Sunday, August 10, 2025

THE EPITAPH VOL. 102 - BRIEF REMEMBRANCES OF THE RECENTLY RELEASED


VOL. 102 - BRIEF REMEMBRANCES OF THE RECENTLY RELEASED 

DCU: WONDER WOMAN COMMEMORATIVE EDITION (2009) - EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE (1978) - STOP! LOOK! AND LAUGH! (1960) - THE ALTO KNIGHTS (2025) - THE LITTLE THINGS (2020) - KNIGHT RIDER - THE COMPLETE SERIES (1982 - 1986) - WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (2009) - LOIS AND CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN - THE COMPLETE SERIES (1993-1997) - A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (2010) 

A real whopper of an edition this week, we have several Warner Bros. Blu-ray re-presses, a pair of recent Warner Bros. titles getting 4K upgrades, a Three  Stooges comedy anthology debuting on Blu-ray from Sony, and a pair of complete series sets, including one of my favorite '80s TV series, Knight Rider,  getting a 4K UHD set! 

DCU: WONDER WOMAN COMMEMORATIVE EDITION (2009) Blu-ray 

Label: WBDHE 
Region Code: Region-Free 
Duration: 73 Minutes 39 Seconds 
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5 1 Surround with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1) 
Director: Lauren Montgomery
Cast: Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Alfred Molina, Rosario Dawson, Oliver Platt

WB have re-pressed the direct-to-video animated film Wonder Woman (2009) in it's 2017 commemorative edition. A classic origin story of Diana/Wonder Woman (voiced by Keri Russell, Cocaine Bear), daughter of Amazonian queen Hippolyta (voiced by Virginia Madsen, Candyman) who is living on the mystical island of Themyscira, home to a proud warrior race of Amazon women who have been shielded from the corrupt world of man.  Sticking pretty true to the original comic origins a fighter pilot named Colonel Steve Trevor (voiced by Nathan Fillion, Slither) crash lands his plane and end sup on the island. His arrival coincides with the escape of Ares (Alfred Molina, Spider-Man 2), the God of War, who has been imprisoned, leading to Diana and Trevor leaving Themyscira to recapture Ares. The animated flick is a solid WW origin story, with solid action and swordplay, the seemingly simplistic animation style looks excellent, and the voice cast is pretty terrific as well. The re-press feature sthe same dated VC-1 encoding, so there's still some banding issues, but otherwise this looks and sounds great. The extras are quite plentiful as well, we get a commentary, beefy featurettes, bonus episodes of the Justice League animated series, and more. 

Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by the Film's Creative Team
- What Makes A Wonder Woman (10:06) 
- Wonder Woman: A Subversive Dream (25:36) 
- Wonder Woman: Daughter of Myth (25:40)
- Animated Green Lantern First Look (SD, 10 minutes): 
- Bonus Justice League Episodes "Paradise Lost" parts 1 and 2, "Hawk and Dove," and "To Another Shore."
(SD, 89 minutes)
- A Sneak Peek at Batman and Harley Quinn (9:08) 
- Trailer 
- DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year (1:33) 

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EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE (1978) Blu-ray 

Label: Warner Bros.
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: PG
Duration: 114 Minutes 38 Seconds 
Audio: English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Dolby Digital with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1) 
Director: James Fargo
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Beverly D'Angelo, Ruth Gordon

I had a blast revisiting this Eastwood action-comedy that I had not re-watched since I saw it on cable TV as a kid in the '80s. In it Eastwood plays a hard-drinking, hard-knuckled truck driver named Philo who's living in the San Fernando Valley, with a pet orangutan sidekick named Clyde who accompanies him pretty much everywhere. The seemingly easy-going truck driver will occasionally bare-knuckle box for money. The cast is terrific, aside from Eastwood we get Geoffrey Lewis (Salem's Lot) as Philo's brother Orville, Sondra Locke (Death Game) as the up and coming country-singer Lynn Halsey-Taylor who becomes a love-interest for Philo, Beverly D'Angelo (National Lampoon's Vacation) as Echo, Orville's love-interest, and the legendary Ruth Gordon (Harold and Maude) as Philo's irrassible, shotgun-toting mother. The flick has some terrific fight sequences with Eastwood bare-knuckle boxing, recurring run in with a neo-Nazi biker gang lead by Cholla (John Quade, High Plains Drifter), and a pair of LAPD cops who have it out for Philo after he knocks one of them out during a barroom altercation. It's just a fun flick all the way around, there's lots of honky tonks and country and western tunes, orangutans shenanigans, and of course that awesome cast which is a total homerun. The re-press features the same dated VC-1 encode as the original release, but even so I thought it look solid on HD with Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio. 

Special Features:
- None 

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STOP! LOOK! AND LAUGH! (1960) 
Blu-ray

Label: Sony Pictures
Region Code: A
Rating: Unrated 
Duration: 77 Minutes 56 Seconds 
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.85:1) 
Director: Jules White, Lou Brandt, Don Appell, Edward Bernds, Charley Chase
Cast: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Paul Winchell

Despite being a Three Stooges fanatic as a kid I had no memory of this compilation film existing, this being a feature-length compilation of clips from some truly classic  Three Stooges shorts, culled from the eleven original movie short subjects of 1937–1947 featuring original Stooges  
Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard, assembled by the Three Stooges' former producer-director, Jules White. That have been re-cut with interstitials featuring introductions by comic Paul Winchell and his dummy Jerry Mahoney, and also featuring the Marquis Chimps doing a monkey-business version of the Cinderella story. The Stooges clips feature some real all-time classics, we get Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938), "A Plumbing We Will Go" (1940), "Micro-Phonies" (1945) and "How High Is Up" (1940). The black and white assembly looks terrific, and while I was not so much a fan of the Winchell and Marquis Chimps additions the classic Three Stooges shorts were a hoot, and interesting to see in this new context, with a musical score, which was somewhat odd after having seen them so many times their original incarnations. I also love that they used the original illustrated movie posters for the Blu-ray artwork, excellent. 

Special Features: 
- Trailer (1:36) 

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THE ALTO KNIGHTS (2025)
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray 

Label: Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment 
Region Code: Region-Free 
Rating: R
Duration: 122 Minutes 52 Seconds 
Audio: English Dolby Atmos (TrueHD 7.1) with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: Dolby Vision HDR10 2160p Ultra HD Widescreen 
Director: Barry Levinson 
Cast: Robert De Niro, Debra Messing, Cosmo Jarvis, Kathrine Narducci, Michael Rispoli, Michael Adler, Ed Amatrudo, Joe Bacino, Anthony J. Gallo, Wallace Langham, Louis Mustillo, Frank Piccirillo, Matt Servitto, Robert Uricola

The Alto Knights re-teams actor Robert DeNiro (Casino) and director Barry Levinson (Men In Black), with a script by Nicholas Pileggi (Goodfellas), and it's lensed by cinematographer Dante Spinotti (L.A. Confidential). The film is notable in that it stars DeNiro in a dual-role, playing two of New York’s most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, former friends who vie for control of New Yor City's street, which leads to an unravelling of the truth behind the near organized crime in America in the 1950. Costello is respected as a highly influential yet diplomatic mafia boss of the Luciano crime family, while Vito, formerly a boss who handed over his position when forced into a sort of exile in Italy, is a vicious and violent man who will stop at nothing to regain his seat as the "boss of bosses". It's a pretty decent old school mafia flick, but it's bloated and dense, and I found DeNiro's dual-role, using both prosthetics and de-aging digital effects which actually looks pretty great more than a little distracting, his Vito character coming off as a bit of DeNiro channeling Goodfella's era Joe Pesci. the heart of the story should be fascinating, how a rivalry between former friends brought ruination to not just themselves, but exposed the mob for the nationwide syndicate it was, but it's unfocused, the story jumps arounds, and the shift in eras and a weird fourth wall breaking sequences of DeNiro as Frank addressing the audience really add to it feeling bloated and disjointed. That said, still a very handsomely mounted period mob flick, the cast is terrific, but it's all a bit been there and done that better sort of deal, but if you're a crime family . The 4K UHD with Dolby Vision/Atmos looks and sounds terrific, but just like with the previously released Blu-ray there are zero extras, just a digital copy of the film - and shame on WB for releasing this so soon after the Blu-ray, bad form, this should have been released simultaneously with the Blu-ray.    

Special Features:
- Digital Copy 

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THE LITTLE THINGS (2020) 
4K Ultra HD 

Label: Warner Bros Home Entertainment
Region Code: A
Rating: R
Duration: 127 Minutes 
Audio: English Dolby Atmos (TrueHD 7.1) with Optional English English Subtitles 
Video: Dolby Vision HDR10 2160p Ultra HD Widescreen (2.39:1) 
Director: John Lee Hancock 
Cast: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto, Chris Bauer, Michael Hyatt

When Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe “Deke” Deacon (Denzel Washington, Man On Fire) is sent to Los Angeles for a quickie evidence pick-up assignment he becomes entrenched in the search for a serial killer who is stalking the city. L.A. Sheriff Department Sergeant Jim Baxter (Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsodies) is a hot-shit cop who comes to trust Deke’s instincts, unofficially bringing him onto the case, inadvertently dredging up a case from Deke’s secretive past that will threaten to unravel both men. I loved this Se7en-ish noir thriller right up till the final leg when it swerved into subtlety instead of stepping on the gas, it didn't ruin it for me but it befuddled me. Jared Leto (Requiem for a Dream) as the intensely creepy suspect has several unnerving engagements with the detectives that got under my skin in a good way, but  the finale does not have the impact I think writer/director thought it would. The movie is seemingly building to a fever-pitch, but it never boils properly over, and watching this for a third time I still feel that way. As with The Alto Knights I need to say shame on WB for releasing this so soon after the Blu-ray, totally bad form, this should have been released simultaneously with the Blu-ray, and the timing just feels like a double-dip cash grab.   

Special Features:
- Four Shade of Blue  
- A Contrast In Styles
- Original Theatrical Trailer 
- Digital Copy

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KNIGHT RIDER - THE COMPLETE SERIES 
(1982 - 1986) 21-Disc 4K Ultra HD 

Label: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 
Region Code: Region-Free 
Rating: Unrated 
Duration: 4189 Minutes 
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono (Seasons 1-3), 2.- Stereo (Seson4) with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: HDR10 2160p Ultra HD Fullscreen (1.33:1)  
Cast:‎ David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, William Daniels

When I was nine years old Knight Rider made it's TV debut, and I was hooked, David Hasselhoff was charismatic as the crimefighter Michael Knight, who drive the high-tech, wise-cracking A.I. car, the seemingly indestructible K.I.T.T., voiced by William Daniels. The car itself was a 1982 Pontiac Trans Am with a cool Battlestar Galactica Cylon-styled 
“Anamorphic Equalizer”, the electronic eye at the front of the car. It was an action-packed show with loads and loads of eye-popping stunt work every week, back when it was in-camera and done for real, before CGI. Every episode featured K.I.T.T. in wild high-speed pursuits, crashing through walls, jumping from one building onto or into another structure, using an array of weapons like oil slicks, flamethrower, lasers, smokescreens and rocket launchers, leaping over vehicles and object with the aid of Turbo Boost and the very cool Super-Pursuit Mode, and of course the ejection seat. From one episode to the next Knight and K.I.T.T. battled bikers, mobsters, nefarious shadow agencies, souped-up armored vehicles, and even evil versions of themselves, at one pint even driving on water and through a lava flow - it was the best sort of '80s insanity you could ever hope for, it was easily my favorite show of the '80s as a kid. All four seasons have been remastered in 4K for this new complete series set, presented with HDR10 color-grading in 2160p Ultra HD, complete with  uncompressed DTS audio. The set arrives in a slipbox that houses the four keepcase, each season gets its's own dedicated keepcase, with five 4K UHD discs, with the fourth season containing a sixth disc, a Blu-ray, dedicated to the Knight Rider 2000 TV movie and a brand new making-of documentary. The extras from the original DVd releases are also present, which were absent on the Mill Creek Blu-ray set, which is cool. they generally look quite wonderful, lots of fine film grain is present, colors boosted by the WCG color-grade look terrific, though there is some occasional compression that makes me think they should have made these six-disc seasons so the encodes could breathe properly. That said, these far outp[ace their Blu-ray counterparts and the series has never looked better on home video. On the audio front there are still six songs from the broadcast versions that have not been cleared for inclusion, including songs by John Cougar Mellencamp and Prince, replaced with soundalike versions instead. I am having a blast revisiting these episodes in 4K UHD, the nostalgia-factor for this one is huge, and the show has largely lived up to that nostalgia, once that Stu Phillips composed Knight Rider theme music kicks in I am 9 years-old again, and Knight Rider is still the best show ever made once again. Compression issues aside I think universal did a banger of a job on this set, highly recommended. 

Special Features: 
Season 1:
- Knight of the Phoenix Audio Commentary With David Hasselhoff and Writer/Creator Glen Larson
- Knight Moves (6:07) 
- Knight Sounds (6:37) 
- Knight Rider: Under the Hood (15:51) 
-  Photo Gallery (2:38)
- Blueprints Gallery (3:07) 
Season 3:
- The Great '80s TV Flashback (29:01) 
Season 4:
- Knight Rider 2000 TV Movie 
- Knight Rider: Behind the Wheel (61:00)

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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (2009) Blu-ray 

Label: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 
Region Code: Region-Free 
Rating: PG 
Duration: 101 Minutes 
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen 
Director: Spike Jonze
Cast: Max Records, Lauren Ambrose, Catherine Keener, Chris Cooper, James Gandolfini

Director Spike Jonze brought one of the most beloved books of all time to the big screen with Where the Wild Things Are (2009), a dark, fantastical tale about a sensitive 9 year-old named  Max (Max Records, The Sitter) who runs away from home wearing his raggedy tailed wolf pajamas,  escaping to an island where he meets mysterious and strange creatures, the Wild Things, becoming their king, and promising  to create a place where everyone will be happy, however, this proves a difficult task, cracks in the facade begin to reveal the monsters personalities to be splinters of his his Max's fractured psyche, oof the fear and disillusionment of being rejected and a child of discovered. It's deeply beautiful and engaging fantasy fim, it goes to some dark emotional places, and has genuinely frightening moments, and i always cry during a few scenes, I found it and still find it quite an effecting dark fantasy tale for kids. The cast is terrific, we get Catherine Keener (The 40 Year Old Virgin) as Max; mother, Mark Ruffalo (Mickey 17) as her boyfriend, and Pepita Emmerichs as his dismissive older sister. The voice cast that bring the Wild Things to life include  James Gandolfini (The Sopranos) as Carol, the short-tempered leader of the Wild Things, Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under, Yellowjackets) as KW, Chris Cooper (Lone Star) as the cockatoo-like Douglas, Forest Whitaker (Ghost Dog) as the soft-spoken Ira, and Catherine O'Hara (Schitt's Creek) as the three-horned lion Judith, Paul Dano (There Will be Blood) as the goat-like Alexander, and Michael Berry Jr. The Hangover Part II) as Bernard the Bull. The CGI-enhanced practical costumes used to bring the Wild Things to life it utterly fantastic, adding a puppet like whimsy to the proceedings, but also able to muster some darkness during the scraier interactions. As witht he other WB re-presses this month we get an older encode, some banding and compression issues are present, but generally it looks very pleasing, and the uncompressed audio mix is quite immersive, highlighting the resonant soundtrack which comes courtesy of Karen O (of alt-rockers the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Carter Burwell (Blood Simple). We also get a great set of archival extras that are certainly worth a watch. 

Special Features: 
- Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (24 min)
- HBO First Look (13 min)
- Maurice and Spike (3 min)
- Max and Spike (7 minutes):
- The Records Family (7 min)
- Carter Burwell (5 min)
- The Absurd Difficulty of Filming a Dog (6 min)
- The Big Prank (3 min)
- The Kids Take Over the Picture (5 min)
- Vampire Attack (1 min)

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LOIS& CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN - THE COMPLETE SERIES (1993-1997) 20-Disc Blu-ray Set 

Label: WBDHE 
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated 
Duration: 4100 Minutes 
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.33:1) 
Director: Philip Sgriccia, Randy Zisk, Alan J. Levi
Cast: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith

Lois & Clark - The New Adventures of Superman ran for four seasons from 1993-1997, starring Dean Cain (Rat Race) as Clark Kent/ Superman, who at the start of the series is 27 and has moved to the thriving big-city of Metropolis after leaving his position as the editor of the Smallville Press newspaper. He interviews for a job at the Daily Planet under editor Perry White (Lane Smith, Dark Night of the Scarecrow), hes hired and is soon  partnered with star reporter Lois Lane (Teri Hatcher, Desperate Housewives), quickly befriending Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen (Michael Landes, Final Destination 2, in the 1st season, replaced in seasons 3-4 by Justin Whalin, Child's Play) and gossip-columnist Cat Grant (Tracy Scoggins, Otis). Throughout the series Lois falls for Superman, unaware initially that his alter ego is Clark Kent, seeing him as a nice guy but a bit of a straight-laced doofus. Villains throughout the series included Metallo, Tempus (Lane Davies, Santa Barbara), The Prankster, The Sound Man, Mr. Mxyzptlk (Howie Mandel), and of course Lex Luthor (John Shea, Mutant X), plus an ill-advised redesign of comic favorite villain Deathstroke as a master of magnetism, WTF seriously? We also get recurring villains played genre-faves Denise Crosby (Night of the Living Dead) as evil Dr. Gretchen Kelly, and Peter Boyle (Young Frankenstein) as Bill Church and Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead) as Bill Church and Bill Church Jr., which was cool, but the show was always more a romantic series about the titular Lois and Clark than a full-on superhero action series, which turned me off, especially at the time. This Blu-ray set has been remastered in HD and looks great with the caveat that the special effects shots were finished in standard definition, so while the majority of the series was shot on film and look terrific remastered there are some truly jarring transitional and VFX sequences that look horridly SD. The uncompressed 2.0 DTS audio sounds solid though, with the caveat that like the Knight Rider 4K set set there are a handful of songs that could not be cleared for inclusion on the Blu-ray set and have been replaced with soundalike versions. They also carryover most but not all of the extras from the DVD sets, though we only get the Dean Cain commentary on the pilot episode, and I 
know there were multiple commentaries on the DVD sets that are not present here. As far as packaging, WB have opted to not go the deluxe Friends 4K set route and offer individual keepcases, and have instead gone for the cheaper and uglier DVD sized Epik Pak packaging, housed inside of a slip box. I appreciate the slipbox, but I do loathe the DVD-sized Epik Pak cases, and for this price point I would have expect individual keepcases.

Special Features: 
- From Rivals to Romance: The Making of Lois & Clark (25:52) 
- Pilot Presentation (19:42) 
- Pilot Episode Commentary with Dean Cain and Deborah Joy Levine 
- Taking Flight (6:36) 
- Lois & Clark: Secrets of Season 2 (10:16) 
- Lois & Clark: Marketing Metropolis - The Fans of Lois & Clark (8:30) 
- Lois & Clark: A History of Romance (8:22) 
- Lois & Clark: The Man of Steel Trivia Challenge (10:39) 

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A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (2010) Blu-ray 

Label: Warner Bros.
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: R
Duration: 95 Minutes 31 Seconds 
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround with Optional English Subtitles 
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen 
Director: Samuel Bayer
Cast: Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Kellan Lutz

The early 00's were chock full of classic horror properties being remade, we had Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Friday the 13th and Dawn of the dead, a bit late in the trend came New Line Cinema and Platinum Dunes finger-knife stab at relaunching A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed by Samuel Bayer, who was probably best known as the director of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" music video. The remake was slick and water-down, recycling scenes from the iconic Wes Craven original, littered with attractive young people, and relying too much on bad 2010-era CGI effects. Steeping into the shoes of Freddy Krueger is Jackie Earle Haley (Bad News Bears, Watchmen) plays the razor-fingered iconic killer, with Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as our heroine Nancy Holbrook. Around her we also get Quentin (Kyle Gallner, Smile, Smile 2), Kris (Katie Cassidy, who also appeared in the When A Stranger Calls and Black Christmas remakes), and Jessie (Thomas Dekker, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), who all discover they are having the same dream about a deep-fried looking killer with a deadly finger glove wearing a distinctive sweater and fedora cap. Th story is pretty much exactly the same as the original film only they for sure let you know that Krueger is a child-diddler (ick), even though it toys with the idea that perhaps the kids parents, including Nancy's mom (Connie Britton, Spin City) and Quentin's father (Clancy Brown, Pet Sematary 2) may have incinerated an innocent man. Really the only thing the film adds is the idea of micro-naps, a split-second when the brain falls asleep which allows Freddy to get at you even when you are not fully asleep, which itself is only lazily used and does not amount to much. The poorly chose to recreate several of the original films most iconic scenes, we get a terrible CGI version of Freddy emerging from the wall above Nancy's bed, and an homage to Glenn's bedroom blood-geyser, but n reverse and recreated using awful CGI, which certainly didn't endear this remake to me. It's not all awful though, the pening throat-cut scene at a diner is terrific, they sort of recreate the gooey staircase scene with a hallway that turns into a blood-pool which I kind of liked. There's even an improvement of sorts, that nutty ending in the original where Nancys mom is pulled through the window of the front door, only it's a stiff looking mannequin, is actually improved upon, even though the new iteration is CGI and does look bad, it's still an improvement over what we got witht he original. Onto Jackie Earle Haley as Krueger, well, they went with a more realistic looking burn-victim make-u for him, I didn;t love it, but it's hard to match the iconic look of the OG Freddy, and it's even harder to match Robert Englund's iconic performance, but Haley does what he can. The burn-victim make-ups aside his costuming looks terrific, the iconic sweater, the fedora hat, the bladed finger-gloves, they all look great, but his portrayal seems dry to me, I know they are going for a darker more serious approach here, but it did not rub me the right way, though, but it does have a creepiness to it. The looks of the film is pretty slick, a bit too slick for sure, it has no grit to it, which I would say is true of the film in general, it just sort of is going through the motions of Cravens ANOES, but it lacks the texture and soul, and does too little to set itself apart, it just feels lazy. This Blu-ray is a repress of the 2010 Blu-ray with the dated VC-encode. It looks fine for a Blu-ray of that era, the uncompressed audio is immersive, and the archival extras are interesting, but in all honesty, my dislike of the film noted, I am assuming this will get a 4K release any day now from the likes of Arrow Video or Scream Factory, so I would be hard-pressed to recommend the Blu-ray. 

Special Features:
- WB Maniacal Movie Mode 
- Additional Scenes: Hospital Opening (1:11), Nightmare Street (0:58), Alternate Ending (6:12) 
- Freddy Krueger Reborn (13:54) 
- Focus Points: Makeup Makes the Character (3:34), Micronaps (2:36), The Hat (2:31), Practical Fire (2:32), The Sweater (2:20), The Glove (2:24), The Victims (3:51)

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