A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection - 4K Blu-ray Review

[Michael Scott]

A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection



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WARNING: THE SCORES ABOVE ARE A COMBINED SCORE FROM ALL 7 FILMS, THE INDIVIDUAL SCORES ARE CONTAINED BELOW IN THE INDIVIDUAL SECTIONS OF THE REVIEW


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Movie
Wow, it’s been YEARS since we’ve seen a full collection of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and with how Paramount and Warner have only been releasing the first couple of films of their iconic horror franchises on 4K, I was estimating we would have to wait a few more years for the most popular ones to get individual releases, and THEN maybe getting a complete collection. But it looks like Warner went right for the jugular after last years release of A Nightmare on Elm Street on 4K and just released the entire series in one fell swoop. As a fan, I’m ecstatic, as waiting for years as the studios dole out a few at a time is something my impatient self can’t stand, plus it usually has fans either skipping out on the upgrades as they wait for a complete set, OR repurchasing the same film multiple times as they buy the individuals, and then the box see. Either way, I’m tickled pink to see the series get the treatment it deserves, AND Warner didn’t use that horrible DVD sized clam shell case that the TV shows are plagued with. Bravo.

A Nightmare on Elm Street:
When it comes to slasher films, there are 3 or 4 names that REALLY stick out in everyone’s minds, even the normies. Names like Jason, Michael Myers, and of course Freddy Krueger. Freddy has become such an iconic household horror names that he’s basically guaranteed to be a Halloween costume in every costume shop every year, and his razor knife fingered glove is instantly recognizable. Sprouting up in 1984 from the mind of legendary Wes Craven, Freddy became one of the longest running slasher franchises, starting with good intentions, only to slowly devolve into the ridiculous over the years. As a lifelong 1980s slasher fan, I really don’t care. I’ll watch each and every film non matter how garbagey they are ever Halloween, and feel like a 12 year old kid once more.

For the 40th anniversary year we get to go back in time to 1984, where our film could be in anywheretown USA. The story focuses on a young highschooler named Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) and her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp in his first major film at age 21. It’s a normal school year, but Nancy’s friend Tina (Amanda Wyss) has been having horrible nightmares about being chased by a creepy scar faced man with knives for hands. While Nancy and the rest of their friends scoff it off as nothing, Tina is absolutely terrified and ends up begging her friends to come over for a sleepover to help keep her company. It’s that fateful night that Nancy, Glen and Tina’s “rebel without a cause” boyfriend Rod (Jsu Garcia) find out the hard way that going to sleep could be killer.

The major plot for A Nightmare on Elm Street was actually pretty clever for the start of the 1980s slasher craze. A maniacal child murderer named Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) has found new life in the world of dreams. He’s come back to the land of the living (at least in a way) to haunt the children of the people who had him killed years ago by torturing them in their sleep. In the dream world HE has the power, and now he wants murderous revenge. And of course there is teens, dumb decisions, and our pretty heroine is bound and determined to defeat him. Pretty much the plot of MOST of the slasher films of the day. But ironically, unlike Friday the 13th, you’re actually rooting for the hero to get his comeuppance rather than rooting for the killer (maybe I’m weird, but watching Jason Vorhees slaughter dumb kids always puts a smile on my face).

The film is clever enough, but what REALLY sells the movie (the entire franchise really) is Robert Englund as Freddy. Englund has become a Bruce Campbell esque horror legend over the years, but he is really KNOWN for playing Freddy Krueger, and for good reason. England really sells the twisted character with the rasping voice, and he just hams it up at every second. While the series had not gone off the rails into complete slapstick horror, Craven weaves in a light undertone of comedy throughout (the end battle in the real world was almost like a Benny Hill skit in ways) making Freddy both terrifying and mildly humorous at the same time. Heather Langenkamp does a solid job as Nancy, and it’s downright shocking to see a 21 year old Johnny Depp in his first feature film role (little bit of trivia. Johnny actually came to L.A. to become a rock star, but ended up trying films instead, and voila, here we are). The indominable John Saxon fills out the support cast as her over protective and dismissive father, making A Nightmare on Elm Street one of the seminal slasher films of the 1980s.

This particular set actually gives us the unrated cut of the film as well, which while only 9 seconds longer, gives us some really nice extra gore that makes the film earn its R rating. I don’t think I’ve seen the uncut version for YEARS since my UK import of the Blu-ray set only had the theatrical cut (as did the U.S. version) but comparing them side by side it’s not a huge difference. But despite being only a minor difference visually, the extra gore makes the film a bit more impactful. Kind of a nice addition even if it’s not a night and day different cut of the film.

Freddy's Revenge:
While it’s not the best of the franchise by a long shot, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge is actually a pretty cool take at continuing the franchise before things went off the rails. It attempted to go a completely different direction than the rest of the franchise, focusig on Freddy trying to take over the body of a young man and have him kill FOR the monster, rather than having Freddy invade via our dreams and murdering people that way. It was novel, a bit of fun, but ultimately the film that sort of gets retconned and seen in the same light as Halloween 3 or Friday 13<em>th</em>: A New Beginning in that they tried to go a different direction, only to be seen as oddballs a the powers that be decided to keep regurgitating the same films over and over again.

It’s been 5 years since Nancy Thompson defeated Freddy Kreuger (Robert Englund), only to go insane after the all of the terror she suffered (which gets retconned in the next film). Now a new family has moved into her house on Elm Street, and the cycle is starting all over again. This time young Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) is begins to see visions and have the same nightmares that the rest of the Elm Street kids suffered from the in the last movie. Freddy Krueger invading his sleep and terrorizing him. This time Freddy doesn’t really want to kill Jesse. You see, the Elm Street inhabitants have forgotten all about old Fred, and he just doesn’t have the power that he once had. But, he has a way to come back to the world of the living as a killer once more. This time by putting all of his efforts on Jesse himself, terrorizing the boy and whispering in his ear till the malleable young lad is powerless to keep Freddy form possessing his body.

Now that Freddy’s in partial control, the killings can commence. This time not in the dream world, but in the real world with Jesse as his avatar. However, Jesse is not done fighting the dream killer, and with the help of his girlfriend Lisa (Kim Myers), he just may have a chance at stopping Freddy in his tracks once and for all.

Freddy’s Revenge is actually pretty inventive for the franchise, and not a bad entry. The setup for Freddy to come back after he uses Jesse as a surrogate is a clever little twist. There’s no massive discovery regarding Freddy himself, nor is the rest of the town involved like last time. We’re throwing right into things and simply asked to accept that this is Freddy’s next move, and to be aware of what happened in the previous film. BUUUUUUUUT, there are some downsides too. Mainly that the ending is just a repeat of the previous film, and the actual battle against Freddy is pretty anti-climactic (a classic “but I love you!” thing where it gives Jesse the strength to force Freddy out of his mind), and having Freddy come to the real world is more of a gimmick than anything. We’re just expected to believe that we can now see the titular villain, without any explanation of how he got there. But at the same time, it doesn’t suffer from the over the top slapstick humor that the franchise devolves in over the next few films, and keeps an element of horror throughout the film. Not perfect, but fun at the very least.

Dream Warriors:
After the lackluster box office success of Freddy’s Revenge, Warner Bro’s came back 2 years later with an attempt of reinvigorating the film series by reuniting the original cast (or at least the surviving ones) by retconning the idea of Nancy Thompson being insane. This time Nancy has moved on from the traumatic events of her childhood and put her entire education into psychology and helping people who might be susceptible to Freddy’s influence. Working at the Westin Hills psychiatric facility, Nancy is instrumental in developing a new drug named hypnocil that can alter the dreaming patterns of children, thus keeping them safe from Freddy (although she’s not exactly letting her colleagues know the WHY that much as you can guess).

Sadly, Nancy’s drug is put to the test sooner rather than later, when a suicide risk patient named Kristen Parker (Patricia Arquette) gets admitted under constant watch. While most people interpreted her ravings as that of a crazed and suicidal young woman, Nancy recognizes it as the words of someone who has had a run in with the dream killer, Freddy (Robert Englund) himself. Kristen herself is at a breaking point, having suffered an unbelievable experience that seems relegated only to herself. Until she finds out that several other patients as Westin Hills are having strange dream run ins with the killer as well. But it’s not until Nancy steps in and uses her experience with the child killer that the teens have a fighting chance of actually taking acre of Freddy once and for all.

Honestly, Dream Warriors is probably tied with Wes Craven’s Night Nightmare for being second best in the entire franchise (1st obviously going to the OG film). It is a bit more accessible than the previous two films, infusing horror with some mild slapstick comedy (the beginning of the end for the series), and having fun with the idea that the children could take control of their dreams and live out every kid’s fantasy of basically being a dream super hero. Mix in a heavy dose of Dokken’s hard rock for the score, and this was PEAK 1980s fun and action.

The gore for this film is amped up nearly to the same level as the first one, with some really inventive kills and combat scenes between the kids and Freddy (the tendons scene still creeps me out to this day) and Robert Englund gets one of the biggest speaking roles in the 3 films released so far. He’s obviously fully entrenched in his character now, having fun with the dream killer’s ability to be both dark and humorous at the same time. The grotesque visuals and wild scenarios fair eclipses the previous two films in terms of scope, and some solid acting by the kids makes this film better than it should be. If I had any complaints, its that the film films stiff and awkwardly written at times. Not to mention on how Nancy dies in the film. It’s one of the biggest horror crimes ever committed, and the WAY that she goes out is such a downer considering how the original script had her meet her maker. But at the end of the day, Dream Warriors is a clever sequel to the original and one of my favorites in the entire series.

The Dream Master:
With three films under their belt, Warner Bro’s were getting pretty excited about the Nightmare on Elm Street series. It had turned into a genuine franchise, with the fans willing to come back over and over again to see Freddy slice and dice his way though teenagers dreams, and so they decided to hire a rather unknown (at the time) Finnish director by the name of Renny Harlin to helm the next film in the series less than a year after Dream Warriors came out in theaters. Ironically, Hollywood was going through ANOTHER writer’s strike at the time, and with an untested director at the helm, and a lack of talent on the writing front (statistically speaking), the film’s saving grace was hung on the back of Robert Englund returning as Freddy. Luckily for us Harlin eats up cheese and B-level slop for breakfast and with Robert Englund returning, Dream Masters turned out to be one of the better entries in the post.
Dream Warriors films.

After the events of the last film, teenagers Kristen (Tuesday Knight), Joey (Rodney Eastman) and Kincaid (Ken Sagoes) as they attempt to fit in with the real world after their encounters with Freddy previously. Kristen is dating hunky martial artist Rick (Andras Jones), whose sister Alice is having hallucinations and dreams of things she would NEVER do in real life. However, in true Nightmare on Elm Street fashion, dreams turn out to be a bit more insidious than the real world, and before you know it Freddy has opened up another door to our world, proving that he was still alive and well after being put to rest at the end of Dream Warriors.

The Dream Master is a surprisingly agile horror film that is MORE than just Freddy Krueger. In fact, Freddy himself is nearly sidelined in his own movie, with the rest of the creepy atmosphere and angst regarding Joey, Kincaid and Kristen’s issues taking front and center. It’s not that he’s ignored and lost amid the chaos. It’s more due to the fact that the movie itself is so much fun that you don’t have to gloss over the fact that Freddy is the heart and soul of the previous films, and would have suffered greatly without him. Not so much the case with Dream Master, as it works quite well as a movie without Freddy, allowing him to become fully integrated into the movie without seeming like everything centers around him.

Outside of A Nightmare On Elm Street, this is easily the best looking Freddy film to date. It doesn’t look cheap and cheesy ala the two sequels, and Renny Harlin keeps a strong hold over the atmosphere in the film. He blends style and charm with good camera work and a clever adaptation of the dream killer’s trademark slash and dash horror. The kills are creepy and bloody, but the real pull here is the dark and twisted tale of psychological horror that Harlin keeps lean and palpable the entire time. I won’t say it’s as FUN as Dream Warriors, but The Dream Master is one of the more technically competent films in the entire Nightmare on Elm Street collection.

The Dream Child:
I mentioned this above in my Freddy’s Revenge review, but as is the case for MOST horror franchises, the powers that be start to shift wildly on the tone and rely more and more on humor as the series go on. Kind of like the Chucky franchise, Nightmare on Elm Street started getting more and more absurd, with Robert Englund leaning more and more into the comedic aspects of his character (though, to be fair, he’s always been a darkly comedic villain), with The Dream Child marking the dive off the cliff into Bride of Chucky corollaries. Just like with The Dream Master, The Dream Child came out barely a year after the previous film, having been rushed due to the uptick in box office that the Renny Harlin directed flick saw. And while it’s not horrible, it certainly is more hammy and not up to the task of creeping audiences out like the series was known for.

Alice (Lisa Wilcox) being the survivor from Dream Master is trying to recover and move on with her life after the traumatic events of the previous film. She’s now in a committed relationship with her boyfriend Dan (Danny Hassel) with whom she’s planning a European vacation with after graduation, and has actually made a few new friends despite her misgivings of getting close to people. And now her dream visions are back, with hints that Freddy is alive and well after she sees visions of him in an insane asylum. And once she finds out that she’s mysteriously pregnant when she can’t match it up to Dan, and we have a terrifying suspicions that maybe, just maybe, Freddy has continued to manipulate her even from the dream world.

While, amusingly enough, The Dream Child is one of the worst films in the series, it also is the most twisted and disturbing as well. I’m not sure why, but films about demon children and little children in general in slasher movies tend to disturb me more than your typical bloody fare (sorry, the title kind of gives away the spoiler and it’s hard not to address it). The film has more than its share of macabre and gothic settings to keep it disturbing, but Freddy’s constant wise cracking and hamming things up to level 11 makes the movie strangely at odds with itself. Never truly able to find a voice of its own. Director Stephen Hopkins does his best to keep the movie grounded and on base, but it doesn’t have the technical skills of Renny Harlin’s attempt to hide a lot of the crevices and cracks in the armor that has become the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels.

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare:
I know that I’ve been comparing the Nightmare on Elm Street films to the Chucky films a lot in this review, but there are a LOT of parallels to the rise and fall (and then rise again) of that franchise as well. But here we go again, with the 2nd to last film in the series mirroring the path of Seed of Chucky. That being this is the film that sent the already wobbly train careening off the tracks and falling into the abyss with both boilers on full power and nobody at the helm to keep this train wreck from happening. Basically, this is the film where everyone (myself included) though that the Nightmare on Elm Street was dead as a doornail, and for good reason. The kills are lame, the story bland, even Robert Englund was having a hard time with the over the top humor that was past splatstick, and simply bad cheese. But hey, we got Wes Craven’s New Nightmare to have fun with next, so at least there’s that light at the end of the tunnel.

In a little town in Ohio, all the teenagers are dead, and their parents are freaked out. Freddy apparently got to them and word on the street is that they all died in their sleep. HOWEVER, rumor has it that a single teen has survived, and has just woken from a set of horrible nightmares. Stuck on the streets no knowing who he is (he’s unnamed the entire movie), said young man is eventually brought into the youth center where kindly caretaker Maggie Burroughs (Lisa Zane) simply calls him “John Doe” (Shon Greenblatt). There “John” meets up with several other people in the youth center whom he bonds with. All of them seem to have some connection to John’s dreams, and with the help of Maggie, the group of friends heads down to Springwood Ohio to figure out what happened…...aaaaaaaaaaaaand of course you guessed who is waiting for them.

Freddy’s Dead is a train wreck of a film that just hobbles along on the fumes of a better films. The most glaring problem is one that is spoiled in the title. That is, how easily it figures out a way to fulfill the title of the film in the anti-climactic finale of the film. The film sadly just regurgitates themes and plot points of the previous film, except this time starting with a clean slate of characters without any survivors from the previous films. Every single of whom are just forgettable cardboard cutouts whom I didn’t even care if they died or lived in the film. Robert Englund does his best with the material that he’s given, but it’s a whole lot. The powers that be have Englund leaning heavily into the comedic aspect of his character, and just like Dream Child, it just doesn’t hit very hard.

The acting is problematic and fairly bland for a 1991 film, with hints of scariness and actual terror on their faces every once in a while. But otherwise we’re simply watching some bad 1990s CGI mixed with cheesy acting, a horrible script, and the one movie in the entire series that I still struggle to sit through.

Wes Craven's New Nightmare:
The Nightmare on Elm Street series has had its ups and downs, but for the last of the OG films we actually got a banger instead of the whimper that was Freddy’s Dead. This time Wes Craven returns to the director’s chair (and the only labeled writer) to give us a new look at an old character. This time without all of the trappings of the film world, and sort of breaks the fourth wall a bit by having it set in the real world, with the films being an actual film WITHIN the film (say that 4 times fast). It was in direct opposition to what Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare was trying to accomplish in wrapping up the series, but after the box office returns came in, the powers that be decided to go for one more ride (until the 2000s when they decided to go for a remake).

Turning the tables just a bit, our film focuses on real life actress Heather Langenkamp (herself), who is combing back to the Nightmare on Elm Street series to play Nancy Thompson once more. She had pulled back from the franchise to protect her son Dylan (Miko Hughes) from the violence and gore that she is steeped in every time she plays the role of Nancy. She’s also a bit on edge as the infamous California earthquakes are going crazy, and a phone stalker just won’t leave her alone. Dylan himself is getting scared at the smallest things, even the “monsters” under his bed that his mother assures him aren’t real. But as time goes by Heather starts to think something is up. After being pitched a new Freddy film from New Line Cinema, people around her start to die in all too familiar ways. Teaming up with series colleague Robert Englund (himself as well), the due starts digging into the deaths and soon discover than an evil entity is plaguing the production. One that is all familiar to the fans and characters alike.

New Nightmare has long since been the forgotten “hidden gem” within the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and is actually Robert Englund’s favorite film in the franchise. It may not be brilliant, but it certainly is unique and fun considering how far the series had fallen since the 4th film. It carefully plays at being meta without going too far, cleverly blending in real life characters playing themselves playing a character. Instead of just using that concept to wink and not at the camera ala Scream, Craven instead uses it to dissect the trauma and stress of real life people dealing with making a horror franchise, and the PTSD playing these types of characters can inflict on them. On the surface it may seem a bit dense and chewy, but Craven masterfully allows it all to just unfold on camera and be taken at face value. Thus slightly dulling the typical “hoity toity” nose in the air snobbishness you would get from Art House fans trying to dissect something like that.

Instead of crafting the kills and the plot around a group of teens who are going to get slashed and murdered, Craven instead hones in on a careful blend of real and imagined terrors that are inflicted on grown up adults. Yet through it all, things are still very distinctly “Freddy” based at its core. Little nerd tidbit. There’s actually a scene in the film that looks like it’s where Craven got the inspiration for Drew Barrymore’s death in Scream a few years later.

While not perfect, New Nightmare acts as one of the best Freddy films in the entire series, tying for second place with Dream Warriors. While Dream Warriors goes for the fun and pop culture type audience, New Nightmare is more clever, with a matured Wes Craven trying to run commentary on the previous six films while still pushing the series forward. Out of all the films, this is the one I run to the most when I want to see something better than just “teenagers gonna get slashed” pulp horror. Plus, if it’s Robert Englund’s favorite film in the franchise, I have to see it.




Rating:

Rated R by the MPAA




4K Video: Video:

A Nightmare on Elm Street:
2010’s Warner Blu-ray was the best we had, but it sadly wasn’t THAT great. The film was using the inefficient VC-1 coded on a BD-25 disc, open matte’d to 1.78:1 (very common for Warner back in the day), and was filled with lots of digital noise and some odd color timing. I mean, it wasn’t really that BAD for the time, but looking back in history 14 years and looking at it from a more mature format, it definitely wasn’t as good as it couldn’t. For this 40th anniversary disc we get a brand new 4K remastering (for both the theatrical and unrated cuts) that looks light years better. The image looks much cleaner and more natural, with a healthy grain layer that isn’t overly noisy or blown out with overly ruddy color time. Warner hasn’t used Dolby Vision, but the HDR10 image looks quite nice, with a much dimmer and more tamed color palate all around.

On the flip side, A Nightmare on Elm Street is never going to look RAZOR sharp and perfect. It was shot back in 1984 with cinematic techniques that could sometimes looks soft and somewhat gauzy. Especially when you consider the fact that this movie is supposed to be somewhat “dreamlike” to begin with. Specific moments may not be super bright, or super crisp (the one that stood out to me was Johnny Depp laying in that bed with his headphones and portable TV just before he’s gonna get killed), but overall this is a quite a good looking image for A Nightmare on Elm Street and a fairly drastic upgrade that looks a lot more natural.

Freddy's Revenge/Dream Warriors:
As for the rest of the films, they tend to range from good to great, with the 2nd and 3rd film looking very similar to the original. Both films have that sort of gauzy and hazy look to it that was indicative of mid 80s horror movies, but fine details are generally really good. I did notice some minor banding and some grain that looked a bit smooth, but other than that I really can't complain. They both look very good compared to the aging Blu-rays and serve as a solid upgrade for fans.

The Dream Master/Dream Child/Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare/Wes Craven's New Nightamre:
The final 4 films look REALLY good, and easily the best out of the entire series due to being filmed a little bit later with large budgets. The 2160p discs certainly make good use of the bitrate, giving us exmplary detail levels and a natural looking grain structure that doesn't look like it has been tinkered with that much. The HDR color grading is fantastic as well. While the original films looked a bit dull due to the visual aesthetics, the newer films make much better use of hte primary shades and the black levels giving us richer colors and black that show no sign of crush or artifacting.

I did get a kick out of the fact that The Final Nightmare includes a 1080p version of the film on disc, complete with the Anaglyph 3D version of the film and glasses to watch. As a classic film nerd I'd glad that they kept in anaglyph instead of active 3D, being that it was how the film was shown in theaters. Plus the old school paper glasses (that are included) are a bit of nostalgic trip that suits the film series. All in all, these are absolutely fantastic upgrades over the decade plus old Blu-rays and well worth the ugprade cost.







Audio:

A Nightmare on Elm Street:
Not going to lie, I was actually surprised by the audio mix for this one. I actually glossed over the fact when I got the press release from Warner that this was getting a Dolby Atmos remix, AND a lossless 2.0 Monorail theatrical mix as well. I’m almost always a purist, so I was happy to see the inclusion of the theatrical mix, but I was also blown away at how good the Atmos remix is. Warner has done a great job at taking the original mix and fleshing it out, and also including in almost ALL of the original audio cues and effects from the theatrical mix. It just sounds fuller, richer, more dimensional, and above all, really pleasing. The Atmos isn’t so overboard as to completely alter the tone and feel of the sound, but it’s more 3 dimensional, and adds some great power to the audio. Voices are clean and clear, and the 1980s effects are pinpoint accurate. Overheads get some mild use due to the score (and a few key moments down in the boiler room), but they don’t go crazy with them. All in all, this is one of the more impressive ways to modernize a mix without altering it drastically, AND kudos to warner for including a lossless Mono mix for the purists who don’t want the upgrade. Bravo Warner, bravo.

2-7:
All 7 films have received a new Atmos mix, BUT for the purists out there, they have also included the theatrical Mono mixes in DTS-HD MA (except for New Nightmare, which had a 5.1 theatrical mix and is also included). End result? A very solid sound that doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel, but rather take the theatrical mixes and expand them out. I’m usually not wild about 2.0 or lower audio mixes and turning them into Atmos, but overall these are all very impressive sounding mixes. A lot of work was done to make them not feel like “fake” mixes, or completely redone with new audio ala Seven, but rather just enhancements to the original. Sure, wider ranges are going on, some beefier lfe, but overall the tracks tend to stay in the front of the room and are gently accentuated by the surround usage. Overheads get some activity, but mostly in regards to the score, but some minor discrete sounds like someone falling through the ceiling come through as well. All in all, this is impressive, and whether you like the theatrical mixes or like the new Atmos tracks, you get to choose.







Extras:

A Nightmare on Elm Street

• Audio Commentary
• Audio Commentary
• Focus Points
• Alternate Endings
• The House That Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror
• Never Sleep Again: The Making of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'
• Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven's Nightmares

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

• Freddy on 8th Street
• Heroes and Villains
• The Male Witch
• Psychosexual Circus

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

• Behind the Story
• Dokken Dream Warriors Music Video

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

• The Finnish Line
• Krueger, Freddy Krueger
• Hopeless Chest
• Let's Makeup

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

• Womb Raiders
• The Sticky Floor
• Take the Stairs
• Hopkins Directs
• A Slight Miscalculation

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

• 86'D
• Hellraiser
• Rachel's Dream
• 3D Demise

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

• Audio Commentary
• NEW! Boiler Room Confessional
• NEW! Freddy's Footnotes
• NEW! Becoming a Filmmaker
• Filmmaker
• An Instant Troupe
• The Problem with Sequels
• Two Worlds
• Welcome to Prime Time
• Conclusion

Final Score: ​

I’ve been critical of Warner Brothers box sets in recent years (usually packaging and extras related), but this set is actually way better than I was expecting. It actually had all 7 of the original films mastered in 4K, given some great new Atmos upgrades, AND some solid extras. Audio and video ranges from good to great, with very few problematic points for me to point out. My only real complaint is more nerdy, as I would have really liked to have seen the Jackie Earl Haley remake to be included in the set, as well as Freddy Vs. Jason. Both of which Warner Bros has the licenses for if I’m correct. All in all, this is a fantastic set, and well worth the cheap price for horror fans. Highly recommended.

Technical Specifications:

Starring: Robert Englund, John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Deppy, Lawrench Fishbourne, Patricia Arquette
Directed by: Various
Written by: Various
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 HEVC (all 7 films)
Audio: English: Dolby Atmos (Dolby TrueHD 7.0 Core), English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono, English DTS-HD MA 5.1 (New Nightmare) French, German, Italian, Spanish (Latin), Spanish (Castilian) DD 2.0 Mono
Subtitles: English SDH, French, German SDH, Italian SDH, Spanish, Danish, Dutch (all 7 films), Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish (A Nightmare on Elm Street only)
Studio: Warner Brothers
Rated: R
Runtime: 845 Minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: September, 30th, 2025

Recommendation: Great Set

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[tripplej]

Thanks for the review.

I also like all the various horror movies of the 80s and later.

Just curious, how would you rank them?

1. Michael
2. Jason
3. Freddy
4. Chucky
5. Leatherface
6. Leprechaun
7. Pinhead