Skip to main content

A Nightmare on Elm St. (1984) - Wes Craven


Well this is it Horror fans, the grand-daddy of them all... Well not really but its up there, this movie is one of the reasons I am watching Horror movies today. Freddy Kruger is one of the scariest and well known horror icons, and for some reason I am proud I was born a year before he began invading kids dreams all around Elm St.

 I wanted to watch Nightmare on Elm Street before the remake came out. This is one of those movies that I believe doesn't need to be remade but hey... what can I do? Robert Englund is Freddy Kruger. Notice that I didn't say Robert Englund plays Freddy... He IS Freddy! Everyone that I know somehow snuck somewhere to see Freddy in some form. I know that last sentence is really convoluted.

 Now there are a couple of different ways that we know Freddy, we know him as the homicidal child killer and we know him as the hilarious one-line spouting freak fest. In this movie we are introduced to him as Freddy the Homicidal Maniac who invades teenagers dreams as a form of revenge to the parents that killed him for being a child murder. If you didn't know that I don't understand why your watching Horror movies. This is like the standard in horror.

 Alot of career's really took off after this movie, Johnny Depp of course took off working with Tim Burton and now as Capt. Jack Sparrow. We have the Director, Wes Craven, who went on from this to make a ton of crappy horror movies and some good ones like Scream 1. This movie would have to be one of the greatest slashers of all times.

 There are incredible amounts of blood in this movie, accompanied by incredible amounts of Gore. I really am a huge fan, if you haven't noticed, of blood and gore. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who is going to see the remake. This is a must on all accounts. I am going to go ahead and give Nightmare on Elm St. or as I called it when I was little "The First Freddy" a 9.5 of 10. You will not be disappointed.

 No running in the Hallway!
  • Disney was the first studio to want to work with Wes Craven on this asking him to tone down the content so that Kids and Pre-Teens could watch it. Wes obviously passed.
  • Sam Raimi's Evil Dead is show multiple times throughout the movie. There is a poster and the movie is seen on a television in a scene
  • 500 Gallons of Fake blood is used in the movie!
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ju-On (2000) - Takashi Shimizu

Watching Japanese horror is similar to watching British comedy. If you enjoy dry whit then you probably enjoy the boys of Monty Python in drag. That's the joke, they're dressed like women. Get it? Well, that's British humor. But if you're like most Americans you probably prefer Adam Sandler farting his way across a football field and hooking up with chicks that are way out of his league. Americans usually prefer this more in your face, crass brand of humor. My point is funny in England is different from funny in the US. The same goes for J-Horror. What the Japanese consider scary is very different from what Americans consider scary and it shows in this horror film. Japanese horror is generally slow (a little too slow sometimes), suspenseful and creepy. Ju-On is a creepy effing film. The movie has almost no soundtrack. It is incredibly suspenseful and the pay-offs are pretty awesome, but I think that it was done better in the American version (cultural t
Post a Comment
Not scared yet? »

Spookies (1986) - Genie Joseph, Thomas Doran, and Brendan Faulkner

It's impossible to get a decent movie when you take two films and just squash them together. That is essentially the story of how this movie came together. The film started as Twisted Souls. However, according to the financial backer they didn't have enough horror. So they ended up hiring another guy to come in and add a monster in virtually every scene.  This movie started out being directed by Brendan Faulkner and Thomas Doran. It basically is the tale of two sets of teenagers that arrive to a strange building surrounded by a strange cemetery. It was your usual tale of teenagers in a big hows with a few monsters. Then they brought in Genie Joseph and added even more. Like a haunted birthday party, a murderous cat-man, zombies, and an old wizard. It really became a smorgasbord of horror with a very thin plot-line leading it around. This movie is hard to summarize in a conventional way. It just packs so much.  The most interesting part of this movie are defini
2 comments
Not scared yet? »

Le Diable au Convent (1899) - George Melies

Le Diable au Convent is longer than the two previous Georges Méliès ventures into short form horror. This particular French short shows the Devil himself running a convent and terrorizing the poor old nuns that live there. However he is finally vanquished by the good of Faith. This is yet another Méliès classic, showcasing the art work that really goes into his short film-making. This is one of the earliest examples of a horror movie that could rely on its elaborate set design and artistic design. Everything in this film, although horribly aged, has been packaged extremely well. If you are a fan of production and set design then I would highly recommend just about anything that Melies has his name on. Though nothing that is considered too extreme actually happens, Satan does have his way with a convent. The satanic imagery itself must have kept this film on the traveling carnival circuit. It certainly wouldn’t fit into the good moral bag that society shoved itself into back in
1 comment
Not scared yet? »