Frances Lee McCain · 1980s

3 Frances Lee McCain movies from the 1980s on 4K Blu-ray, ranked S to D by transfer quality. 1 S-Tier pick including Gremlins.

Decade

All 4 1970s 1 1980s 3

Year

All 3 1980 0 1981 0 1982 0 1983 0 1984 2 1985 1 1986 0 1987 0 1988 0 1989 0

Gremlins(1984)

7.1/10

dir. Joe Dante

S-Tier

Warner scanned the original 35mm camera negative at 4K for the 2019 release, and John Hora's cinematography finally has its candy reds and cobalt blues back. The disc is HDR10 only with no Dolby Vision, the aspect is 1.78:1 instead of the theatrical 1.85, and the supplements are a 2009 Blu-ray carryover.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

Back to the Future(1985)

8.3/10

dir. Robert Zemeckis

A-Tier

A-Tier Universal 4K. The trilogy box set exists in about five different packaging configurations at this point. The disc is the same across all of them. A-Tier is right for this, it's a clean catalog transfer.

Universal Pictures · Limited Edition Steelbook

Footloose(1984)

6.6/10

dir. Herbert Ross

A-Tier

A-Tier Paramount 4K. Kevin Bacon dancing in a warehouse looks surprisingly clean on a modern display, and the 80s color palette pops in HDR.

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