Paramount Scares: Volume 1 - 4K Blu-ray Review

[Michael Scott]

Paramount Scares: Volume 1



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WARNING: THE SCORES ABOVE ARE A COMBINED SCORE FROM ALL 5 FILMS, THE INDIVIDUAL SCORES ARE CONTAINED BELOW IN THE INDIVIDUAL SECTIONS OF THE REVIEW

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Movie
Taking a page from Sony’s playbook, Paramount has released a wonderfully robust horror boxset this last week just in time for Halloween. Much like the Columbia Classics set, this is not just 5 films stuck inside of a slipcase or anything, but rather a VERY heavy rectangluar chipoard box, with new slip cases for each film, and some physical swag like stickers and pins and a Fangoria magazine layout of all 5 films to enjoy. It may not be AS intensely regal and full of massive amounts of swag, but this is a pretty special box set filled with some true classics, and some really good modern day horror films to round out the 5 films set to enjoy.

For indivdual film synopsis you can check out the 4K UHD disc reviews below

Crawl

Rosemary's Baby

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Smile

Pet Sematary






Rating:

Not Rated by the MPAA




Video:

For indivdual Video Breakdowns you can check out the 4K UHD disc reviews below

Crawl

Rosemary's Baby

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Smile

Pet Sematary











Audio:

For indivdual Audio Reviews you can check out the 4K UHD disc reviews below

Crawl

Rosemary's Baby

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Smile

Pet Sematary









Extras:

Crawl
• Introduction to Alternate Opening
• Alternate Opening
• Alligator Attacks
• Beneath Crawl - Featurette
• Category 5 Gators: The VFX of Crawl - Featurette
• Deleted and Extended Scenes

Rosemary's Baby
• Rosemary's Baby - A Retrospective
• Mia and Roman
• Theatrical Trailer
• 50th Anniversary Redband Trailer

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Burton+Depp+Carter=Sweeney Todd
• Sweeney Todd Press Conference, November 2007
• Sweeney Todd Is Alive: The Real History of the Demon Barber
• Musical Mayhem: Sondheim's Sweeney Todd
• Sweeney's London
• The Making of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Grand Guignol: A Theatrical Tradition
• Designs for a Demon Barber
• A Bloody Business
• Moviefone Unscripted with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp
• The Razor's Refrain
• Photo Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer

Smile
• Audio Commentary by director Parker Finn
• Laura Hasn't Slept — The original short film that inspired SMILE with introduction by director Parker Finn
• Something's Wrong with Rose: Making Smile - Featurette
• Flies on the Wall: Inside the Score - Featurette
• Deleted Scenes — With optional commentary by director Parker Finn

Pet Sematary
• BRAND NEW 4K REMASTER OF THE FILM SUPERVISED BY DIRECTOR MARY LAMBERT
• A look back at this classic with the cast and crew of 2019's Pet Sematary
• Revisualization - interview with Mary Lambert
• three behind the scenes galleries, including never before seen storyboards
• Director Mary Lambert shares memories of the movie
• Fear and remembrance
• Audio commentary by director Mary Lambert

Final Score: ​

The Paramount Scares: Volume 1 set is hopefully one of many new 4K sets from Paramount. It may not be AS classy as the massive Sony Collections that have been released recently, but this is a NICE box set, complete with a Fangoria magazine with all 5 films included (for this release specifically), an amazing red and black chipboard case to house all 5 films, a set of stickers for each film, and a commemorative pin included as well, making this a rather robust and impressive set. Add in the fact that Paramount chose some really nice 4K upgrades to include (and the “secret” title that turned out to be the LONG requested Sweeney Todd) and this is one sweet looking set. I’m really hoping for more sets of this ilk, as Paramount has a fairly large and impressive array of horror movies that I really hope gets the 4K treatment. Solid two thumbs up from this reviewer.


Technical Specifications:

Starring: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Mia Farrow, Sosie Bacon, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter
Directed by: Varoious
Written by: Various
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1/1.85:1/2.00:1 HEVC
Audio:
Crawl- English: DTS-HD MA 7.1, German, Spanish (Latin), Spanish (Castilian, Japanese, French DD 5.1
Rosemary's Baby - English: Dolby TrueHD 2.0 Mono, French, German, Italian DD 2.0 Mono
Sweeney Todd - English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1, English DVS 5.1
Smile - English, English: Dolby Atmos (Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Core), German, French, Spanish, French (Canadian), Italian, Japanese DD 5.1
Pet Sematary - English: DTS-HD MA 5.1, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese DD 5.1, Russian DD 5.1, Spanish, Hungarian, Portuguse DD Mono
Subtitles:
Crawl- English, English SDH, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Rosemary's Baby - English SDH, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Dutch
Sweeney Todd - English SDH
Smile - English, English SDH, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Turkish
Pet Sematary - English, English SDH, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Korean, Mandarin (Traditional), Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Thai
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Rated: PG-13 (all 6 films)
Runtime: 881 Minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: May, 30th, 2023

Recommendation: Great Horror Classics Set

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