There are many, many holiday-themed movies to choose from, but not many that specifically focus on the American Thanksgiving holiday. The perennial Thanksgiving favorite, though, is the darkly hilarious “Addams Family Values,” the second film based on the old 1960s Addams Family sitcom and the precursor to Netflix’s “Wednesday.” This fall, Addams Family Values will be available on 4K Blu-ray for the first time, 31 years after its original release in 1993. A 4K Blu-ray version was released for the first time on the same day.
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“Addams Family Values” will be released on October 29th on 4K Blu-ray, which will include a digital reproduction code.
In this story, the ghostly Addams Family – Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Wednesday, Pugsley, and Grandma – welcome a new member of the family, Gomez and Morticia’s Newborn Probert. They hired a nanny named Debbie to care for Probert, but it turned out that she was a serial killer who planned to seduce, marry and then murder Uncle Fester. Part of her plan involves sending Wednesday and Pugsley to an overnight camp, where they must put on a Thanksgiving play — one worth remembering and one of the reasons why The Addams Family Values has become a cult to this day. A classic for an important reason.
Another major contributor is the way “Addams Family Values” balances its extremely dark sense of humor with its light-hearted tone – a balance many films attempt, but few truly achieve, “Addams Family Values” is one Rare example.
The Addams Family franchise has been around for a long time Very A Long Time – The eponymous family first appeared in a New Yorker comic strip in 1938 and was later adapted into a situation comedy that ran for two seasons starting in 1964, followed by animated series in 1973 and 1992, and With two live-action movies as well as a 1990s live-action TV series, two animated movies in 2019 and 2021, and a 2022 Wednesday series on Netflix, this will likely be the most popular iteration of the series
With this 4K version, “Addams Family Values” finally joins its predecessor “The Addams Family,” which was released in 4K a few years ago in standard packaging and steel box editions. Best of all, “Wednesday” is one of the few Netflix series to get a Blu-ray version, and it’s currently on sale for half price. So if you don’t want to wait for Addams Family Values 4K to hit theaters in October, you have other options in the meantime.
Speaking of Blu-ray series coming to Netflix, two popular animated shows based on video games are also scheduled to launch in October. Arcane, the beloved animated show set in the League of Legends universe, will be released on 4K Blu-ray on October 8th, with a limited edition steelbook. edition, and get a discount on pre-ordering it on Amazon.
