A couple of weeks ago, we reported that a Blu-ray release of Freddy’s Nightmares was coming from the German label Pidax Film Media. Now, according to a new report from BluRay-Disc.DE, that release has been canceled. Here is the quote translated from German.
After a friendly note to the reader and consultation with Pidax film media Ltd. Unfortunately, we have to announce that the release of “Freddy’s Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street – The Series” has been cancelled. There is no official justification.
This is an incredibly disappointing turn of events for fans of physical media and Freddy’s Nightmares. This release, while region locked and on SD Blu-ray, would have been a great way to watch the entire series all in one place. We previously got Freddy’s Nightmares earlier this year on streaming for the first time thanks to Screambox, now it’s available on Tubi for free.
The show pushed the boundaries of what it meant to show horror on TV and gave us some really solid episodes featuring Freddy as host and even had some episodes where he starred in it.
We’re still waiting for a good release of the show on Blu-ray that isn’t just episodes ripped from the airings on the El Rey Network from long ago. We’re also still waiting for a collector’s box-set for the entire A Nightmare On Elm Street series. But we’ll have to keep waiting as the series has been dormant since the ill-fated reboot/remake in 2010.
As for reasons why this one was canceled, it’s not clear. It could be an issue with the Craven estate, a rights issue, or something else. We’ll likely never know for sure, but let’s hope we can get an even better release for everyone around the world.
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Source: Bluray-Disc.de
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I was IN an episode of FREDDY’S NIGHTMARES, and never had my own physical media hard copy to show it to any interested parties, friends and family, all these long years that have passed since it initially aired (it was the first year nuclear Christmas episode called `the End of the World’ from 1988) and goddamn it… NEVER ONCE has there been any decent quality presentation of the entire 44 episodes released or sold as a box-set or collection, neither for home video rentals (back in the day), nor, surprisingly in these more enlightened/completist days of DVD and Blu-Ray. Somebody once commented to me in passing that perhaps the show, the idea of the show, something concerning it’s production or even some forbidden subject matter that it had dramatized or mocked, caused the show itself to have actually become cursed (!!?!) in some way, shape or form… At least insofar as anyone ever successfully releasing it and making it available as what could be perceived as a needlessly dangerous or esoterically troublesome artifact seriously considered as a tangible spiritual and interpersonal liability to produce en masse so that copies of it would be owned and kept in unwitting consumers homes or personal spaces!!s!!
Screambox and Tubi are showing it incorrectly- they have it interpolated to 60hz which makes it look like video.
Alas, many sites that should know better are under the misapprehension that the series was shot on video- it wasn’t.
It was shot on film at 24 fps.