Rating summary
| Movie |  | 4.0 |
| Video | | 4.0 |
| Audio |  | 3.5 |
| Extras | | 4.0 |
| Overall | | 4.0 |
A Nightmare on Elm Street Blu-ray Movie Review
Reviewed by Martin Liebman September 16, 2020
Warner Brothers and Best Buy have collaborated on a store exclusive SteelBook release for the 1984 Horror franchise starter 'A Nightmare on Elm
Street.' The disc is identical to that found in the 2010 wide release. See the 'Special Features and Extras' section of the review
below for more on the SteelBook's look and feel.
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here.
A Nightmare on Elm Street Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras
The SteelBook is fairly smooth and slick, but the light coloring on the front won't display handling fingerprints (a few of the darker parts of the rear,
however, will). The front cover depicts the razor ends of Freddy's glove scraping along a worn, once white surface, now littered with scratches and
gouges where the blades are digging into it. The film's title appears top right in between two of the blades in red type. Wes Craven's name is attached
in
smaller black letters. Some debossing work on the title would have added some flair, but c'est la vie. The rear panel shows the same worn
surface, this time with a head-and-shoulders shot of Freddy, face bathed in red, hat and sweater mostly black, as he looks sinisterly off to the left
(thanks to F13BluRay for pointing out this this image is of Freddy from Freddy vs. Jason rather than Freddy in this film). A
small billing block appears at the bottom. The spine holds that same background color. The film's title runs along much of its length in red. A Warner
Brothers logo has been placed at the bottom.
Inside, the lone Blu-ray disc can be found on the right-hand side. The inner print is a two-panel spread that features Freddy in quasi-silhouette -- more
bathed in shadow, really -- in an iconic pose standing tall with his razor blade glove out at his side at about hip level. He's inside a spooky looking boiler
room and fully on the left-hand side. The right is a dark continuation of the same location.
For full coverage of the on-disc supplemental content, please click here.
A Nightmare on Elm Street Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation
As fans wait for the original A Nightmare on Elm Street -- and so many of the more iconic 80s Horror films -- to make their way to the UHD
format,
Warner Brothers has used this occasion to simply repurpose a perfectly good, but aging, VC-1 Blu-ray in new packaging. Granted the SteelBook is
really nice but there's absolutely no new content here, not even a digital copy. Supposedly Warner Brothers doesn't believe anyone wants to
watch Freddy on the go. Recommended only to new buyers and hardcore SteelBook collectors.
