Kino Releasing Needful Things on Blu-ray

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"COMING IN JUNE FROM Kino Lorber Studio Classics - ONLY ON BLU-RAY! - STEPHEN KING'S NEEDFUL THINGS (1993) - STARRING MAX VON SYDOW, ED HARRIS, BONNIE BEDELIA, AMANDA PLUMMER & J.T. WALSH - DIRECTED BY FRASER C. HESTON.

FEATURING A BRAND NEW AUDIO COMMENTARY BY DIRECTOR FRASER C. HESTON."

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

I revisited this one recently. It was not pleasant.

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UHD coming soon from Kino.

[f.ramses Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close f.ramses]

Great news about the television cut!

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Coming to 4K UHD 7/25 from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.

Needful Things (1993) 4K UHD

DISC 1 (4K UHD):

Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master (Theatrical Cut) – From a 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative
Audio Commentary by Director Fraser C. Heston, Moderated by Scorpion Releasing's Walt Olsen
5.1 Surround and 2.0 Lossless Audio
Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
Optional English Subtitles

DISC 2 (BLU-RAY)

Brand New HD Up-Res Master of the 191-Minute TV Cut
New Interview with Screenwriter W.D. Richter
Theatrical Trailer
Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
Optional English Subtitles

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

Even with the length of the TV cut, this won’t be very good. Chopping out all the ties to the various Castle Rock tales makes this movie nearly pointless, and that’s before you get into some of the nonsensical changes made to characters that originated in the novel itself.

This is a case where they either needed to put out the money to do it right with all the characters from the other books intact, or just not bother at all.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

I kinda want to see the TV cut, I hear it's better.

That being said, not hard to be better than the piece of garbage I saw in the theatre and revisited awhile back.