The 5 Movies That Absolutely Need A Blu-Ray/4K Release [Fright-A-Thon]

One of the most magical things that can happen to a film lover is buying a Blu-ray or seeing a random movie and watching it based on the cover alone. Something that’s equally as magical, is finding out that one of your favorite movies has a sequel, with the original cast mostly intact. Finally, there’s the case of a cult-classic movie that you watch on YouTube with horrific quality, but it still ends up kicking ass because the movie is that good. These are all cases when it comes to the movies on our list today for Fright-A-Thon. Today, we have five horror movies that desperately need either their first Blu-ray/4K release or an upgrade from a previously horrific studio release.

So if you’re listening Scream Factory, Synapse Films, Vinegar Syndrome, Arrow Video, Blue Underground, Criterion Collection, Imprint FIlms, or any other boutique Blu-ray label, we need these movies out with the best possible quality.

5. Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II

That cover art is offensive. Please, someone, give this movie the release that it deserves. You can watch it on Shudder right now, it’s bounced around to various streaming services, but a home video release with plenty of extras would do the trick.

2. The Keep

This one is tangled up in some of the worst rights issues I’ve ever seen. Friday the 13th has NOTHING on Fright Night Part 2. Guess who the producers were for this film? It was Live Entertainment, whose chairman was Jose Menendez. Sadly, Menendez and his wife were murdered by their sons before this movie was released. The controversy surrounding their murder was felt by Fright Night Part 2, it lost countrywide distribution and led to poor box office results.

I wrote about this movie in the first-ever Fright-A-Thon article back in 2020. The first time I watched it was a surprisingly good HD version on YouTube, and there is a bootleg Blu-ray out there, and a DVD, but we really need an official release. With the surrounding issues with this one, that bootleg might be the best way to get this one on a physical disc.

It’s a shame because while the sequel doesn’t equal the first Fright Night, Fright Night Part 2 is excellent.

That’ll do it for the Top 5 Movies That Need A Blu-Ray/4K Release for Fright-A-Thon, did your choices make the list?

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