7 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
Homicidal represents producer/director William Castle's slant on Hitchcock's Psycho. The film concerns a young woman named Miriam Webster who seemingly has everything a girl could want - including a successful flower shop business, and a handsome beau, Karl, who works as a pharmacist. Events take a turn for the worse, however, when Miriam's half-brother, Warren, returns from Europe - with a rather unpleasant friend in-tow: a blonde named Emily.
Starring: Glenn Corbett (I), Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce (I), Richard RustHorror | 100% |
Mystery | 21% |
Thriller | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (448 kbps)
None
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 2.0 | |
Extras | 0.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
Note: 'Homicidal' is currently only available as part of a double feature with 'Mr. Sardonicus.'
A woman calling herself "Miriam Webster" checks into the Hotel Ventura. She brings a young bell boy named Jim Nesbit (Richard Rust) to her room
and offers him $2,000 to marry her, with the understanding the marriage will be annulled immediately after. Jim decides to go through with it, unable
to resit that much money for such a simple task. They arrive for the nuptials late at night, wake the justice of the peace, and as soon as they're
married, she murders
the official. Turns out she's actually a young lady named Emily (Jean Arless) and Miriam (Patricia Breslin) is actually a woman she knows whose
brother Warren has just returned from Europe. And it is Warren to whom Emily is secretly married. Miriam and her man Karl (Glenn Corbett) slowly
piece together the
shocking truth behind Emily and Warren's marriage and what it means for a large inheritance hanging in the balance.
Homicidal.
Homicidal arrives on Blu-ray with a fair 1080p transfer. The black-and-white image features a rather thick, but largely evenly dispersed, grain structure. Light print wear is evident throughout, but not to a seriously distracting level. Details fare well enough. Period attire -- suit jackets particularly -- reveal adequate fabric definition, and various backgrounds find good tactile detailing thanks to the image's stout clarity. Shadow details and black levels appear fine.
Homicidal's Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack demonstrates no range, pushing to the middle for a tiny, empty listen. There's no sense of vitality. Ambient effects and music struggle to even find modest pronouncement and clarity, hovering well below the rather crude, straightforward dialogue. The spoken word is fine, hardly lifelike and lacking realistic clarity but usually with enough definition to scrape by. A few lines are much more shallow than others ("I'll take the double," for example, which Miriam/Emily says early in the movie).
This Blu-ray release of Homicidal contains no supplemental content.
Homicidal's twist ending isn't particularly shocking by today's standards, but the movie makes for a fairly well paced Thriller with a few surprises up its sleeve. Performances are quite good, particularly from Jean Arless in a...challenging part. Mill Creek's Blu-ray features fair video, straightforward and bland audio, and no extra content. Fans probably won't find a better release, as meager as this one is, for quite some time.
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