Shane Romanchick is a News Writer at Collider who's focus is in horror and the DC Universe. He's an expert in Scream, Halloween, Chucky, and Batman.
The Big Picture It’s hard to talk about slashers without mentioning A Nightmare on Elm Street. The Wes Craven classic first gave horror fans nightmares in the fall of 1984 and, for the last 40 years, Freddy Krueger has been a genre icon. The film is one of the last core slashers to get the 4K treatment, but that’s finally changing in 2024. It was previously revealed that Freddy’s introduction would be coming to 4K with a UK Steelbook.
In addition, Freddy can be seen peeking out a tear on the back of the Steelbook and the inside artwork has the slasher villain in his famous boiler room. If that wasn't enough, the cover even has an orange "Horror" label just like video stores used to categorize their movies. While we still don’t know if there will be any new special features attached to this release, this 4K will include both the theatrical and unrated cuts of the film.
What Robert Englund brought to Freddy was this playful yet drop-dead menacing presence that only characters like Mia Goth’s Pearl have ever replicated. The green and red sweater, paired with the dirty brown fedora, became the most-feared combo of the 80s. While the endless sequels would turn Freddy into more of a wise-cracking comedic character, that doesn’t take away what Craven and Englund established in that original nightmare.
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