A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy's Revenge/Dream Warriors - Sep 27, 2011

[Minimejer05]

I really want separate releases, but I'll settle for the 2 pack until that happens. Already have part one and since part 3 is my favorite of the series minus the first, I will grab it!

[StoogeFan1118]

I will be picking this double pack up as I doubt individual releases will ever happen. I am not a big fan of part 2 the only really good thing about part 2 was the Freddy make up plus freddy was still frightening. Part 3 is one of my favorite sequels .

[TeresofBlood]

Originally Posted by C. Brown

And why does the homoerotic theme make it bad?

Exactly! Where does it say that a franchise horror film can't have qualities that in and of itself make for a more satisfying, and culturally aware stand-alone film. What you have is a very interesting human struggle, exacerbated by the fact that Freddy shows up. Part 2 is great because it is different; in the same way that New Nightmare is great because it is different. These are character driven sequels.

[ckocher]

Is the pre-order up yet?

[Chad Rouch]

Originally Posted by Ruemorgue10

I just think it comes across as being unintentionally funny, that's all.

Why does it? I at once thought part 2 was "bad" because of all the homosexual content, but one day I realized that it was actually a very ambitious thing to do with the movie. I'm amazed Bob Shaye allowed it. He was trying to build a studio on the backs of these movies and allowing a mainstream horror movie - that pretty much only appealed to teens - be so overtly about the gay experience could have ruined those plans if the film got mired down in poitical controversy.

But what worked in Shaye's favor was that no one from the mainstream press was watching in 1985, and it virtually went unnoticed for years. However, to a whole generation of gay teens, I'm sure they got it and appreciated their story being told.

[Grifter02]

Originally Posted by Fragile Line

Yeah, well true fans of this series and people who grew up watching this series want a complete set and will not buy these crappy double features.

True fans will not deny themselves the ability to watch these movies in 1080p with lossless audio.

Originally Posted by Fragile Line

You obviously didn't see the bonus disc in the Nightmare Collection DVD box set called The Nightmare Series Encyclopedia.

If every special feature from that boxed set is on one disc, then just keep that disc and replace your barebones DVDs with barebones Blu-Rays. What's the problem?

Originally Posted by Fragile Line

Waste your money all you want on a crappy release then. Warner/New Line is not getting any money from me on this franchise until they give it the release it deserves. I'll stick with my DVD set until then. This release sucks! Plain and simple.

Catch-22, if you don't spend on this release, they'll think there's no interest in them on Blu-Ray, and you'll never get the boxed set you want.



I'll be buying this on release day because I want to support the franchise and see the rest of the series released.

[chrisfhctm]

I will definitely pick this up! I can only hope it does well enough to inspire some more Friday the 13th!

[Eidolon]

truly appalling and lazy coverart. No surprise though

[Mr. Movie Fan]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Never Sleep Again is up there with Empire of Dreams as one of the great movie-franchise retrospective documentaries. PERIOD.
Four hours, and packed with enough content that it almost feels like half an hour...You'll get through three before you even start to look at your watch.

(And yes, they go into extensive detail about HOW gay #2 was, but it's kept in balance with the rest of the documentary.)

Totally. The extras on the superb DVD set still were more of a scrapbook of promotional stuff, but the "Never Sleep Again" doc is much more in depth and interesting. I had no idea David Warner was up for Freddy. Still no digital release of the first film has all the cut scenes from the Elite Laserdisc.

[Grifter02]

Originally Posted by Eidolon

truly appalling and lazy coverart. No surprise though

I especially like the ® after both "A Nightmare" and "on Elm Street" as though they're separate registered trademarks :P

[Craig666]

This is why I hate the fact that New Line Cinema got dumped in with Warner Bros. With Robert Shaye gone, they've lost the champion of the Elm Street series.

New Line would have done justice to the series that got them their name but Warner just see it as a horror film series to dump out on blu-ray with no thought behind it.

New Line Cinema would have done a better job.

I would prefer a box set with individual boxes with original posters as the artwork. But special edition individual releases would be just as good.

My ideal box set would have:
Original poster artwork
Commentaries by each director and Robert Englund
Commentaries by the teenage victims.
A 60 minute doc on each film.
Trailers
Music videos
Parts 3 and 4 could have the Freddy MTV stuff

[captainjoe]

Originally Posted by Eidolon

truly appalling and lazy coverart. No surprise though

That is such terrible use of the cloning tool in the clouds! I can't believe that

[sancho]

Day 1 purchase for me. Parts 1 & 3 are my favorites in the series. Hopefully they include the Dokken video for "Dream Warriors"

[therock666]

very disapointing i have freddy vs jason/nightmare 84 and remake on blu i just wished they would of released a blu box set back in 1999 they did an awesome 8 dvd box set but 12 years later they cant just release a blu box set unacceptable

[TeresofBlood]

Originally Posted by therock666

very disapointing i have freddy vs jason/nightmare 84 and remake on blu i just wished they would of released a blu box set back in 1999 they did an awesome 8 dvd box set but 12 years later they cant just release a blu box set unacceptable

you do good words

[Amazing808s]

Why not a boxset?

[rblum199]

As long as the video quality on these are good, I'm happy (although seperate discs wouldn't hurt, but that all depends in the end on how much space each movie takes up and what else they put on the discs)

on another note - anyone else hoping that if they continue with this trend, that (although this probably wouldn't work if they used one disc for both movies) Freddy's Dead is available in a 3D Blu-ray? The kind used now I mean, not anaglyph (although I wouldn't object to anaglyph as an option - would allow people who don't have a 3D TV to view it in 3D, plus that's how it was originally shown in theaters).

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Chad Rouch

Why does it? I at once thought part 2 was "bad" because of all the homosexual content, but one day I realized that it was actually a very ambitious thing to do with the movie. I'm amazed Bob Shaye allowed it. He was trying to build a studio on the backs of these movies and allowing a mainstream horror movie - that pretty much only appealed to teens - be so overtly about the gay experience could have ruined those plans if the film got mired down in poitical controversy.

Saw it in theaters and never even noticed it was "gay" until the documentary. (And then, ohhh yah. )--
It was the 80's, so even with all the locker-room scenes, it was kind of hard to tell. Just thought they were going for the same faux-John Hughes vibe.

At the time, I was concentrating too much on the fact that it was cranked out by the studio (small studios get so excited when they have a breakout franchise cult-horror hit) and wasn't one of Craven's, so what the heck was going on in context of the first movie?...Freddy can become a telekinetic and appear in the "real" world? WTF?? Without Wes, was Bob just making the whole danged thing UP?

[csdot]

Dream Warriors is my favorite NOES sequel, definitely picking this up.

[HDMe]

I don't mind the 2-movies-on-one-disc thing... Odds are they would have put each on a BD25 anyway... so having both on a single BD50 is fine to me.

IF they release them all that way... it's ok too... except of course they would have to improvise at some point since #1 was already released on its own... so they'd have to put one other movie on its own too.

But I really really want a box set... and IF they ever get around to releasing all of these, there's no way they won't eventually do a box set as well... so I'm in no rush.