Krull (1983), directed by Peter Yates, hybrid remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 5.1 remaster, original theatrical stereo, two commentary tracks, and subtitles in English, French, Italian, and Spanish.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085811/

Video encoded in two-pass 12.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : The early 80s were awash with Star Wars-inspired science fantasy, and a wave of sword and sorcery films was just starting, so why not combine the two? Here's a swashbuckling tale of ancient bladed superweapons, space ships that look like mountains, a princess in peril, and more matte paintings than you'd find in the house of a vain narcissist named Matthew. It's not exactly great, and was a box office bomb, but it's a fascinating kind of early-80s weird and epic, and very earnest, which I think works to its advantage. There's also a lot of pretty original and cool visuals, all shot through the gauzy lens of the period. There's also Liam Neeson, who doesn't jump any fences, and Robbie Coltrane, who doesn't tell anyone they're a wizard.

A strange, huge spaceship arrives on the planet Krull, carrying The Beast and his army of Slayers, who lay waste to everything in sight. Price Colwyn and Princess Lyssa plan to marry to unite the forces of their two kingdoms, but the Slayers attack, kidnap Lyssa, and injure Colwyn, who finds he must retrieve a legendary weapon called The Glaive (not actually a glaive, warranty void where prohibited by law, etc.), and he teams up with a band of travelling perverts to chase after The Beast's spaceship-castle-mountain, which teleports to a new location on the planet every morning.

This remaster is decent enough, the lack of sharpness is, I think, more due to the original material than the remastering. It's pretty clean, color is nice, contrast decent. 5.1 track sounds good, stereo is there if you prefer it, and the two commentary tracks are interesting. Note that the second commentary track is more of an audio essay about the production, but informative none the less.

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