choice on the part of the colorist, because it isn't pervasive. In the final scene, for example, Mr. Randall tells his wife and son “Billy Peltzer” ( Zach Galligan) there are three strict rules he must follow to take care of the Mogwai. The rules include not getting it near bright light, not getting it wet with water, and lastly to never feed it after midnight. Let’s just say one of those rules will be broken and as a result, some not-so-cute or friendly creatures are spawned – referred to as gremlins. These pesky little creatures decide to cause all kinds of mischief all throughout the small town where the Peltzers reside. Along the way, Billy will get some help from his co-worker and obvious crush “Kate” ( Phoebe Cates). The local law enforcement does not prove to be much help and it’s essentially up to these two young adults to save the day. I won’t get into any further detail to avoid any real spoilers, for those who have never seen this film. Oh, those adorable, undeniably cute mogwais of Gremlins with their sweet, little smiles and how they roll their eyes at you. Who wouldn't want one in their house and record those lovable furballs for hours as they play toy trumpets, hum to their heart's content and model a Santa hat. Jason’s Sneak Peek features the director on the set briefly speaking about how excited he is to be making the film. Last is a series of trailers for the film. It should also be noted that each of these bonus discs comes with subtitle options in English, English SDH, Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin American), and Thai.

Jerry Goldsmith’s delightful score helps maintain the farcical tone, in case any particular gag scores as too much of a gross-out. The main ‘circusy’ theme should have been adopted by fun-fair carousels. Gremlins was shot using Arriflex 35 IIC cameras on 35mm film. The source for this release was made from the original camera negative which was scanned at 4K resolution and then utilised for the creation of this Ultra HD Blu-ray release. The disc presents a native 4K 3840 x 2160p resolution image in the widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio, and uses 10-bit video depth, High Dynamic Range, and is encoded using the HEVC (H.265) codec. We reviewed the Region free UK Ultra HD Blu-ray release of Gremlins on a Panasonic 65DX902B Ultra HD 4K TV with a Panasonic DMP-UB400 Ultra HD Blu-ray player. Join Glasgow Live's Whatsapp Community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages.

Photo Gallery” (SD) lets you navigate manually, using your remote control. The photos here are comprised of some on-set, some behind-the-scenes, and even some storyboards. There aren’t really many photos but they do prove to be worthwhile.

All of this “deep” thought aside, Gremlins is a wildly fun movie, and one of my staple Christmas watches for the last 20+ years. The movie gets better and better with age, and the new 4K UHD release only sweetens the pot. Sadly I really was hoping for Warner to release Gremlins 2 at the same time on 4K UHD, but I guess we’ll just have to make do with the original for now. Regardless, this film still sounds good here in the new DTS-HD MA 5.1 lossless mix. Dialogue is delivered distinctly through the center channel with no volume adjustments needed. The sound effects come across as pretty realistic and are effective here. Still, with that being said, I found this mix to be pretty much identical to the original Blu-ray’s audio presentation – but if it’s not broken, there is really no reason to fix it. Right? It is enough to certainly do the film the justice that it deserves and should leave most of the fans pleased. It is a solid mix with a handful of somewhat impressive moments along the way, namely near the end of the film during some of the action scenes.Filmmakers’ Audio Commentary with Director Joe Dante, Producer Michael Finnell, and Special Effects Artist Chris Walas Further addendum: The "Video" score of 2.5 has been copied from Dustin Somner's 2009 review. I have not newly Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Bonus materials are primarily found on the Blu-ray Disc and are ALL presented in SD (standard definition) video with Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo sound. These include:

Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous. – Making Gremlins– this extensive piece is a great retrospective on the film. Lastly, the practical special effects hold up really well here for a film celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. It’s a very solid 4K presentation in terms of video quality, the cropping and incorrect aspect ratio are forgivable, and it in comparison to the Blu-ray can be impressive. Still, it’s not quite as amazing visually as some of you might have expected it to be. I personally find it to be impressive and a nice improvement. Sorry.Stephen King nailed John Carpenter’s Halloween as an expression of the traditional ‘campfire horror tale.’ The narrative launch pad for Gremlins is the cautionary scare fable, like The Monkey’s Paw. A person is put to an ethical test, and when he fails, all Hell breaks loose. The twist here is that Columbus and Dante don’t sweat the moral mechanics, and instead exploit the idea’s abundant potential for absurdity. We’re eager for the Mogwai to get wet and be fed after midnight, to see chaos loosed on the movie screen. It’s a horror picture, yet Delightful. The 5.1 lossless audio mix that is found here comes in a new format (DTS-HD Master Audio) but it really doesn’t seem all that much different than the mix (in Dolby TrueHD) found on the Blu-ray counterpart. I am a bit disappointed they didn’t opt for giving this movie a Dolby Atmos mix, especially considering the original score composed by the late legendary Jerry Goldsmith. This is one UHD presentation that I had been extremely excited about. There are very noticeable improvements over the unimpressive and outdated Blu-ray from 2009. Fine detail shows vast improvement. Keep in mind that the film is visually fairly reserved with brown, grey, and muted colors for the most part. For collectors like myself, the old disc will become a frisbee. That said – is this UHD impressive on par with the amazing presentations we have seen on newer films or Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Not so much. But fans of the film are going to be excited to finally have a truly quality release of this classic film. Audio: How’s it sound? Photo Galleries: Gallery 1988 Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary Print Collection (Upscaled HD – 31 in all) even if the scan were down-rezzed to 1080p. But in true, native 4K, the result is by far the finest

Starring: Hoyt Axton, Keye Luke, Corey Fleldman, Zach Galligan, Harry Carey Jr., Kate Beringer, Polly Holiday Hanging with Hoyt on the set of Gremlins– a few minutes of Hoyt messing around on camera while they were filming the EPK.That being said, it’s perfectly entertaining and the technical, special effects work was pretty top-notch and of course Gizmo himself is a cute furry creature, its near-undetectable speaking voiced by Howie Mandel. The human cast led by Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates were fine, of course, but the Gremlins (a.k.a. Mogwai) are the stars of this Joe Dante ( Innerspace) helmed film. Lastly, you get the same old bonus materials from a decade ago included on the Blu-ray as well as the two audio commentaries conveniently found on the 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc. It’s not a whole lot but it is enough to leave any fan of the film with something to learn about how it came to be and enjoy. Still, it would have really been nice to have seen some new extras produced for this, considering it is celebrating its 35th anniversary.