For 40 years now, A Nightmare On Elm Street has been the film of horror fans’ dreams. Or, more appropriately, nightmares. First unleashed on the big screen in 1984, Wes Craven’s somnambulist slasher dove deep into the subconscious to deliver stellar scares, bloody kills – and, in Freddy Krueger and Nancy Thompson, one of the all-time-great horror villain and final girl combos. Across those four decades, Nightmare’s impact has never dulled, remaining one of the greatest and most iconic horror films of all time – and now, for the very first time, it’s available in 4K to mark that all-important 40th anniversary. One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…

Across his career, Wes Craven reinvented the slasher subgenre multiple times over – and even now, A Nightmare On Elm Street remains one of his greatest creations. It all hinges on that killer conceit: the murderous, finger-knived Freddy Krueger menaces his teen victims in their dreams,...