Coraline [Blu-ray] [Region Free]

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The Making of Coraline - A series of ten individual featurettes that can be watched in one chunk with the play all function. However, what he has to say about his musical choices and how it impacts the film is entertaining, it’s just too damn short. With Scream/Shout Factory re releasing a lot of their titles on 4K UHD we once again get to watch the movie that started it all for them. Factory is great; the native 4K image is sumptuous in its detailing, colouring, and black and white level, giving rise to a stunning picture; while the Dolby Atmos surround track makes full use of the 3D sound environment for a spellbinding aural experience. The 3D is of course not nearly as good as the modern technology in the theater is but it’s still pretty cool.

Gaiman’s penance for writing ‘other worldly fantasy’ is certainly nothing new, Lovecraft and Barker spent years exploring the darker dimensions that impinge on our own world, normally to the detriment of those that find them. It all works together so well for this type of movie, with the music helping drive things and even more so it feels to me with the addition of height channels to help emphasize the beautiful original score by Bruno Coulais.fantastic art and is a much better edition than the standard retail version – the art is perfect and certainly fits the film well. It might be aimed at kids, and they will love the colours the moral and the evil hidden within, but looking through an adult’s eyes this is something deeper, something more malevolent and deeply horrifying.

It’s an engrossing fantastical story with incredible visuals brought to life through the long painstaking process of stop motion animation. This looks fantastic in 2D Blu-ray, had the pleasure of watching in both Passive and Dynamic 3D, looks equally impressive in both. After more success with James and the Giant Peach and a few other films, Selick and Neil Gaiman teamed up for Coraline, based on Gaiman's book of the same name. Coraline receives a super upgrade from Shout Factory and Laika in the form of a new 4K SteelBook that has this cult icon movie looking the best it ever has.The 4K UHD release is absolutely gorgeous in every way, with top notch video and audio, but of course the same Blu-ray extras that Shout released last august with their special edition Blu-ray (which is nothing to sneeze at). The sound effects are focused and have very smooth transitions when they need to from speaker to speaker.

The sound effects are used appropriately for the height channels as well this time around with the new Atmos mix.All the extras here were available on Universal’s original 2009 Blu-ray release of Coraline, but the in-depth look at the film’s making that these bonus features provide remain illuminating and fascinating. It’s a bedtime story of a monster in a hidden dimension, much like Hansel and Gretel, or a myriad of other creepy children’s fairy tales that we’ve known over the years. The fans are certainly going to enjoy this audio upgrade if they’re on a sound system capable of experiencing it. The spatial wizardry of the 3D technology is fully integrated into the film’s rhythm, doling out few jumping-from-the-screen flourishes before the last reels. I don’t usually like to get into bitrates as a defining factor, but this new release does average a healthy 10-15mbps higher than the 2009 disc with peaks well into the 40s.