6.1 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
The residents of a housing development find themselves in trouble after they discover that their development was built on top of a sacred aboriginal graveyard, on which a curse was placed upon anyone who disturbed it.
Starring: Zoe Carides, Tom Jennings (I), Natalie McCurry, Bruce Hughes, Steve DoddHorror | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 720p
Aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.37:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A, B (C untested)
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 2.0 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 3.0 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
Note: This film is available on Blu-ray as a part of All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror.
All the Haunts Be Ours advertises itself as "the most comprehensive collection of its kind", which may initially beg the question as to "kind of
what?". But the release also comes with a front cover sobriquet
proclaiming it "a compendium of folk horror", which may then beg the next obvious question as to what exactly "folk horror" is. In that
regard, this set
begins with a fascinating and diverse documentary which has its own subtitle referencing folk horror, Woodlands Dark and Days
Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, which provides a veritable glut of clips from international films which director (and this entire set's guiding
light) Kier-La Janisse has assembled to help define the genre, but perhaps the best answer is to simply echo a certain Supreme Court Justice named
Potter Stewart who was trying to decide a case involving supposed pornography, and who famously opined, "I shall not today attempt further to define
the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I
know it when I see it. . ."
Kadaicha is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Severin Films with an AVC encoded 720p transfer in 1.37:1. Severin's insert booklet states that this was "mastered from the only surviving broadcast quality video master", which some might joke is damning with faint praise. This has a number of anomalies which I'm sure were part of the video workflow, including close knit parallel vertical lines which recur throughout the presentation which can be spotted in several of the screenshots I've uploaded to accompany this review. Colors are reasonable but not incredibly vivid, something that may deprive the horror fan of some visceral gore effects. There's some odd, almost electrical looking, damage that blights the presentation at admittedly brief moments, where an odd looking blemish will erupt and then recede.
Kadaicha features a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track which is in considerably better shape than the video side of things, but which still evidences easily discernable background hiss. Dialogue and a rather effective score still make it through the gauntlet of time and tide pretty well, all things considered, and there are no issues with regard to dropouts. Optional English subtitles are available.
Kadaicha probably unapologetically emphasizes the "horror" side of "folk horror", and in fact the Aboriginal "content" is probably for convenience sake, in a way. This features one of the least pleasing presentations in the set, though audio is better and the supplements quite interesting, for anyone who may be considering making a purchase.
(Still not reliable for this title)
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