Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Is the second commentary new? The first one is from the old laserdfisc.

I'll be picking this up day one. Hopefully WB doesn't completely butcher it.

The second commentary awas from the latest dvd release

All I want is a boxset with all the unrated cuts, and anything but the CA transfer

The CA transfer was not as bad as everyone made it out to be. All the same I hope it's a new transfer.

What I really want a box set with all 7 damnit!

It wasn't the transfer that was bad it was the gobs of smudgy DNR on top of it. Hopefully we'll get a non oil painting version but I doubt it.

Any chance of getting the original soundtrack with the missing sound effects?

Just saw this article http://www.joblo.com/arrow/index.php?id=20121 .

Apparently their releasing a new box set along with this Blu-ray, but it's only DVD. Think a Blu-ray release of all the movies will come too and just hasn't been announced... or are the latter 6 movies getting screwed over?

I bought Nightmare 1 on DVD... then later bought the cool box set with the spines that form a big picture when stored in the box side-by-side on the shelf.

As much as I like 1 & 2, and would like to have the others as well... I'm waiting for a box set on these.

I'm not going to get bit again with buying the first movie twice like I did on DVD.

I recently DVRed 1-3 in HD when they aired on a premium channel... and that will tide me over until I can get them all.

The transfer will be the same as the Alliance disc, that disc uses the HD Transfer done for the "Infinifilm" edition. Unfortunately- the Mono track on the "Infinifilm" edition is derived from the NEW soundtrack, which misses a stinger.
The Alliance is actually very nice.

Yeah it's hard to explain it to the people here who see DNR in their sleep, but the Alliance release had very little DNR.

See after they had the final cut done, the original film print was exposed to the sun on the way to the distributor. As a result NOES always had off colors in theatrical releases to the VHS and laserdiscs. The DVD set from Newline cleaned NOES up and color corrected it(supervised by Craven and the original team), which gave it a very smooth look.

I've seen the movie dozens of times over the years in various forms, and can tell you the odd waxy look in places is in keeping with the look of the movie post color correction. And the Alliance Blu-ray completely blows the old DVD out of the water in terms of detail, color and black level. There is nothing wrong with using that transfer.

That makes no logical sense.

Why would exposing the film print being sent to the distributor to the sun make a difference? It's already been processed at that point and would only be affected if left out in the sun for a really, really long time - like weeks.

Further, they would still have the spliced interpositive version they use to create that final master and could simply run a new master, even if that master was exposed on its way to the processing lab.

Finally, unless they were really, really cheap about it, I'm pretty sure most studios send a duplicate of the master print to the distributor, not the one and only master print.

Well I'm just going by a doc on the old Nightmare DVD set. At some some point the original negative was exposed. And don't forget this was a really, really cheap movie, filmed in 30 days on a shoe string budget.

ah, negative. you wrote "print" in your first post

Review w/ screenshots: http://blu-news.com/index.php/2010/0...lu-ray-review/

DNR stage skipped thankfully

So they can produce a non DNRed version over there at New Line. Just compare the greasy Alliance release with the unwaxed US release.

Wow, that looks really good.

Yay! Finally, good new for a change!

Yes! looks great and not the CA transfer! some people in that old thread will have to eat some DNR crow

How often are they going to recycle the old laserdisc commenatry????

Well, if everything was covered in that "old commentary", what's the problem? Sometimes folks don't want to keep talking about the same thing over and over again, so if they talked about it once and it's on tape, why not include it?

Vincent

Well I will happily eat some crow here, that is a LOT better lol. Sucks I have to buy it again, but NOES is in my top 5 favorite horror movies, so I will. Now we need the next 6 damnit!

I will be picking up this new version and selling my Canadian version.

Until now, the DNRed Canadian version was the best looking version available, and it looked great. I'm glad I bought it. This new version is much better, seemingly lacking in DNR, and I will buy it for sure.

However, I will not eat crow. I have no regrets about buying the Alliance version. I'm not so anal about DNR as many here. I want the to own the best versions of a film available, and until now, the Canadian version WAS the best. Now it isn't, so I will upgrade. Who cares?

WOW! Looks great.

I hope we get the non dnr version also here in europe.

Greets

LMAO, that this gets a better transfer than LOTR.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Kidding aside, this transfer actually looks really good. If memory serves me right the first two Friday the 13th Blu-ray releases looked great too.

I own the old version and I don't think it's that bad, this is, however, a very nice upgrade and if I can find it very cheap I'll pick it up.

In all honesty though I do not think the movie holds up all that well. I like watching it now and then for nostalgia's sake as it was one of my favourites when I was a kid, but it is certainly not scary at anymore unlike movies such as Chainsaw, The Exorcist, or The Shining which are all still frightening to some degree.

KT

It a great upgrade over the alliance version (which wasn't THAT bad), I'm also glad they went back to the pre-2006 color-timing.

Another excellent catalog release from Warner after "Clash of the Titans" and "Neverending Story."

An appreciable upgrade on the Canadian release as has been said!

Not to mention the experience was much fresher in everyone's minds then.

If you're old enough, can you remember what you did on a particular day on a job twenty-six years ago?

As long as New Line didn't get their greasy (literally) hands on it before release it seems like it will look good. Unfortunately the probably started on LotR well before WB took the reigns.