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The Horrors of Netflix This December Has the Best Present of All!
Get your calendars out because we’ve got the locked down dates of new genre titles streaming on Netflix this coming December.
After just revealing plans for the next Riddick sequel and television series, the 2004 animated feature The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury will be available on December 1st, as will Sam Raimi’s superhero horror Darkman. You’ll also want to paint it black after revisiting David Koepp’s criminally underrated 1999 Stir of Echoes, starring Kevin Bacon, which also arrives Dec. 1, along with its sequel Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming.
In addition, the only other movie is the awful Vampire Academy that will hit on December 7th.
Being that it’s the winter holidays, it’s no surprise that Netflix is lacking in new horror, but there is one gem set to drop right on Christmas. Shit, it’s the best present you’re going to get all year.
Netflix has set December 25th as the U.S. debut of the “Black Mirror” holiday special, ‘White Christmas,’ which stars Jon Hamm in a must-see mind-fuck from the best sci-fi anthology series this decade.
In the episode, “Joe Potter (Rafe Spall) and Matt Trent (Jon Hamm) work at a small, remote outpost in the middle of a snowy wilderness. Joe wakes up on Christmas Day and finds Matt preparing Christmas dinner, with “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday” playing on the radio. Matt tries to get Joe to talk about why he accepted the job at the outpost, a topic they have never discussed in the five years they have worked together. Joe is reluctant to say anything, and instead asks why Matt took the job. Happy for the conversation, Matt begins his own story.”
This is the perfect way to set up the new series coming via online streaming company next year. Open this present first so you can watch with the entire family.
Several of our favorite horror franchises have gotten upgraded 4K collections, but one franchise that you can still only own on Blu-ray is A Nightmare on Elm Street. The bad news? A full franchise collection hasn’t yet been announced. Good news? The original is coming to 4K!
Wes Craven’s original horror classic is getting a 40th anniversary 4K Ultra HD SteelBook from Warner Bros. on December 31, 2024, with pre-orders now available on Amazon.
It’s a UK release, but the 4K disc will be REGION FREE. The Limited Edition offering will reportedly come packaged with a Double-Sided Poster, Art Cards, and a Booklet.
The official listing previews, “Celebrate 40 years of Wes Craven’s nightmarish masterpiece A Nightmare on Elm Street with a brand new 4K restoration and Ultimate Collector’s Edition featuring a Steelbook with new key art, theatrical poster and other premiums.”
Bonus Features on the Blu-ray disc include…
- READY FREDDY FOCUS POINTS – See Alternate Takes and Learn Filmmaking Secrets Behind the Nightmare by Jumping to Video Highlights While Watching the Movie
- 2 Commentaries: 1) Director Wes Craven, Costars Heather Langenkamp and John Saxon, and Cinematographer Jacques Haitkin 2) Wes Craven, Costars Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp and Ronee Blakley, Producer Robert Shaye and Co-Producer Sara Risher
- Alternate Endings
- 3 Featurettes: The House That Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror, Never Sleep Again: The Making of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven’s Nightmares
- Interactive Trivia Track
In the 1984 horror classic, “Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) is having grisly nightmares. Meanwhile, her high-school friends, who are having the very same dreams, are being slaughtered in their sleep by the hideous fiend of their shared nightmares. When the police ignore her explanation, she herself must confront the killer in his shadowy realm.”
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