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WILL Nightmare On Elm Street
WILL Nightmare On Elm Street
WILL Nightmare On Elm Street
By Will Lennard
Box Office
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Budget: 1.8 Million, Box Office: 26.3 Million, Director: Wes Craven, IMDB Rating: 7.4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) Budget: 3 Million, Box Office 30 Million, Director: Jack Sholder, IMDB Rating: 4.9 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) Budget: 4.5 Million, Box Office 44.7 Million, Director: Chuck Russel, IMDB Rating: 6.3 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) Budget 13 Million, Box Office 49 Million, Director: Renny Harlin, IMDB Rating: 5.3 A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) Budget 8 Million, Box Office 22 Million, Director: Stephen Hopkins, IMDB Rating: 4.7
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) Budget 11 Million, Box Office 34.8 Million, Director: Rachel Talalay, IMDB Rating: 4.6
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) Budget 8 Million, Box Office 18 Million, Director: Wes Craven, IMDB Rating: 6.3 Freddy vs. Jason (2003) Budget 30 Million, Box Office 115 Million, Director: Ronny Yu, IMDB Rating: 5.7 A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) 35 Million, Box Office 115.6 Million: Samuel Bayer, IMDB Rating: 5.1.
Reviews
Variety: A highly imaginative horror film that provides the requisite shocks to keep fans of the genre happy. Empire: What makes Freddy truly terrifying, and an inspired invention on Craven's part, is that he exists not in the real world but in the shadowy realm of dreams. Film4: It succeeds by preying on archetypal fears and imagery - the myth of the bogeyman, the power of the unconscious conjuring up the worst horrors imaginable. Horror.com: Seeing the movie again, I was reminded that while the Krueger character did have some taunting, humorous dialogue, it was more eerie than funny. Krueger was truly a menacing, terrifying bogeyman in the beginning. Cinema Crazed: An imaginative, menacing, and scary film with top notch performances, an original premise, and horrifying villain.
There's a dream flashback sequence showing the burning of Freddy which originally was never shown until the sixth instalment
A Nightmare on Elm streets main effect on the slasher genre is the use of supernatural killer and increasingly graphic and realistic special effects and certain comedic elements. Another film that includes these elements is the Childs Play franchise. The slasher genre reached its peak around the time when the first Nightmare on Elm street came out.