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Wolfen (1981), directed by Michael Wadleigh, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 5.1 remaster and subtitles in English and Dutch.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083336/
Video encoded in two-pass 9 200 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.
English subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected. Dutch subtitles were already OCRed, so left as they are.
Note : One of the three werewolf movies to come out in 1981, along with The Howling and An American Werewolf in London, this is perhaps the most original and interesting of the three, almost not a werewolf or horror movie at all, but a combination crime thriller and examination of urban blight and renewal, gentrification, ecosystem destruction, and radical politics, with some odd sci-fi elements thrown in. Director Michael Wadleigh was known for music documentaries, including Woodstock, and this is his only fiction film, and last film to date. The cast is top-notch, Albert Finney is fantastic, Edward James Olmos shines in a small but important role, Gregory Hines provides comic relief while also making his character endearing and sympathetic, Tom Noonan is weird and borderline creepy as usual, and it's just very good work all around. Also, a tiny cameo by Tom Waits.
The story is about a cop (Finney) who's assigned to investigate the murder of an ultra-rich real estate developer and his wife, and finds out the murders might be connected to missing and dead people in the slums of The Bronx, as all the deaths resemble animal attacks. The company that runs high-tech security for VIPs wants to implicate "Urban guerrillas", radical activist groups, and a Native American activist Finney arrested years before turns into a suspect, but has things to say about shapeshifting and hunting grounds. There's a bit about "Native Americans and wolves being practically the same" which reads as pretty racist and reductive today, but radical politics are a constant undercurrent throughout the film.
This is an above-average remaster, pretty clean, I could perhaps have wished for slightly better managed grain and a bit more saturated color, but it generally looks quite good. 5.1 remaster also sounds good. Sadly no commentary tracks. English subtitles had a lot of idiosyncrasies, mostly corrected.
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General : Matroska / 7.84 GiB / 1 h 54 min / 9 842 kb/s
Video : HEVC / [email protected]@Main / 9 199 kb/s / 1 920 x 800 pixels / 2.40:1 / 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS / *Default
Writing library : x265 3.5+1-f0c1022b6:[Linux][GCC 10.2.0][64 bit] 10bit
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 641 kb/s / 6 channels / 5.1 remaster / English / *Default
Text #1 : SRT / 41 b/s / English SDH
Text #2 : ASS / 56 b/s / Dutch
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Encoded from Wolfen.1981.1080p.BluRay.Remux.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-HDX.mkv [36.9 Mb/s]
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