A relaunch of the venerable horror series with Haley taking on the role of serial killer Freddy Krueger. We're certain dumb high schoolers are just waiting to be slaughtered in their dreams.
Newspaper article from: Entertainment Newsweekly; 10/23/2009; 961+ words...Halloween" (11 percent) and the 1984 cult classic "A Nightmare on ElmStreet" (11 percent). Memorable Monsters. You can...percent) or the infamous Freddy Krueger from "A Nightmare on ElmStreet" (22 percent) out of their heads. Not...
Newspaper article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television; 1/1/2009; Leeder, Murray ; 8393+ words...masks, hacking up young virgins!" This is a fair depiction of the state of American horror cinema in 1985. A Nightmare on ElmStreet was a surprise hit the year before, and the existing slasher series Friday the 13th and Halloween continued to...
Newspaper article from: Entertainment Newsweekly; 11/14/2008; 785+ words...likely to give them nightmares. "The Exorcist...frequently named Nightmare-Maker Movie...the undead ("Nightmare on ElmStreet"), curses...represented among the Nightmare-Maker Movies. "Nightmares are a possible...
Newspaper article from: Literature-Film Quarterly; 7/1/2006; Harris, Martin ; 6520+ words...the psycho-killer/slasher genre made popular during the eighties by the Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Nightmare on ElmStreet series. One sees such an emphasis in the film's advertisements. Posters for the film feature a man, ostensibly...
Newspaper article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television; 6/22/2006; Wee, Valerie ; 9529+ words...predecessors; unlike the indestructible Freddy Kruger (A Nightmare on ElmStreet, 1984) and Michael Myers (Halloween, 1978...slashers such as Friday the 13th (1980) and A Nightmare on ElmStreet. According to Trecansky, Sidney Prescott...