Pan’s Labyrinth is GDT’s masterpiece, and definitely one of my top fav films

Great video like always, Ken. I love DTS X audio. Here is a link for all, if not most movies that are in DTS X. Since of my favorites are Battleship, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, Bad Boys for life, Atomic Blonde, Gladiator, Independence Day. The Harry Potter and Jurassic Park/World movies sound fantastic too.

I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of the paranormal. I actually want to stay in a supposed haunted house for the night. However as it stands I don’t personally believe in spirits and ghosts. This is because I think some people strongly believe. Due to projection from their mind (visual hallucinations) The mind is very powerful when used to its full capabilities. We are all so busy as humans in this fast paced life. We rarely get chance to explore psychologically. When we do have the opportunity it’s amazing what we can imagine and create. I would love to be proven wrong. As it stands right now I don’t think Ghosts and paranormal entities are real. Great video mate, I always enjoy your in-depth takes and analysis on the movies you watch.

Hey Ken, Great review, enjoyed every bit of it as always from start to finish! I never heard of this movie, so pretty intrigued and excited to check it out, the packaging looks great, the ss you showed are just magnificent and I cannot wait to order it and play it on my QD-OLED TV. The gothic tale genre is one of my favourites. Though, at the risk of sounding snobbish, I feel many directors fail to build up that spine-chilling atmosphere for my taste. Showing horribly distorted faces and creepy music and sudden burst of sound fails to grip me with that shock of terror. Their terror inducing protagonist usually is (I'm afraid) way too conspicuous and crude than being, cold, evasive, illusory, like an apparition, a passing shadow, that never reveals itself but keeps haunting you with greater intencity through the horror in the eyes of the victims. So, imho, it's the terror and anxiety, tension that the victims feel, through which the audience gets that goosebumps and shivering chill running through your spine. In a nutshell, what Alfred Hitchcock said, 'There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it'. 'The woman in black' (1989) was the most terrifying and haunting movie I have watched. Shutter, Audition are some other movies I liked. Regarding DTS:X, the only movie I remember that I watched was 'The Aquaman'. Man, what a kick-*ss sound it had, shook floors and my roof, that fight scene inside the submarine was just knocking my socks off with the huge room filling sound. I agree, DTS:X could be a potential alternative to Dolby Atmos, but we rarely find movies with that encoding. If you'd be interested, I'm a huge admirer of Edgar Allan Poe (19th century legendary American writer and poet, master of gothic fiction writer and father of detective stories) and his tales are capable of sending chilling sensation through my spines. There are many old classic movies based on his tales, with Vincent Price being the main actor in most of them. As for the uncanny, supernatural, life after death and spirits, that's a huge topic my friend, and I really can't dare to give just one perspective, I think there's a lot of phenomena still unexplored, unexplained and we don't quite understand or our brain in its current evolved state or capacity cannot take it or comprehend it. Some atheists completety abandon such ideas because they don't fit in the paradigm of Science. But equally, there are known scientists or people with scientific bent or rational mind, who have started creating (or accomodating) room for the unknown that science cannot yet explain it instead of calling it rubbish ( like atheists do), so they are studying these so called supernatural phenomena from a different perspective. There's a renowned biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, who has scientifically started researching about these uncanny experiences that humans have reported for many centuries. You may want to check out: https-colon-slashslash-www-dot-sheldrake-dot-org

Excellent review. I'd easily rate PQ at a full 5 stars though! But I can see how someone watching through a projector might knock it down a notch due to being dark in many scenes. I'm watching on a newer OLED with perfect blacks which just gives the picture even better contrast, and being brighter than most projectors means more room for improved shadow detail. All this to say I believe your 4 stars for PQ has more to do with your display choice than the technical merits of the disk itself. And I personally would never deduct points from a release for accurately representing the intended look of a film, which I consider a plus. That adds a level of personal preference alongside your display's capability of handling dark scenes vs objectively speaking on what the disc can achieve. Aside from that I think this review was very well executed and hope more people stumble across it!

Not my type of movie. Still your review is well made and interesting. Your pics are just a "wow", I would give a 5/5 for the video, but that's just me base on your pics. For audio, Atmos and DTS: X are competitors, very different, but both can be outstanding if done correctly.