7.1 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
In order to save her siblings, a young woman takes on her father and the powerful entity known as Gamemaster, who ensnares humans into diabolical plots while her species gambles on the outcome.
Starring: Morena BaccarinHorror | 100% |
Animation | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A, B (C untested)
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 0.5 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
To Your Last Death is a curious amalgamation of animation and gruesome Horror with a family ties twist. The film, from Director Jason Axinn, who has a number of obscure shorts and television show credits to his name, builds a dark and twisted tale of a deeply divided, spiteful, vengeful, greedy, and self-centered family fighting amongst itself, with a bit of help from a mysterious outside source, all to extremely bloody result. The film is unafraid of pushing boundaries, showing bodies which have been through a grinder or severed, or with heads slip open, and there's blood everywhere. It's got everything from chainsaw wielding maniacal henchmen to frightened young ladies who take up the mantle of violence out of a desperate want for self preservation. It's dark but not particularly deep, fodder for gore hounds with just enough story and rooting interest in the characters to keep watching until the end.
To Your Last Death fares quite well on Blu-ray. The film is colorful with abundant splashes of reds, of course, presenting with high yield tonal intensity to really push the film's blood-soaked style for all it's worth. Additional tones are handled well, including clothes and skin, though it doesn't take long for those to essentially turn red, too. Lines are crisp and details are sharp. The picture is clear and commanding, never missing a beat in terms of offering solidified, fortified, crystal-clear animation that reveals character models, blood-and-guts, and environmental supports, mostly around the DeKalb high-rise, with impressive textural accuracy. The picture does suffer from somer regular banding intrusions, primarily along solid colored surfaces like walls. A few compression artifacts (a wall just beyond the 42 minute mark) spring up as well, but overall the image is quite good in the aggregate.
Don't fret that To Your Last Death features no lossless soundtrack. The Dolby Digital 5.1 presentation is just fine, plenty vigorous and immersive as it is configured. While there may be a mild lack of greater fidelity and seamlessness, this presentation has no problems with saturating the listing area with various sounds of terror -- screaming, revving chainsaws, grinding machinery, squishy gore -- with intensive stage saturation and immersion. Clarity is just fine and balance is terrific. Surrounds are used with regularity and the low end kicks in as needed. Music never misses a beat, either; an organ rendition of Amazing Grace midway through the film is full and filling, the best of several high yield engagements in the film. Atmospherics are not prominent, but there's so much mayhem there's not much room for such luxuries. Dialogue is clear and center focused. It maintains prioritization even in the most intense scenes.
This Blu-ray release of To Your Last Death contains one supplement, a Trailer (1080p, 1:45). No DVD or digital copies are included with purchase. This release ships with a non-embossed slipcover.
To Your Last Death will prover too grisly for some, but those who have a stomach for extreme bloodshed and gore will be treated to a twisted tale of family violence and supernatural manipulation. It's decently scripted for a film so focused on the visceral and it earns a few quality voice performances, too. Quiver Films' Blu-ray is featureless beyond a trailer, but the video and audio presentations are fine. Recommended for hardcore blood and guts genre fans.
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