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Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy Blu-ray Review

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Score: 79

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Despite a chaotic finale, 'Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy' offers technical excellence and imaginative fantasy, enhanced by insightful supplements.

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Video: 80

The Blu-ray presentation of 'Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy' offers a new AVC encoded 1.37:1 scan with restoration by Craig Roberts, delivering softer textures, detailed monster events, and vivid colors that preserve the golden and blue hues of the aliens, ensuring natural skin tones and a well-resolved grain.

Audio: 82

The Blu-ray of 'Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy' impresses with a DTS-HD Master Audio mono 1.0 track, presenting clear dialogues and sound effects without distortion, complemented by vivid visuals from a new scan. However, the SDH-style subtitles can be distracting with excessive sound effect annotations.

Extra: 74

With insightful contributions from film historians and a captivating selection of Dusan Vukotic's animated shorts, the Extras of 'Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy' Blu-ray provide a rich, albeit trailer-less, treasure trove of cinematic exploration.

Movie: 79

Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy, a 1981 Czechoslovakian-Yugoslavian co-production by Dusan Vukotic, is a live-action cartoon exploring a writer's spiraling imagination. It blends sci-fi, comedy, and mild eroticism in a whimsical narrative featuring alien visitors, highlighting diverse storytelling from Iron Curtain cinema with inventive visual flair.

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