Whisperer in Darkness, The ◾︎ Sean Branney ◾︎ 2011

HPLHS

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Label: The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society (USA)

Region: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8

RCE protection: No

Copyright protection system: None

Disc type: 2 x DVD9 (however, the data occupy only 4.11 & 5.57 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:43:15.10

Video: NTSC

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1 anamorphic

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.16 / 4.67 / 7.49 Mbps

Audio:

English Dolby Digital 5.1 / 448 kbps

Subtitles:

English, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Euskera, Finnish, French, German,
Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian),
Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish & Turkish

Menus available in:

English

Special features:

Disc 1

None

Disc 2 (in English)

"Making-Of" Featurettes
- Main featurette
  - "The Whisperer Behind the Scenes" (47:09)
- Technical featurettes
  - "Creating the Mi-Go" (8:57)
  - "The Remains of Henry Akeley" (8:31)
  - "The Appearance of Charles Fort" (2:28)
  - "The Masterson Barn" (4:15)
  - "Miniatures & Models" (14:01)
  - "Gunplay" (1:07)
  - "Composite Shots" (11:52)
  - "The Star Map" (5:38)
  - "The Hardest Shot in the Movie" (4:18)
Deleted scenes
- "Eli Davenport's Mansion - Full Version" (2:11)
- "The Debate Scene - Writers' Version" (6:45)
- "The Debate Scene - Editor's Version" (3:43)
- "Deer" (0:55)
- "Wilmarth Meets Akeley - Full Version" (1:56)
- "A Terrible Cup of Coffee" (0:52)
Trailers
- "The Original Teaser" (2:15)
- "Trailer One" (3:15)
- "Trailer Two" (3:34)
- "The Call of Cthulhu" (2:39)

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HPLHS / Blu-ray

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Label: The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society (USA)

Region: A, B & C (?)

RCE protection: n/a

Copyright protection system: AACS

Disc type: BD50 (the data occupy 39.68 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:43:03.23

Video: MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.00 / 16.97 / 35.96 Mbps

Audio:

English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 / 1,919 kbps

Subtitles:

None

Menus available in:

English

Special features:

Commentary track (in English Dolby Digital 2.0 / 320 kbps)
Deleted scenes (in English)
- "Eli Davenport's Mansion - Full Version" (2:11)
- "The Debate Scene - Writers' Version" (6:45)
- "The Debate Scene - Editor's Version" (3:44)
- "Deer" (0:55)
- "Wilmarth Meets Akeley - Full Version" (1:56)
- "A Terrible Cup of Coffee" (0:52)
"Making-Of" Featurettes (in English)
- Main featurette
  - "The Whisperer Behind the Scenes" (47:12)
- Technical featurettes
  - "Creating the Mi-Go" (8:58)
  - "The Remains of Henry Akeley" (8:31)
  - "The Appearance of Charles Fort" (2:28)
  - "The Masterson Barn" (4:15)
  - "Miniatures & Models" (14:02)
  - "Gunplay" (1:07)
  - "Composite Shots" (11:53)
  - "The Star Map" (5:38)
  - "The Hardest Shot in the Movie" (4:18)
Trailers (in English)
- "The Original Teaser" (2:16)
- "Trailer One" (3:15)
- "Trailer Two" (3:34)
- "The Call of Cthulhu" (2:40)

(Unless noted otherwise, all extras are MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001, LPCM 2.0 / 1,536 kbps.)

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Notes:

A nice step-up in PQ / AQ, even though the film takes up barely 1/3 of the disc's ~40 GB. It's a pity no space was left (figuratively speaking) to carry over at least some of the 23 (!) subtitle tracks from the DVD...

To see the screenshots in glorious