Near Dark (1987) (Hybrid 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 5.1 Com...
Near Dark
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A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Near Dark (1987), directed by Kathryn Bigelow, hybrid remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 5.1 remaster, original theatrical Ultra Stereo, three commentary tracks, and subtitles in thirteen languages.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093605/
Video encoded in two-pass 14.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : A new upgrade of a very old encode here. Kathryn Bigelow's directorial debut is an early entry into the surprisingly large vampire western genre, and it's less seen than it should be, which is a shame, because this is good stuff on a low budget. The movie's mostly carried by its villains, with both the late, great Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen giving unforgettable performances, solidly backed by the chamaleonic Jenette Goldstein and Joshua John Miller. The cinematography is also iconic, and there are plenty of memorable lines, and it's the rare vampire movie where the vampires aren't glamorous at all, just sociopathic killers and pathetic losers. Do you like vampires bursting into flame, cowboy hats, shootouts, and bloody shitkicker massacres? This is definitely the film for you.
Caleb Colton, a young man in a small Oklahoma town, runs into Mae, a mysterious young woman. They kiss, then she bites his neck and runs off. Soon after, the sun rises, and the sunlight causes Caleb's flesh to smoke and burn. He's picked up by an RV owned by Mae's family of nomad vampires, who are none too happy about Caleb's conversion to their alternative lifestyle, but they agree to let him stay to see if they can trust him. Caleb is unwilling to kill to feed, and Mae has to feed him with her own blood. After a massacre at a local bar, the group is tracked down by law enforcement, leading to Caleb risking himself to save the others, and his acceptance into the group, however, this is short lived, as the weirdo kid vampire sets his sights on Caleb's sister, and Caleb's father gets involved.
This is still the same video as my previous encode, with the same problems, mostly it being quite soft and the colors being, ironically, anemic, but it looks decent, the sound is fine, and you get three commentary tracks, although two of them are in German. Still waiting for a 4k remaster.
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Video : HEVC / Main10@L4@High / 14.0 Mb/s / 1918 x 1036 pixels / 1.85:1 / 23.976 FPS / *Default
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 662 kb/s / 6 channels / 5.1 remaster / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 273 kb/s / 2 channels / Original theatrical Ultra Stereo / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 164 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by director Kathryn Bigelow / English
Audio #4 : AAC LC / 164 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by Marcus Stiglegger / German
Audio #5 : AAC LC / 144 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by filmmaker Dominik Starck / German
Text #1 : SRT / 31.0 b/s / English
Text #2 : SRT / 35.0 b/s / English SDH
Text #3 : VobSub / 6.3 kb/s / English Positional SDH
Text #4 : VobSub / 1.2 kb/s / Czech
Text #5 : VobSub / 1.5 kb/s / Danish
Text #6 : SRT / 25.0 b/s / Dutch
Text #7 : VobSub / 4.0 kb/s / German
Text #8 : SRT / 25.0 b/s / Finnish
Text #9 : SRT / 22.0 b/s / French
Text #10 : VobSub / 1.3 kb/s / Hungarian
Text #11 : VobSub / 1.3 kb/s / Norwegian
Text #12 : VobSub / 1.3 kb/s / Polish
Text #13 : SRT / 25.0 b/s / Portuguese
Text #14 : VobSub / 3.9 kb/s / Castiian Spanish
Text #15 : VobSub / 4.7 kb/s / Latin American Spanish
Text #16 : SRT / 27.0 b/s / Swedish
Text #17 : VobSub / 8.3 kb/s / German for director's commentary
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Program Start / Main Titles
00:02:20.223 : Dreamgirl
00:07:02.672 : "Horses don't like me"
00:10:04.562 : First Kiss
00:13:02.949 : Dawn
00:15:38.396 : Mae's Clan
00:19:39.303 : New Car
00:22:22.716 : Broke And Hungry
00:26:37.137 : Bloodlust
00:31:11.828 : Homesick
00:34:35.282 : Nasty Surprise
00:38:12.457 : Secondhand Meal
00:42:13.197 : Shit-Kicker Slaughter
00:50:19.683 : Last Dance
00:55:48.345 : Firefight
01:01:45.452 : "Do you miss the sun?"
01:05:15.036 : Family Reunion
01:10:37.567 : Blood Transfusion
01:13:44.795 : Cured
01:16:27.249 : Incompatible
01:19:36.105 : Bad-Ass Bloodsucker
01:23:39.473 : Showdown
01:26:26.348 : Flames At Dawn
01:29:32.784 : Salvation
01:30:52.989 : End Credits
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