6.8 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.
Starring: Shari Shattuck, Angel Tompkins, Lucinda Crosby, Nick Benedict, John TerleskyDrama | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (locked)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 0.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Paul Nicholas' "The Naked Cage" (1986) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of independent distributors Shout Factory. The only bonus feature on the disc is an original trailer for the film. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-A "locked".
A drink before the war
Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Paul Nicholas' The Naked Cage arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Shout Factory.
The release is sourced from a nice organic master. It could have been encoded a bit better, but there are no serious anomalies to report. Depth, clarity, and fluidity are very good. There are two segments -- both featuring darker indoor footage -- where some optimizations could have been made to ensure that grain appears firmer, but overall density remains very pleasing. Colors are stable and natural. There is a good selection of primaries and a solid range of proper nuances. Some extremely light crush can be spotted, but it is never distracting and delineation actually does not appear awkwardly compromised. There are no traces of recent sharpening adjustments. Image stability is excellent. There are no large debris, cuts, damage marks, and warped or torn frames, but I noticed a few tiny scratches and small stains. All in all, while there is room for some minor cosmetic improvement, this is indeed a nice organic presentation of The Naked Cage. (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 is only one standard audio track on this Blu-ray release: English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. Optional English SDH subtitles are provided for the main feature.
Prior to receiving the Blu-ray release I had only seen The Naked Cage on a pretty average DVD release, and it is not the one that we have in our database. So I have not seen the film in a theater and do not know what the original sound mix should be. However, it seems to me that if it should be Stereo, then the current audio probably needs to be remastered because it comes out as dual mono. This being said, clarity and depth are indeed very good. The overall dynamic intensity is also solid for a film of this caliber.
I was hoping that the technical presentation of The Naked Cage will be similar to that of Invasion of the Bee Girls, because the recent release of Never Too Young to Die actually turned out to be quite disappointing. Fortunately, Shout Factory have used a very nice organic master and The Naked Cage looks about as good as I hoped it would on Blu-ray. I encourage the label to bring more of these '70s and '80s genre pictures to Blu-ray as there is a huge gap on the market, and many of them do not even have decent DVD releases. RECOMMENDED. (If you enjoy The Naked Cage, the following Shout Factory releases are also worth exploring: The Women in Cages Collection, Women's Prison Massacre, and Hellhole).
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