Many have spoken about the spiders scene looking odd in IMAX. For me the titles were off in 35mm right off the bat because the title card actually blended into the sky.

The Aluminum Falcon said:

captainsolo said:

I still think the open matte Academy version is superior in many aspects.

Thank you! Agree 1000%. The extra headroom makes all the difference, adds to the creepiness. It also gels with the B&W style. The cropping of the Widescreen version is too distracting.

Thanks, but don't read/post in the aspect ratio thread on HTF. I expressed my love of this framing and posted comparisons and got quite a bit of backlash. I've never seen the film look better than a battered open matte 16mm print. If Uni actually knew what they were doing, the BD would have both framings seamlessly included ala Touch of Evil. It really works better in many scenes compositionally speaking for the exploitation/TV nature by which it was produced. It should be an alternate but not replace the widescreen matte. (Whatever that is no one can decide either-1.85, 1.75 or even 1.66)