Alpha (2025)
Horror, Drama, Science Fiction • 2h 8m
Director: Julia Ducournau
Cast: Mélissa Boros, Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, Emma Mackey, Finnegan Oldfield, Louai El Amrousy, Ambrine Trigo Ouaked, Zohra Benbetka, Fadila Belkebla, Sofia Nait, Bahia Badji, Marc Riso, Jean-Charles Clichet, François Rollin, Driver, Frédéric Bayer Azem, Ninon Le Henry, Elyna Motte, Nina Bouffier, Ilyane Badji, Christophe Perez, Béatrice Michel, Dalya Naïm, Vincent Pasdermadjian, Julien Spitéri, Hillary Mervil, Elaura Louisa, Katja Gaudard
Curzon 4K
Best English-friendly release · updated today
Overview
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
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Director: Brian De Palma
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
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
Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray in December
Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray
Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun & Parkpoom Wongpoom
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Australia Umbrella 4K Blu-ray encoded by FiM
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
UK Shameless 4K Blu-ray or US Arrow 4K Blu-ray
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.
UK Shameless 4K Blu-ray and US Arrow 4K Blu-ray have exclusive extras
Director: John Carpenter
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Universal 4K Blu-ray. Maybe Turbine Blu-ray instead for better audio?
Sources: blog.sporv.com (opens in a new tab)
1997? Signature Collection LD
Good: 2017 Arrow and 2016 Shout! Factory Blu-ray have the original audio options.
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: Ridley Scott
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray
2003 Directors Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray
2003 Directors Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray (additional scenes appear to be upscaled)
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)
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · YouTube (opens in a new tab)
WB 4K Blu-ray see caps and comparison video
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
US Celluloid Dreams 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
US Celluloid Dreams 4K Blu-ray caps and detailed QC breakdown
Director: Dario Argento
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
US Synapse 4K Blu-ray or UK Shameless 4K Blu-ray (some may prefer Synapse's grading, while some prefer Shameless's grading)
US Synapse 4K Blu-ray or UK Shameless 4K Blu-ray (some may prefer Synapse's grading, while some prefer Shameless's grading)
4.0 track on the Synapse 4K Blu-ray
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