max-merge=5 / limit-refs=0 / no-limit-modes / me=3 / subme=4 / merange=57 / temporal-mvp / no-frame-dup / no-hme / weightp / weightb / no-analyze-src-pics / deblock=0:0 / sao / no-sao-non-deblock / rd=6 / selective-sao=4 / no-early-skip / rskip / no-fast-intra / no-tskip-fast / no-cu-lossless / b-intra / no-splitrd-skip / rdpenalty=0 / psy-rd=2.00 / psy-rdoq=1.00 / no-rd-refine / no-lossless / cbqpoffs=0 / crqpoffs=0 / rc=abr / bitrate=13000 / qcomp=0.60 / qpstep=4 / stats-write=0 / stats-read=2 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ipratio=1.40 / pbratio=1.30 / aq-mode=2 / aq-strength=1.00 / cutree / zone-count=0 / no-strict-cbr / qg-size=32 / no-rc-grain / qpmax=69 / qpmin=0 / no-const-vbv / sar=1 / overscan=0 / videoformat=5 / range=0 / colorprim=1 / transfer=1 / colormatrix=1 / chromaloc=0 / display-window=0 / cll=0,0 / min-luma=0 / max-luma=1023 / log2-max-poc-lsb=8 / vui-timing-info / vui-hrd-info / slices=1 / no-opt-qp-pps / no-opt-ref-list-length-pps / no-multi-pass-opt-rps / scenecut-bias=0.05 / no-opt-cu-delta-qp / no-aq-motion / no-sbrc / no-hdr10 / no-hdr10-opt / no-dhdr10-opt / no-idr-recovery-sei / analysis-reuse-level=0 / analysis-save-reuse-level=0 / analysis-load-reuse-level=0 / scale-factor=0 / refine-intra=0 / refine-inter=0 / refine-mv=1 / refine-ctu-distortion=0 / no-limit-sao / ctu-info=0 / no-lowpass-dct / refine-analysis-type=0 / copy-pic=1 / max-ausize-factor=1.0 / no-dynamic-refine / no-single-sei / no-hevc-aq / no-svt / no-field / qp-adaptation-range=1.00 / scenecut-aware-qp=0conformance-window-offsets / right=0 / bottom=0 / decoder-max-rate=0 / no-vbv-live-multi-pass / no-mcstf
Audio #1 : AAC LC / 662 kb/s / 6 channels / 5.1 remaster / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 265 kb/s / 2 channels / Original theatrical stereo / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 144 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by director Peter Medak & producer Joel B. Michaels / English
Audio #4 : AAC LC / 140 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by director Peter Medak / English
Text #1 : VobSub / 5 522 b/s / English SDH
Text #2 : SRT / 33 b/s / French
Text #3 : SRT / 30 b/s / German
Chapters
00:00:00.000 : The Accident
00:03:01.765 : Painful Memories
00:06:32.100 : Seattle
00:08:07.779 : Chessman Park
00:12:26.246 : The New Job
00:17:22.458 : Unnatural Occurrences
00:24:08.447 : The Attic
00:27:50.794 : The Warning
00:29:33.939 : The Hidden Room
00:39:40.670 : Research
00:42:56.282 : The Red Ball
00:45:17.757 : The Seance
00:52:43.327 : Joseph
01:00:43.014 : A Swapped Son
01:04:46.758 : The Nightmare
01:11:35.958 : In the Cellar
01:20:33.495 : Captain Dewitt
01:26:20.092 : The Truth
01:34:02.887 : Finally at Rest
01:43:53.310 : End Credits
Source information
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Encoded from The.Changeling.1980.1080p.Blu-ray.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-CiNEPHiLES.mkv [39.9 Mb/s]
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