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A Nightmare on Elm Street 7-film collection on 4K UHD in October

5 August 2025

Freddy Krueger, the vengeful child killer burned alive by angry parents, returns to haunt the dreams of their children when this chilling 7-film saga becomes available on 4K UHD and as a 4K UHD Collector's SteelBook Edition for the first time on 27 October 2025. From his first terrifying appearance on Elm Street to his resurrection through nightmares, Freddy unleashes horror across generations – where sleep is no escape, and dreams become deadly.

From New Line Cinema, the collection includes the original seven films – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989), Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994) – along with the uncut versions of A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Dream Child. The collection also includes an alternate ending of Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare presented in anaglyph 3D and complete with 3D glasses in the physical collection.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 7 film UHD collection pack shot

The collection will be available in limited edition collectible 4K UHD SteelBook packaging and as a standard 4K UHD collection. 4K UHD showcases 4K resolution with High Dynamic Range (HDR) and a wider colour spectrum, offering consumers brighter, deeper, and more lifelike colours for a home entertainment viewing experience like never before.


A Nightmare on Elm Street UHD steelbook

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)

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 killers' teenaged children... And the dreaming teenagers are starting to die in their sleep.

Director: Wes Craven
Cast: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

UHD SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Ready Freddy Focus Points
  • Commentary with Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Ronee Blakley, Robert Shaye, and Sara Risher
  • Commentary with Wes Craven, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, and Jacques Haitkin
  • Alternate Endings – Scary Ending, Happy Ending, Freddy Ending
  • The House that Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror
  • Never Sleep Again: The Making of A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven’s Nightmares


A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge Steelbook

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE (1985)

Director: Jack Sholder
Cast: Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Clu Galager, Hope Lange, Robert Englund

Freddy's back and he wants revenge. When teenager Jesse Walsh moves to Elm Street, Freddy Krueger starts appearing in his nightmares. This time Freddy takes possession of Jesse's body whenever the teenager falls asleep, using Jesse to kill... and there's nothing Jesse can do to stop him.

UHD SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Freddy on 8th Street
  • Heroes and Villains
  • The Male Witch
  • Psychosexual Circus


A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors steelbook

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS (1987)

Director: Chuck Russell
Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Larry Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, John Saxon, Dick Cavett, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Robert Englund

Freddy Krueger invades the minds of a new group of teens... and the nightmares begin again. When local teenagers start dying, only Nancy Thompson knows the truth. Now a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, she is the lone survivor of one of Freddy's previous killing sprees. Now, it's a fight against her co-workers' disbelief and a race against time to stop Freddy before he kills again.

UHD SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Behind the Story: Burnout
  • Behind the Story: Fan Mail
  • Behind the Story: The House that Freddy Built
  • Behind the Story: Onward Christian Soldiers
  • Behind the Story: Snakes and Ladders
  • Behind the Story: That’s Showbiz
  • Behind the Story: Trading 8’s
  • Dokken Dream Warriors Music Video


A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master steelbook

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER (1988)

Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Robert Englund, Rodney Eastman, Lisa Wilcox, John Beckman

Freddy Kreuger resurrects hideously scarred and returns to haunt the dreams of the teenaged children of the people who lynched him. It's just a nightmare... but a nightmare that can kill in this tale of terror.

UHD SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • The Finnish Line
  • Krueger, Freddy Krueger
  • Hopeless Chest
  • Let’s Makeup


A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child steelbook

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD (1989)

Director: Stephen Hopkins
Cast: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Kelly Jo Minter, Danny Hassel

For five years, a walking nightmare named Freddy Krueger has haunted their sleep seeking revenge for the horribly disfiguring death he suffered at the hands of the children's parents. Now, through the dreams of an unborn child, Freddy has resurrected himself... and he's looking for new victims.

UHD SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Behind the Story: Womb Raiders
  • Behind the Story: The Sticky Floor
  • Behind the Story: Take the Stairs
  • Behind the Story: Hopkins Directs
  • Behind the Story: A Slight Miscalculation


Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare steelbook

FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE (1991)

Director: Rachel Talalay
Cast: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Dean, Yaphet Kotto

In this sixth return to the horrifying world of Nightmare on Elm Street, the town of Springwood decides to forever end Freddy Krueger's deadly hold on their dreams. Freddy finally confronts the one person he has never been able to defeat, a psychologist who now learns the source of her lifelong nightmares, Freddy's daughter.

UHD SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • 86’D
  • Hellraiser
  • Rachel’s Dream
  • 3D Demise

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare steelbook

WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE (1994)

Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Miko Hughes, John Saxon

Ten years after writer and director Wes Craven brought his personal nightmares to the movie screen as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street, the horrifying child killer returns, stepping out of his celluloid world to haunt the life of the actress who first defeated him on film.

UHD SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Commentary with Wes Craven
  • NEW – Boiler Room Confessional
  • NEW – Freddy’s Footnotes
  • Becoming a Filmmaker
  • Filmmaker
  • An Insane Troupe
  • The Problem with Sequels
  • Two Worlds
  • Welcome to Prime Time: It Really Happened
  • Welcome to Prime Time: A Childhood Memory
  • Welcome to Prime Time: Sometime in the Early 80s
  • Welcome to Prime Time: So It Began
  • Welcome to Prime Time: Beauty and the Beast
  • Welcome to Prime Time: Making the Glove
  • Welcome to Prime Time: Shapeshifter
  • Welcome to Prime Time: The Shoot
  • Welcome to Prime Time: The Revolving Room
  • Welcome to Prime Time: All’s Well that Ends Well
  • Welcome to Prime Time: Talalay’s Tally
  • Welcome to Prime Time: It Couldn’t Have Happened
  • Welcome to Prime Time: Alternate Ending Version
  • Conclusion: Where Gothic Plots Come From
  • Conclusion: Why We Like Gothic
  • Conclusion: Sadomasochism
  • Conclusion: Freddy vs. Pinhead
  • Conclusion: Freddy’s Manic Energy
  • Conclusion: Creating Lasting Characters in Horror
  • Conclusion: No More Magic Tricks
  • Conclusion: Monster with Personality
  • Conclusion: Freddy as Sex Machine
  • Conclusion: Campfire Stories