A Nightmare On Elm Street...

[a nirvana fan]

I really love Nightmare On Elm Street films, and I was just wondering what your opinions, fav characters, fav ways of killing etc etc are?

[Dreddz]

Ive got the entire Box set of all the movies. I love em, well I used to.
Favourite death was when he hang a man by, what seemed his arterys or veins. Quite nasty.
I also enjoyed Freddy Vs Jason, I was thinking it was going to be terrible, I was very wrong....

[a nirvana fan]

Yeah Freddy VS Jason is really good, I really enjoyed watching it, I got the box set for christmas as I watched them all about 6 times each at my friends..LOL so I decided to buy the box set(1 - 7) Wes Cravens New Nightmare isn't that good. Oh and I know the veins hanging is pretty nasty.

[Jessweeee♪]

One, Two, Freddy's comin' for you...
Three, Four, better shut the door...
Five, Six, get your crucifix...
Seven, Eight, better stay up late...
Nine, Ten, never sleep again...

I LOVE the Elm street movies!!! I used to live near Elm Street. Like Freddie says, "Every town has an Elm Street!"

I haven't watched them lately though. It's no fun watching horror movies by yourself.

[MecaKane]

I only saw West Craven's New Nightmare. And I was like 9 years old so it scared the <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"> out of me.

[Pure Strife]

They're fun

I'd agree the flesh puppet thing was disgusting, but brilliant.

[Rengori]

I only saw West Craven's New Nightmare. And I was like 9 years old so it scared the <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"> out of me.

I aw during the summer and it scared the <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"> outta me.

[Zeromus_X]

one of my friends lives at an elm street. no kidding.

[Madame Adequate]

Ffffffffffffft to Elm Street.

Hellraiser is where it is at.

[a nirvana fan]

Keep your thoughts and opinions coming, and Hellraiser is good yeah but NO WHERE as near as good as Nightmare On Elm Street, and yeah there are a lot of elm street's in the world

SOME FREDDY FACTS
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1. Wes Craven named Freddy after a school bull
y
2. On Nightmare 1, when Nancy get's her feet stuck on the stairs in that weird "stuff", it's made from pancake mix and some other materials

3. Wes Craven never seen a film until Collage

4. On Nightmare 1, when Freddy hides behind the tree, all they used to
do that is use a mirror

Well if anyone else knows any, please post them.

[The Shoeless Hobo]

Trivia:

* Director Wes Craven claims to have named Freddy Krueger after a kid who bullied him in school and to have based his appearance on a disfigured hobo who scared him as a youth.

* When Freddy Krueger is chasing Nancy and she runs up the stairs only to find that its all gross "muck", what she steps in is pancake mix.

* The movie that Nancy watches to stay awake is The Evil Dead.

* There is a ripped poster of The Evil Dead.

* Wes Craven's original concept for Freddy Krueger was considerably more gruesome, with teeth showing through the flesh over the jaw, puss running from the sores, and a part of the skull showing through the head. Make-up artist David B. Miller argued that an actor couldn't be convincingly made up that way and a puppet would be hard to film and wouldn't blend well with live actors, so these ideas were eventually abandoned.

* The poster above Johnny Depp's bed in the scene where he is killed is the Grace Under Pressure album cover by Canadian rock trio Rush.

* Johnny Depp accompanied friend Jackie Earle Haley to the auditions, where he was spotted by director Wes Craven, who asked him if he'd like to read for the part.

* In the end scene, the top to the convertible came down faster and harder than expected. The expression from the actors is real.

* Nancy's bathtub was constructed over a tank built into the floor of the set with a cutout bathtub sealed down to it. Actress Heather Langenkamp spent 12 hours in it during filming, accompanied at least some of the time by special effects man Jim Doyle who was wearing the Freddy glove.

* Wes Craven wrote the script and presented it in 1981, but no one wanted it. He said that "It just flew around" until New Line Cinema picked it up.

* This was the first real movie by New Line Cinema. Before that, they were just a distribution company for college campuses.

* This movie was almost never made. About halfway through filming, New Line lost its deal with the distribution company. As a direct result, they couldn't pay the cast or crew for two whole weeks until they found another distribution company. They didn't lose one crew member.

* Freddy Kruger was designed by Wes Craven to be the typical "silent" serial killer such as Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. But in the sequels Freddy developed a cheeky persona that enabled him to be the black humored villain

* New Line Cinema was saved from bankruptcy by the success of the film, and was jokingly nicknamed "the house that Freddy built".

* In her room after almost getting killed in the tub, Nancy looks at herself in a mirror and says, "Oh God, I look 20 years old." Heather Langenkamp was 20 years old at the time of the movie.

* Over 500 gallons of fake blood were used during the making of the film.

* The only times you see the words "Elm Street" are during the opening and closing credits. The word "Elm Street" is not mentioned at all during the movie.

* Craven choose the colors red and green for Freddy's sweater because he read that those two colors are the hardest for the eye to process together

* Johnny Depp's first film

* In a deleted scene featured on the Laser Disc and VHS from Anchor Bay we learn that Nancy and many of her friends from the neighborhood weren't always only children, but had a brother or sister before they were killed by Freddy (during the scene in the basement just before Nancy's mother reveals she has Freddy's glove.)

[Psychotic]

What I love about that is the cheesy 80's music that plays whenever Freddy attacks. Well, maybe not every time, but it certainly happened a couple of times in the original.

[Sephex]

I swear, I was the only kid that wasn't scared of movies like this when I was a kid.

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

I love the original and New Nightmare was quite gnarly. The rest...not so much...

[a nirvana fan]

Trivia:

* Director Wes Craven claims to have named Freddy Krueger after a kid who bullied him in school and to have based his appearance on a disfigured hobo who scared him as a youth.

* When Freddy Krueger is chasing Nancy and she runs up the stairs only to find that its all gross "muck", what she steps in is pancake mix.

* The movie that Nancy watches to stay awake is The Evil Dead.

* There is a ripped poster of The Evil Dead.

* Wes Craven's original concept for Freddy Krueger was considerably more gruesome, with teeth showing through the flesh over the jaw, puss running from the sores, and a part of the skull showing through the head. Make-up artist David B. Miller argued that an actor couldn't be convincingly made up that way and a puppet would be hard to film and wouldn't blend well with live actors, so these ideas were eventually abandoned.

* The poster above Johnny Depp's bed in the scene where he is killed is the Grace Under Pressure album cover by Canadian rock trio Rush.

* Johnny Depp accompanied friend Jackie Earle Haley to the auditions, where he was spotted by director Wes Craven, who asked him if he'd like to read for the part.

* In the end scene, the top to the convertible came down faster and harder than expected. The expression from the actors is real.

* Nancy's bathtub was constructed over a tank built into the floor of the set with a cutout bathtub sealed down to it. Actress Heather Langenkamp spent 12 hours in it during filming, accompanied at least some of the time by special effects man Jim Doyle who was wearing the Freddy glove.

* Wes Craven wrote the script and presented it in 1981, but no one wanted it. He said that "It just flew around" until New Line Cinema picked it up.

* This was the first real movie by New Line Cinema. Before that, they were just a distribution company for college campuses.

* This movie was almost never made. About halfway through filming, New Line lost its deal with the distribution company. As a direct result, they couldn't pay the cast or crew for two whole weeks until they found another distribution company. They didn't lose one crew member.

* Freddy Kruger was designed by Wes Craven to be the typical "silent" serial killer such as Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. But in the sequels Freddy developed a cheeky persona that enabled him to be the black humored villain

* New Line Cinema was saved from bankruptcy by the success of the film, and was jokingly nicknamed "the house that Freddy built".

* In her room after almost getting killed in the tub, Nancy looks at herself in a mirror and says, "Oh God, I look 20 years old." Heather Langenkamp was 20 years old at the time of the movie.

* Over 500 gallons of fake blood were used during the making of the film.

* The only times you see the words "Elm Street" are during the opening and closing credits. The word "Elm Street" is not mentioned at all during the movie.

* Craven choose the colors red and green for Freddy's sweater because he read that those two colors are the hardest for the eye to process together

* Johnny Depp's first film

* In a deleted scene featured on the Laser Disc and VHS from Anchor Bay we learn that Nancy and many of her friends from the neighborhood weren't always only children, but had a brother or sister before they were killed by Freddy (during the scene in the basement just before Nancy's mother reveals she has Freddy's glove.)

Cool, although I've already said some of them and Freddy's shirt was originally from a hobo.