1990 on 4K UHD

dir. Penny Marshall

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.

dir. Sam Raimi

S-Tier Scream Factory 4K. Sam Raimi's superhero before Spider-Man. Scream Factory's transfer brings out the dutch angles and color contrast that Raimi was experimenting with pre-Tobey Maguire.

Scream Factory · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Joel Schumacher

S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Joel Schumacher's afterlife thriller. Arrow's release.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Peter Hyams

S-Tier Kino Lorber 4K. Peter Hyams' 1990 thriller with Gene Hackman on a train. No relevant collector discussion around the 4K.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Francis Ford Coppola

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Tim Burton

20th Century Studios put Tim Burton's 1990 fairy tale on 4K in 2025 as a steelbook-only US release. Disney took the expected flak for not offering a standard case. Both video and audio land near reference for a non-restoration catalog title. The reflective steelbook finish is the best part of the design. The Danny Elfman score finally has the dynamic range for the ice dance scene to land. UK collectors get a standard keep case at the same time.

20th Century Studios · Steelbook (4K + Blu-ray)

dir. Craig R. Baxley

S-Tier Shout Factory 4K. Dolph Lundgren sci-fi action from 1990.

Shout! Studios · 4K + Blu-ray Combo Pack Collector's Edition

dir. Reginald Hudlin

S-Tier Criterion 4K for the 35th anniversary. The announcement caused a minor riot because everyone was expecting Eyes Wide Shut instead. People want the cover to pull from 90s graphic design rather than something refined and contemporary. The original Blu-ray was a MOD release that was really hard to find in stores.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Adrian Lyne

S-Tier Lionsgate 4K. Adrian Lyne's nightmare horror with Tim Robbins. There's a persistent Criterion wish-list energy around this title, and someone insists there used to be a laserdisc edition. The steelbook artwork is really nice. If Studiocanal ever separates from their Lionsgate deal, a boutique edition could happen. For now the Lionsgate 4K is it.

Lionsgate · Steelbook (4K + Blu-ray)

dir. Abel Ferrara

S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Abel Ferrara's crime film with Walken. Lionsgate put out a re-release with a steelbook that collectors found ugly, and most people are happy sticking with their Arrow or StudioCanal versions. The 4-hour documentary included with the Arrow release is almost as good as the film itself.

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

dir. William Lustig

S-Tier Blue Underground 4K. William Lustig's sequel with some insane chase sequences that clearly didn't have permits. Blue Underground priced both Maniac Cop 4Ks at $30 USD each, which people found fair compared to what Shout Factory charges for a single standard Blu-ray.

Blue Underground · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Mick Garris

S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. The made-for-TV Psycho prequel from Mick Garris. No relevant collector discussion.

Arrow Video · 4K Box Set (The Psycho Collection)

dir. Simon Wincer

S-Tier Shout Factory 4K. Tom Selleck in an Australian western. The 4K revealed that a young kid in the film is Ben Mendelsohn, which blew people's minds.

Shout! Studios · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Irvin Kershner

Shout Factory's 4K is a massive upgrade over the old Blu-ray. The steelbook artwork is polarizing, with Robo's face getting roasted in the comments, and most people recommending the standard 4K release instead. Region availability is limited to US and Canada, which frustrated international collectors. The slipcovers for RoboCop 2 and 3 line up nicely on a shelf, even though 3 is still Blu-ray only.

Shout! Studios · Limited Edition Steelbook

dir. Steve Barron

A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.

Arrow Video · 4K Box Set (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trilogy: Limited Edition)

dir. William Peter Blatty

Arrow's Limited Edition is the one to track down, but Scream Factory's 4K was the disc that put this film back on collector radar. George C. Scott's interrogation scene alone justifies the S-Tier rating, and the HDR gives the hospital corridors a clinical dread the Blu-ray couldn't match.

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

dir. Stephen Frears

A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Ron Underwood

Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.

Arrow Video · Limited Edition

dir. John Woo

Arrow Video limited edition 4K of Woo's Vietnam War epic. Part of the Hong Kong Cinema Classics wave alongside The Killer and Hard Boiled. This is the darkest of Woo's action films and the one that tends to catch people off guard if they only know him from the heroic bloodshed stuff. Arrow's preorder is up on their site.

Arrow Video · Limited Edition

dir. Tom Savini

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

dir. Claudio Fragasso

When young Joshua learns that he will be going on vacation with his family to a small town called Nilbog, he protests adamantly. He is warned by the spirit of his deceased grandfather that goblins populate the town. His parents, Michael and Diana, dismiss his apprehensions, but soon learn to appreciate their son's warnings. Guided by his grandfather's ghost, will Joshua and his family stand a chance in fighting off these evil beings?

Vinegar Syndrome · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Robert Zemeckis

A-Tier Universal 4K. Same story as Part II. Universal gave the whole trilogy consistent transfers.

Universal Pictures · Limited Edition Steelbook

dir. John Lafia

Chucky is reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll, and tracks young Andy Barclay to a foster home where the chase begins again.

dir. Martin Scorsese

A-Tier Warner Bros. 4K. Scorsese's gangster film. The restaurant scene tracking shot benefits from every pixel.

Warner Home Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Chris Columbus

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other.

dir. Luc Besson

A-Tier Sony 4K. Luc Besson's assassin film with Anne Parillaud. Sony and StudioCanal both have steelbook versions, and the consensus is that StudioCanal's is the better package if you're region-free. The Sony version dropped the Spanish subtitles and audio track that StudioCanal kept.

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

dir. Paul Verhoeven

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory implant goes wrong, Doug can no longer be sure what is and isn't reality.

Eagle Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Dario Argento, George A. Romero

A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.

dir. Roger Spottiswoode

A-Tier from StudioCanal in the UK, Lionsgate in the US. Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. flying planes in Laos. A fun 90s action film that most people forgot had a 4K release.

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

dir. Walter Hill

For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Richard Stanley

Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.

dir. Mike Figgis

Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.

dir. Marina Sargenti

Dark Force #7 from 2024, the 1990 Karen Black and Rainbow Harvest mirror-horror that ran on cable for years. The 4K HDR scan is from the original 35mm camera negative, which this film has never had before. The glow-in-the-dark slipcover sold out fast, and the standard slipcase is the easier find now.

Dark Force Entertainment · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Rob Reiner

A-Tier Kino Lorber 4K. Rob Reiner's Stephen King adaptation with Kathy Bates, and Kino's transfer scores 4.5 overall. The disc was available for $15.65 USD on Amazon and people jumped on it at that price. Collectors are still waiting for Arrow's Carrie 4K to pair with this.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. John McTiernan

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!

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

dir. John G. Avildsen

A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rocky finds glory in training and takes on an up-and-coming boxer.

dir. Adam Rifkin

An invisible scientist escapes from an asylum and teaches high-school physics to nubile teens.

dir. Tony Scott

B-Tier 4K. Cruise in a stock car. The audio mix could have been better for a film about racing, but the picture is decent. Nostalgic for people who grew up in the 90s.

dir. Clive Barker

The disc collectors actually want, the Director's Cut, is stuck at HD resolution while the theatrical cut got the 4K scan. Arrow's limited edition packaging is solid, but the encoding choice makes this a tougher sell for Barker fans who know the Cabal Cut.

Arrow Video · Limited Edition

dir. John Waters

C-Tier Kino Lorber 4K. John Waters' musical with Johnny Depp. Kino has the 4K.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Jerry Zucker

C-Tier Paramount 4K. Swayze and Demi Moore with pottery. The C-Tier reflects a standard catalog transfer.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Ivan Reitman

C-Tier Kino Lorber 4K. There's a running joke that this should be Criterion spine #1000, and the fan-made mock cover art is reportedly better than anything Criterion has actually produced. Kino put out the 4K in 2024.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Alain Robak

A cruel circus owner beats and abuses his pregnant wife. One day the circus receives a leopard newly captured in Africa, but the animal soon dies. However, an evil creature that was inside the leopard bursts out of the animal's body, burrows into the wife's body and takes over her fetus. It soon starts demanding blood, and the woman goes searching for victims for her new "baby."

Kino Lorber · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Brian Yuzna

Ignite Films putting out the sequel on 4K. The first film's Ignite release was expensive and divisive, so the question is whether this one gets the same treatment or a more reasonable price. Brian Yuzna's follow-up leans harder into the comedy and the practical effects are wild.

Ignite Films · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Robert Clouse

China O'Brien; big city police woman; martial arts trainer, is forced to hand in her badge and head home to her father and the small town where she grew up. The peaceful town she knew is now struggling against the clutches of organized crime. When her father, the town sheriff, is killed China decides to run for his position and clean up the town. The poll results spark a series of confrontations that finally decide who runs the town . . .

Vinegar Syndrome · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Robert Clouse

This time China O'Brien has trouble with a dealer who puts a price on her head because she had spoiled an important drug deal of his. But all the world's criminals will not be enough to catch up with China O'Brian, one of the masters of the martial arts.

dir. Charles Band

Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm".

88 Films · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Kevin Costner

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Warner Bros. · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Wong Kar-Wai

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

dir. René Manzor

Thomas de Frémont, a precocious child obsessed with action films, sets himself up for a terrifying Christmas Eve after he unwittingly makes contact with a deranged psychopath who claims he's Santa Claus.

dir. Akira Kurosawa

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

Criterion Collection · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Frank Henenlotter

Synapse 4K is getting real enthusiasm, with people calling it 'outstanding' and posting detailed impressions. Henenlotter films don't often get transfers that match the energy of the source material, and this one apparently does.

Synapse Films · Limited Edition

dir. Ralph S. Singleton

John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.

dir. Joe Dante

@dawnofthediscs floated a 4K UHD on Instagram in January 2026 with no label confirmation, no street date, and no SKU. Joe Dante then surfaced a 2h 35m assembly cut of the original Gremlins at a closed-group screening on May 1, 2026, with the Gremlins 3 writers in attendance. A reissue of the original paired with a Gremlins 2 4K in a boxset timed to Gremlins 3 (2027) is the most coherent way both archival events fit together. The 2011 Warner Blu-ray is currently the only HD option for Gremlins 2.

Unknown · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Sheldon Lettich

Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.

MVD Entertainment · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Lewis Teague

During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discovers that a terrorist group has access to deadly, US-built Stinger missiles and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.

dir. Stephen Hopkins

A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.

dir. Phil Joanou

Imprint Films 4K announced for April, paired with Dark Blue. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, and Ed Harris in a forgotten New York gangster film that's been waiting for a proper release.

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dir. Raymond Lee Wai-Man, Tony Ching Siu-Tung

A kung-fu manual known as the Sacred Scroll is stolen from the Emperor's library. An army detachment is sent to recover it. Meanwhile, a young swordsman and his fellow disciple are accidentally drawn into the chaos.

dir. John Harrison

A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.

dir. Dennis Hopper

Radiance is giving Dennis Hopper's 1990 neo-noir its first 4K from the original negative, with a UK street of August 17 and a US date of August 18. The Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker score gets uncompressed stereo PCM, and the Limited Edition runs 5000 copies in Scanavo packaging with a removable OBI, a reversible Time Tomorrow sleeve, and a booklet of new essays from Elena Lazic and Leslie Byron Pitt.

Radiance Films · Limited Edition

dir. Peter Medak

Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two become notorious crime lords who rule over the East End club scene. But at the height of their power, the brothers veer into different lives, giving the older crime bosses a chance to reclaim what the Krays took from them.

Second Sight Films · Pre-Order

dir. Jack Nicholson

Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.

dir. David Lynch

A 4K theatrical screening was announced this week and the r/criterion thread lit up. Even people who rank it lower in Lynch's filmography are in, and several are hoping this leads to a Criterion release. The Straight Story is the other Lynch title people want on disc, and Dune remains disowned.