Horror fans enjoy hearing the creak of a gothic castle door, the scratch of a Ouiji board, or the ratcheting of one of Jigsaw’s traps any time of year. The visceral, adrenaline-pumping thrill of a good horror film is always better on physical media, and anyone hoping to buy something for the horror fan in their life is in luck. Just as horror likes to build a franchise, it loves a good box set.
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Horror covers a wide selection of sub-genres, from gothic adaptations to classic slashers and psychological, elevated horror. The genre is almost as old as cinema, with horror shorts of the 1890s helping showcase just what the new-fangled medium of film could do. Jump forward more than a century, and cinematic horror is in scarily good health. As the genre continues to do well in movie theaters, classic and modern horror sagas are available in collected sets at great prices.
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Saw: 7-Film Collection
A collection that lets fans catch the original sequence of twists and turns that introduced the avenging serial killer Jigsaw. The first seven movies form a self-contained and increasingly complicated timeline recently returned to in Saw X. This set includes the unrated cut of all seven films.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection
$26 $32 Save $6The first seven nightmares are diverse, from the original supernatural slasher classic to the post-modern New Nightmare, where director Wes Craven introduced the meta-elements he would fine-tune in Scream. Freddy Krueger is a giant of slasher horror, and every horror movie fan should make space for his knifed glove on their shelf and in their dreams.
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Hammer Horror 8-Film Collection
This is a fantastic dip into the legendary British horror production house’s catalog, featuring psychological horrors, vampires, and some of its greatest icons. Highlights include Hammer's first werewolf movie, The Curse of the Werewolf, and The Evil of Frankenstein, where Peter Cushing’s chilling Baron Frankenstein discovers one of his creations wasn’t as lost as he thought.
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The Purge
This collection drags viewers into the savage future of The Purge, the dystopian event where home invasions and riots wrack America. The five movies come with bonus content, including deleted scenes and documentaries that chart the movies' production and society's collapse on screen.
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Psycho: Complete 4-Movie Collection
$20 $45 Save $25This set collects the complete saga of Anthony Perkin’s Norman Bates, who first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s innovative and stylish proto-slasher Psycho (included here). Bates stands out as a distinctive horror icon, and horror fans may be most familiar with him as a younger character in the prequel series Bates Motel. This collection gives fans a great chance to return to the cinematic beginning, with some phenomenal special features enhancing the first movie.
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Chucky 7-Movie Collection
$30 $60 Save $30It’s been a while since Chucky’s name overtook the franchise that started as Child’s Play. The doll with the soul of a serial killer has kept the quality higher than other horror franchises over seven films, even as the tone has twisted into dark and subversive comedy. Fans catching up with Chucky’s adventures on TV series will enjoy this HD set, which includes special features, deleted scenes, and gag reels.
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Friday the 13th The Complete Collection
$143 $160 Save $17A gorgeous box set continuing all 10 of the original movies that made a star of the machete-wielding serial killer Jason Vorhees. The hockey mask-wearing icon has undergone quite a journey. It took him a few films to find his mask before trips to Hell, space, and Manhattan. This collection is a stunning tribute to 80s slashers.
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Godzilla, the Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975
$141 $225 Save $84The giant of Japanese horror has roared many times since first appearing in the mid-1950s. This stunning box set includes new high-definition transfers of 15 films. Included are the 1954 Japanese original and the introduction of Mothra, Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla, and the 1963 smackdown between Godzilla and King Kong. Perfect for fans to dig into the original horror that inspired Legendary’s modern MonsterVerse.
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The Conjuring Universe 7-Film Collection
$23 $30 Save $7The Conjuring Universe is still growing, and this seven-film collection (covering films from just 2013) shows why. Saw-veteran James Wan unleashed a new franchise full of potential when he brought the fictionalized paranormal investigations of Ed and Lorraine Warren to the screen. The Nun and possessed doll Annabelle soon followed.
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Universal Classic Monsters: Icons of Horror Collection
Universal’s legendary horror icons shuffled onto 4K to mark the horror imprint’s 90th anniversary. These core black-and-white classics hold up incredibly almost a century on, including the legendary introductions of Boris Karloff’s reanimated creature in Frankenstein and Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula. Fans won’t miss why these stunning films remain influential.
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Final Destination: 5-Film Collection
The sharp 21st-century horror franchise with the killer concept is collected in this complete collection. Spinning from an idea originally pitched to the X-Files, each film gathers together a group of people who have to avoid the ultimate horror movie foe: death itself. The ingenuity and creeping dread hasn’t lost its grip on the viewer.
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Halloween: Movie Trilogy
David Gordon Green’s recent Halloween trilogy divided fans but achieved what it intended: to reinvent the franchise before bringing it to a definitive end. It was an impressive achievement considering how many Halloween films had cluttered the saga since John Carpenter’s classic original in 1978. Michael Myers and the most famous Final Girl in horror, Laurie Strode, demand a place in any horror fan’s collection.
Horror collections look good on the screen and great on a shelf. Some of these collections are must-haves for horror fans. However, there’s a lot to be said for having Frankenstein, Dracula, Voorhees, and Krueger side-by-side in physical media, safely removed from the horror that they could disappear from streaming. Now is a great chance to pick up a great deal on horror movie gifts.
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FAQs
Is Ultra High-Definition Much Better Quality Than High Definition?
UHD, or 4K, is approximately four times the resolution of HD that fans will find on Blu-ray disks (1920x1080p). However, scans and releases can vary in quality, and buyers should check the specifications to know what to expect.
Why Are Horror Movies So Popular?
There are plenty of reasons why horror movies have been scaring audiences for well over a century, including the adrenaline rush of the shared experience in a movie theater. Undoubtedly, their popularity has risen in recent years, where the horror on screen has helped a growing audience evaluate real-life events.
They’re also popular with studios, given their typically low budgets. Legendarily huge profits have been set by films like The Exorcist and The Blair Witch Project, and recent films like Talk to Me have continued the box office success. Fans can expect the horror boom and box sets to grow.