Highlander (1986), directed by Russell Mulcahy, StudioCanal 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 5.1 remaster, commentary track, and English and German subtitles.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/

Video encoded in two-pass 9 600 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.

English subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected. German subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : The ultimate 80s cult action adventure fantasy movie, directed by Australian music video director Russell Mulcahy (whose previous horror film Razorback I very much recommend), complete with immortals, swordfighting, uzis, bad guys in biker outfits, flashbacks to 16th century Scotland, and a pretty great cast, score by Michael Kamen, and a bunch of original songs by Queen ("It's a Kind of Magic", "Who Wants to Live Forever" and "Princes of the Universe" amongst others were all recorded for this film). It also sports quite a few of those wispy, light-leak looking 80s hand-animated optical effects, and I personally am a sucker for those.

The story is of course bonkers, with a bunch of lore that's not really explained much, except the immortals have to battle until there's only one left, to get a badly-defined Prize, but it's wildly entertaining and charming, from Christopher Lambert's not great English (not to mention his Scottish accent) to Sean Connery's preening Spanish nobleman (who turns out to actually be Egyptian, for some reason). It's the always-fantastic Clancy Brown who steals the show, though, as sociopathic villain The Kurgan, who just seems to be having the time of his life, and commits the ultimate 80s sin of not caring about his hair styling or using any product at all. This is a must-have if you love 80s movies.

This is a great-looking 4k remaster, I could perhaps have wished for a slightly softer grain texture, but it's otherwise pretty perfect. The 5.1 remix sounds great, the commentary track is good, etc. Nothing to complain about.

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