A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984/2010
March 14th 2010 23:12
This is a commentary of the 1984 movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
The new movie has been remade and is due out at the end of April. (They should have waited until Halloween, THAT would have been cool!) I clearly remember being on the phone with my best friend from school and we were watching T.V. together. All of a sudden, there is this movie preview (old term, now it's trailer!) of this guy with arms that are growing as he is walking and of course it had the all time memorable line "Whatever you do, don't fall asleep!" Being the extremely horror/scary movie fanatics that we were (we loved to go see all of the Friday the 13th movies!) we were like "What the heck was that?" followed by "Aww, man you know we gotta go see that!" All the while I'm wondering, "How the heck do you NOT fall asleep?" Everyone needs to sleep and apparently sleeping puts you right in the killer's lair! Yeah, it's like going to Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, or Jack the Ripper's house and hanging out! As if! (Yep, I was a valley girl and always will be, not "Clueless" either, the REAL valley girl from the Moon Unit Zappa song!) I thought this was a cool original idea/premise to a movie. (My best friend and I attended a performing arts high school like "Fame" and so we considered ourselves critics!) We thought we would check the movie out and give our "opinion." This movie stars John Saxon (who I knew from the Bruce Lee movie "Enter the Dragon" 1973)
and at the time was the film's biggest star. Then there was Amanda Wyss (Tina), Heather Langenkamp (Nancy), Jsu Garcia (Rod Lane, and we thought he was smoking hot!), Robert Englund as Freddy, and in his first feature role, a very young Johnny Depp (Glenn). The movie starts out so spooky that we said, "This is gonna be good!" Almost everyone knows the movie details so I won't go into that aspect but rather points from the movie. Like when Tina was killed, that was one of the bloodiest scenes (at the time) that we had ever witnessed. We were very upset when Rod Lane was killed. (Not cutie pie!) The scene when Nancy is in the bathtub and the hand comes up, is one of the best (and creepiest, also we were thinking all types of naughty things!) One of the all time favorite quotes from the movie (that I still use today in certain situations) is "Now he's after ME, mother!" It was creepy how Nancy's mother had the actual glove, in the basement! We thought "No wonder she is having those nightmares and why the HELL did she save it?!" Johnny Depp (Glenn) was cool as the "voice of reason" throughout the entire movie and was the one who essentially saved Nancy's life although he failed to save his own. It is to Glenn she tells the now famous trailer line of not falling asleep. We loved Nancy's thick hair which was highlighted dramatically in slow-mo, when Nancy was leaving to meet up with Glenn and after she had just received a phone call from Freddy Krueger (which caused her to rip the phone out of the wall), the phone rings again! (We were like "You KNOW who it is! It's not connected to the wall!) So when it rings, she spins around and her hair spins with her...so cool! And of course, who could forget the eerie but equally cool "nursery rhyme" (can you remember the whole thing, WITHOUT cheating?) Well, now there is the new one coming out and normally, I'm not a big fan of remakes, of ANYTHING (movies, songs, you really gotta impress me with a remake). The trailer looks awesome and they didn't stray too far from the original (just threw in some additional ideas with some CGI effects) The movie stars Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger this time. Jackie came to fame in "The Bad News Bears"
(1976 and sequels) movies. It's good that he is making a comeback to movies (he has done less memorable roles) and he chose a great role to do it. He is currently on television's Fox Channel show "Human Target." (He plays a smart, techy guy). FYI: It turns out that Jackie is a good friend of Johnny Depp's and they BOTH auditioned for the original but Wes Craven (the director of the original) chose Depp (an unknown) and not Jackie. Good for you Jackie to audition for this movie... again! (Underdogs NEVER give up!) and how awesome that you got it.... this time!
Watch the trailer to the new one (I like it!)
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Watch the trailer to the new one (I like it!)
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