The first menu screen on the Sony 4K is a PlayStation 5 advertisement and yes, that’s what shipped on a horror catalog release in late 2025. Press past the ad and the disc itself is doing more than you’d expect from a 16mm 1.33:1 cabin movie that should have stopped looking acceptable on a big TV around the time everyone moved past 720p.
This is the same 16mm negative master Anchor Bay used in 2010, now with a Dolby Vision pass that quietly backed out a handful of digital tweaks Raimi had approved fifteen years ago. The reverse-George-Lucas move on a cult horror is rare enough to be worth noting on its own. Cabin interiors that used to flatten out like a phone-camera shot through a window now have actual depth, wood paneling with knots, fog that registers as fog, and the book of the dead carries dried-skin texture in every shot.
Audio is where the disc shows its age and Sony’s indifference. The 4K track is still running at the PAL-era 4% speed-up that the NTSC master never corrected, the UK 2020 4K reissue did nothing about it, and this US release inherited the same problem. The LaserDisc crowd will hear it. I don’t, and the mono fits the movie either way.
Calibration is fussy. HDR set to vivid is too bright on most panels and movie mode crushes too dark, so plan on a custom preset before the first viewing. The disc is OOP in North America and secondary-market prices are climbing, though the picture work alone makes it worth tracking down a clean copy.
