The Outer Limits-Aliens Among Us (1995)

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General		Extras
Category	Mystery	Main Menu Introduction Main Menu Audio & Animation Featurette-The Outer Limits Story
Rating
Year Of Production	1995
Running Time	271:00
RSDL / Flipper	Dual Layered Dual Disc Set	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Language Select Then Menu
Region Coding	2,4	Directed By	Allan Eastman Michael Robison Tibor Takács Brad Turner
Studio Distributor	Sony Pictures Home Entertain	Starring	Kevin Conway Alex Diakun Eric Schneider Larry Musser Garvin Cross Scott Swanson
Case	Amaray-Transparent-Dual
RPI	$24.95	Music	Christophe Beck Daryl Bennett David Bergeaud

Disc1

1 & 2. The Sandkings pt1 & pt2 - A scientist has his project on Martian life scuttled by the Government after one of the alien critters almost escapes. Unwilling to abandon his research, he smuggles a sample of Martian sand containing eggs out of the lab and incubates them. What hatches is intelligent, fast...and hungry.

3. I Hear You Calling - A news reporter investigates a string of mysterious murders after overhearing a phone conversation.

4. Birthright - After suffering a head injury, a U.S. senator finds himself pursued by mysterious agents, and begins to suspect he may not be who he thinks he is.

Disc 2

5. Second Soul - A historic first encounter between aliens and humans take a bizarre twist when the beings request human corpses to use as host bodies for their own dying people.

6. Corner Of The Eye - An ailing priest believes the apparitions he sees are due to a brain tumour, but his doctor assures him they are real.

Video

    The Outer Limits: Aliens Among Us is presented in an aspect ratio of 1:33:1 as it was originally broadcast and is not 16x9 enhanced.

    The transfer presented here has a relatively sharp image with little in the way of edge enhancement. Shadow details are fine with strong black levels. There are occasional patches of grain during the transfer, but next to no low level noise problems.

    Colours are natural if slightly washed out.

    There are very few dirt or video artefacts to be found during the transfer.

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Audio

    The show has been given three audio tracks in Dolby Digital 2.0 surround. The tracks are in English, German and French.

    Dialogue is clear and there are no audio sync problems save those created in post production.

    The show's music is fairly non-descript, yet fits the low key approach found in most episodes.

    Surround channel usage is very minimal. There are little in the way of directional effects. The rear channels carry occasional background chatter and elements of the show's score.

    The subwoofer adds minimal bass and is not needed in most cases.

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Main Menu Introduction

Main Menu Audio & Animation

Featurette - The Outer Limits Story.

    The R1 version contains six different, superior episodes: Quality of Mercy, Afterlife, The Grell, Relative Theory, Alien Shop and Beyond the Veil.

    The six episodes selected for this collection - Aliens Among Us - are a reasonably solid set of episodes, however the Region one disc has a superior collection of episodes with better guest stars. Mind you, that is a very subjective opinion and you might prefer the local disc selection. Regardless, the disc looks and sounds fine, but the lack of extra material is a missed opportunity.

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