Renfield Blu-ray Screenshots (Patreon)

Video

With a wild, erratic color palette, Renfield isn't boring. Streaks of aggressive teal, ridiculously bright reds, and (generally) average flesh tones can swap and change scene-to-scene. If it's gaudy, it's supposed to be.

Renfield's bright contrast and dense black levels help, driving the depth to an impressive degree. Universal skipping a 4K release robs Renfield of potentially great HDR, but so be it. This disc hits Blu-ray's peak on both ends.

Digitally lensed, clean cinematography sees minimal noise creep into the image. A few rough spots aside, the encode disappears, leaving behind only outstanding clarity/ From this, definition can stand out. High source resolution brings detail, somewhat softened, but impressive regardless.

Audio

Bass reaches a steady depth, but it's not the tightest. The rumble shakes the room, but it's loose and ill-defined. The bass' aggressiveness might impress to some degree, especially amid the boomy action, yet it eventually turns repetitious, or even unidentifiable. Fights scenes balance a high-range score, gunshots, and punches, all push hearty bass together, but in one mass of sound.

Oddly, Universal goes with DTS-HD 7.1 rather than DTS:X or Atmos. Thankfully, Renfield has a blast mixing the soundstage. Positional action tracks Dracula's movement as he flies about, and any gunfire/arrows/severed heads jump front to back or side-to-side.