MovieChat Forums > La orgía nocturna de los vampiros Discussion > Fake 'Widescreen'

Fake 'Widescreen'

posted 16 years ago by Fargo_North
5 replies | jump to latest

Mill Creek included this in their 50 Movie Collection which at first appears to be "Widescreen" but if you carefully watch the top black bar during the lighter scenes you can see faint shadowy images caused by the portion of the picture that were blocked off by the bar. The only possible reason I can think of why this was done would be to fool the consumer into thinking that this DVD was an impressive, special "Widescreen-Letterbox" version.

"...and your suffering will be legendary even in Hell!!"

[–] 16 years ago

[deleted]

[–] Fargo_North 16 years ago

In fact it does look I'm only seeing a partial picture, the framing (in my opinion anyway) just doesn't look right for a widescreen image.

...and your suffering will be legendary even in Hell!!

[–] noblefreak 16 years ago

Um, speaking of which, I'm on the Mill Creek website right now. Which collection has this?

If you love Jesus Christ and are 100% proud of it copy this and make your signature!

[–] Fargo_North 16 years ago

It's on the "Tales of Terror" Mill Creek collection.

...and your suffering will be legendary even in Hell!!

[–] Alien_I_Creator 16 years ago

Clairvius is right. It is a very awkwardly framed movie, but all the releases have the proper aspect ratio. If it were 'fake widescreen' it would be next to impossible to watch, considering the 2.35:1 ratio.
My guess is that the director was used to the fullscreen ratio and would cram in a lot of crap in every shot.

You mean the movie lied?!