Showgirls (1995)
Drama • 2h 8m
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Robert Davi, Alan Rachins, Gina Ravera, Lin Tucci, Greg Travis, Al Ruscio, Patrick Bristow, William Shockley, Michelle Johnston, Dewey Weber, Rena Riffel, Melissa Williams, Ungela Brockman, Melinda Songer, Lance Davis, Jack McGee, Jim Ishida, Bobbie Phillips, Danté McCarthy, Caroline Key Johnson, Joan Foley, Terry Beeman, Kevin Alexander Stea, Sebastian La Cause, Lisa Boyle, Alexander Folk, Matt Battaglia, Teo, Melanie Jeffcoat, Alexander Zale, Irene Olga López, Julie Pop, Pamela Anderson, Jacob Witkin, Jana Walker, Christina Robinette, Jim Wise, Michael Shure, Geoff Callan, Rick Marotta, Paul Bates, Michael Cooke, Jean Barrett, Gary Devaney, Gene Ellison-Jones, Fernando Celis, Bob Dunn, Ashley Nation, Cory Melander, Sean Breen, Elizabeth Kennedy, Katherine Manning, Warren Reno, Ken Enomoto, Y. Hero Abe, Rodney Ueno, Kathleen McTeague, Kristen Knittle, Sage Peart, Michael Washington, Debbie Ables, Lindsley Allen, Bryan Anthony, Christopher D. Childers, Tyce Diorio, Eric L. Ellis, Carrie Ann Inaba, Deena Grassia, John Jacquet Jr., Laurie Kanyok, Caitlin McLean, Suzi McDonald, Lisa Ratzin, Salvatore Vassallo, Kim Wolfe, Jamy Woodbury, Jason Yribar, Judette Warren, Lonetta Pugh, María Díaz, Madison Clark, Bethany Chesser, Kelly St. Romaine, Danielle Burgio, Micki Duran, Michelle Elkin, Neisha Folkes-LeMelle, Andrea Moen, Nancy O'Meara, Sandra Plazinic, Laurie Sposit, Tonya Tovias, Michelle Zeitlin, Chris Tedesco, Patrick Seymour, Larry Washington, Robb Vallier, Anne Gaybis, Mike Anderson, Justin Armao, Richard Atchley, Stephen Austin-Skordiles, Anthony Backman, JoAnn Bush, Trevor Coppola, David Garry, Amber Herrel, Tyler Keegan, Gorja Max, Joe Everett Michaels, Matty J Murillo, Christy Oldenkamp, Bruce Pobanz, Timothy Scott Ralston, Eric Ritter, Lisa Robinson, Richard Roraback, Andreanna Veith, Lenny Wilson, Mason Marconi
Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray (replacement disc)
Best English-friendly, video & audio release · updated 10 months ago
The subtitles on the initial release has some issues.
The 5.1 track on the initial release has an error. This is corrected on the later "v2" discs.
UHD tiers
REPLACEMENT DISC only
Overview
Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering Comparison between the Criterion and WB.
5.1: WB 4K Blu-ray, a remix but has higher fidelity
Mono: Criterion 4K Blu-ray (restored for the box set)
Director: Michael Mann
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · thedigitalbits.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray is encoded by FiM and is better than Criterion, see caps https://slow.pics/c/Z2RRQAAT
Criterion 4K Blu-ray vs Blu-ray: caps colors are more different and nuanced than anticipated even in the SDR-converted caps and the usual gain in highlight detail is also apparent. Encode looks excellent except for the brightest areas as usual.
5.1/5.0 mix (essentially a 4-track mix in 5.1 and 5.0 containers respectively)-Arrow/Criterion 4K Blu-ray. Only imperceptible differences in bit-depth: 20 vs 24.
2.0 mix- Arrow 4K Blu-ray (original stereo)
Director: John Boorman
Sources: highdefdiscnews.com (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
(Arrow 4K Blu-ray's mono seems to be out of sync, suggested by comparisons. Issue is TBC officially)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray is FiM encoded, see caps
Arrow LE will have an exclusive 3rd disc which will not be on the standard edition
Director: Lewis Teague
> disappointing US Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
For Blu-ray Criterion Demy Set > StudioCanal
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Box Set coming on October 20th with FiM encode
DTS:X mix most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD has additional features not found on the 4K Blu-ray
Director: Terry Jones
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
The Criterion BD, which is sold separately, has a clunky encode unlike the Criterion UHD, even if it plays better in motion than the caps would suggest. Still, provided you're equipped to play 4K discs, UHD or bust for this one. https://slow.pics/c/hmDYlKgE
Director: Miloš Forman
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Warner Bros Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray: Huge improvement in colors and detail. The restoration was done by the Academy instead of WB MPI which explains that there’s no grain management or issues with colors. They also accessed the original credit optical and scanned that one instead of recreating them digitally
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray, according to Saentz, the 5.0 is a recreation of the original and subsequently 70mm mix from original elements.
Director: John Woo
> US Shout! Factory, better encoding by Engine House and redone opening credits, errors present in Shout! Factory fixed
Mono is from an alternate higher fidelity source than Shout! Factory.
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
OOP Arrow LE has Theatrical Cut not on the standard release
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Lionsgate and StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray share the same video master: both have considerable improvement over the old awful Blu-ray but marred by teal grading and DNR. Lionsgate is additionally better compressed than StudioCanal.
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray has the original theatrical 2.0 track, sourced from LaserDisc (absent on StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray), but the 5.1 track has issues which are not present on their new Blu-ray (LFE channel is missing, and instead it's the back left surround duplicated)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
US LaserDisc 2.0, or Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray 5.1
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Director: Hal Needham
2026 Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray, 2025 Umbrella 4K Blu-ray
Director: Trey Parker
UK Refuse Films or US Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray
Both releases have two presentations: sourced from the original Betacam master tapes, and another that uses a filmout of the tapes.
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray see caps
For Blu-ray, UK Second Sight is better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray
Director: Joe Dante
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Director: Abel Ferrara
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray in July
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