The 40th Anniversary of Wes Craven’s masterpiece A Nightmare On Elm Street is heading to 4K UHD with a new SteelBook release. The supernatural slasher film that brought Freddy Krueger into our lives is available wherever you get your movies on October 1st digitally, and October 15th on 4K UHD disc.

The 4K UHD remaster of A Nightmare On Elm Street includes both the 1984 theatrical version and an uncut version of the film that includes 8 seconds of additional unrated footage. If you’ve never seen A Nightmare On Elm Street, it stars John Saxon, Robert Englund, Ronee Blakely, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Johnny Depp, and Nick Corri. Here’s a synopsis from New Line Cinema.

Can your nightmares be fatal? In this classic of the horror film genre that launched a movie franchise, a hideously scarred man who was murdered by a lynch mob returns years later in the terrifying nightmares of his killer’s teenage children… and the dreaming teenagers are starting to die in their sleep.

Special Features Of A Nightmare On Elm Street On 4K UHD

A Nightmare On Elm Street 4K UHD SteelBook
  • Ready Freddy Focus Points
  • Commentary with Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Ronnie Blakely, Robert Shaye, and Sara Risher.
  • Commentary with Wes Craven, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, and Jacques Haitkin.
  • Alternate endings
  • The House that Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror
  • Never Sleep Again: A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven’s Nightmares

This release of A Nightmare On Elm Street is fantastic, but it’s way past time we get an upgraded version of the ENTIRE series like this. Find that footage from A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, get some of the actors back for an interview retrospective, tell the behind-the-scenes stories, give fans the complete A Nightmare On Elm Street package.

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