6.9 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
When the investigation on a prostitute murder by the Paris vice department derails, one cop will stop at nothing for revenge.
Starring: Thierry de Carbonnières, Guy Di Rigo, Henri Lambert, Jean-Pierre Bernard, Pascale RobertsForeign | 100% |
Thriller | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
French: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
English
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (locked)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Max Pecas' "Death Squad" a.k.a. "Brigade of Death" (1985) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Mondo Macabro. The supplemental features on the release include new program with star Thierry de Carbonnieres; new program with director of photography Jean-Claude Couty; new program with actress Olivia Dutron; and restored trailer. In French or English, with optional English subtitles. Region-A "locked".
In the shadow
Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Death Squad arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Mondo Macabro.
The release introduces a very good new 4K restoration of the film. Aside from a few areas that look a tad too warm, mostly because they emphasize light brown, the rest looks either very good or excellent. Indeed, delineation, clarity, and depth are always very pleasing, while image stability is outstanding. Grain exposure is very good, too. A few optimizations could have been introduced to strengthen indoor footage, but even on a very large screen the visuals are wonderful. There are no traces of problematic digital corrections. Also, I did not encounter any age-related imperfections to report in our review. (Note: This is a Region-A "locked" Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-A or Region-Free player in order to access its content).
There are two standard audio tracks on this Blu-ray release: French DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 and English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. Optional English subtitles are provided for the main feature.
The French track is the original track for Death Squad. I thought that it was excellent. Clarity, sharpness, and balance were great. During the action footage, dynamic intensity is as good as I expected it to be as well. I did not encounter any encoding anomalies to report. The English dub track is a pretty awful. It has a lot of useless mumbling and terrible dynamic amplitude.
Mondo Macabro is the perfect home for Max Pecas' films in America, so hopefully we will see many of his comedies and erotic films released on Blu-ray as well. Death Squad is Pecas' most violent film. It fits somewhere between Jacques Deray's The Outsider and Abel Ferrara's Ms .45, but it feels like the creation of an Italian master that specialized in exploitative poliziotteschi, like Umberto Lenzi or Fernando Di Leo. It has been properly restored in 4K and looks great on Blu-ray. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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