For a nearly 35-year-old oddity, this encode holds up. Grain is manageable, the "invisible" fx look terrible (in a great way), and the file size is tiny thanks to HEVC.
This report examines the 1990 cult horror-comedy The Invisible Maniac
There are moments when a person can become what they used to be, like a film rewinding and giving someone a second take. For him, Mara’s offer was such a moment—an absurd and painful proposition. He had rehearsed exits before; he had packed a bag and driven until the motel lights blurred and the beeping of the neon drowned out the town’s pulse. And yet he stayed, listening to the piano, watching how she moved across the room, how her fingers trailed on the spines of records as if reading Braille.
Mara sat and listened. She did not fold into horror or fling him out into the rain. She put the notebook on the table and, with a hand that did not tremble, began to write a new set of rules—clearer, more insistent. They were not made for the police or the papers but for two people learning whether they could share a life where one had been a thief of certainty.
The Invisible Maniac (also known as The Invisible Sex Maniac