It reduces the minimal flaws — slight motion - blurring, occasionally
splotchy shadow detail, and unobtrusive edge - enhancement — of Anchor Bay's previous transfer while simultaneously pumping up the film's mid-Eighties palette to a pleasing level of saturation.
However, looking at some side - by - side comparisons, the loss of
detail is apparent, mostly in the darker areas of the frame where blacks and
shadow detail tend to be
splotchy.