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88 Films

41 films on Best Blurays

Based in United KingdomFounded 201288films.co.uk ↗

Independent British label incorporated in January 2012, started by two founders who left another home-video label to run their own. Its releases are grouped into numbered lines such as The Italian Collection (giallo, poliziotteschi and Italian exploitation), Slasher Classics and the 88 Asia Collection of Hong Kong titles, including Shaw Brothers films, with a growing run of 4K UHD discs.

Aliases: 88films, 88 films

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Director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

88 Films 4K Blu-ray

Director: Jackie Chan

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

88 Films 4K Blu-ray

Director: Deran Sarafian

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

MVD 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

88 Films Blu-ray in November

Video Notes:

MVD 4K Blu-ray beautiful remaster but with frame rate skips (encoding error)

Director: Lam Nai-choi

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray See caps


DE Nameless 4K Blu-ray is an extremely poor AI upscale. See caps

Best Audio:

UK 88 Films Blu-ray

Director: Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang

Best English-Friendly:

Pick your poison: USA Film Movement Blu-ray (two scenes cut / censored & slight Ritrovata yellow tint) or UK 88 Films Blu-ray (DNR)

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Pick your poison: USA Film Movement Blu-ray (two scenes cut / censored & slight Ritrovata yellow tint) or UK 88 Films Blu-ray (DNR). nic’s review

Director: Joe D'Amato

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

88 Films 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

88 Films 4K Blu-ray even though the encoding is disappointing

Director: Jackie Chan

Best English-Friendly & Video:

88 Films 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

> Germany Nameless Media 4K Blu-ray

Director: Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

88 Films (US version)

Director: Kirk Wong Chi-Keung

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

88 Films 4K Blu-ray

Director: Gordon Chan

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

88 Films 4K Blu-ray

Director: Iain Softley

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Capelight Germany 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Both 88 Films and Germany Capelight are superior to the Shout! Factory in HDR10 but their FEL layer may even things out. Objectively, the Capelight looks best as they avoided the chroma blocking that’s visible in 88’s disc but they in turn include an Atmos mix. I have the Shout! Factory, love how it looks and the 4K transfer is spectacular. https://slow.pics/c/vPmFQSAH

Best Audio:

Original 5.1 mix: Amazon stream

Original stereo: 88 Films Blu-ray

Director: Roger Donaldson

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

88 Films & Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Imprint 4K Blu-ray scheduled for August 2026 release

Video Notes:

(88 Films is FiM encoded)

Additional Info:

88 Films and Scream Factory have exclusive extras

Director: Steve Wang

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

88 Films 4K Blu-ray

Director: Paul Weitz

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

> US Universal 4K Blu-ray

Universal 4K Blu-ray has these issues:

  • based on 88 Films' already good restoration,

  • BD-100, but 52GB was used

  • Too dark, wrong colors

Additional Info:

Universal Blu-ray has exclusive extras not on the 88 Films release

Director: James Wong

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK 88 Films Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Commentary: 88 Films is at a very low volume level. The other BDs like the Sony do not have this problem.

Director: J.B. Rogers

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

88 Films 4K Blu-ray

Director: Mark Pellington

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

Australia Imprint Blu-ray?

Upcoming Release:

UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray in October

Video Notes:

Germany Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray is disappointing with AI upscaling

Best Audio:

Germany Concorde Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Germany Concorde Blu-ray has lossless DTS-HD 5.1

Director: Stephen Daldry

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK 88 Films Blu-ray

Video Notes:

UK 88 Films Blu-ray is the only release not OOP aside from Japan Blu-ray

Director: Clark Johnson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK 88 Films Blu-ray

Director: Michael Mann

Best English-Friendly:

88 Films UK Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray  in December

Best Video:

88 Films UK Blu-ray for both cuts 

Best Audio:

88 Films Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

88 Films Blu-ray is missing Michael Mann commentary for the DC found on other BDs

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