Stepfather II Make Room for Daddy (1989)(720p 16:9 H264 TVEAI DVD)

Stepfather II Make Room for Daddy (1989)(720p 16:9 H264 TVEAI DVD)


After escaping the insane asylum in which he was incarcerated, Jerry Blake (Terry O'Quinn) impersonates a marriage counselor and manages to win over a patient (Meg Foster) and her young son (Jonathan Brandis).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098385/

The performance Terry O'Quinn gives is awesomely frightening: one minute Gene is a mild-mannered gentleman, the next he's an out of control psychopath with a lust for violent actions and death.

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The DVD is 720x480 progressive with 2:3 pulldown. Topaz VEAI 2.3 with the Dione DV v2 200% progressive model (json mod) was able to take this to 720p. Good 1080p isn't possible due to the limited detail in DVD video. All the bootleg "Bluray" releases of this I've found are poorly upscaled 4:3 video with visible interlace artifacts. As best as I can tell, Stepfather II has not been released on Bluray. Searches on new and used stores found only VHS and DVD.

This is the Special Edition which has the deleted scenes included in the movie. Also included from the DVD are the trailers, deleted scenes (for reference), and The Stepfather Chronicles.

x264 details: PNG image sequence input, YUV 4:2:0 SAR 1/1 CRF 18.0 Placebo Film High L4
The audio is as is from the DVD (no reencoding). The second audio track is Commentary.

Tools used:
MakeMKV, Virtualdub2 (has x264), Avisynth, DGDecode, VideoEnhanceAI, CAS, MKVMerge, MKVExtract, SubtitleEdit

MediaInfo:
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Duration : 1 h 27 min
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Encoded date : UTC 2021-12-18 17:05:29
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Menu
00:00:00.083 : en:Chapter 01
00:02:50.203 : en:Chapter 02
00:08:03.516 : en:Chapter 03
00:11:27.720 : en:Chapter 04
00:15:45.477 : en:Chapter 05
00:20:52.784 : en:Chapter 06
00:25:51.583 : en:Chapter 07
00:30:14.345 : en:Chapter 08
00:33:10.521 : en:Chapter 09
00:36:48.239 : en:Chapter 10
00:40:18.949 : en:Chapter 11
00:44:42.713 : en:Chapter 12
00:49:40.010 : en:Chapter 13
00:53:48.675 : en:Chapter 14
00:57:49.482 : en:Chapter 15
01:00:30.143 : en:Chapter 16
01:12:52.384 : en:Chapter 17
01:15:52.064 : en:Chapter 18
01:19:20.772 : en:Chapter 19
01:24:19.070 : en:Chapter 20