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Post #655041

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TServo2049
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Info: Films re-color timed on video releases
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17-Aug-2013, 12:33 PM

This one really intrigues me - Evil Dead II. I just saw a screening of an original 35mm print, and noticed something interesting - except for blood or red/orange light effects or specifically red elements of the frame, the color spectrum seemed to be restricted to between yellow and blue. Skin tones looked yellow-greenish, dark stuff was blue or greenish-blue, and the whole thing had a green/yellow-green cast. I recall a shot of the fireplace where the flames looked almost pure yellow. (Even the end credits looked a bit greenish.)

This is what the Lionsgate Blu-ray looks like:

And this is an approximation of what the print I saw looked like:

I know LPP has a yellow-green bias, but I've never come across any version of ED2 with such a narrow color spectrum. The closest, strangely enough, seems to be the reviled Divimax DVD release (which has horrible DNR, but colors closest to the print I saw - though still not the same):

Was something wrong with the print I saw? Was something wrong with the projector setup? (There were several trailers before it, which all had a similar yellow-green cast, though still a broader color spectrum). I thought that LPP prints don't fade, and the blacks on this print looked absolutely solid. Is that yellow-green-cyan-blue palette how ED2 originally looked?