NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Universal Blu-ray (April 2023): Universal have transferred Reed Morano's I Think We're Alone Now to Blu-ray. It is on a dual-layered disc with a high bitrate. The 1080P image is pristinely clean, not dynamically bright - which is probably intentional - and there is exquisite cinematography by director Reed Morano who, herself, was also DoP on the excellent Frozen River from 2008 and many other projects. I loved the sequences on the 'abandoned village' at Haverstraw, New York. Overall, it looks quite good with some awkward teal-leaning.

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On their Blu-ray, Universal offer the option of a DTS-HD Master 5.1 surround track (16-bit) or a robust 7.1 Atmos track (24-bit) - both in the original English language. The Atmos is impressive by comparisons for those fortunate enough to have adopted that audio format. I Think We're Alone Now has a scant few aggressive moments but some deft separations trickling through the, often, barren landscapes.  The score was by Adam Taylor (The Handmaid's Tale where Reed Morano is known for directing and executive producing the pilot as well as episodes 2 & 3) and I thought it worked very well with this post-apocalyptic film and its isolationist visuals. Universal offer optional English (SDH) subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

NOTE: For Atmos - many non-compliant systems will recognizes it as TrueHD 7.1, but from Wikipedia: "Because of limited bandwidth and lack of processing power, Atmos in home theaters is not a real-time mix rendered the same way as in cinemas. The substream is added to Dolby TrueHD or Dolby Digital Plus. This substream only represents a losslessly encoded fully object-based mix. This substream does not include all 128 objects separated. This is not a matrix-encoded channel, but a spatially-encoded digital channel. Atmos in home theaters can support 24.1.10 channel, but it is not an object-based real-time rendering. Filmmakers need to remix and render the TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus soundtracks with Dolby Media Producer."

The Universal Blu-ray offers only three separate interviews with director Reed Morano, Producer Fred Berger and actor Elle Fanning running about 40-minutes in total. They share details of the production, their part in I Think We're Alone Now and the positive experience it held for them. I was impressed with all three.

Reed Morano's I Think We're Alone Now has some dark humor and it has become a favorite revisit of mine as I continue to embrace the post-apocalyptic genre. So, a worldwide pandemic wipes out Earth’s population… although it is never explained how the depop initiated or why some survived. Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) knows that he is the last human in his small town and embraces the forced life of a recluse; tending to the library, clearing dead bodies (as Vincent Price did in The Last Man on Earth), fishing and looting homes for batteries. Enter nubile Elle Fanning (Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon) as Grace who crashes her car, inebriated in the waterfront village. Del (Dinklage) sees her as an imposition on his lifestyle and wants no part of her. She comments on his eccentricity "Don't people think you're weird?" His response "Yes... but they're all dead now". We are eventually introduced to two new survivors; Patrick (Paul Giamatti) and Violet (Charlotte Gainsbourg)... but something ain't right here, folks. A post-apocalyptic event is not all spacious, crowd-free, pleasure for the survivors. The dark side of humanity surfaces... and it's evil. I loved I Think We're Alone. Dinklage and Fanning have this unusual chemistry. The Universal Blu-ray is standard fare but if you can't find this on streaming - I suspect fans of this genre will appreciate it.

Gary Tooze