Backwoods Horror on 4K UHD

dir. Marcus Nispel

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Tony Maylam

A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidentally burned him.

Scream Factory · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Tobe Hooper

Second Sight's 4K arrived to the kind of reaction you'd expect for a film shot on 16mm getting a premium scan. The package sits alongside their Dawn of the Dead release as a showcase for what the label can do with horror catalog titles.

Second Sight Films · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

dir. Alexandre Aja

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

Arrow Video · Limited Edition

dir. Bryan Bertino

Scream Factory's September 2024 Collector's Edition with Dolby Vision, region-free 4K, and the original o-card slipcover that sold out the first pressing. The 2008 Bryan Bertino home-invasion horror that defined the masked-stranger subgenre and spawned a chapter franchise. The transfer pulls the rural-night blue tones of Peter Sova's photography out of what looked muddy on the old DVDs.

Scream Factory · Collector's Edition

dir. Walter Hill

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.

dir. Fritz Kiersch

A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.

dir. Drew Goddard

Five friends set out for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, expecting nothing more than fun and relaxation. As night falls, they discover that something far more unsettling is at work and that nothing about their getaway is what it seems.

dir. Sam Raimi

The Lionsgate 4K is out of print individually but still available in the Groovy Collection box with Evil Dead II and Ash vs Evil Dead. The standalone steelbook runs $40 USD on eBay if you can find one with a slip. Most people are telling newcomers to grab the box while it lasts since that's the cheapest path to both films in 4K.

Lionsgate · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Fede Álvarez

Evil Dead (2013) has become a double-dip magnet. A Walmart Exclusive 4K + Blu-ray Steelbook just went up for pre-order, not long after the Target exclusive shipped. Scream Factory's 2022 Collector's Edition is still the reference transfer across the three.

Scream Factory · Collector's Edition

dir. Joe Giannone

A-Tier Vinegar Syndrome 4K. The 1981 slasher, not to be confused with Madman Films the Australian distributor. Vinegar Syndrome gave it a proper release. Most of the signal around "Madman" in collector subs actually refers to the Madman Films Kurosawa box set, not this horror film.

Vinegar Syndrome · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Tobe Hooper

A radio host is victimised by the notorious cannibal family while a former Texas Marshal hunts them.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Adam Wingard

Second Sight announced the 4K and collectors jumped. The catch is UK shipping, which runs nearly half the disc price. Worth waiting for Diabolik or OrbitDVD to stock it domestically if you're not in a rush.

Lionsgate · Steelbook (4K + Blu-ray)

dir. Sean S. Cunningham

Paramount put this on 4K in September 2022 with a native scan plus Dolby Vision and HDR10. Reviewer reception is split. The transfer is sharper than the Shout Blu-ray and HDR brings real depth, but the grading is dark enough that some shadow detail disappears. The 13-film Shout box still wins on extras and getting Parts 1-10 in one buy.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Eli Roth

A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.

dir. Robert C. Hughes

Five "city boys" travel to the country to relax by doing some hunting, drinking Bud, and generally having good time. However, the local inbred backwoods psychos turn the hunters to be the hunted, and they need all the ammo and wits they have to get out of the woods alive.

Synapse Films · Limited Edition

dir. Jeff Lieberman

In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest ranger not to venture forth. Soon after they set up camp, they begin hearing strange noises, encounter a mysterious singing girl and start disappearing one by one.

Synapse Films · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo

A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will destroy his mind, moulding him into a monster named Leatherface.

Turbine · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Marcus Nispel

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

Vinegar Syndrome · Limited Edition

dir. Rob Schmidt

Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.

Umbrella Entertainment · 4K Ultra HD