I like how they improved the lighthouse effect by having the light actually rotate instead of blinking on and off like in the original.

The Rutan actually looks like a jellyfish alien instead of a cabbage

Reuben the Rutan has never looked better. 👍🏻

The one thing that stuck out was obviously the Rutan redesign which was pretty cool and much better than the original followed by the more believable ship striking land. Always enjoy seeing these.

I’m happy with these new updated effects. Especially the new Rutan design. Part of me still wishes Underworld got to updated treatment. Especially with those CSO Cave scenes.

What this shows me is that the original effects were pretty damn great for their day!

I didn't initially think this story needed new effects but I have to say these are awesome

I watched this last week, the day I got the boxset in the post. I love the new design of the Rutan, and I also like the other updated effects, such as the thicker fog effects, which really adds to the atmosphere. 😁

The scenes of the lighthouse lighting up the clouds are better and there's no denying the Rutan looks far superior with his squid-like tentacles and eye/mouth.

I kinda prefer the original death scene, with the Rutan slowly oozing down the stairs.

Most impressive. The Rutan design looks like a cross between practical and cgi effects. And looks more scary from the way it looks and moves. Even the mothership at the end looks intriguing.

Thanks for uploading the comparison video so soon! I like the new effects - except the ship crashing into the rocks. The CGI ship looks too big. The original 1977 version was a smaller yacht or clipper? The original effect was also more violent, showing more damage to the vessel on impact. Was that Skinsale’s dead body behind the Rutan Scout, as it climbed the stairs? Nice touch, if it was? When I get my set, I’ll edit a hybrid cut, keeping the best original and new effects together.

Thanks for sharing. I've been going through all the Behind the Sofas and new interviews on the Season 15 Blu-ray, and so haven't yet seen the new effects for Fang Rock. Interesting comparisons. I love how they are upgraded just enough to still be in keeping with the general production values of the era. They don't jar at all.

The New Rutan looks fantastic!

Loving the new Rutan look. Hope it comes back in the new series at some point.

Love how sympathetic these new effects are to the classic ones.

I've been looking forward to this. These are wonderful, very sympathetic and sound mix helps as well. Thank you, Dan.👍🏼

Most of these are pretty good, though I kind of feel like the cso backgrounds around the lighthouse balcony at the start look more interesting in the original

Still kind of amuses me how vicious the Doctor has always proven to be capable of being when he's backed into a corner - I mean, yes, he regrets it - just like any Doctor would - but he'll fuck your shit right up if he has to...

Every time the original effects are better. Every time.

Fang Rock and Fenric are the only times Doctor Who really dabbled with Lovecraftian horror. I wish we'd see more of it.

Thank you for another comparison, very interesting

These are absolutely brilliant. Subtle when needed. But the total redesign of the Rutan improves it a lot. Just wish they’d replaced the Rutan voice too. No disrespect to the actor, but it didn’t sound very alien or threatening.

The new updated effects made the story much better and it was already one of my favorites

i liked the original effects over the replacements, and besides it's a good story that makes a good Dr Who, all those different characters with different motivations and they all die! Excellent stuff from Terrance Dicks.

I preferred the old lighthouse. Now it looks like Mordor

Now that is a rutan 😊❤

Very nice new scenes . And a great design for the alien and its ship ; Well done ...

One of my favourite Tom stories, and made even better by the new effects (except the dying globular Rutan sliding down the steps in the original, which I think was a better image than the new version)

Thanks for uploading. Much as I love classic Who these new effects are superb.

The ship crash is a bit lifeless. The rigging collapses in the original and there's more movement to match the crunching of the hull on the rocks. The new shot there seems pointless if it's actually less dramatic.

Oh my it's so good l have happy tears😮🙄

I hope they do a cgi replacement for invasion of the dinosaurs next I do like the puppetry and stop motion dinosaurs in the episode and I do absolutely like the rutan special effect looks awesome till next time friend.?

The new effects are mostly better, and the updated Rutan is more menacing, though some of the close-ups of the Rutan manage to be less believable.

DanTheMan, back at it again with an upload. lets goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Nice, I didn’t notice some of the subtler things like the better cso and the added fog.

This is pretty cool. Especially the Rutan mother ship and the electrical effects. Not completely sold on the Gunpowder Plot design of the Rutan on the stairs, still needs some work, but better than what we had by far.

There's probably something wrong with me, but I think the new Rutan looks sort of cute. It's like a friendly little jellyfish from some kid's animated show.

I just had a question? Do these sets give you the option to watch it in its original video broadcast if you want to choose between the original and updated graphics? Thanks! 😃

The best change is not showing the full Rutan early on like in the original episode. I've noticed Classic Dr Who had a habit of creating a really intriguing mystery but then spoil some of it with early reveals

The new effects are generally quite good, and in keeping with the original era as well. Some of the new ones lack a certain "charm" but that's nitpicking.

The scenes involving the lighthouse is very effective. The cgi rutan is good but i far prefer the original. It feels more organic looking rather than a one eye creature.

Now seems an ideal time to bring the Rutans back

Aside from Leela throwing the knife at Reuben the Rutan, all the upgrades are spectacular. Most of all the mothership!

Thanks for posting It's one of my all-time favourites I love how you now see the lantern light rotating in the light house shots.I still prefer the old Rutan design though.🙂

The Rutan, mothership and lighthouse are significant improvements but the story is as good as ever.

I think they did an excellent job with the updated special effects. They look in-keeping with the production values of the time, and give a feel of what the story might have looked like if they had a better budget. This also (hopefully) makes them less likely to age badly as modern technology improves (as happened with The Ark in Space)

Brilliant! No doubt the original effects were classic efforts for the technology of the time in what was a wonderful period episode that used the ALIEN formula of a group of people trapped in a small environment and having to deal with an alien creature that picks them off one at a time. The new effects overlays definitely breath new life into this story. Much better all round, the new sequence of the ship running aground is so mucb more realistic and detailed. A thumbs up from me and a must have!😊

And though they hunted high and low. And hunted everywhere. Of the three men fate, they found no trace Of any kind, in any place. Except a door ajar, an untouched meal, and an over topple chair.

I think most of them work well, with the exception of the redesign for the Rutan. I greatly prefer the original.

I wish these could be purchased seperately.

I like how they made the new Rutan still look like a puppet. Like I can imagine the strings above it helping it move. It's a nice touch. It's funny because it nearly fooled me into thinking they made a puppet, shot scenes with it and inserted it back over the original Rutan. However, I do remember some VFX artists saying that in order to make a CGI creature look real, you make it move like a puppet or like an animatronic... you know something tangible and believable. Overall, it's a very impressive display of CGI. 😌 Too bad they didn't touch Underworld. That story needed all the help it could get. Edit: I admit my misinterpretation, It's a puppet not CGI 🥺 Good work with puppetry! 👉👈🥺

Most look very good except for the boat shots. It's an entirely different boat i n one shot (and too big). The crash is not great either.. Interesting how the new shots are all about hiding rather than revealing. Keeping more of the mystery of the story.

It's a good balance. They could have gone much further with the cgi technology available, but that would have been been jarring and disjointed. 'Dinosaurs' is the one that's crying out for cgi.

Well, aren’t they something special, there’s some real proper effort and care gone into this one I must say.

I don't think these new effects do really anything for me. That inaccurate TARDIS model bothers me the most. Outside of the Doctor Who sketches from EBC1, and the new documentaries, I'm not overly impressed with this set.

The creature in this serial made an appearance in new who. In the two parter daleks in Manhattan and evolution of the daleks.

I like all these except the rutan mothership at the end

"Leave me beeee...." 🙂

Do the comparison to logopolis please

I love some or the effects but the extra fog outside the lighthouse doesn't add much

Love the charm of the original miniatures, remind me of Michael Bentine's Potty Time.

It's well done but the crap effects are part of the charm!

I actually prefer the original effects.

Despite being sympathetic to the original I prefer the old vfx over the new, & the same goes for any of the old school sci-fi shows & films. Old school vfx may look wonky, weird & cheap but what has got to be remembered is the time, effort, talent & creativity put in to creating them by the various vfx designers, such as Matt Irvine.

Well i should say the prop did.

New Rutan looks like updated monster from fifties B movie The Trollenberg Terror or a shot at the Martians from War of the Worlds ( a far better one than the Hollywood or BBC versions too )

Is there any point in updating effects in an old show?

I actually like the old effects.

They never add special effects upgrades where they're actually needed.

Horror of Fang Rock is my all time favourtite classic who but by removinng certain things (the old effects) it completely diminishes a lot of the story for me

I haven't started collecting the new ones yet so I didn't know they did this. I like some of the new effects, and they're obviously trying to make the styles fit. But I think they're give and take. I actually don't like Rutan design they added. The old one has a charm, and the new one looks too generic--they should've kept it as more of a sea-slime that slides across the rocks and the stairs. That and the extra fog they added in post is just unnecessary. But I do like how the last shot shows the sun coming up on a now lifeless lighthouse. Very moody.

eh, the original electrocutions are more punchy. It's cool that they did this but I wish they saved the buget for episodes that really need it. It'd be cool to see them fix the lighting in the 5/6 era, everything is so over-lit. Still cool, but glad you can turn it off.

I might be in the minority here but I don't like the new effects for the Rutan when it is disguised as Ruben, I prefer the old effects to be honest same goes for the boat it's too large in the new one and it doesn't evoke a sense of danger like the old effects do, yes the old effects for the boat are far from perfect but at least you see it get damaged. The other effects are quite nice although the TARDIS looks more like the modern TARDIS props than the one from 1977 which at that point was the Newberry prop.

From my point of view, their are several inconsistency's to this video that doesn't fit to the storyline of the episode. 1. The shooting star of the Ruton ship was ok, but it was to far off in the shot. Needs to be a bit bigger or coming in from another angle. 2. The fog was perfect the way it was, their was no need to add more to possibly block a shot. 3.The steam ship render was good, but the red flares were just blobs of light. It needed to have a red glowing smoke trail going over the boat highlighting parts of the boat red. 4. The electricity the Ruton gave off was to showy, it should have bin like arcing bolts of current, highlighting & popping out of random points of the victims body like a plasma globe. 5. The Ruton Transformation, this is a biggy point to make. The Ruton human shape is most likely a holographic projection from its own body like a bioluminescent fish, which was mentioned in the episode, not a splitting human body suit. 6. The Ruton itself, another biggy of mine. The Ruton is suppose to be like a grate jellyfish with electrical stinger cell barb tentacles that it uses to pull itself along threw the scene. You could have had the tentacles shoot out, grabbing things to pull itself threw the shot. With a little glow or arc of green electrical sparks were it touches, like a live wire on the floor or metal hand bars up the stairs. Not a floating octopus with a googly eye. Anyway, that's my opinion, my view of the effects to the episode. And don't think of what I said as a disappointed anger to the video, more on the lines of, another possible view to contemplate.

Wow. The original effe ts are better than the 2024 verdion

The added light of the lighthouse is nice. Otherwise this is entirely pointless and inferior to the original, as these things always are. The Dalek Invasion of Earth was the only good one, and they never attempted another black & white story again for some reason.

I prefer the original. All they should have done was add in some CGI jellyfish-like tentacles to grab the stair and walls like it's pulling itself along. The body was effective as it was. The new Rutan looked too much like a stiff rubber toy. The zip down the middle of Ruben effect was just silly looking. Won't be watching it with the new effects. The spaceship looks kinda cool but I believe the books describe their spaceships as as crystalline. The new boat effect was a little more realistic looking and about the best part of the update besides the spaceship.

Much prefer the original atleast the rutan looks realistically organic the new version just looks like a computer animated cartoon.

I honestly am disappointed with the updated effects I personally think they should have drawn influence from octopi I know it's more jellyfish inspired but it makes sense to draw influence from a similar creature

The original footage looks cleaner

i prefer the original rutan design

Oh CoME on! WhErE'S tHe SpeCiAL EfFeCts foR MaX HeAdRoOm in ThiS VeRSiOn?! (Oh yeah, us Yanks know what I mean. XD)

As usual, some of the new shots are pointless and appear to be there for the sake of doing something different. I do like the new Rutan, but the over-the-shoulder shots of it talking to the Dr are disappointing. There is far more interesting detail on the original's "head" and when it dies, what on earth is taking the new one so long? At least the original melted and slid down the stairs. Oh, and as it climbed up the outside of the lighthouse - the new one was more shit than the original. That certainly wouldn't have become a defining memory in my 6 year old self like the original shot did.

Nope. The shipwreck was the only improvement. As always the animatiors put too much movement into the mix. I never had a problem with the original, it looked REAL. It glistened like wet seaweed and slime. Go on, try doing that with a computer.

The Rutan “Mothership” doesn’t look that impressive. The Rutan appears to move like a biped, and nobody still hasn’t realised (since 1977) that the Lamp in the Lamp gallery is far too small. It’s virtually the size of a domestic lightbulb.

The other effects are good (esp the splitting effect) but the actual CGI creature itself is pretty rubbish & unintentionally funny. & the new climbing the lighthouse sequence was rubbish! The creature was moved to the far edge & barely visible!

I'll take the original effects over the new ones anyday

new effects are great. backporting nicholas briggs' voice into the entire series chronology so that he's the voice of every creepy crawly in the series? not so much.

Love the new effects but the cgi ship crash is a downgrade! Love the old wobbly shipwreck

The original rutan was better. The new one looks like a cartoon character.

What a waste of time.

Not for me ted, we've still got the old version which is great but somehow they've got something more to them. Love a puppet mind.

All they're way through time and space to talk to a giant sprout 😂