Smile on disc will make horror fans merry and Pulp Fiction gets a 4K debut: December’s best Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases

While streaming services continue to remove titles from their libraries and generally devalue legacy content (read: any movie released before 2000), physical media increasingly becomes a reliable source for people to watch what they want, when they want. As collectors ourselves, The A.V. Club is committed to providing a monthly look at the best new home video releases—from the biggest blockbusters to must-see obscurities—as companies from Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures to Vinegar Syndrome and Criterion Collection keep cinephiles’ shelves full of DVD, Blu-ray, and UHD discs.

What’s spinning in December, you ask? Highlights include the 4K UHD debuts of the original Black Christmas and Pulp Fiction, a Better Call Saul box set, another Shawscope box set, plus the horror hit Smile and Jamie Lee Curtis’ final turn as survivor Laurie Strode in Halloween Ends.

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Available December 6December is looking a whole lot cooler with the debut of Quentin Tarantino’s , starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson as professional hit men, as well as Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel. The new 4K restoration of the seminal crime film features Dolby Vision HDR and all of the bonus features from the previous Blu-ray release. Tarantino diehards will want the limited edition SteelBook version under their Christmas tree.