From DVDTalk review which I already posted ....
Once again, Halloween 4 has been remixed from Ultra Stereo to six discrete channels. This 16-bit Dolby TrueHD soundtrack is surprisingly limp and lifeless, though. Despite being a 5.1 mix, there might as well not be an LFE channel at all with a low-end this anemic. Actually, the levels across the board are unusually flat, devoid of any dynamic range whatsoever. This neuters the jump scares, and other effects I'd expect to
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pack a hell of a wallop -- say, an EMT's head getting smashed against the side of an ambulance or a gas station going up in flames -- might as well be belched out from the built-in speakers on my TV. There's some occasional directionality, such as the bursts of gunfire from that lynch mob, although the use of the surrounds is generally kept fairly subtle. I dunno, I have stacks of '80s genre flicks on Blu-ray downstairs, so I feel like I have enough of a point of reference for my expectations to be reasonable. This remix of Halloween 4 is so meek and timid that it sounds to me like something just went wrong. Listenable but lackluster.
There aren't any dubs or alternate mixes on this Blu-ray disc. Subtitles, meanwhile, are limited to English (SDH) and Spanish.
