Friday, January 28, 2011

The Wolf Pack


This comes as part of another Blu-Ray set.  It is packaged with Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.  These are premium films compared to the Sci-Fi flicks from the previous collection; and they look terrific.  Or at least Wolf and Dracula do; I haven't brought myself to watch Branagh's send-up of  Frankenstein--it's rendition that I find a bit tedious.  Of these three films, Wolf is the least known and my personal favorite.  It is a film that is shot mostly at night; and those Blu-Ray darks just pop like iced celery:  pure eye candy.  The scenes in Central Park are positively hard to see on the DVD transfer.  The DVD makes the whole park look as if it has a bunch of bright spot lights on all of it; I've even seen reviews of the movie criticizing the so-called "lighting" is this part of the film.  When you watch it on Blu-Ray, one quickly realizes that it wasn't actually shot like that.  The lighting was, in fact, mostly available lights, with a few set lights to help out in areas of the park where there is no light.  This is one of the best Blu-Rays that I have seen so far.

While it is convenient to have these 3 films together if you are a horror movie collector, again, as with the previous set, I have criticize the pricing.  It retails for $59.95 and sells on Amazon new for $46.99, that's $15.66 per Blu-Ray.  Most Blu-Rays of comparable movies can be had for around $10.  Fortunately, there are some good secondary prices on the set from vendors.  For the right price, this Blu-Ray set comes highly recommended for some scary Friday action. 

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