1988 on 4K UHD

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

dir. John Landis

S-Tier Paramount Pictures 4K. Eddie Murphy's other 80s classic. Paramount's 4K catalog skips around between regions sometimes, which can be confusing for collectors.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. John McTiernan

S-Tier 4K from 20th Century Studios. The steelbook and the Christmas movie debate come up every single time. The Zavvi steelbook in particular gets a lot of love.

20th Century Studios · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. George A. Romero

S-Tier Shout Factory 4K. Romero's killer monkey film from 1988. People consider it fun if a bit more formulaic than his other work. It gets mentioned alongside Martin as part of the Romero 4K collection people are building.

Shout! Studios · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Giuseppe Tornatore

S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Giuseppe Tornatore's nostalgia trip. Arrow gave this a beautiful release. The film itself is basically designed to make you cry about movie theaters.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Joan Micklin Silver

S-Tier Criterion 4K. Amy Irving romantic comedy. A deep-cut Criterion pick.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo

S-Tier 88 Films 4K. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. The Hong Kong action trio.

88 Films · Deluxe Collector's Edition

dir. Tony Randel

S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. The Hellraiser sequel. Arrow's Hellraiser releases have been strong.

Arrow Video · Tetralogy

dir. Alan Parker

S-Tier Capelight Pictures 4K. Alan Parker's civil rights thriller with Gene Hackman. Capelight's German mediabook release is the only 4K option, which means importing. The picture quality is reported as great. A Criterion release would make sense for this film, given how many directors people keep requesting for the collection.

Capelight Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Mira Nair

Part of Criterion's December 2025 wave alongside Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and His Girl Friday. Mira Nair's debut about Mumbai street kids. Thin standalone discussion but the announcement thread generated massive engagement. A deeply respected film that most collectors will buy on name recognition alone.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray (Canada)

dir. Robert Zemeckis

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

Walt Disney Studios · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Christopher Cain

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.

Lionsgate · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Mark Goldblatt

Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.

dir. Kevin Tenney

When partygoers at a deserted funeral home decide to have a séance on Halloween night, they awaken something evil with a thirst for blood.

dir. Jackie Chan

Eureka A-Tier 4K. Part of the Police Story trilogy set that collectors say is worth the upgrade. The theatrical cut transfer is a real improvement over previous releases.

Eureka Entertainment · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Stan Winston

When a group of teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley seeks the powers of a backwoods witch to bring the child back to life.

dir. Richard Donner

People bought the Blu-ray for $6 USD and immediately turned around to buy the 4K anyway. A-Tier holiday film that shows up on everyone's Christmas rotation list alongside Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, and It's a Wonderful Life. Complaints about barebones special features are the only recurring negative. Bill Murray doing his thing is the entire selling point, and the disc delivers on that.

Paramount Pictures · 35th Anniversary Edition

dir. Luc Besson

Childhood friends Jacques and Enzo share a passion for the danger of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy; to the bewilderment of scientists, Jacques harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing pattern in the water, so that his vital signs more closely resemble that of dolphins than men. As Enzo persuades a reluctant Jacques to compete against him in a free diving contest -- determining who can dive deeper and longer without scuba gear -- Jacques meets Johana, a beautiful American insurance investigator, and finds that he must choose between his love for her and his love of the sea.

StudioCanal

dir. Chuck Russell

In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.

dir. John Carpenter

A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.

Shout! Studios · Collector's Edition

dir. Ron Howard

Disney A-Tier 4K steelbook with a December 10 street date. Warwick Davis still turns up at conventions and there's a real fanbase here, bigger than the cult-film label suggests.

Walt Disney Studios · Steelbook (4K + Blu-ray)

dir. Katsuhiro Otomo

The Bandai Visual Japan Limited Edition is the canonical 4K and the one to chase if you want it done right. Funimation's US disc cycles through Walmart at $12 USD like clockwork and it's perfectly serviceable, though anyone who grew up on the Streamline dub still keeps the older Blu-ray with the 192kHz 5.1 mix nearby. The South Korean 4K is a quiet upgrade on the US disc with the same English options, and Madman's Australian release exists if you can get Diabolik to import it.

Bandai Visual · Limited Edition

dir. Newt Arnold

An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.

dir. Tom Holland

A-Tier 4K. The original killer doll. Multiple editions from different labels across regions.

Capelight Pictures · Pre-Order

dir. James Signorelli

Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, horror hostess Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from the conservative locals, including her sinister uncle Vincent.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Stephen Chiodo

A-Tier Scream Factory 4K. The 1988 creature feature with cotton candy cocoons and rubber Klown suits. Scream Factory picked this up after Arrow's edition went out of print, and the announcement with poster and extra slipcover options generated immediate pre-orders.

Scream Factory · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Jonathan Demme

A-Tier Cinematographe 4K. Jonathan Demme's 1988 mob comedy with Michelle Pfeiffer. VS released this under their Cinematographe label, and first impressions are positive.

Cinématographe · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Martin Brest

A-Tier Shout Factory 4K. De Niro and Charles Grodin's buddy road movie. Shout Factory's transfer got decent reviews with good Dolby Vision and consistent grain. Some mixed word of mouth before release had people setting low expectations, which the disc cleared.

Shout! Studios · Collector's Edition

dir. Barry Levinson

A-Tier MVD Entertainment 4K. Hoffman and Cruise on a road trip, with the $49.95 USD price having people wait for a sale. Viavision also has a limited edition of 2000 copies.

MVD Entertainment · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Peter MacDonald

A-Tier Eagle Pictures 4K. The third Rambo. No relevant collector discussion around the 4K.

Eagle Pictures

dir. Walter Hill

The StudioCanal steelbook has great embossing and showed up in European sales for around 15 EUR. Region B locked on the Blu-ray side, which annoyed a few Region A collectors who wanted the full package. Purely a fun 80s action night pick.

StudioCanal · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

dir. David Zucker

When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Paramount Pictures · Steelbook (35th Anniversary Edition)

dir. Vittorio Rambaldi

A scientist at a Florida university inadvertently creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the infected baboons; the virus soon spreads to a trio of rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on killing sprees.

dir. Terry Gilliam

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

Criterion Collection · #1166

dir. Renny Harlin

Available on 4K only via Warner's 7 Film Collection boxset from September 2025. Strong remaster of one of the most stylish entries in the series, with the new HDR grade letting the Dream Master's neon-and-fog cinematography land properly for the first time on home video. Atmos and original theatrical tracks both available.

Warner Bros. · 4K Box Set (7 Film Collection)

dir. Peter Greenaway

C-Tier Severin Films 4K. Peter Greenaway. Severin picks up the arthouse titles.

Severin Films · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Dwight H. Little

C-Tier Shout Factory 4K. Michael Myers returns. The Halloween franchise on 4K from Shout Factory has been comprehensive if not always well-transferred.

Shout! Studios · Collector's Edition

dir. Wong Kar-Wai

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

dir. John Cornell

Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.

Madman Entertainment · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Emmett Alston

A man and his daughter are attacked in the woods by what they believe is a Bigfoot-type creature. However, they soon begin to suspect that they may have stumbled onto a nest of aliens in a hidden spacecraft.

dir. Jesús Franco

A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret.

dir. S. William Hinzman

A group of college students take a Halloween hayride in the countryside and convince the driver to take them to a secluded area for a night of debauchery. However, the fun turns to terror when a local farmhand unearths a mysterious wooden box that contains an ancient zombie.

Vinegar Syndrome · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Beverly Sebastian, Ferd Sebastian

A sweet city girl initiated into the rugged ways of the Louisiana swamp by her good-natured Cajun husband "Big T". She ends up putting her newly acquired survival skills to good use when she is kidnapped by Big T's chief rival Leroy and his swarthy, brutish family as part of an ongoing feud.

dir. Jag Mundhra

When Tommy was a boy, he saw his grandpa, the leader of a vicious satanic cult, murder his father in a brutal ritual on Halloween night. Now he is 18, and grandpa is ready to indoctrinate him into the ways of the black arts.

Massacre Video · 4K Ultra HD

dir. John Waters

Criterion's June announcement confirmed it, and r/criterion treated it as the last missing piece of the Waters catalogue. The comments went from relief to lobbying for a box set within about an hour. 'Hopefully they put one out eventually with 4K restorations for the others.' Preorder opens with the June slate.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray Special Edition

dir. Skip Schoolnik

A group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture shop for a graduation party. When one of them talks her boyfriend into a game of hide-and-seek, a psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one.

Terrorvision · Limited Edition

dir. Stewart Raffill

A Mysterious Alien Creature (MAC) escaping from nefarious NASA agents, is befriended by a young boy in a wheelchair. Together, they try to find MAC's family from whom he has been separated.

dir. Spike Lee

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

dir. Michael A. Simpson

Angela Baker escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a sex-obsessed girl to the boys who are peeping Toms -- are murdered by the impostor in various gruesome ways. As more campers go missing, intrepid counselor Molly begins to piece together the truth.

dir. Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone's most underrated film and the comments know it. 'My favorite Stone film.' 'One of the best performances Bogosian ever gave.' There's a real audience waiting for this one and Kino is giving them it.

dir. Andrew Kam Yeung-Wah, Johnnie To

Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the HKPD on hold to investigate his former partner's mysterious murder. What he and his crack team of three other cops uncover is a plot far more sinister than they originally anticipated.

dir. Howard Deutch

Universal announced this alongside Harry and the Hendersons on the same day. The comments are pure nostalgia. 'Finally. One of the best 80s summer movies.' John Candy in 4K is the only argument you need.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Gianfranco Giagni

A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.

dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.

dir. Lucio Fulci

When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing a virus and bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island.