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K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

• 4K restorations of both the Director’s Cut and Theatrical Cut of the film from the original camera negatives by Arrow Films
• Reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options
• Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by John Torrani
• Double-sided foldout poster featuring two original artwork options

DISC 1 – DIRECTOR’S CUT

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio and lossless stereo audio options
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary with comic book expert and podcast host Dave Baxter
• Audio commentary with Todd McFarlane, Mark A.Z. Dippé, Clint Goldman, and Steve Williams (1998)
• Hell’s Perfect Son, a brand new interview with actor Michael Jai White
• Spawn Support, a brand new interview with actors Melinda Clarke and D.B. Sweeney
• The Devil’s in the Details, a brand new interview with animatronic creature and special makeup effects artists Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero
• The Devil’s Music, a brand new interview with music supervisor Happy Walters
• Order Out of Chaos, a brand new interview with editor Michael Knue
• Todd McFarlane: Chapter & Verse, an archival featurette from 1998 in which Spawn creator Todd McFarlane reflects on how the film adaptation stacks up against his original comic book vision
• The Making of Spawn, archival behind-the-scenes featurette
• Preview: Todd McFarlane’s Spawn – The Animated Movie
• Theatrical trailer
• Scene-to-storyboard comparisons
• Original Todd McFarlane sketches
• Spawn concept and sketch gallery

DISC 2 – THEATRICAL CUT

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio and lossless stereo audio options
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Hated this film when I saw it in the theaters, even as a comic book reader of long standing. But I'm tickled to see Arrow got an interview with Happy Walters, so he can discuss his trilogy of rap-rock-electronica crossovers (Judgment Night, Spawn & Blade II).

Buttery Jeb wrote: Wed Jul 23, 2025 7:48 pmHated this film when I saw it in the theaters, even as a comic book reader of long standing.

Oh it is a laughably bad movie.

Other than the soundtrack album and Leguizamo as Clown, yes, pretty awful movie.

I absolutely despised it as well. One of the worst films I saw in the theater. Honestly, I couldn't stand Leguizamo, either. I remember advertising pushing how much CGI the film had as well, like it was a good thing, and it didn't help the CGI was godawful, even for the time. If I recall, that one demon's mouth didn't even move when it talked. It seems to have its fans, though, which I will never understand.

I assume the interviews with Berger and Nicotero will get into the abandoned Malebolgia animatronic, which I think is the demon you're talking about.

Yes, that's the one. Could recall the name.

cdnchris wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 12:00 am I absolutely despised it as well. One of the worst films I saw in the theater. Honestly, I couldn't stand Leguizamo, either. I remember advertising pushing how much CGI the film had as well, like it was a good thing, and it didn't help the CGI was godawful, even for the time. If I recall, that one demon's mouth didn't even move when it talked. It seems to have its fans, though, which I will never understand.

I was a teenage Todd McFarlane fanboy, and this was even then, absolutely irredeemably horrible.

Absolutely dogshit movie, so many better New Line titles Arrow could be doing instead.

I thought you were all exaggerating as to how bad this was but nope, it truly is that horrendous. Are there really people who are fans of this, and why is Arrow wasting their time releasing this?

There really are people eager to buy an upgrade of it, which is why Arrow are wasting their time on it.

Ebert somehow gave this 3 1/2 stars out of four

domino harvey wrote: Mon Jul 28, 2025 10:48 am Ebert somehow gave this 3 1/2 stars out of four

I remember this being baffling at the time as well. There is a spirited Siskel v Ebert clip on this one, where Ebert compares the film to the work of Hieronymus Bosch, raising Siskel's eyebrows to the rafters. I think it's important to note that this movie was awful in its own timeline. It is not a case of it being dated. It was/is and will always be dreadful in pretty much every facet.

Matt Kowalewski has done a timely "What Happened?" video on Spawn

(I kinda want to see the 2022 CGI Marmaduke movie with J.K. Simmons now, which the director of Spawn co-directed with one of the directors of An American Tale: Fievel Goes West!)

Saw this in theaters…I don’t remember it being the worst film I have ever saw, but I remember enough to know it wasn’t very good apart from Leguizamo‘s Clown.

Gotta say, I always thought Spawn was an intriguing character, but like most Image comics-the writing was awful.

bearcuborg wrote: Sun Oct 19, 2025 9:29 pm Saw this in theaters…I don’t remember it being the worst film I have ever saw, but I remember enough to know it wasn’t very good apart from Leguizamo‘s Clown.

Gotta say, I always thought Spawn was an intriguing character, but like most Image comics-the writing was awful.

Image has certainly improved in that regard. The only one of their titles from the initial 2-3 years that I really hold in high esteem is The Maxx, and William Messner-Loeb did an exemplary job of making Sam Kieth’s messy ideas compelling and imbuing them with great dialogue. Then he was gone for the final stretch of issues, and it became borderline incomprehensible

The only actors who seem to realize what a POS movie they're in are Martin Sheen and John Leguizamo, who are both hamming up their parts.