Supernatural Horror movies available on 4K Blu-ray, ranked by transfer quality.
dir. Mikael Håfström
S-Tier Lionsgate 4K. The steelbook came out in January. The big question is which ending you get, since the theatrical and director's cut have different ones, and collectors prefer the theatrical. ViaVision also has a limited edition in the works.
Lionsgate · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Alan Parker
S-Tier 4K. Mickey Rourke in Alan Parker's New Orleans noir.
dir. Tim Burton
S-Tier Warner Bros. 4K. Tim Burton's original. Part of the WB catalog that keeps getting solid 4K releases.
Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray
S-Tier Warner Bros. 4K. Tim Burton's sequel. Warner's 4K.
dir. Jeff Lieberman
S-Tier Synapse Films 4K. A 70s psychedelic horror film about a bad batch of acid. Synapse put this out and collectors who grabbed it during summer sales have been happy with it.
Synapse Films · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. George A. Romero
S-Tier Indicator 4K. George Romero directed this one. Indicator did a good job with it.
Indicator · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Bernard Rose
S-Tier Scream Factory 4K. Clive Barker's urban horror with Tony Todd. Scream Factory announced this and the response was immediate.
Scream Factory · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Kimberly Peirce
S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. The Kimberly Peirce remake from 2013. Arrow and Scream Factory both have releases.
Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. John Carpenter
S-Tier Sony 4K. John Carpenter's Plymouth Fury. The steelbook is a love-it-or-hate-it design.
Sony Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Gary Sherman
S-Tier Blue Underground 4K. An underseen 1981 horror film. Blue Underground has been giving these deep cuts proper 4K treatment.
Blue Underground · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Dario Argento
S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Argento's giallo masterpiece. Arrow's transfer is the one to own.
dir. Lamberto Bava
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
dir. Lucio Fulci
S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Fulci's giallo. Arrow's Italian horror catalog keeps expanding.
dir. Brian De Palma
S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. De Palma's split-screen thriller. Arrow's transfer is well regarded.
dir. Richard Stanley
S-Tier Umbrella Entertainment 4K. Richard Stanley's cult horror. Umbrella has been doing interesting Australian releases.
Umbrella Entertainment · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Richard Loncraine
S-Tier BFI 4K. Mia Farrow in a haunted house film from 1977. BFI's horror releases have been consistently good.
BFI · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Clive Barker
S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Clive Barker's Cenobites. Arrow's release is the definitive version.
dir. Alan Smithee, Kevin Yagher
S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. The fourth Hellraiser, in space. Arrow has the whole franchise covered.
dir. David Robert Mitchell
S-Tier Second Sight Films 4K. David Robert Mitchell's horror film where the threat just walks toward you, slowly, forever. Second Sight's limited edition is the one to get over the Lionsgate release, with stronger packaging and better extras.
dir. Takashi Shimizu
S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Takashi Shimizu's Japanese horror. Arrow's announcement came alongside a pile of other re-releases, and people noted that Arrow keeps repackaging the same catalog. Japanese horror is getting a real moment in boutique 4K right now between Arrow, Eureka, and the Daiei Gothic sets.
S-Tier Shout Factory 4K. Clive Barker's detective horror from 1995. Thin current signal, but the original pressing has become an OOP target for people who missed it.
Shout! Factory · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Tobe Hooper
S-Tier Warner Bros. 4K with a 4.5 score. Tobe Hooper's haunted house film, and the Best Buy steelbook art was widely hated. People said the iconic "girl in front of TV" image would have been far better. A Film Vault special edition with The Shining is coming in August 2025, and Shout Factory is releasing Poltergeist II in 4K. Some collectors have been disc-swapping their 4K into older steelbook shells with better art.
dir. David Koepp
Lionsgate S-Tier 4K. Kevin Bacon's 1999 haunted house film that got unfairly overshadowed by The Sixth Sense releasing the same year. The Lionsgate steelbook with lenticular slipcover is an Amazon exclusive that has restocked a few times through Please Rewind. Collectors who own it tend to recommend it enthusiastically.
Shameless Films has a Collector's Edition 4K out March 30. Argento supervised the color timing, Dolby Vision, six hours of extras, serial numbered. Already sold out at Rare Waves. The problem is that Synapse had the cinematographer supervise their transfer and Argento has a different idea of what his film should look like. Worth waiting for comparison shots before buying it twice.
dir. Stuart Rosenberg
88 Films put out an S-Tier 4K of the 1979 horror. The grain is preserved, the house interiors hold up in HDR, and 88 Films got access to a clean master most US labels didn't bother chasing. Worth tracking down if you missed the original pressing.
88 Films · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Andrew Douglas
dir. Peter Medak
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.
Second Sight Films · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Peter Jackson
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
Turbine · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Alejandro Amenábar
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
StudioCanal · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Stanley Kubrick
The 4K transfer delivers what HDR was supposed to do for horror. Room 237 has this sickly green cast that was always in the film but only became visible at this resolution, and the hotel hallway tracking shots have depth the old Blu-ray flattened.
dir. Robert Zemeckis
Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.
dir. Wes Craven
A-Tier Warner Bros. 4K. The complete Nightmare on Elm Street collection box set with the tin packaging is the way most people buy this. Someone customized their steelbook by chiseling scratch marks into it with a screwdriver and hammer, and it actually looked good.
dir. Chuck Russell
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
dir. Scott Derrickson
Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the Black Phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.
dir. Toby Meakins
A-Tier Criterion 4K. A tech horror about a cursed video game. Criterion picking this up was unexpected.
Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Guillermo del Toro
A-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Del Toro's Gothic romance with Jessica Chastain. Arrow loaded it with extras.
A-Tier BFI 4K. Del Toro's debut. The BFI disc is the UK option.
BFI
dir. Gordon Hessler
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
dir. Mike Flanagan
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".
A-Tier Universal Pictures 4K. Coming 2026 through Criterion.
Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Jason Reitman
When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
dir. Gil Kenan
When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
A-Tier Scream Factory 4K. Carpenter on Mars with Ice Cube. Scream Factory's Carpenter catalog keeps growing.
dir. Ari Aster
A-Tier Lionsgate 4K. Ari Aster's debut horror. The dark house interiors test your display.
dir. Joel Anderson
A-Tier Umbrella Entertainment 4K. Australian found-footage horror that has a serious cult following. Second Sight's new release is the one collectors are going after, and people ordering through Diabolik are bundling it with other pre-orders.
dir. Steven Soderbergh
A-Tier Decal 4K. Soderbergh's 2025 haunted house film shot on a low budget. The single-camera POV gimmick works better than it should, and the disc preserves the shallow focus work.
Decal · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. James Wan
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.
After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his studies and moves his family into the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.
dir. André Øvredal
The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship.
dir. Joe Johnston
Scream Factory A-Tier 4K. Preorders had fulfillment issues through Walmart and Amazon but the disc itself delivers. Del Toro in werewolf makeup plus Benicio del Toro playing him is confusing in a good way.
dir. David Lynch
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
dir. Samuel Bayer
Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives.
dir. Renny Harlin
Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.
dir. Ivan Reitman
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.
Arrow Video · Limited Edition
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?
dir. Jack Sholder
A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
dir. Stephen Hopkins
The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.
dir. Lewis Teague
C-Tier Kino Lorber 4K. Stephen King's killer dog. The C-Tier reflects the modest source material.
Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Sean S. Cunningham
C-Tier Kino Lorber 4K. Coming 2026-06-08 through Rare Waves.
dir. Rachel Talalay
Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams.
Kino Lorber 4K of the 1981 Wes Craven with a young Sharon Stone. The thread spent more time correcting blu-ray.com for burying Maren Jensen and Ernest Borgnine in favor of Stone's name than discussing the disc itself, but the buy intent is real.
Kino Lorber · 4K Ultra HD
dir. Jung Bum-shik
The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.
Second Sight Films · Limited Edition
dir. Arthur Lubin
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
dir. Rob Zombie
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Fabulous Films · 4K Ultra HD
dir. David F. Sandberg
The director found out about the 4K release on social media and offered to record a free commentary track for it. Warner Bros. apparently didn't take him up on it. The disc has a known mastering issue where the black levels are raised, which is a serious problem for a horror film that relies on darkness.
dir. Oren Peli
After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.
dir. Christopher Landon
Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very soul.
dir. Christophe Gans
Umbrella Entertainment 4K on June 3. The first film had a rough go on disc and people are cautiously optimistic that this one gets better treatment.
Umbrella Entertainment · 4K Ultra HD
dir. The Duffer Brothers
Arrow Video deluxe edition box set coming July 28. Arrow handling a Netflix property is unusual and people are curious what the extras look like. No 4K disc confirmation yet, which matters for a show shot and mastered in 4K.
Arrow Video · Deluxe Edition
dir. Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
dir. Jan de Bont
Dr. David Marrow invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself — and they soon see the true nature of its horror.
dir. Peter Duffell
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
dir. Ti West
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
dir. Kimo Stamboel
Revisiting the orphanage where they grew up, three men and their families discover a horrific supernatural presence lingering in their former home.
dir. Babak Anvari
After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.
Wealthy businessman Giorgio Mainardi has died of a stomach hemorrhage, but his ghost is not so sure that it was a random misfortune and wants to know the truth. Unfortunately, almost everyone around him is happy to see him gone. Everyone, that is, except for his daughter Rosy, who still feels affection for her father even though they have drifted apart. With her medical student boyfriend, Johnathan, Rosy will try to get to the bottom of her father's death.
