Nightmare On Elm Street 1-7 (Blu-ray)

Firstly, I knew about this UK release before the announced release of the single disc, double movie edition of Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and 3. So, I didn't purchase that. I was very pleasantly surprised by the list of extra features included on this set, and even more pleasantly surprised to find all the old Nightmare Encycolopedia features on the disc as well.

Well, beyond having 'decent' but way better than dvd quality transfers on these films, the big hook for this set is a fifth disc, a dvd, of ALL NEW special features, most prominently a retropspective doc on the entire Nightmare series. Very cool. Wish it was a blu ray, but at the end of the day it really doesn't matter tha much. We also get two episodes of Freddy's Nightmares on this fifth disc. The weird thing about this is that the two episodes are not Freddy Krueger-centric episodes. What the hell is up with that? The pilot episode was a great one directed by horror legend Tobe Hooper(ORIGINAL Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist, Eaten Alive). This episode was basically a short prequel to the first Nightmare on Elm Street film and told Freddy's backstory including his trial and eventual succumbing to mob justice. There were about three more Freddy starring episodes where he was just the villain and they're not the two included either. Makes no sense. Most of Freddy's Nightmares episodes weren't that good. At least with a release of the movie franchise some in cannon episodes would've made sense. I get the feeling Warner Brothers is gearing up to release the Freddy's Nightmares seasons soon and they know if people have the Freddy starring episodes already they probably won't buy the whole seasons. I could be wrong.

Disc one is a repeat of the already released first Nightmare film with all the previously released blu ray's special features. Disc 2 has parts 2 and 3 and ALL the special features of the recently released American version of this same disc....same pretty good to decent transfer as well. Better yet disc 3 has parts 4 and 5, and disc 4 has Freddy's Dead and New Nightmare on them, all with the various Nightmare Encyclopedia special features seperated for each film. Very cool. Can finally get rid of my old dvd box set and get some store credit.

Like I said the transfers are better than DVD but not great. The films have not been remastered and there's not a ton of digital noise reduction(which is a good thing, and yes I'm looking at you Predator blu ray). Weirdly enough the first two films look the best on blu ray. If you have the first Nightmare you already know how good it looks, its the same disc here verbatim. It's a good transfer with good sound. While Nightmare 2 doesn't have the same great sound it does have a crisp atmospheric transfer. The rest of the films look good and better, but not a showcaser for you HD TV or blu ray player....but then again they're low budget horror so why would you pick them to do any kind of showcasing?

Finally, you get a nifty Freddy Krueger comic book and a medium thick white blu ray case with Freddy tearing out of the front cover. You will not have copies of the hopefully forgotten remake or Freddy VS. Jason in this package. I have them on blu ray sooooo....I will live but it would've been cool to at least have the VS movie included. I paid very little for this and it looks better enough to warrant the upgrade for me. The new special features are mostly fun and grat with the exception of the bafflingly chosen Freddy's Nightmares episodes they did include. This is worth the price.

Also, for you major Nightmare geeks out ther the old late 80's MTV special is on the fifth disc as well and this sucker really brought pack some memories for me. NOW, if only Paramount would take the hint and finish releaseing the Friday the 13th films after part 3 OR just give us a blu ray box set and stop making even more dvd versions. Same goes for New Line. Why are they being so stingy with Jason Goes to Hell and Jason X? Gotta finish out the franchise....ya'know?

Finally I have been waiting to get the series on blu-ray this series is really my favorite and I would definitely recommend this movie to all my friends

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I bought the best buy exlusive version of this package. It's out (0ct 2012) there now. It's the exact same package. I will say that the pictures are upgraded on the whole series. However they are not great. Except the first one , which was restored. This and the second third disc have the same bonus materials. The 4/5 and 6/7 discs look decent with no print damage at least. They DO have more clarity than the dvd's for sure , so it's worth the upgrade. The bonus disc is a dvd with tons of extras, and two freddy's nightmare tv episodes. (in standard def). I believe that they will release this set in a wider release than just best buy eventually. I don't know about two more individual releases though. If they had released them seperately I wouldn't have bought this set. But who knows? The boxset is small and compact and pretty cool. However , the best buy set is only 45.00 so that is a good deal for seven movies. The sixth movie does not have it's 3d segment in 3d , which is a shame. They could have done it that way for sure. The ending of the movie was shown in 3d back in the early 90's. Maybe someday they will get this out to us in a proper part 3d release. But I would settle for the friday the 13th films to be put out and number 3 in a proper new 3d format at least.

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I just love the old scary movies ,such as this Freddy Krugar collection and it's on blu ray which is even better.

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