Addams Family Values Gets First 4K Blu-Ray Release Just in Time for Thanksgiving

There are many, many holiday-themed movies to choose from, but not a ton that are geared specifically toward the American holiday of Thanksgiving. One perennial Thanksgiving favorite, though, is the darkly funny Addams Family Values , the second film adaptation of the old ’60s sitcom The Addams Family and the forefather of Netflix’s Wednesdays . And this fall, Addams Family Values is getting its first 4K Blu-ray release, 31 years after its original 1993 release. You can watch it on Thanksgiving Day, then jump right into the holiday season with How the Grinch Stole Christmas , which is also getting its first 4K Blu-ray release that same day.

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The Addams Family will be available on 4K Blu-ray on October 29. The release will include a code for a digital copy of the film.

In this story, the spooky Addams Family – Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Wednesday, Pugsley, and Granny – welcome a new addition to the family, Gomez and Morticia’s new son, Pubert. They hire a nanny named Debbie to take care of Pubert, but it turns out she’s a serial killer who plans to seduce, marry, and then murder Uncle Fester. Part of her plan involves sending Wednesday and Pugsley to summer camp where they must put on a Thanksgiving play – it’s a play worth remembering and a big part of the reason Addams Family Values is a cult classic to this day.

Another important factor is the way Addams Family Values balances its extremely dark sense of humor with a light tone—a balance that many films have tried to achieve but few have succeeded in achieving. Addams Family Values is a rare example of a film that has succeeded.

The Addams Family franchise has been around for Very long time — the titular family first appeared in a comic strip in The New Yorker in 1938 and was later adapted into a sitcom that aired for two seasons from 1964, followed by an animated series in 1973 and 1992, two live-action films and a television series in the 1990s, a pair of animated films in 2019 and 2021, and a 2022 Netflix series Wednesday that may be the most popular installment of the series

With this 4K release, Addams Family Values finally joins its slightly less dark and cynical predecessor, The Addams Family , which was released in 4K a few years ago in both a standard package and a steelbook edition. What’s more, Wednesday is one of the few Netflix series to receive a Blu-ray release, and it’s currently available for half the price. So if you don’t want to wait for Addams Family Values 4K to drop in October, you have a few other options in the meantime.

Speaking of Netflix shows getting Blu-ray releases, two popular animated series based on video games are also set to arrive in October. Arcane, the beloved animated series set in the League of Legends universe, will be released on 4K Blu-ray with a limited edition steelbook on October 8. That same day, Castlevania: Nocturne will be released on 1080p Blu-ray, with pre-orders discounted on Amazon.