Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!! This week on Classics Corner we will feature “Scream” which was released in 1996. It was written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven. It stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Jamie Kennedy, Rose McGowen and Skeet Ulrich.
According to imdb, Casey (Drew Barrymore’s character) claims that all of the sequels to A Nightmare on Elm Street “sucked”. Wes Craven sold the rights to sequels before the film was released and became a success and disliked many of the sequels.
This week on Classics Corner, we feature “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” As you all know, this movie starts Robert England as Freddy Krueger. We also get introduced to this young guy, Johnny Depp that goes on to be in a few other films. I still remember being a kid and hearing all the other kids talking about how scary it was. It’s funny how scary it can be to hear others tell you what happened in films. Many times what they think they saw or what happened in their minds are more horrifying than what really happened.
The film also stars John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Marge Thompson, Heather Langenkamp, Nancy Thompson, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Charles Fleischer, Joseph Whipp, Lin Shaye and Joe Unger.
So…how did Nightmare on Elm Street effect you? Do you still remember the first time you saw it? Please leave comments below! Thanks!
During Fear Fest 2, Saint Productions was hired in to film exclusive interviews with all of the celebrities on hand. In this segment, Robert Englund discusses his memories from the set of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Eaten Alive, “Freddy’s Favorites,” …
Wes Craven and Bob Shaye (Founder, New Line Cinema) discuss the origin of A Nightmare on Elm Street on STARZ’s “Going to Pieces” horror special. ————– A Nightmare on Elm Street Directed by: Wes Craven Starring: Robert Englund, Johnny Depp an…
For horror and B-film aficionados, A Nightmare on Elm Street remains a cultural cornerstone, and ranks as an influential and much-imitated film of this genre alongside the likes of Evil Dead and Night of the Living Dead. …
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). “Come to Freddy!” During the mid 1980s the slasher film genre was in dire need of help. The once great genre had consumed itself with sub par sequels and extremely low budget cheesy movies that had no …
As I have said before in the Geek review for Friday the 13th (link) the world has become a lot more desensitized as years have passed. What would have.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) (Hall Monitor (Possessed by Freddy Krueger)): “Nancy! No running in the hallways…” A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) (Marge): “Nancy, you are going to get some sleep tonight if …
On this week’s Classics Corner, we’re going to feature Wes Craven’s “Last House on the Left.” This film was released in 1972 and stars Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Marc Sheffler, Richard Towers and Cynthia Carr. The official synopsis is “A pair of teenage girls are headed to a rock concert for one’s birthday. While trying to score marijuana in the city, the girls are kidnapped by a gang of psychotic convicts.” See kids…that’s what happens when you try to get drugs!
Trailer for the 1972 film “The Last House On The Left”. A pair of teenage girls are headed to a rock concert for one’s birthday. While trying to score marijuana in the city, the girls are kidnapped by a gang of psychotic convicts.
Last House on the Left 1972 · Buy This Movie. Movie Summary. On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Mari Collingwood tells her parents that she is going to the concert of underground band Bloodlust, in New York with her friend, …
Streebo made the trip out for the midnight opening of the remake of Wes Craven’s classic slasher film A Nightmare On Elm Street. Watch the video to hear his thoughts on the story, the kill scenes and Jackie Earle Haley’s performance as Freddy Krueger. For more up to the minute reviews of modern horror – keep checking Mutantville.com!
From Fangoria.com: DVD content information as well as cover art for the supersized NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET documentary NEVER SLEEP AGAIN: THE ELM STREET LEGACY have been revealed, and you can see them after the jump. The two-disc set will street May 4, just in time to tie in with the NIGHTMARE remake.
CAV Distributing sent along the info on the double-DVD package, which will contain the four-hour NEVER SLEEP AGAIN and another four hours of bonus material. The documentary, directed by Daniel Farrands and Andrew Kasch, written by Thommy Huston and hosted by franchise star Heather Langenkamp (pictured above with Wes Craven), will explore all eight movies from Craven’s original NIGHTMARE through FREDDY VS. JASON, featuring new interviews with cast and filmmakers and never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes, FX tests, photos, production and promotional art, publicity material, etc.
From FEARNet: WB provides us with a look at a new A Nightmare on Elm Street banner today. The Platinum Dunes reboot of the Wes Craven classic hits theaters April 30th 2010.
From Fear.net: Making a horror movie can be a surreal experience. You spend long hours performing terrifying atrocities in front of the camera. Then the director yells “Cut!” and suddenly you’re headed over to the snack table to have a cup of coffee with the person you just disemboweled.
But sometimes, the line between making a realistic horror film and finding yourself knee-deep inside one gets a little too blurry and bloody for comfort. Here are ten of our favorite examples:
PEEPING TOM (1960). Here’s the good news: you get to star in your own movie. Here’s the bad news: the director likes to film his stars as he kills them, so he can capture their true expressions of fear. Talk about method acting. But hey, a gig’s a gig
DEMONS (1985). This Lamberto Bava/Dario Argento production is an example of how even watching a horror movie can get you in trouble. A late night crowd enters a cavernous Berlin movie theater to enjoy a special midnight screening of a new horror film. However, thanks to the presence of a cursed mask from the set of the movie, the monsters of the film come alive inside the theater itself, where they bypass the popcorn and start gnawing their way through the audience.
WES CRAVEN’S NEW NIGHTMARE (1994). ”One, two, Freddy’s really coming for you!” While filming the next installment of the lucrative “Nightmare on Elm Street” franchise, the actual actors and crew members (Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, John Saxon, director Wes Craven, etc. all playing themselves) discover they’re being stalked and killed by what appears to be a real life Freddy Krueger in Craven’s mind-bending twist on the creative process.
Sequels get a bad rap, and rightfully so – most of the time. The horror genre is especially rife with sequels, with many franchises so heavily spun-off that they have stopped being numbered. Not all sequels suck, and to prove it we found ten that are at least as good as the original – if not better.
Dawn of the Dead
The second of George Romero’s original zombie trilogy, Dawn of the Dead is inarguably the best of the three. A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall, but eventually decide to make a break for it. While not a sequel in the strictest sense, it is a damn fine movie.
Hostel II
A surprisingly good follow-up to the unimaginative original (which, in turn, was a rip-off of Saw), Hostel II focuses less on the slaughter of nubile coeds, and more on the men who buy the opportunity to do the slaughtering. While no less violent or gruesome, it offers a different perspective than most slasher flix.
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
The seventh installment in the Nightmare on Elm Street series is a case study in twisted post-modernism. Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, and Wes Craven play themselves in the real world. Heather gets threats that echo Freddy Krueger’s M.O., and she needs to reprise her role as Nancy to defeat Freddy. Again. One of the most imaginative horror movies, sequel or otherwise.
I still remember being a kid and hearing all the other kids talking about how scary it was. It’s funny how scary it can be to hear others tell you what happened in films. Many times what they think they saw or what happened in their minds are more horrifying than what really happened. 
