The reconstruction is available from all the usual platforms; I hope you all enjoy it!
Merry Christmas, everybody!
It looks amazing. Honestly, the opening logo and title are almost too clean… they need film grain or some gate judder… 😉
I deliberately kept the grain low on this project to try and keep it relatively consistent with the Toho transfer - I only added it to scenes using still images/digital recreations (so just the opening and the end title card). I think the level here was 84%, whereas Godzilla 1985 had it set at 100%. Maybe I’ll try low-to-mid 90s next time.
I was very surprised to see my name in the credits along with all the other great nods you give. Thank you kindly for allowing us to participate in any way we could for the reconstructions. You’re work and care are very much appreciated.
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I’m glad you liked it! The VHS rips you uploaded over on the Spleen look fantastic; Son of Godzilla in particular will be incredibly helpful once I get around to that one. The copy of that I had before was really awful.
Watched this last night. Great job! I haven’t seen this film in anything close to HD, so this was really eye popping!
I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again: Red Menace deserves to be a name known by all kaiju fans!
Thanks everyone who contributes anything to these projects!
Thanks! I was really impressed by how nice the HD transfer for this looked; it had some of the usual issues with Toho’s HD transfers but it was still head and shoulders above the DVD. I really didn’t do much of anything to it, just enough contrast boosting to improve the black levels and a little nudge to the saturation.