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SOTL is one of my favorite movies, which I have seen several times. I purchased this particular edition to see the film in 4K. Was the step up in quality worth it? In a word: yes! For a film where more than 75% of the scenes are filmed indoors in the dark, the superior video quality was apparent. What surprised me was how much better the audio was using my Senneheiser headphones: deep in the background track you'll hear all sorts of interesting effects emanating from the bowels of the Hospital for the Criminally Insane. In fact, there is a brief allusion to the background sounds in the "film historians commentary," which I found trite and disappointing, but I was comparing it to the phenomenal commentary from Jonathan Demme, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Screenwriter Ted Tally and others on the Criterion Collection addition -- the best commentary I've ever heard on a film. Overall, it's a bargain price for a brilliant movie!