A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and a new 4K restoration is in the works under the supervision of director Jack Sholder.
“I just spent last week on the Warners lot working on the restoration of Nightmare on Elm Street 2. The remastered 4K picture off the original 35mm negative looks fantastic, and I was able to make adjustments and corrections only possible thanks to the incredible digital tools now available,” the filmmaker wrote on Facebook.
“The original mono mix from 42 years ago was brought into Dolby Atmos and blew me out of my seat. I heard things in Chris Young’s score I never knew were there and that, combined with some added sound fx work, really lift the film into another dimension. We were careful not to change the look and feel of the film, but even the rather lame scene with the exploding parakeet felt like The Birds.
“The whole experience was like someone restoring an old Renaissance painting and finally seeing the amazing blue that the painter had used, or the cat now seen hiding behind the table, although in this case, those colors and sounds had never fully been seen before but were implicit in the material and now are explicit.”
In addition to Sholder’s participation, the eventual release will also include a new interview with Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund.
“Warners also shot some interviews for the new release and I got to see my old buddy Robert Englund whose performance now jumps off the screen. Keep an eye out for announcements of the release from WB. The new version really needs to be experienced by new fans and re-experienced by old ones.”
Englund stars in the 1985 slasher sequel with Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Clu Gulager, and Hope Lange. It follows a teenage boy haunted by Freddy Krueger, who’s out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
A complete Nightmare on Elm Street 4K Ultra HD box set is rumored for release in the fall from Warner Bros., who brought Wes Craven‘s 1984 original to 4K last year.
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