I would happily see Earthquake in the cinema's again. The effects work stands up today, especially the incredible matte work by Albert Whitlock. Beats the shit out of the CGI "crap" ladden junk the studios pump out today. Come on Universal get your act together and bring this film back to the big screen one last time.
I'm happy you remastering movies wonderfully especially to this disaster 1970's flick: Earthquake. It's almost realistically destructive from the old school filming. I loved this movie a lot. It's scary even remotely shocking of the entire population experienced in a actual earthquake. Also for that time, Sensurround sounds like a great inventive way to listening the unshakable sounds to give us a frightening experience in motion picture's history. Great job on those blu ray releases, Shout Factory.
Saw this when it premiered in 1974 at the cinema in what they called sensurround, the speakers were as big as cars and when a quake would hit the speakers would cause the floor to rumble. Four more films came out with this effect, Midway, Rollercoaster , Saga of Star World, Battlestar Galactica and that was the last of sensurround sound.
I live in London and was very recently talking to a retired man in his 80s who was a projectionist at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square London for many many years. He was telling me that when he was working there when Earthquake was released it's screening was pulled from the Empire due to the Sensurround beginning to cause cracks in the theatre and also damage to the London Underground system under neath Leicester Square!
I think they've improved the special effects quite a bit since this was made. San Andreas was a terrible movie, but the special effects were great. Watch the Towering Inferno for some real laughs, both in the story line and special effects.
Was 15 when I first saw this -- I'm like -- uh, stay away from California . . oh wait . . have New Madrid Fault in West Tennessee . . i'm about 200 miles to the east of it . . so . .I'm o.k. (??)
Oh so this transfer doesn't have that FAKE GRAIN that universal plastered over that dreadful bluray that I have. If this transfer doesn't included the Sensurround Attention! It = no buy.