Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment's Halloween Promotional Season Entry On Oct. 15 Is 4K ULtra HD Debut Of Wes Craven's A Nightmare On Elm Street

The Halloween promotional season is going to be especially busy this year … packed with lots and lots of very cool physical media genre selections for fans to choose from for their entertainment enjoyment or for scare factor, and of course, library building.

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment is the latest to the party with a newly-minted 4K Ultra HD edition of writer/director Wes Craven’s 1984 horror gem, A Nightmare on Elm Street, on Oct. 15.

New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye produced, Craven provided the script and direction and they were able to pull together $1.7 million in financing to get the film produced.   However, it missed the Halloween theatrical window and opened, instead, on November 9, 1984.

A disaster?   Hell no, the film grossed its production budget on opening day and ended up taking in something like $26 million at the box office … spawning five sequels between 1985 and 1991 (six if you count the 1994 film release of Wes Craven’s New Nightmare).

While the topline billing was for John Saxon, Ronee Blakley and relative newcomer Heather Langenkamp, this was the film that not only marked Johnny Depp’s film debut, but one that made Robert Englund a genre-film icon!!

So what bonus goodies does Warner have lined up for this 4K Ultra HD edition?
We start off with two viewing options.   The first is the original theatrical cut and the second option is an uncut presentation of the film. 

There are two archived commentary options.  On the first, Wes Craven anchors a tag-team affair featuring actors Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp and Ronnie Blakely, plus New Line topper and producer Robert Shaye and co-producer Sara Risher.   The second has Craven and Langenkamp, plus John Saxon and the late Jacques Haitkin, who was the cinematographer on A Nightmare on Elm Street. 

Additional bonus nuggets include alternate endings and a quartet of featurettes — “Ready Freddy Focus Points,” “The House that Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror,” “Never Sleep Again: A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven’s Nightmares.”