Also known as: Scream Factory
Aliases: shout, sf, shout factory, shout! factory, scream factory
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Director: Martin Brest
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray new master much better than their 2016 artificially sharpened Blu-ray but grain managed
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray "OG audio" is a downmix, R1 DVD has the original with much better dynamics than Shout! Factory's upmix
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Also free on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH5x6ol3Pzc but censored
Director: George A. Romero
Old master's magenta grading was dialed back
2.0 mix is said to be superior to the other mixes and is likely the original one
Director: John Carpenter
Pick your poison between the 3 UHDs or maybe the remastered Shout! Factory Blu-ray?
Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray has consistently mediocre encoding + no original audio. StudioCanal encoding is better a lot of the time, but is terrible in others. Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray has good encoding but wrong colour space
Director: Joe Dante
2026 Arrow 4K Blu-ray Boxset
Director: John Woo
Arrow has a different grade and a better encode, though the difference in either is not major.
Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray (similar to Criterion LaserDisc, but less distorted)
Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD
Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)
Arrow used the alternate mix, but with extra filtering and lowered dynamic range. The alternate mix has much better fidelity.
Director: David Lynch
Censored US version: Shout! Factory or Twilight Time Blu-ray
Uncensored version: old DVD
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray, confirmed to be uncut
Director: Kevin Costner
4K restoration of the extended cut to be screened in Locarno Film Festival
PQ looks the same for all BDs, but only Shout! Factory/Australia Via Vision Blu-ray/Germany Kinowelt Anniversary Blu-ray has both theatrical and extended cut
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Stereo mix: Arrow has the 2023 restored mix and the original theatrical mix
5.1 mix: Shout! Factory has a improved 5.1 mix, the Arrow has a inferior and older remix
Director: Clive Barker
Cabal Cut: Very rare Blu-ray self-released by Clive Barker
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Shout! Factory see caps
Cabal Cut: Very rare Blu-ray self-released by Clive Barker
Theatrical Cut: Arrow 4K Blu-ray (stereo), Warner Bros NTSC DVD (5.1 remix)
Director's Cut: Arrow Blu-ray (stereo), 5.1 is the same on all discs
Director: Simon Wincer
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray or UK/Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Director: Oliver Stone
Theatrical Cut 4K Blu-ray in August
Director's Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: Shout! Factory Blu-ray (included with collector's edition)
Theatrical Cut: The Shout UHD DTS-HD 2.0
Theatrical Cut: The Shout UHD DTS-HD 2.0 seems to be the same mix overall as the 1992 laserdisc PCM 2.0 but its not a straight port. Even though there are some minor differences, it does not seem to be a downmix of the 5.1. It could possibly be a new mastering. It has just a tiny bit more dynamic range than the laserdisc, but the laserdisc has a bit more presence in the lower and midrange frequencies.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
UK ICON 4K Blu-ray (caps)
UK 4K Blu-ray has a slightly better encode than US Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray and Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray
5.1 mix is flawed on Shout! Factory/ICON, a phasey upmix instead of the proper discrete surround. The UHD 2.0 tracks are downmixes of that track.
2008 Fox Blu-ray sounds great, very close to the original 70mm mix, only with split surround.
2001 DVD has the original mix as 4.1 and matrixed 2.0.
Imprint 4K has a 4.0 track. The StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has a different 5.1, unclear if it's the same as Fox BD.
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