Burnt Offerings Blu-ray Review

PLOT SYNOPSIS

SPECIAL FEATURES – 3½/5

This release comes with a matted slip cover.

Audio Commentaries:

• Director/Co-Writer/Producer Dan Curtis, Actress Karen Black and Co-Screenwriter William F. Nolan
• Film Historian Richard Harland Smith

These tracks offer different viewpoints with the first obviously being able to recount the production, locations and other tidbits while the second is a more educational variety. The first one is an archival track as Curtis and Black passed away in 2006 and 2013 respectively while the second I think was newly recorded for this release.

Interviews:

• Acting His Face (17:33) — Actor Anthony James
• Blood Ties (16:29) — Actor Lee Montgomery
• From the Ashes (13:21) — Screenwriter William F. Nolan

“Trailers from Hell” with Steve Senski (3:21) is a breakdown on the movie and the trailer.

Portraits of Fear (3:21) is a photo gallery of production and publicity stills.

Theatrical Trailer (2:29)

VIDEO – 4¼/5, AUDIO – 4/5

Kino Lorber releases Burnt Offerings onto Blu-ray where it’s presented in the original 1.85 widescreen aspect ratio and a 1080p high-definition transfer. Since there’s no mention on the back cover, this likely did not receive any restoration work and the transfer was provided to KL by MGM. As it is, this is a ifne looking picture, albeit pretty soft in texture but that’s not a slight on the picture but how it was shot. Even so, detail was respectable enough and colors appear to be well balanced.

The disc included DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 track. Dialogue comes across fairly good and clean with maybe a hint of some minor hissing but otherwise nothing terribly distracting. There’s not a whole lot to this track although there is some minor depth for a track like this and for a movie this old that doesn’t have a whole lot of action.