Peter Jason

16 films on Best Blurays16 in 4K

Peter Edward Ostling (July 22, 1944 - February 20, 2025), also known as Peter Jason, was an American character actor. He has appeared in over one hundred television shows and eighty films. He played Con Stapleton in the series Deadwood. He was a frequent collaborator with Walter Hill and John Carpenter on their films, eight and six times respectively. He voiced Sergeant Dornan in the video game Fallout 2. Jason starred in supporting roles for the films 48 Hrs. and Arachnophobia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Jason, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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16 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

They Live (1988)

Supporting role · Director: John Carpenter

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly:

Pick your poison between the 3 UHDs or maybe the remastered Shout! Factory Blu-ray?

Best Video:

Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray has consistently mediocre encoding + no original audio. StudioCanal encoding is better a lot of the time, but is terrible in others. Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray has good encoding but wrong colour space

3.8

In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

Supporting role · Director: John Carpenter

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Shout! Factory Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Shout! Factory Blu-ray has slightly less rolloff of the higher frequencies

3.8

Johnny Handsome (1989)

Supporting role · Director: Walter Hill

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Adaptation. (2002)

Small role · Director: Spike Jonze

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

4.1

Prince of Darkness (1987)

Small role · Director: John Carpenter

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

3.6

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Small role · Director: J.A. Bayona

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

2.7

Ghosts of Mars (2001)

Small role · Director: John Carpenter

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Caps by cinemaniac, which look great but the old Sony master doesn’t look too bad and Indicator has a Fidelity encode

2.4

Red Heat (1988)

Small role · Director: Walter Hill

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Superior Imports

Best Video:

Eagle Pictures Italy

Video Notes:

Eagle Pictures Italy > StudioCanal UK, better compression than StudioCanal

3.0

Dante's Peak (1997)

Small role · Director: Roger Donaldson

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray?

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray? see caps by The HDR Dissector

2.9

Mortal Kombat (1995)

Small role · Director: Paul W. S. Anderson

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

Arrow includes the original theatrical sound mix in all its glory. All previous releases other than the 1996 AC-3 LaserDisc were tamed relative to the original theatrical DTS track.

The disc is authored by Duplitech, but doesn't exhibit any compression issues, though the image is pretty soft, that's likely just down to the stock used.

Old New Line Video LaserDiscs include an exclusive commentary track.

Escape from L.A. (1996)

Small role · Director: John Carpenter

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

3.0

Streets of Fire (1984)

Small role · Director: Walter Hill

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

3.5

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