Demoni 2 L incubo ritorna 1986 RM4k Arrow 1080p BluRay x265 hevc 10bit AAC 5.1 dual commentary-HeVK

Demons 2 (1986), aka Dèmoni 2: L'incubo ritorna, aka Demons 2: The Nightmare Returns, directed by Lamberto Bava, Arrow 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including Italian 5.1 remaster, English 5.1 dub, two commentary tracks, and English subtitles.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090930

Video encoded in two-pass 12.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available.

English subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : I'm a big fan of the original Demons (which you can download, but I'm probably doing a new encode pretty soon), and apparently so were a lot of people, because just one year later, original horror movie nepo baby Lamberto Bava returned with a sequel, which is much of the same, yet not as good. It's about TV instead of cinema this time, though, so at least we're moving with the times. Bobby Rhodes from the cast of the original returns in a new role, and producer Dario Argento apparently decided he wanted another one of his daughters in this, so Fiore is swapped for Asia, who in this debut at ten years old is already developing a thousand yard stare, she's seen some shit, man. And yes, I'd already encoded this, but this new 4k remaster is a good opportunity to do it right.

In a high-rise building, residents are watching a film set in the world of the previous film, where some teenagers venture into a demon-ridden, closed-off part of a city. They find the corpse of a demon, and accidentally revive it by being extremely fucking stupid. In the real world, a girl who's thrown a hissy fit at her own birthday party is locked in her room watching the film, when the demon in the film breaks through her TV screen and bites her, and then she proceeds to turn all the party guests into demons. The demons apparently have xenomorph blood now, as it burns through floors, short circuits power cables, and randomly infect people, dogs, and children, setting off an orgy of demon violence in the building, which is fought off by a group of bodybuilders, amongst others. But one guy who was trapped in an elevator most of the time is desperate to get back to his pregnant wife, who's being menaced by an extremely goofy looking demon puppet, and he'll do anything to save her and his unborn child.

This 4k remaster is very good, the image nice and clean, grain present but not overwhelming, color and contrast pretty punchy, though the blacks are a bit clipped. Both 5.1 tracks sound good, and the two commentary tracks are pretty interesting.

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