Truth Or Dare: 6th Floor Rear Flat: Technical Notes

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Truth Or Dare: 6th Floor Rear Flat
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    by HKFlix
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This 2-disc set was discontinued circa 1/2006 and replaced with a single-disc version.



    by kevin bellamy

This 2-disc set is a great offer. The special features for this are absolutely wonderful. The deleted scenes on the extra disc really tickle my fancy. Also, the scene are English subtitled and are in no way considered pointless. The scenes play a key role in introducing certain characters and shows exactly how group came across finding the apartment. fun stuff, be sure to check those scenes.



    by So Good... - Hong Kong DVD Movie Reviews
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Universe presents the film in a 1.84.1 aspect ratio approximately. Print damage is absent and the transfer handles details and colours well. Contrast seems a tad high on occasions but this is a strong effort by Universe nonetheless.

The Dolby Digital 5.1 Cantonese track is mainly dialogue based and presented well in that regard. Some huge booms and explosions come when the fantasy sequences hit, which makes the track lively also. A Dolby Digital Stereo and a Mandarin 5.1 dub is also included.

The English subtitles are well-written without any obvious mistakes in grammar and spelling. Traditional and simplified Chinese subtitles are also included. Stupidly enough, Universe has put the language- and subtitle options under the special features menu, where we also find other extras, starting with the making of (9 minutes, 38 seconds, no subtitles). The only highlight in this by the numbers program is the many snippets of unused footage (see below for more information).

The Photo Gallery gives us 19 movie stills, presented in full screen which is a suitable choice. Many companies fail to fully highlight even this feature and instead they bury it in surrounding graphics that do little to help this type of extra. Once again, this has stills of deleted footage. Star's Files has one excellent entry and that is for director/co-writer Barbara Wong but the ones for Karena Lam, Candy Lo, Roy Chow and Patrick Tang are just some quick facts and filmographies quickly put together by Universe. Trailers for Truth Or Dare: 6th Floor Rear Flat, If U Care..., July Rhapsody and My Wife Is 18 finishes the first disc....

...yep, we get a 2nd platter of extras that really are a mystery all up till the point when you push the On Air button on the main menu. Entitled Show Room: 6th Floor Rear Flat, on offer is a 34 minute, 22 second collection of deleted and extended footage (mainly deleted). Presented in letterbox and quality equal to that of the main feature, Cantonese and Mandarin stereo tracks and optional English subtitles (in addition to traditional and simplified Chinese ones), this is perhaps THE best extra Universe has ever come up with, for Western viewers that is.

No explanations as to why any of this footage was removed is provided though. (only a chapter index from A to H is). It's presented in chronological order and the first 3 segments concern the finding and moving into the 6th floor rear flat. The feature basically cuts right into this but Barbara shot a long opening that earlier on set up certain characters. That character set up was nicely dealt with as the feature moved along so the footage here, while fun, is not a huge loss. Lam Suet appears briefly here as Jean's father.

Furthermore, we watch more of the youths at work, including Jean with his fragrance oil scheme, and more character moments already firmly set in stone during the main feature. Arthur Wong also stops by as a triad boss. The deleted scenes with Sammy meeting his ex-girlfriend prior to the big truth or dare confrontation take on a little bit more weight but what's seen in the feature is enough to carry that plot strand. Finally, the same outtakes end credit sequence finishes this section. Strangely, it's not subtitled like it was during the film.

12 minutes and 31 seconds of NG Footage as well as an additional Photo Gallery (16 stills relating to the deleted footage) rounds off this 2nd disc.




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