Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Horror, Action, Science Fiction • 1h 34m
Director: Alexander Witt
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie Vavasseur, Razaaq Adoti, Jared Harris, Mike Epps, Sandrine Holt, Matthew G. Taylor, Zack Ward, Iain Glen, Dave Nichols, Stefen Hayes, Geoffrey Pounsett, Shaun Austin-Olsen, Geny Walters, Megan Fahlenbock, Robert Morelli, Aaron Abrams, Chris Benson, Martin Martinuzzi, Brad Borbridge, Frank Chiesurin, Ron Benjamin, Kevin Hare, Heather Dick, Alex Courey, John De Toro, Billy Khoury, Sava Drayton, Nicole Ann St. Hill, Ricardo Betancourt, Ted Ludzik, Michelle Latimer, Catherine Burdon, Rebecca Sims, Christopher Weedon, Billy Parrott, Derek Aasland, Richard Harte, Simon Girard, Dean Copkov, Jeff White, Timothy Burd, Natalie Charles, Pierre Henry, Jim Codrington, Deborah Valente, Malcolm Fiddick, Malcolm Xerxes, Michy Gustavia, Shane Mackinnon, Ed Fielding, Stephen R. Hart, Sandi Stahlbrand, Christopher Marren, Tom Gerhardt, Amber Marshall, Venice Grant, Ana Danilina, Ingrid Johansson, Jeffrey Weedon, Melanie Tonello, Annabel Chu, Joe Jefferson, Heather Braaten, Joe Silvaggio, Eric Morgan, Gene Pyrz, Torquil Colbo, Joan Moore, Peter C. Wylde, Garry Geddes, Dionne Renee, Janessa Crimi, Dan Ellery, Sharon Moore, Jo Chim, Bobby Prochaska, Jazz Mann, Larissa Gomes, Gregory White, Roman Podhora, Brian King, Rob Hall, John Migliore, Yaron Betan, Martin Crewes, Brandon Marc Gagne, Ryan McCluskey, Michael C. Newsome, Avi Salem, Alexander Witt, Paul Puzzella
Best English-friendly & video release
Sony US 4K Blu-ray Steelbook included in 4K Blu-ray Steelbook Collection
Sony US 4K Blu-ray Steelbook included in 4K Blu-ray Steelbook Collection > France Metropolitian 4K Blu-ray (slightly better encoding on the Sony)
Updated 8 months ago
About the film
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.
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- Resident Evil II - Apocalypse, Resident Evil 2 - Apocolypse, Resident Evil 2 - Apocalypse, Resident Evil Apocalypse Extended, Resident Evil. Apocalypse, Resident Evil：Apocalypse, Resident Evil Apocalypse
Director: Paul W. S. Anderson
Sony US 4K Blu-ray Steelbook included in 4K Blu-ray Steelbook Collection
Sony US 4K Blu-ray Steelbook included in the 4K Blu-ray Steelbook Collection
Sony US 4K Blu-ray Steelbook included in the 4K Blu-ray Steelbook Collection > France Metropolitian 4K Blu-ray (better compression on the Sony disc)
US Sony 4K Blu-ray steelbook
(better compression than France 4K Blu-ray)
France Metropolitian 4K Blu-ray
France Metropolitian 4K Blu-ray > Sony 4K Blu-ray (slightly better encoding on France 4K Blu-ray, not sure if the new Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook with DV is better) (note for the new Sony Steelbook, the forced subtitles are missing, France 4K Blu-ray probably doesn't have them too)
France Metropolitan 4K Blu-ray
France Metropolitan 4K Blu-ray > Sony 4K Blu-ray (better compression on the France 4K Blu-ray, not sure if new Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook with DV is better)
France Metropolitan 4K Blu-ray
France Metropolitan 4K Blu-ray > Sony 4K Blu-ray (better compression on the France 4K Blu-ray, not sure if new Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook with DV is better)
Director: Dennis Hopper
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: David Lean
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
The 5.1 on Sony 4K Blu-ray is from the 1989 70mm mix. The original is 4-track. not on the disc.
Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: Satoshi Kon
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Director: Ben Stiller
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Director: Luc Besson
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray vs 2017 Sony 4K Blu-ray (20th annivesary) vs 2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray (Luc Besson Box Set). The first two have totally different texture.
StudioCanal: More natural looking. Better defined grain. The white balance is rather yellow/orange. Some say it is closer to the original theatrical release.
2017 Sony: More vibrant and impactful. The white balance is rather neutral. While color noise and grain can look busy because it had been sharpened and had micro-contrast boosted.
2025 Sony: Supposedly an improved version of the 2017 release? Shows around 20mbps-higher overall video bitrate. caps
2007 Sony Blu-ray or LaserDisc AC3? (TBC) https://fanrestore.com/thread-7303.html
The Atmos on the Sony release is reportedly better than StudioCanal's.
Disc info of the box set discs. This film have recieved multiple encode/versions in different regions over the years. The 2017 Germany4K Blu-ray is encoded differently than the 2017 Sony but not better. Also, the same can be said to 2024 France Gaumont 4K Blu-ray while comparing to the 2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. The StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray omits all the extras from previous releases, being barebones.
Director: Frank Capra
More Horror on Blu-ray
Director: Roman Polanski
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
UK 4K teased by 88 Films https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=24252379
Carlotta France 4K Blu-ray > Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray (better encode on Carlotta without any low-pass filtering, more extras and English subtitles on Vinegar Syndrome)
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper
Director: Bernard Rose
Scream Factory/Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Turbine 4K Blu-Ray
SF and Turbine also have the 2004 Audio Commentary with Bernard Rose, Clive Barker, Alan Poul and actors Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd and Kasi Lemmons
Director: Peter Jackson
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Both will look identical in motion but the Turbine looks marginally better due to a higher bitrate allocation by each cut being given its own disc, whereas Arrow had FiM seamlessly branch the two onto one. However, Arrow has both cuts in Open Matte (on Blu-Ray) and corrected the opening Universal logo's aspect ratio. https://slow.pics/c/McvVcYDG
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Criterion 4K Blu-ray also includes exclusive "Reborn Cut"
Director: Lam Nai-choi
88 Films UK or Vinegar Syndrome US Blu-ray (preference)
Different color gradings, 88 Films disc is encoded by FiM but Vinegar Syndrome encode (by Marcus Johnson) is more than robust
Vinegar Syndrome potentially has better audio than 88 Films, due to VinSyn possibly having EQ'd the audio mix after Fortune Star scanned the track in a way that makes it sound too hot, whereas 88 left it alone without addressing that issue. However, no direct comparisons exist
Director: Tobe Hooper
4K Blu-ray has both the original Dolby Stereo mix and a 5.1 remix.
HBO Max Streaming includes the theatrical version with original credits, goofs. 1080p with the 5.1 remix
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering, 1.85 ratio restored for US Cut; both US and International Cuts are 4K.
US Cut: 1999 WB DVD/Criterion 4K Blu-ray
No Blu-ray or DVD release until the Criterion 4K Blu-ray has presented the US in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The International Cut has never been presented in it's OAR of 1.66:1 in any home video releases.
The packaging on the back of the WB 4K Blu-ray incorrectly states it as 1.85:1 when the movie is actually 1.78:1 as is the original Blu-ray.
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