7.9 | / 10 |
| Users | 0.0 | |
| Reviewer | 4.0 | |
| Overall | 4.0 |
It will follow the events in the 1960s, the time leading up to the events of the first film IT.
Starring: Jovan Adepo, Taylour Paige, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Matilda Lawler| Horror | Uncertain |
| Period | Uncertain |
Video codec: HEVC / H.265
Video resolution: 4K (2160p)
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
German: Dolby Digital 5.1
Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
English SDH, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Three-disc set (3 BDs)
4K Ultra HD
Region A (B, C untested)
| Movie | 4.0 | |
| Video | 0.0 | |
| Audio | 5.0 | |
| Extras | 3.5 | |
| Overall | 4.0 |
HBO and Warner Brothers Home Entertainment are offering fans a SteelBook edition of It: Welcome to Derry: The Complete First Season 4K. The on disc contents mirror those of HBO's standard packaging wide release of IT: Welcome to Derry: The Complete First Season 4K. In addition to the SteelBook packaging, this release also comes with art cards. This review provides hi res photos of the packaging, see the review linked to below for screenshots from HBO's 1080 release.


Video quality is assessed in the above linked review.

Audio quality is assessed in the above linked review.

On disc supplements are detailed in the above linked review.
The SteelBook design is subtle but very effective, highlighted by a handsome matte finish that provides a bifurcated view of Pennywise on the front
cover, with some slightly "hidden" imagery in the red portion. The back features more of a blue green color scheme with a portrait of (some of) the kids
in the story. The interior panels offer a photograph of the kids bathed in red. The retro art cards are really fun and allude to some of the horrific
vignettes offered in the first season. There's also an insert with the same episode summaries that are on the inner print of the keepcases of HBO's wide
releases of the title in 1080 and 4K. A J-card folds over the top of the SteelBook.

It might be jokingly offered that considering the "recurrence" of It / Pennywise as documented in the series and prior films, the franchise might have been subtitled 27 Years Later. There's a lot going on in this first season (my comments above haven't even addressed an almost Freudian subplot involving the real life clown subsumed by It to become Pennywise, and that character's daughter, among other sidebars), but the writing is often quite sharp and even provocative, and the production design is pretty much flawless in all of the time periods depicted. Technical merits are solid and while not numerous, the supplements are enjoyable. The SteelBook packaging is quite handsomely designed, but it may be the assorted art cards that are most memorable about this edition. Recommended.

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