An American Werewolf in London and Interview with the Vampire Get 4K UHD Upgrades With Dolby Vision and Atmos

October is apparently the month when your 4K player gets covered in blood.

Two very different horror classics are receiving substantial 4K UHD releases for the Halloween season: John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London and Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire. Both combine practical filmmaking, memorable performances, and enough bodily fluids to make streaming compression seem especially rude.

The similarities mostly end there.

Interview with the Vampire is making its 4K UHD debut with a new remaster, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos. An American Werewolf in London, meanwhile, has already enjoyed a superb Arrow Video 4K release, but Universal is returning to the moors for the film’s 45th anniversary with a new two-disc package, broader mainstream availability, and an Atmos-equipped presentation.

An American Werewolf in London Turns 45

Released in 1981, An American Werewolf in London remains one of those rare horror films that can be genuinely funny without neutering the horror. David Naughton and Griffin Dunne play American backpackers whose trip through northern England goes catastrophically sideways after ignoring some exceedingly obvious local advice.

Jenny Agutter’s Nurse Alex Price gives the film something equally important: an actual human center. She is warm, skeptical, and remarkably patient considering her new Jewish boyfriend is hallucinating dead people and preparing to turn into a wolf. Dating was apparently simpler in 1981.

The centerpiece, of course, remains Rick Baker’s transformation sequence. Baker won the inaugural Academy Award for Best Makeup for his work on the film, and more than four decades later, watching a human body apparently rearrange itself in-camera still has more visceral impact than a warehouse full of pixels.

The 4K presentation uses the film’s original 1.85:1 aspect ratio with Dolby Vision and HDR10. Retail listings for the new Universal edition also specify an English Dolby Atmos soundtrack. Bonus material includes Beware the Moon, I Walked with a Werewolf, making-of material, interviews with Landis and Baker, outtakes, storyboards, Monster by Moonlight, and commentary with Naughton and Dunne.

There is an important caveat for collectors: this is not the film’s first 4K release. Arrow Video released an excellent 4K UHD edition in 2022 from a 4K restoration sourced from the original camera negative, with Dolby Vision, the original mono soundtrack, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, and an even deeper collection of supplements.

So should Arrow owners double-dip? The new Atmos mix, included Blu-ray and digital copy, lower mainstream price, and anniversary packaging provide reasons, but anyone happy with Arrow’s presentation and extensive extras should not feel an urgent need to replace it. Werewolves may regenerate. Your checking account does not.

Interview with the Vampire Finally Gets 4K

Interview with the Vampire has a much easier sales pitch: Warner Bros. has finally brought Neil Jordan’s 1994 adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel to 4K UHD for the first time.

Released in the U.S. on September 22, 2026, the newly remastered edition presents the film in 4K in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio with Dolby Vision and HDR10, along with a new Dolby Atmos soundtrack and an English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 option. That combination should be particularly well suited to Philippe Rousselot’s heavily shadowed cinematography, Dante Ferretti’s production design, and Elliot Goldenthal’s score.

Warner has also added two new featurettes: Eternal Night and Deadly Light, focusing on the film’s cinematography, and Interview with the Vampire: Creating the World, featuring Jordan and Ferretti discussing its elaborate sets, locations, and costumes. Deleted scenes, Jordan’s commentary, an introduction featuring Anne Rice, Jordan, and Antonio Banderas, plus earlier documentaries and featurettes are also included.

And the movie itself remains gloriously excessive. Tom Cruise’s casting as Lestat caused considerable hand-wringing before the film opened, only for Cruise to deliver one of his most entertaining performances. Brad Pitt spends much of the film looking magnificently miserable, while a 12-year-old Kirsten Dunst walks away with entire scenes.

These were vampires before anyone started sparkling.

The Bottom Line

For Interview with the Vampire, the recommendation is straightforward. This is the film’s first 4K UHD release, with a new remaster, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, and worthwhile new supplements. If you own the older Blu-ray and care about picture or sound quality, this is the upgrade you have been waiting for.

An American Werewolf in London requires more thought. New buyers are getting an exceptionally reasonable 45th-anniversary package with Dolby Vision, Atmos, Blu-ray, Digital, and substantial bonus material. Existing Arrow 4K owners already possess an outstanding edition, however, so the new Atmos track and packaging are the primary reasons to howl at the moon one more time.

Streaming is convenient. Physical media is how we make sure a naked American man can keep stealing a young boy’s balloons for another 45 years.

Rick Baker’s exploding rib cage deserves bandwidth.

Where to Buy:

• Interview with the Vampire
  • $29.98 at Amazon (September 22, 2026)
  • $56.99 at Amazon (Steelbook)
• An American Werewolf in London
  • $29.98 at Amazon (October 6, 2026)
  • $29.96 at Amazon (Steelbook, October 20, 2026)

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