Review Detail
9.8 3 10
(Updated: June 19, 2024)
Overall rating
7.3
Audio/Video Quality
7.0
Audio Editing
6.0
Visual Editing
8.0
Narrative
8.0
Enjoyment
8.0
This was quite the undertaking and Samael Lynch has a great eye and ear! Very talented editor and a creative edit.
Audio / Video Quality Score: 7
While this is an OUTSTANDING encode with no blocking, banding or other artifacts, the blacks are too crushed, while this might be attempting to emulate the look of Terrifier 1 (it had vintage 80's crushed blacks in dark scenes). This looks more like late 90's crushed blacks taken to an extreme, so much so that often Art's eyes are not even visible. The black crush in Terrifier 1 mostly affected backgrounds. This edit also has jumpy frames / frame skipping that happen throughout (likely because the ripped file was converted to mp4 by a program that messes up the variable framerate settings and/or because the framerate is at 24 fps when the original release was 23.976).
Because this was a complete musical score replacement, there are times where dialogue gets very thin and tinny. This is the trade off necessary to accomplish something this ambitious. Some moments are left without a score and the audio artifacts are even more evident there. I didn't take any points off for this, since it's the best that can be done with the tools currently available.
Audio Editing Score: 6
Several instances of jarring audio moments, dropouts, music often being way too loud in the mix, and dialogue intermittently being hard to hear is what lowered this score.
Visual Editing Score: 8
No major issues here. Deduction for a few moments where visual splices did not quite work 100% resulting in wonky camera movement.
Narrative Score: 8
The editor achieves their goal of score replacement. A fellow editor once told me that my own score replacement sometimes fit the scenes "too well." And to a small extent toward the end of the edit that might apply. Overall a great ear for an alternate score that really works!
Enjoyment Score: 8
Overall I recommend this edit for someone who would like an alternate viewing experience with new music and score. The fun factor is raised by funny additions like Katy Perry to a bloody murder rampage.
Detailed viewing notes:
WARNING!!!!! SPOILERS BELOW:
SPOILERS!
Great ear for the new musical scoring!! It's just way too loud and doesn't match up with the original music volume, making dialogue sometimes too hard to hear. This occurs throughout the edit. Nightclub scene was especially hard to hear what they were saying.
The grunge overlay in the opening visibly fades out. Would be less noticeable reducing it over a few cuts between shots.
Nice job on the opening credits.
Dialogue in opening kitchen scene is muffled by the new radio music.
Nice new placement of the laundromat scene right after Sienna's line about the killer being far away! Good narrative change.
7m 30s, absolute dead silence. Even in movies with "silence" there is still noise.
Screen replacement on Sienna's tv is done well but second movie she switches to has choppy frame skips.
Much better music in Clown Cafe but the scene still drags, especially in this much tighter edit.
Beginning at 21m 5s all hallway ambience reverb cuts in and out during Sienna's lunchroom conversation.
22m 54s Sienna's line "It was pretty bad" has a brief delayed echo effect.
23m 22s "In a few weeks" dialogue splice not smooth.
23m 40s Sienna's says something strange happened then suddenly we're cutting to her but in a new scene. Felt fan edity.
24m 30s the new sfx horror voices added here are so darn LOUD.
25m 4s small click/pop on audio clip splice
26m 49s cutting out the cashiers line and splicing Art's antics together makes for some wonky looking camera movement.
27m 8s audio splice not smooth
Nice smooth removal of Art locking the door to the shop! More effective this way!
Effective jump cuts as Art is loading his junk onto the cashier's desk. Nice way to emulate the director's style.
Having the attack on the cashier as one continuous scene is very effective and done well.
Cool transition from Sienna opening a door to her friend opening the door for Art (who is trick or treating).
Nice way to cut out the friend opening the door for Art a second time!!!!!!! Masterful fanediting.
32m I was confused as to the significance of the new tv scene Sienna's watching. Maybe something more disturbing would have warranted her facial expressions.
33m 44s music transition not smooth; it suddenly cuts off.
35m 12s I know the music cuts off suddenly for dramatic effect here. But doesn't feel like what would have been in a studio production.
35m 19s weird downward camera pan (another spliced clip?)
Katie Perry "now put your hands up" lol.
The first pause and then resumption of Katie Perry music was good. But doing it again when the mom comes in doesn't really have the same effect anymore.
Having only music over the kids getting candy from Art didn't really work well, especially the hand smacking part.
42m 6s, audio completely drops out to silence. The scene was quiet but it sounds off.
43m 39s dialogue splice "I put molly in your drink" is not smooth.
46m 16s sounds like the music got spliced here or something.
Great new transition from Art shooting the mom back to the club scene!!! Much better!!
The music in the club immediately goes silent when Sienna starts screaming. That doesn't seem plausible.
52m 22s very odd music shift here. Totally different vibe. Jarring.
After Katie Perry made an earlier killing scene feel funny and lighter, doing the exact same thing again with the Friends Theme song with the peeing boyfriend didn't work for me this time around. Toward the end started to feel like how many songs can we cram into this.
We jarringly switch from the Friends Theme to a Flock of Seagulls.
59m 39s Flock of Seagulls just abruptly stops and music score starts. Jarring.
59m 48s quiet pop/click
1h 3m 37s Art splice not smooth as he creeping toward the brother. He disappears and reappears a few steps ahead.
1h 3m 54s pausing Art standing there was an interesting idea. But the end result doesn't look like something in a professional studio cut.
1h 5m music as Art attacks the brother with the knife seems like filler music that doesn't fit with the vibe / action.
1h 5m 43s how the score starts again the exact same same time as the shot switch to Sienna makes it feel like a jarring transition.
1h 7m 26s the brother's mouth is making noise but there's no sound of it
1h 7m 51s the transition into the new musical score here is not smooth
1h 14m 3s Sienna's cough is abruptly cut off
1h 17m 1s quiet pop/click
Sienna in water tank changed to black and white was done very well with the added grain. I don't personally prefer it this way, but it looks good!
Audio / Video Quality Score: 7
While this is an OUTSTANDING encode with no blocking, banding or other artifacts, the blacks are too crushed, while this might be attempting to emulate the look of Terrifier 1 (it had vintage 80's crushed blacks in dark scenes). This looks more like late 90's crushed blacks taken to an extreme, so much so that often Art's eyes are not even visible. The black crush in Terrifier 1 mostly affected backgrounds. This edit also has jumpy frames / frame skipping that happen throughout (likely because the ripped file was converted to mp4 by a program that messes up the variable framerate settings and/or because the framerate is at 24 fps when the original release was 23.976).
Because this was a complete musical score replacement, there are times where dialogue gets very thin and tinny. This is the trade off necessary to accomplish something this ambitious. Some moments are left without a score and the audio artifacts are even more evident there. I didn't take any points off for this, since it's the best that can be done with the tools currently available.
Audio Editing Score: 6
Several instances of jarring audio moments, dropouts, music often being way too loud in the mix, and dialogue intermittently being hard to hear is what lowered this score.
Visual Editing Score: 8
No major issues here. Deduction for a few moments where visual splices did not quite work 100% resulting in wonky camera movement.
Narrative Score: 8
The editor achieves their goal of score replacement. A fellow editor once told me that my own score replacement sometimes fit the scenes "too well." And to a small extent toward the end of the edit that might apply. Overall a great ear for an alternate score that really works!
Enjoyment Score: 8
Overall I recommend this edit for someone who would like an alternate viewing experience with new music and score. The fun factor is raised by funny additions like Katy Perry to a bloody murder rampage.
Detailed viewing notes:
WARNING!!!!! SPOILERS BELOW:
SPOILERS!
Great ear for the new musical scoring!! It's just way too loud and doesn't match up with the original music volume, making dialogue sometimes too hard to hear. This occurs throughout the edit. Nightclub scene was especially hard to hear what they were saying.
The grunge overlay in the opening visibly fades out. Would be less noticeable reducing it over a few cuts between shots.
Nice job on the opening credits.
Dialogue in opening kitchen scene is muffled by the new radio music.
Nice new placement of the laundromat scene right after Sienna's line about the killer being far away! Good narrative change.
7m 30s, absolute dead silence. Even in movies with "silence" there is still noise.
Screen replacement on Sienna's tv is done well but second movie she switches to has choppy frame skips.
Much better music in Clown Cafe but the scene still drags, especially in this much tighter edit.
Beginning at 21m 5s all hallway ambience reverb cuts in and out during Sienna's lunchroom conversation.
22m 54s Sienna's line "It was pretty bad" has a brief delayed echo effect.
23m 22s "In a few weeks" dialogue splice not smooth.
23m 40s Sienna's says something strange happened then suddenly we're cutting to her but in a new scene. Felt fan edity.
24m 30s the new sfx horror voices added here are so darn LOUD.
25m 4s small click/pop on audio clip splice
26m 49s cutting out the cashiers line and splicing Art's antics together makes for some wonky looking camera movement.
27m 8s audio splice not smooth
Nice smooth removal of Art locking the door to the shop! More effective this way!
Effective jump cuts as Art is loading his junk onto the cashier's desk. Nice way to emulate the director's style.
Having the attack on the cashier as one continuous scene is very effective and done well.
Cool transition from Sienna opening a door to her friend opening the door for Art (who is trick or treating).
Nice way to cut out the friend opening the door for Art a second time!!!!!!! Masterful fanediting.
32m I was confused as to the significance of the new tv scene Sienna's watching. Maybe something more disturbing would have warranted her facial expressions.
33m 44s music transition not smooth; it suddenly cuts off.
35m 12s I know the music cuts off suddenly for dramatic effect here. But doesn't feel like what would have been in a studio production.
35m 19s weird downward camera pan (another spliced clip?)
Katie Perry "now put your hands up" lol.
The first pause and then resumption of Katie Perry music was good. But doing it again when the mom comes in doesn't really have the same effect anymore.
Having only music over the kids getting candy from Art didn't really work well, especially the hand smacking part.
42m 6s, audio completely drops out to silence. The scene was quiet but it sounds off.
43m 39s dialogue splice "I put molly in your drink" is not smooth.
46m 16s sounds like the music got spliced here or something.
Great new transition from Art shooting the mom back to the club scene!!! Much better!!
The music in the club immediately goes silent when Sienna starts screaming. That doesn't seem plausible.
52m 22s very odd music shift here. Totally different vibe. Jarring.
After Katie Perry made an earlier killing scene feel funny and lighter, doing the exact same thing again with the Friends Theme song with the peeing boyfriend didn't work for me this time around. Toward the end started to feel like how many songs can we cram into this.
We jarringly switch from the Friends Theme to a Flock of Seagulls.
59m 39s Flock of Seagulls just abruptly stops and music score starts. Jarring.
59m 48s quiet pop/click
1h 3m 37s Art splice not smooth as he creeping toward the brother. He disappears and reappears a few steps ahead.
1h 3m 54s pausing Art standing there was an interesting idea. But the end result doesn't look like something in a professional studio cut.
1h 5m music as Art attacks the brother with the knife seems like filler music that doesn't fit with the vibe / action.
1h 5m 43s how the score starts again the exact same same time as the shot switch to Sienna makes it feel like a jarring transition.
1h 7m 26s the brother's mouth is making noise but there's no sound of it
1h 7m 51s the transition into the new musical score here is not smooth
1h 14m 3s Sienna's cough is abruptly cut off
1h 17m 1s quiet pop/click
Sienna in water tank changed to black and white was done very well with the added grain. I don't personally prefer it this way, but it looks good!
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched
Digital
