1984 on 4K UHD

dir. Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso

One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come across a town infested with flesh eating rats, and soon the gore is spilling everywhere.

dir. Brian De Palma

S-Tier Sony 4K. De Palma's erotic thriller. The transfer preserves the slow-zoom voyeuristic camerawork that makes the film work.

Sony Pictures · Steelbook (4K + Blu-ray)

dir. David Lynch

Arrow's 2021 4K is still the version most collectors own and the one to start with. Imprint's 2025 Sandbox edition turned heads for the wrong reason, $128 USD for a set that people immediately compared to Arrow and called overpriced. The real rabbit hole is the Spicediver fan cut, which Plaion quietly tucked into a limited German release, which is why you see collectors Frankenstein-ing their Lynch Dune shelves out of three different editions just to own every version.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Joe Dante

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

dir. Steven Spielberg

S-Tier Paramount 4K. Spielberg's darkest Indy. The individual steelbook came after the box set, which meant double-dipping for anyone who already owned the 4-film collection. The mine cart chase is the demo sequence.

Paramount Pictures · Steelbook (4K + Blu-ray)

dir. John Carpenter

Sony S-Tier 4K. One of the more under-appreciated John Carpenter films, with Jeff Bridges playing an alien on a road trip across America. The Columbia Classics box set originally included this, and Sony releasing a standalone steelbook is good news for people who didn't want to buy the whole set. Target's buy 2 get 1 free deal has brought the price down to around $30 USD.

Sony Pictures · Steelbook (4K + Blu-ray)

dir. Jonathan Demme

S-Tier transfer of what might be the greatest concert film ever made. A24 priced the 4K at $50+ USD with $30 USD shipping to Canada, which did not go over well. The feeling across collector circles is that A24 treats their catalog like merch drops instead of home video. The disc itself sounds incredible though, and the Atmos mix might actually be the reason to own it. The grain resolves better than the Blu-ray and more than one person has said the disc beats their local IMAX. Barnes and Noble and Walmart carry it if the A24 shop is showing out of stock.

A24 · 40th Anniversary Deluxe Collector's Edition

dir. Walter Hill

Shout Factory S-Tier 4K. Walter Hill's neon-soaked rock-and-roll action film with Michael Paré and Diane Lane. People who got it early describe a strong upgrade from the Blu-ray, with the Dolby Vision doing great work on the rain-soaked streets and neon lighting. It's a Collector's Edition but surprisingly shipped without a slipcover.

Shout! Studios · Collector's Edition

dir. John G. Avildsen

New Jersey teen Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target of bullying by a group of thugs, led by Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny, who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo under ruthless sensei John Kreese. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi, an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate for self-defense and, later, preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.

Sony Pictures

dir. Miloš Forman

S-Tier Warner Bros. 4K with a perfect 5.0 specs score. The 4K restoration played theatrically before the disc release. Both the theatrical and director's cut are included. The production design finally gets the resolution it needed.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Martin Brest

S-Tier Paramount 4K. Eddie Murphy in Detroit. Paramount's 80s comedy catalog on 4K has been reliable.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Richard Fleischer

S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Schwarzenegger sequel. Same Arrow treatment as the first Conan.

Arrow Video · Limited Edition

dir. Wim Wenders

S-Tier Curzon Film 4K. Wim Wenders' film about a man wandering out of a Texas desert. The Criterion 4K generated huge excitement just from people posting about seeing it in a theater. The Curzon encoding is slightly better than Criterion's, but both look great. People watched this for the first time and couldn't stop thinking about it for days. Breaking Bad fans keep spotting the influence.

Curzon Film · Limited Edition

dir. Albert Magnoli

S-Tier Warner Bros. 4K. Prince in 1984 Minneapolis. People wanted a purple case and were disappointed. The acting is openly acknowledged as terrible while the music is some of the best ever recorded, and that tension is part of the appeal. Someone bought their first copy on Betamax in 1985.

Warner Bros. · 40th Anniversary Edition

dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.

Scream Factory's S-Tier 4K of the controversial Santa slasher. The Imprint Parts 1 + 2 special edition is a massive package that surprised buyers with its size. The Lionsgate steelbook at over $50 USD got pushback on pricing. A seasonal purchase that reliably sells every October and December.

Scream Factory · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Wolfgang Petersen

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.

Imprint · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz

The Troma 4K boxset is the first proper 4K of the 1984 original alongside Parts II, III, and Citizen Toxie. Strong S-Tier transfer that lets the latex and karo syrup pop the way Lloyd Kaufman intended. Umbrella's Australian Tox Box: Full Contamination is incoming in 2026 with regional packaging and likely Dolby Vision. The Troma set is the better default for US shoppers; Umbrella runs deluxe.

Troma · 4K Box Set (The Toxic Avenger Collection: TA in 4K)

dir. Rob Reiner

S-Tier Criterion 4K. The IMDB page rates it out of 11 instead of 10, which feels right. The in-character DVD commentary where the band complains about being misrepresented is worth owning on its own.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Lucio Fulci

Fulci doing a giallo set in a New York dance academy is exactly as unhinged as it sounds. 88 Films giving it the limited edition 4K treatment puts it alongside their Phase IV and Xtro releases, which have both been strong transfers.

88 Films · Limited Edition

dir. Wes Craven

Warner's standalone 4K from 2024 remains the best route into the original Elm Street, and bestblurays calls it. The 40th Anniversary UK Steelbook from October 2024 adds a rigid slipcase, double-sided foldout poster, art cards, and a numbered booklet for premium presentation. The 7-Film Collection boxset from September 2025 adds both theatrical and uncut versions plus two new featurettes (Boiler Room Confessional, Freddy's Footnotes), though no new commentaries.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Lino Brocka

Bona, a middle-class student, becomes infatuated with a struggling actor, Gardo, and drops out of school to live with him. She becomes his unpaid maid, performing chores and enduring his relationships with other women, in the hopes of reciprocation.

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. Alan Rudolph

Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talk radio relationship counselor, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Paul Morrissey

On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta, along with her delinquent son, Thiago, and a gang of Hispanic teens charged with selling heroin and cocaine. When Rita and her young gang members get involved in a minor turf war, the violence escalates out of control, touching everyone and sparing no one.

dir. Barry Levinson

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.

dir. Lino Brocka

A laborer gets money for his wife's pregnancy from his boss on the condition that he will not join the union.

Le Chat Qui Fume · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. John Milius

Shout! Studios put John Milius's 1984 Cold War survival fantasy on 4K in 2022 with a strong A-Tier transfer. Best Buy got an exclusive Steelbook the same year and collectors who bought the standard Shout pressing first felt the usual burn. The old DVD was famously soft, so this is the first time the Colorado mountains and the school-bus invasion footage have looked sharp. The cast runs deep past Swayze and Sheen, with Powers Boothe, Lea Thompson, and a brief Harry Dean Stanton appearance most people forget about.

Shout! Studios · Collector's Edition

dir. Herbert Ross

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.

dir. Ivan Reitman

A-Tier Sony 4K. Who you gonna call. Multiple packaging options, same disc.

Sony Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Sergio Leone

A-Tier 20th Century Studios Blu-ray. Leone's epic crime saga, and the 4K announcement had people demanding a 100GB disc for a film this long. No one can decide if they love it or hate it, which is part of the appeal. People have been asking Criterion for a proper release for years. A new restored version was shown at a special screening that only De Niro got to see.

Eagle Pictures · Limited Edition

dir. Carl Schenkel

Subkultur's 2022 Limited Edition has Dolby Vision and a native 4K scan, and the confined elevator set actually benefits from it. You can see every scratch on the wood paneling and the sweat building on faces as the oxygen drops. The Haunt Love slipcover limited to 3,000 copies sold through, but the standard 4K is still available.

Subkultur · Limited Edition

dir. Alex Cox

Criterion 4K. The conversation about what the film is really about produced one of the best single-sentence readings of any film on the internet. One of those discs where some buyers reported defective copies, but the transfer itself is clean once you get a good pressing. The film stock is fine-grained enough that it looks pristine in 4K.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Leonard Nimoy

A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.

dir. Nick Castle

Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering the video game The Last Starfighter, only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the attack.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

dir. James Cameron

Warner 40th Anniversary 4K with Dolby Vision and Atmos, scanned from the original negative. Collectors are split on the AI enhancement tools Cameron used in the transfer, with some calling it a revelation and others wanting the grain back. The mono track is worth trying after the Atmos mix.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker

Paramount A-Tier 4K as part of the ZAZ Collection with Airplane! and The Naked Gun. The custom covers for the set have been circulating on collector Instagram.

Paramount Pictures · 4K Box Set (ZAZ: The Collection)

dir. Richard Franklin

C-Tier Vinegar Syndrome 4K. Kid spy thriller from 1984.

Vinegar Syndrome · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Russell Mulcahy

In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.

dir. Charles Band

The 4K exists, but the consensus is rough. The Blu-ray actually rates higher than the 4K on bestblurays. Most of the problems are baked into the source material, a sub-500K production shot on film short ends with cheap equipment. 101 Films put out a UK limited edition with a solid extras package, same transfer though. People buy Trancers because the movie is genuinely great, not for the picture quality.

Full Moon Features · 2 Disc Collector's Edition

dir. Peter Hyams

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

Arrow Video · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Taylor Hackford

No tier rating yet. Phil Collins does the soundtrack, Bridges does the brooding, and the disc exists but nobody is really talking about it. Bridges fans will grab it, everyone else can skip.

dir. Just Jaeckin

A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle.

dir. Holly Dale, Janis Cole

Filmmakers Holly Dale and Janis Cole explore the culture of Davie Street, located in the underbelly of Vancouver, where dozens of prostitutes work and live every day. Surprisingly, they find that the sex trade there is stable and largely non-violent, and that the women who work on Davie Street meet daily to discuss safety and health issues and don't use pimps. The film also includes candid interviews with the prostitutes and footage of negotiations with potential clients.

dir. Thom Eberhardt

After a comet wipes out most of life on Earth, two Valley Girls find themselves fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.

dir. Sam Firstenberg

An aerobics instructor becomes a ruthless assassin after being possessed by a slain ninja's spirit, leading to a showdown with a martial arts expert.

dir. Richard Benjamin

Early Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage in a WWII-era romance that's been out of print on disc for years. Imprint's limited edition is the first time this has gotten any boutique attention.

Imprint · Limited Edition

dir. Tsui Hark

Film Movement put this on 4K in February 2026 with English subs and a Vinegar Syndrome slipcover variant capped at 2000 copies, though it's HDR10 with the new dub only. The 2025 Spectrum Films import from France has Dolby Vision, both audio tracks, and a deleted scene, with French subs only.

Spectrum Films · 4K + Blu-ray (France)

dir. Richard W. Haines

Refuse Films giving this a limited edition 4K is a deep pull. The original transfer was a VHS-quality mess, so any kind of restoration will be the first time most people see this film with a clean image.

Refuse Films · Limited Edition

dir. Paul Vatelli

In one corner of the ring stand some of the hunkiest men imaginable, in the other stand four gorgeous, hard-working ladies, one of whom will win $50,000 cash.

dir. Antonio Margheriti

88 Films released a UHD in 2023 that already looked good. Severin's 2026 release uses the same 4K scan with color timing tweaks. The distinctive red lighting pops more in the new grade, and the slight pink push of the 2023 UK disc is gone. Severin is the better grade between the two. Extras add a second-unit interview, a writer interview, and a brief Margheriti archival.

Severin Films · Antonio Margheriti & The Jungles of Doom: His '80s Adventure Films

dir. Neil Jordan

An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?

dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

Lionsgate · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Frank Oz

When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.

dir. Mick Jackson

Severin's July 28 4K is the worldwide UHD premiere of the BBC's 1984 nuclear-attack docudrama, scanned from the original 16mm A/B rolls. Three discs and seven hours of features, plus a new feature documentary by Craig Ian Mann and Robert Nevitt (Survivors: The Spectre of Threads). The Protect & Survive pamphlet replica is the kind of object Severin built their reputation on.

Severin Films · Limited Edition

dir. John Binder

Kino Lorber Studio Classics put John Binder's 1984 UFO satire on 4K in March 2026. The film never had a Blu-ray release, going straight from DVD to UHD. The new Dolby Vision master came from a 4K scan of the 35mm OCN and looks grain-heavy with natural color. Cindy Williams, Fred Ward, and Harry Dean Stanton as a fake faith healer running a UFO-cult con job in rural Arizona. Binder records the commentary alongside producer Jeanne Field and historian Daniel Kremer.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo

Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket.

Arrow Video · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Franco Prosperi

PCP is unexplainably released into the Frankfurt water supply and sends the zoo inhabitants crazy. One evening after a malfunction of zoo security the gonzo critters rampage through the city eating and killing whatever they fancy, wreaking a night of bloody terror. It's up to regular Italian-trash whipping girl Lorraine De Selle and obnoxious Super Mario lookalike zookeeper John Aldrich to sort it out.