[In progress] The Exorcist (1973) 4K TC Reconstruct. - Exorcism fixed

[sanjuro_61]

Hey guys.
First of all, the title is pretty much self explanatory. The exorcism scenes, badly chroma dnr'ed (WTF is that?, seriously), will be replaced with the AI upscaled (the horror!) BD ones, and of course regraded.
I had a divx file of the 1997 DVD version I got from the archive dot org... but I can't find it (I must have accidentally deleted it). It will be helpful if I can get it again, as the 35mm print floating around is not very good (it's, indeed, faded). IMO, besides the exorcism, I don't think the 4K is in need of a regrading. Honestly, it looks good to me.

Now, a question that is bugging me:
I remembered a few years ago, the moviecensorship site, as we all know, great for comparing different versions, mentioned a digital tweak of Regan's mouth somewhere during the exorcism, or a scene right before it. Now is not mentioned anymore? Am I delusional? It would be great if someone could shed some light on this.

Work is in progress!

[sanjuro_61]

Update.
Some pics of the exorcism... (exported  in 1920x1080, but don't worry, the project is in 4K)






Since we don't have a 35mm reference, I'm just trying to make it look consistent with the rest of the footage, which I must say once again, looks very nice.

[X5gb]

You have a pm, sanjuro_61.

[Beber]

We do have a 35mm reference, well, sort of, since it's from Rob's Nostalgia Project with the usual liberties taken...

[sanjuro_61]

We do have a 35mm reference, well, sort of, since it's from Rob's Nostalgia Project with the usual liberties taken...

I know, I know. I've seen it. He did a good job bringing back the colors, but you can still see it's quite faded. Very often, dark areas are just grey, no colors. Gone. All throughout the movie, greens and cyans are mostly gone too. I mean, yeah, we can see the exorcism didn't have a blue tint, but beyond that... not useful.

A comparison (the UHD wins, hands down):

 

 

 

[Beber]

And yet, Rob usually tends to use LUTs that turn the color palette bluer. It's kinda funny in that regards that the exorcism scene doesn’t look blue.

[sanjuro_61]

And yet, Rob usually tends to use LUTs that turn the color palette bluer. It's kinda funny in that regards that the exorcism scene doesn’t look blue.

If the raw scan looked like the film cells we can find out there, he did a tremendous job regardless.