Both the screenshots where the red has "turned" to brown are in very low-light settings (as red is wont to do in real life). If other scenes in brighter conditions like the attack on Brigitte Skay outdoors features brownish blood, that'll be disappointing, but I'm betting it won't be.
To be honest, I can easily see Bava going for a more relaxed, non-Technicolor palette on this film (it's a rather grittier, less romantic movie than most of his 60s work), while telecine operators 30 years later decide to make it look "more" like Bava's earlier films. This new HD master (which looks from a really nice printing element, if not the actual camera negative) may well reveal what the colours were originally intended to be all along. Stylistically, I think the film's much more of a piece with Rabid Dogs than Kill, Baby, Kill! - it's definitely not a mod-spectacular or supernatural fantasy.
Last edited by Jon; 2nd December 2010 at 09:12 AM.
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