Indicator’s limited edition is loaded with material, both new and old, and they have gone far out of their way to gather interviews with as many people as possible who were involved with the film. It’s a sharp looking presentation and it barely shows its age at all. It’s a grainy film but it’s rendered cleanly with no noise or blocking patterns appearing, which also leads to exceptional detail levels (when the source allows). There is a nice film texture to the image, with it never looking digital or processed. Outside of a handful of minor marks the restoration work has really cleaned up imperfections.Īnd as suggested earlier, yes, the digital presentation looks great. Black levels are also superb, being deep but still allowing details to show through. Colours are muted and primarily limited to grays and browns (with the odd bright red), but they’re saturated well and they’re clean (the notes for this presentation mention grading was done under the supervision of director of photography Phil Méheux). Despite all of this what we get is still a solid looking digital presentation, as clean and as film-like as it probably can be on the format. Scum is by no means a pretty looking film: it’s dirty and grimy, about as dreary as a film of its subject matter probably should be. Though a UK release the disc is region free, despite there being a release in North America from Kino Lorber. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation is sourced from Euro London’s 2012 2K restoration of the film, scanned from the 35mm original camera negative. For its 40th anniversary Powerhouse Film’s Indicator line presents Alan Clarke’s Scum on Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1 on this dual-layer disc.
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