去年年度重磅之一，之前DVD/VHS直接扔掉
来自仅存五份拷贝中的唯一完整无删节16毫米正片（150分钟）加中场10分钟「Intermission」
胶片损坏较严重，Synapse最终出色完成了修复及补缺
两千多条英字系导演妹妹（片中金发女）一遍遍亲自听辨校订
因为录音设备的简陋和源磁性声轨的遗失使很多含混不清的对白难以得到修正
裤衩的台本无可挑剔，大量妙语和双关可撸主没找到人做中字
片子有点长不算太无聊，啪啪啪次数不多也不长且没有（同年代）其他X片那么多特写
背景戏仿老黑屋，摄影和用光可圈可点，作常规非类型片观赏即可
IMDB已包含对影片本身足够全面的介绍，虽零碎且偶有误（如导演穷到去剧院当门卫的时间应为1987）
撸主在WiKi一贯仅以适于片源的最大分辨率发布，故此发布内含三种分辨率：
蓝光正片足码1080p压制：虽只有顶层噪点是真1080p但也是16mm transfer的正义。原盘码率29m/s
蓝光花絮欠码720p压制：对仅存不足10%真1080p画面且严重欠码+锐化的90分钟纪录片这是最好的待遇
DVD花絮足码480p压制：套装中的纯花絮DVD碟，海量珍贵素材，纯sar
完整包含此40周年套装BD50+DVD9除预告片外所有内容
花絮皆无字。花絮列表见后文，制作细节见notes
*蓝光原盘中纪录片「It came from Kuchar」带两条完全一样的主音轨
推测系Synapse制作失误，故从同master老DVD中剥下导评音轨延时匹配
◎译 名 惊天雷
◎片 名 Thundercrack!
◎首 映 1975-12-29 纽约
◎国家/地区 美国
◎类 别 喜剧 / 恐怖
◎语 言 英语
◎IMDB评分 6.6/10 (541 votes)
◎IMDB链接 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073806/
◎片 长 160 min
◎导 演 Curt McDowell
◎编 剧 Mark Ellinger … (story)
George Kuchar … (screenplay)
Curt McDowell … (story)
◎摄 影 Curt McDowell
◎剪 辑 Curt McDowell
◎原创音乐 Mark Ellinger
◎主 演 Marion Eaton … Mrs. Gert Hammond
George Kuchar … Bing / Medusa
Melinda McDowell … Sash
Phillip Heffernan … Chandler Wilson (as Mookie Blodgett)
Moira Benson … Roo
Rick Johnson … Toydy McNeil
Maggie Pyle … Willene Cassidy
Ken Scudder … Bond
Curt McDowell … Medusa / Gerald Hammond (as Pamela Primate)
Bernie Boyle … Se~nor Tostada
Mark Ellinger … Charlie Hammond
Virginia Giritlian … Sarah Lou Phillips
Michelle Gross … Hula Hoop Girl (as Michele Gross)
Laurie Hendricks … Simon Cassidy‘s Mother
Billy Paradise … Mrs. Harlan
John Thomas … Simon Cassidy
Gael Sikula … Cocktail and wedding party
Margo O‘Connor … Medusa / Cocktail and wedding party
Roy Ramsing … Cocktail and wedding party
◎简 介
一个风雨交加的夜晚，一幢静谧的林间老屋，一个以酒精度日的孤独老妇，七名不请自来的年轻访客，和几只散落屋外的驯养猛兽。
每个人坦露着自己隐秘的创伤，同时用不可描述的种种模样，相互疗慰，直至天光。
@ M
.Plot
Mrs. Gert Hammond, owner of the Prairie Blossom Estate, is a lonely widow who finds solace in alcohol when a series of stranded visitors descend on her doorstep. The visitors include a hitchhiker, an unsatisfied conservative wife, young antagonistic women, possibly queer men, a circus trainer, and a sex-crazed homicidal gorilla. All of these people have secrets to reveal, and issues to sort out by the time the clouds part and the sun rises.
TAGLINE……………….: Thundercrack!
GENRE…………………: Comedy | Horror
IMDb RATING……………: 6.6/10 (541 votes)
IMDb LINK……………..: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073806/
.Release.Info
ENCODER……………….: M @ WiKi
RELEASE DATE…………..: 2016-08-11
RELEASE SIZE…………..: 19.2 GiB
SOURCE………………..: 1080p Blu-ray AVC DTS-HD MA 2.0 (thx spangsping)
.Media.Info
RUNTIME……………….: 2h:39m:30s
VIDEO CODEC……………: x264 CRF20 @ 16845Kbps
RESOLUTION…………….: 1440×1080
DISPLAY ASPECT RATIO……: 4:3
FRAME RATE…………….: 23.976 fps
AUDiO1 CODEC…………..: English FLAC1.0 16-bit @ 293Kbps
AUDiO2 CODEC…………..: English AAC1.0 @ 80Kbps
(84 minute rare archival interview segments with director)
SUBTiTLES……………..: ENG, ENG(SDH), Castilian SPA, Parisian FRE, GER
CHAPTERS………………: Numbered and Named as on Blu-ray
.x264.Info
x264 [info]: profile High, level 4.1
x264 [info]: frame I:1012 Avg QP:18.61 size:125856
x264 [info]: frame P:41513 Avg QP:19.39 size:102861
x264 [info]: frame B:186924 Avg QP:20.13 size: 84274
x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 1.2% 0.9% 2.2% 14.9% 12.8% 37.4% 9.3% 10.0% 3.7% 2.4% 2.0% 2.3% 1.0%
.Notes
█ 10 sets of SmoothLevels cautiously applied with ConditionalFilter to
soothe varying degrees of wash-out in different shots/scenes.
A total of 34940 (~15.2%) frames processed.
█ Original monaural sound restored (for ALL tracks within the Blu-ray disc).
█ All subs checked.
█ HD bonus doc `It Came from Kuchar` included as a 720p encode with
no transparency achieved.
*Presumably due to the authoring mistake of Synapse, the second track of
the doc, which should‘ve been the commentary track, is purely a dupe of
the main track, bit by bit. I replaced it with the commentary track from
the DVD, matching degree == 100% after a tiny delay.
█ All materials (12 in total, except the trailer) in the bonus DVD included as dvdrips.
*QTGMC for deint and TIVTC for ivtc
*Masked_DHA for roughly halo suppression
*The list below briefly indicates what I‘ve done additionally to each of them.
Duration, resolution and the numerical order (the same as in the filenames)
are used instead of full names. All washed out clips were treated respectively
with different smoothlevels settings.
完整花絮列表 wrote:
Bonus Materials
Disc 1 – Blu-ray
It Came From Kuchar (HD, 1:26:25)
Feature-length documentary on the underground filmmaking twin brothers, George and Mike Kuchar. Features interviews with John Waters, Buck Henry and Atom Egoyan. This is much better and more entertaining than the movie
Disc 2 – DVD
Original Theatrical Trailer (SD, 3:28)
Interview with Thundercrack! Author, George Kuchar (SD, 10:24)
An energetic interview from 2004, where George goes on different locations and plays around with the camera functions.
Marion Eaton Recalls “Gert Hammond” 2004 (SD, 5:38)
From a previous release, the loony Gert Hammond tells a little bit for those who’d never seen the film before.
“Recalling Thundercrack!” with Mark Ellinger (SD, 8:24)
A nice brief little interview with the guy who not only starred in the film, but did the score and sound effects too.
Curt McDowell & Marion Eaton 1976 Interview: San Francisco Bay Area Filmmakers (SD, 23:04)
This looks to be an old local access television program episode.
Outtakes & Behind-the-Scenes Footage (SD, 29:46)
Footage that was found during the making of this particular release.
Sex Scene Outtakes (SD, 17:29)
Original Cast Audition Footage (SD, 8:38)
Short Films Directed By Curt McDowell
– Confessions (SD, 11:00)
– Naughty Words (SD, 2:12)
– Loads (SD, 19:28)
– Boggy Depot (SD, 16:49)
– Siamese Twin Pinheads (SD, 3:57)
