{"id":13025,"date":"2016-10-02T13:42:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=13025"},"modified":"2016-10-02T13:42:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:42:43","slug":"review-ladyinwhite-bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2016\/10\/review-ladyinwhite-bd\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Lady in White BD + Screen Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Lady in White<\/em><\/strong> is a movie with a mish-mash of ideas from social commentary to supernatural thriller to crime mystery and in none of those respects entirely works. However, the performances are pretty good headlined by Lukas Haas and despite sluggish pacing, the film managed to keep me entertaining until the end.<\/p>\n

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Lady in White<\/span>
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Genre(s): <\/strong>Supernatural, Suspense, Drama
\nShout Factory | NR\/PG13 \u2013 118 min. \/ 126 min. \/ 113 min. \u2013 $29.99 | September 27, 2016<\/p>\n

Date Published:<\/strong> 10\/02\/2016 | Author:<\/strong> The Movieman<\/span><\/p>\n

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MOVIE INFO:
\n<\/u>Directed by: <\/strong>Frank LaLoggia
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Frank LaLoggia (written by)
\nCast: <\/strong>Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond, Joelle Jacobi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DISC INFO:
\n<\/u>Features: <\/strong>Commentary, Featurettes, Deleted Scenes, Galleries, TV Spot, Trailers
\nDigital Copy: <\/strong>No
\nFormats Included: <\/strong>Blu-ray
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Audio: <\/strong>English (DTS-HD MA 5.1), English (DTS-HD MA 2.0)
\nVideo: <\/strong>1080p\/Widescreen 1.85
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>English SDH, French, Spanish
\nDisc Size: <\/strong>45.9 GB (Disc 1), 45.3 GB (Disc 2)
\nCodec: <\/strong>MPEG-4 AVC
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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THE MOVIE \u2014 3.0\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Plot Synopsis: <\/strong>Frankie Scarlatti (LUKAS HAAS) lives in a small town with a deadly secret. For a decade, a serial child killer has eluded police, and the death toll continues to rise, Then, one night Frankie gets locked in his school and witnesses the ghost of the first victim being murdered. Now, aided by the girl\u2019s restless spirit, Frankie takes it upon himself to bring her assailant to justice. But in a town with no strangers, the killer may be closer than he knows.<\/p>\n

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Quick Hit Review: Lady in White<\/em><\/strong> is an interesting little film. An independent production from 1988, it\u2019s an odd mixture of genres: part supernatural, part crime, part fantasy, part family and part social commentary. This gives us some interesting elements but culled together, none of it quite works with focus all over the place. I also question what kind of audience this was aimed at. It\u2019s too cute at times for adults, too scary for young kids and too serious to be fun. And yet, despite all that doesn\u2019t work, I at least found it to be a fascinating, if not unusually paced, flick with a finale that at least resonates on an emotional level while the proceeding 50-minutes kind of dragged and the ultimately culprit wasn\u2019t hard to spot. The young Lukas Haas turns in a nice performance, never becoming overly precocious and had good range.<\/p>\n

Produced, Written and Directed by Frank LaLoggia, Lady in White<\/em><\/strong> was only his second film following the, from what I\u2019ve read anyway, rubbish Fear No Evil<\/em> and then 1995\u2019s direct-to-video horror-thriller, Mother<\/em>. This is an ambitious film no doubt and while it does have many issues, least of which some laughably shoddy visual effects (even by 1980s standards) and yet it\u2019s entertaining and compelling enough to keep one\u2019s attention, though for younger viewers (I\u2019d say <10), it might be too frightening given the plot involves child murders.<\/p>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 2.5\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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This release is pretty light on features, but there is an Audio Commentary<\/u><\/strong> with Writer\/Director Frank LaLoggia; an Introduction with LaLoggia (0:46; SD)<\/u><\/strong> recorded for the 20th anniversary; Behind-the-Scenes Footage (16:21; HD)<\/u><\/strong> comes with an intro with LaLoggia and is basically raw footage and there\u2019s even an optional commentary<\/strong> that comes with it… for some reason; Deleted Scenes (36:13; HD)<\/u><\/strong> again with an intro and an optional commentary<\/strong>; Extended Behind-the-Scenes (1:13:21; HD)<\/u><\/strong> with some more raw footage from production and post production; Promotional Short Film (7:18; HD)<\/u><\/strong>; Theatrical Trailer (1:57; HD)<\/u><\/strong>; Alternate Trailers (7:10; HD)<\/u><\/strong> which are really raw; TV Spots (1:34; HD)<\/u><\/strong>, Radio Spots (2:21; HD)<\/u><\/strong>; a Behind-the-Scenes Photo Montage (2:30; HD)<\/u><\/strong> and an Extended Photo Gallery (1:55; HD)<\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

On the second disc, there are two more cuts, one is the Extended Director\u2019s Cut<\/u><\/strong> which runs about 8 minutes longer and the other is the original Theatrical Cut<\/u><\/strong> which is 5 minutes shorter than the Director\u2019s Cut on disc 1 (which is the version I watched).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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VIDEO \u2013 3.5\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Shout Factory, through their Scream line, releases Lady in White<\/em><\/strong> onto Blu-ray with a 1080p high-definition transfer and presented in its original 1.85 widescreen aspect ratio. It\u2019s nothing spectacular or anything and does have some decent detail and colors appear nicely balanced, but I did notice some minor specs or dust marks. Otherwise, and considering this was an independent release from 1988, it\u2019s not a half bad transfer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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AUDIO \u2013 3.75\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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The included DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track (a 2.0 option is also available) is fine but not exactly extraordinary. Where it does excel is with the dialogue which sounds clean coming through the center channel fairly well while other elements, like when the thrills or score picks up, it\u2019s not entirely dynamic. On the other hand, the depth isn\u2019t too bad with the LFE channel kicking in and although it does get a tad heavy in spots, it was a pleasant surprise.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Overall, Lady in White<\/em><\/strong> is a movie with a mish-mash of ideas from social commentary to supernatural thriller to crime mystery and in none of those respects entirely works. However, the performances are pretty good headlined by Lukas Haas and despite sluggish pacing, the film managed to keep me entertaining until the end. The Blu-ray released through Shout is a tad weak in terms of features but the video and audio transfers were passable.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Check out some more screen caps by going to page 2. Please note, these do contain spoilers<\/strong>.
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