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
Sony US 4K Blu-ray Steelbook included in 4K Blu-ray Steelbook Collection
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 7 months ago
> France Metropolitian 4K Blu-ray (slightly better encoding on the Sony)
Overview
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.
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
> 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
> 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
> 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
> 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: 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: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Frank Capra
Director: John Carpenter
Sony 4K Blu-ray or Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode)
Sony 4K Blu-ray and France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode) are similar
Director: Michael Arias
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
GKIDS 4K Blu-ray is a sharpened upscale. Caps
GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has a true lossless English dub and correct volume levels for the Japanese audio
Director: David Fincher
4K Blu-ray has exclusive “unrated” audio with a small change to one line under the request of David Fincher (removed the poor dub over of frickin’ in the line “Screw it, let’s gut the f**kin’ nerd.”).
Director: Martin Scorsese
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Sources: blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot seen on the previous Columbia Classics release and has better encoding
Original mono mix: 1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1991 Columbia LaserDisc
The 4K Blu-ray mono is only minimally worse (see blah-ray).
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: Michael Apted
Video format: HD Streaming
More Horror on Blu-ray
Director: Alexandre Aja
Theatrical Cut: Austria NSM Blu-ray
Director's Cut: France Metropolitan Blu-ray
Metropolitan got better picture (higher bitrate + better grain + more detail) than Lionsgate
Director: Glen Morgan
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
> Germany Wicked Vision Blu-ray > US Flicker Alley Blu-ray see DVDBeaver caps
Director: George Pavlou
Arrow 4K Blu-ray teased
Germany Wicked Vision 4K Blu-ray better than US Kino Lorber?
Director: Roman Polanski
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray see caps. Much better contrast and grain exposure but the grade is a bit questionable as it skews heavily towards magenta in some caps and the encode looks low-pass filtered.
Atmos Remix: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1: Imprint Australia Blu-ray or StudioCanal Germany/France Blu-ray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray encoded the "Original 5.1" as lossy Dolby Digital, which is very different from the AC3 on the original DVD. This new "Original 5.1" may in fact be a downmix of the Atmos track. FWIW, the original DVD AC3 still sounds very good.
Director: F. W. Murnau
2006 Restoration: Eureka Blu-ray
1995 photochemical restoration: BFI Blu-ray
Eureka with Murnau institute restoration featuring score based on original score, BFI uses Photoplay restoration with James Bernard score
Both Eureka and BFI Blu-rays are worthy of owning. Each restoration has unique positives and extras. The James Bernard score on the BFI is outstanding and the image tinting is different to how the Murnau institute official restoration was done. The Eureka MoC Blu-ray is stuffed with extras and remains one of the best-made Blu-rays of all time. Whatever you do: AVOID THE Kino Lorber Blu-ray!!! It uses the same Murnau institute restoration but drops frames for the whole feature - thus it loses a significant portion of the film! This was never acknowledged or addressed. The Kino Lorber Blu-ray remains one of the worst Blu-rays of all time for this reason.
Germany Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray is disappointing with AI upscaling
Director: Stanley Kubrick
US Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: Old 2007 Europe Blu-ray
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, both the US and the International Cut, new restoration/remastering of the mono mix which should be better than the 1999 WB DVD, revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1980 and for the first time ever on physical media, the film will be in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
No Blu-ray or DVD release has presented the movie in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 for the US cut or 1.66:1 for the International cut.
The packaging on the back of the 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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