Films
/
Talk to Me (2022)
Talk to Me (2022) poster

Talk to Me (2022)

Horror • 1h 35m

Directors: Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray/Second Sight 4K Blu-ray

UHD Blu-ray

Best English-friendly & video release · updated 3 months ago

Video notes:

Lionsgate retains more detail, but Second Sight might be better in motion. Both are very close. Caps

UHD tiers

Excellent
Lionsgate

Overview

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

Release details

Length
95 mins
Type
Movie

More from Danny Philippou

See more →

Directors: Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

A24 4K Blu-ray

More from Lionsgate

See more →

Director: James Cameron

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

4K · Worse Than BD
Best English-Friendly & Video:

2015 Lionsgate Blu-ray 

Sources: fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab) · originaltrilogy.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:
  • 2015 Lionsgate Blu-ray (but it's missing the extra scenes in the Ultimate Edition)

  • 2017 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray and subsequent 4K Blu-rays are notorius for being heavily denoised and smoothened. Alternatively, 35mm scans for the theatrical cut is also available.

  • For the Ultimate Edition with the T-1000 searching John's room and the happy future ending, the 2009 Skynet Blu-ray, which is the older pre-2017 transfer, but has DNR.

Best Audio:
  • Original Kodak/ORC CDS mix:  Japan Pioneer DVD in DTS/ac3 5.1

  • Original Dolby Stereo SR: USA Widescreen LaserDisc and others.

Audio Notes:

Differences of mixes on various releases: see thread and more info here.

Additional Info:

2017 Blu-ray (which has the DNRed transfer), the 2009 Skynet Edition Blu-ray, and the 2000 Ultimate Edition DVD have exclusive extras. The 2003 Extreme Edition DVD has some exclusive easter eggs.

Director: Carol Reed

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray or Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray/Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray (shared encode); slight improvement over the 2015 StudioCanal Blu-ray

Best Audio:

StudioCanal/LG UHDs

Audio Notes:

StudioCanal/LG UHDs port the 1999 Criterion DVD, considered the best source

Additional Info:

StudioCanal has a remastered Blu-ray, Lionsgate only a 4K Blu-ray

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D: Spain Emon Blu-ray
3D: US Lionsgate, Germany StudioCanal, or Netherlands Entertainment One 3D Blu-ray?

Best Audio:

US Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Jon Favreau

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Original 5.1 Mix: UK Momentum Pictures DVD

Director: Anthony Minghella

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Lionsgate Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release

Video Notes:

US Lionsgate Blu-ray looks very different from either Italy Eagle Pictures or Germany Kinowelt Blu-ray: https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=502 but other than color grading looks better

Director: Werner Herzog

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

UK Lionsgate Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Criterion Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release

Best Video:

2015 UK Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Sophie Hyde

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Tom Gormican

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray

Director: Mamoru Oshii

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Bandai Japan 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

Bandai JP 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

All 4K releases are sourced from the same mediocre transfer provided by Bandai, with various amounts of tweaks. Japanese disc presents it with the least tinkering.

The best attempt at improving it comes from the German/French releases from KSM/All the Anime, both of which use the same master with HDR regrading (original grade is SDR in HDR container), tasteful regraining and sharpening, in an attempt to breathe some life into the middling transfer, making for an arguably more pleasing viewing experience.

All earlier releases are from an even worse transfer, with significant black crush, with the exception of a Japanese TV airing, which doesn't suffer from that issue, but instead is heavily sharpened and suffers from poor encoding.

Comparisons: JPN UHD, USA UHD, FRA/GER UHD, ITA UHD (tonemapped), JPN UHD, USA UHD, FRA/GER UHD, ITA UHD, ESP UHD (PQ), All 1080p BDs, HDTV, HDTV filtered

Best Audio:

Original matrixed stereo mix: Bandai JP 4K Blu-ray
Most discs include this track with comparable fidelity (which is excellent).

Dolby Atmos remix: Lionsgate US 4K / All the Anime FR 4K
6.1 remix (from Ghost in the Shell 2.0): KSM DE 4K / All the Anime FR 4K

All tracks on the Lionsgate US 4K replace the original ending song with the one heard on the English dub. As the Atmos track on the FR 4K is just a port, it also has this song replaced.

Additional Info:

Japanese 4K includes English dub and subtitles.
French/German 4Ks are not English friendly, with no dub or subtitles.
French disc includes the Atmos track, but the German disc does not.

More Horror on Blu-ray

Director: David Lynch

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray or Optimum/Kadokawa Blu-rays

Sources: Reddit (opens in a new tab) · dvdexotica.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Director: John Carpenter

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: blog.sporv.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:
Audio Notes:
  • the only track on Universal 4K, which is in DTS:X, has a mixing error of around 6dB too low on side channels, otherwise very similar to other 5.1 mixes.

Director: Frank Oz

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Theatrical Cut: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

Director's Cut: Warner Bros Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

The 4K Blu-ray has both a poor Dolby Atmos remix and the original theatrical Dolby Stereo mix in its best fidelity but only for the Theatrical Cut.

The Blu-ray has a 5.1 remix for the Director's Cut that, while inferior to the original theatrical Dolby Stereo mix, is still far superior to the Dolby Atmos remix on the 4K Blu-ray, and is the best option for the Director's Cut.

Only the DVD has the isolated score.

Director: Julia Ducournau

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Curzon 4K

Additional Info:

HDR helps considerably with the deliberately murky aesthetic. VDMS encode is overall very good despite chroma noise in flashback sequences.

Director: Brian De Palma

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray has a better encode than the Kino Lorber and Capelight 4K Blu-rays. Capelight 4K Blu-ray looks low-passed in comparison to the Arrow but is slightly closer to the Arrow in PQ than the Kino Lorber. 

Director: Bob Clark

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray in December

Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun & Parkpoom Wongpoom

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Australia Umbrella 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Australia Umbrella 4K Blu-ray encoded by FiM

Director: Pupi Avati

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Shameless 4K Blu-ray or US Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Both the US Arrow 4K Blu-ray and UK Shameless 4K Blu-ray are better than the horrible grade of the France Le Chat Qui Fume which has blacks looking greenish and milky with some yellow push. However, comparing these two, there's significant tradeoffs; Arrow has less black crush and some shots seems to be better graded but it's worse in some shots with a slight magenta grade; the UK Shameless 4K Blu-ray has a better color grading.

Additional Info:

UK Shameless 4K Blu-ray and US Arrow 4K Blu-ray have exclusive extras

Director: Ridley Scott

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Theatrical Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray 

2003 Directors Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray 

Video Notes:

(additional scenes appear to be upscaled)

Best Audio:

Original Theatrical 70mm 6-Track Stereo: Fox 4K Blu-ray (DTS-HD MA 4.1)

Original Theatrical 35mm Matrixed Dolby Stereo: 1999 DVD? (2.0 mix on the UHD is a downmix)

2003 Directors Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray, Fox Blu-ray (DTS-HD MA 5.1)

Director: Neil Jordan

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent

Edit history

6 edits

Researched and maintained by

tyyuxvanshadycbc

· last reviewed 3 months ago

Every recommendation follows the same method — how these calls are made.