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Worst Blu Ray transfer




This is a great movie. I love Hammer horror films and Christopher Lee is fantastic, as is Peter Cushing.

That being said this is the WORST Blu Ray transfer I have ever seen in my life. Every scene is darker and has a weird blue filtered look to it. Why? Why do this to the colors? The color quality should not have been better in 1958 / 1959 than it is today!

I recommend buying the American Warner DVD for picture quality to make a comparison. This Blu Ray might have newly restored lost scenes but there's no excuse for what they have done to the picture quality.

Why do people keep doing this to Dracula movies.


First Bram stoker's Dracula's Blu Ray is from a copy of a copy of the original print so now it's darker and grainer (The older grey box DVD actually has better picture quality).

Then the DVD of Frank Langella's 1979 Dracula has the colors washed out so it's nearly black and white when it wasn't originally filmed that way, making the picture distorted, pale, and grainy for most of the movie.

The picture quality should not be better on the older formats yet in the case of Dracula movies this tends to be the case. Why?

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"The color quality should not have been better in 1958 / 1959 than it is today!"

In fact the colour would be better on the film when the film print was new, old film prints degrade at a frightening rate. Technicolour prints were particuarly unstable as they were three strips of film on top of each other, I have dealt with many a technicolour print that has gone magenta.

I have no idea what you mean with regards to the new Blu-Ray as I've not seen it.

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You can see an accurate side by side comparison here on this forum thread.

http://thelatarniaforums.yuku.com/topic/10643/More-Hammer-classics-com ing-to-bd-announcement-good-news?page=9#.US7sHzca4aw

That's not doctored in any way. That's really how they look side by side.


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http://www.avsforum.com/t/1460744/horror-of-dracula-uk-blu-ray-epic-fa il


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I have seen it now and think it looked beautiful.

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Those pictures do not do justice to the quality of the Blu Ray transfer at all. It's an absolutely beautiful transfer, in my opinion. I love the darker look, myself.

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