#ANightmareonElmStreetMovies – Angelika's World

One of the best parts about Growing up in the 80’s was the Horror Movies. The 1980s saw a surge of horror movies, thanks to the success of campy mid-to-late ‘70s fright fests like Halloween and Carrie. The best ‘80s horror villains are the ones who leave a lasting impression, whether through their look, their dialogue, or their macabre backstory. To me, the number 1 Villain of the 80’s was none other than Freddy Kreuger.

Before we can enter Elm Street there are a few things we must know. First, we need to know whom we will be meeting (Characters). Then we need to know what to be expecting (Don’t fall asleep or you will die). And Finally, we need to prepare ourselves for the Dream tormenting we will soon encounter (Pop those Caffeine pills and study up on the writings of the Dream warriors).

Main Characters of the Original

Since all the movie’s have so many Characters, we will focus on the Main Characters that made this movie a booming Franchise. A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, and Johnny Depp in his film debut.

The cast of A Nightmare on Elm Street included a crew of veteran actors such as Robert Englund and John Saxon and several aspiring young actors like Johnny Depp and Heather Langenkamp.

Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson
John Saxon as Lt. Donald “Don” Thompson
Robert Englund as Fred “Freddy” Krueger^{[N 2]}
Johnny Depp as Glen Lantz
Ronee Blakley as Marge Thompson
Amanda Wyss as Christina “Tina” Gray
Nick Corri as Rod Lane
Leslie Hoffman as Hall Guard
Joseph Whipp as Sgt. Parker
Charles Fleischer as Dr. King
Lin Shaye as Teacher
Mimi Craven as Nurse
Jack Shea as Minister
Ed Call as Mr. Lantz
Sandy Lipton as Mrs. Lantz
David Andrews as Foreman
Jeff Levine as Coroner
Donna Woodrum as Mrs. Gray
Paul Grenier as Mrs. Gray’s boyfriend
Ash Adams and Don Hannah as Surfers
Shashawnee Hall, Brian Reise and Carol Pritikin as Cops
Kathi Gibbs, John Richard Peterson, Chris Tashima and Antonia Yannouli as Kids (uncredited)

Robert Shaye has two uncredited roles as broadcasters for local television news and KRGR Radio station.

Make-up artist David Miller designed Krueger’s disfigured face based on photographs of burn victims obtained from the UCLA Medical Center.

Now we will meet our Villain

“Freddy Krueger (/ˈkruːɡər/) is a fictional character in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He first appeared in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as the spirit of a serial killer who uses a gloved hand with razors to kill his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well. In the dream world, he is a powerful force and almost completely invulnerable. However, whenever Freddy is pulled into the real world, he has normal human vulnerabilities and can be destroyed.

The character was created by Craven and was consistently portrayed by Robert Englund in the original film series as well as in the television spin-off (Freddy’s Nightmares). The original film introduced his backstory as the Springwood Slasher, a serial killer of children who had been burned to death by his victims’ parents after evading prison.

Freddy attacks his victims from within their dreams. He is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, dirty red-and-green-striped sweater and brown fedora, and trademark metal-clawed brown leather glove only on his right hand. This glove was the product of Krueger’s own imagination, the blades having been welded by himself.

Wes Craven said his inspiration for the basis of Freddy Krueger’s power stemmed from several stories in the Los Angeles Times about a series of mysterious deaths: All the victims had reported recurring nightmares and died in their sleep.

Craven’s inspirations for the character included a bully from his school during his youth, a disfigured homeless man who had frightened him when he was 12, and the 1970s pop song “Dream Weaver” by Gary Wright. In an interview, he said of the disfigured stranger, “When I looked down there was a man very much like Freddy walking along the sidewalk. He must have sensed that someone was looking at him and stopped and looked right into my face. He scared the living daylights out of me, so I jumped back into the shadows. I waited and waited to hear him walk away. Finally, I thought he must have gone, so I stepped back to the window. The guy was not only still looking at me, but he thrust his head forward as if to say, ‘Yes, I’m still looking at you.’ The man walked towards the apartment building’s entrance. I ran through the apartment to our front door as he was walking into our building on the lower floor. I heard him starting up the stairs. My brother, who is ten years older than me, got a baseball bat and went out to the corridor but he was gone.”

“Dream Weaver” by Gary Wright

I’ve just closed my eyes again
Climbed aboard the dream weaver train
Driver take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behind

Ooh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light

Fly me high through the starry skies
Maybe to an astral plane
Cross the highways of fantasy
Help me to forget today’s pain

Ooh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light

Though the dawn may be coming soon
There still may be some time
Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
Meet me on the other side

Ooh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light

Dream weaver
Dream weaver

According to Robert Englund, Freddy’s look was based on Klaus Kinski’s portrayal of Count Dracula in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and some of the works of Lon Chaney, while he based Freddy’s poise and gait on the “Cagney stance” originated by actor James Cagney. Freddy’s characteristic of keeping his gloved arm lower than the other was incidental due to the knives being heavy to wear for Englund and forcing him to carry himself as such while playing the role. Freddy’s physical appearance has stayed largely consistent throughout the film series, although small changes were made in subsequent films. He wears a striped red-and-green sweater (solid red sleeves in the original film), a dark brown fedora, his bladed glove, loose black trousers (brown in the original film), and worn work boots, in keeping with his blue-collar background. His skin is scarred and burned as a result of being burned alive by the parents of Springwood, and he has no hair at all on his head as it presumably all burned off”. (Wikipedia)

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Wikimedia Foundation. (2021, October 21). Freddy Krueger. Wikipedia. Retrieved October 22, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Krueger#Characterization.

Now for the Leading Lady

Nancy Thompson (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

is a fictional character in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. She first appears in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as a teenager hunted in her dreams by an enigmatic serial killer in which she was portrayed by Heather Langenkamp — who reprises the role in sequels A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994).

Nancy is a primary protagonist in the films.

“Nancy is Categorized as the Final Girl. Final Girl is a filmic trope referring to the last female character left alive after a string of serialized murders. She survives, in part, by virtue of being both virginal and vice-free. She’s Not Like Other Girls. If the Final Girl is narratively rewarded with survival for exhibiting constrictive and conservative modes of femininity, Nancy more or less meets the mark. She dresses in barely varying shades of baby pink, from her sweater-vests to an enviable football jersey, which she uses as a nightshirt. Nancy also sleeps apart from her boyfriend, Glen (played by a baby-faced Johnny Depp), when he and her friend Tina’s guy, Rod, crash the girls’ sleepover. After Tina and Rod giggle their way upstairs, Glen tries to make moves, but Nancy sighs him off—“Not now, Glen”. Nancy’s exasperation at Glen doesn’t suggest discomfort, but distraction—Freddy’s wrath hasn’t yet had real-world implications, but Nancy seems to sense something her friends don’t. Terror’s afoot; why think about sex right now? Her survival-earning superiority is not necessarily of a moral brand, but an emotional and intellectual one. Sure, she’s plenty virginal when compared to her hormone-heavy peers. Nancy is different; she actively prioritizes her own safety. The first time she encounters Freddy in a dream, she cleverly burns herself on a pipe to wake herself up, after screaming “Goddamn you!” in his face. This is relevant, too: Though Nancy curls her hair and calls her father “Daddy”, she’s far from prim and proper. She swears like a sailor. When her mother tries to get her to rest, Nancy—knowing full well, by this point, that what happens in nightmares doesn’t stay in nightmares—she yells “Screw sleep!” and smashes her mother’s vodka bottle on the kitchen floor. She is a girl who speaks, loudly and often.

While her peers are thinking about typical teenage things, Nancy’s thinking about methods of maiming and killing. Glen, when he’s still alive, catches her with a book about building booby traps. “What are you reading that for?” he asks, dubious, as if two of their friends hadn’t recently been brutally murdered. “I’m into survival,” Nancy says with a shrug and a smile, in a tone she may use to declare being into high-waisted jeans. Nancy survives by thinking, strategizing, building.

Her goal, even after all her friends have perished at Freddy’s knife-hands, is to “whack the fucker.” Prepped with a plan, Nancy booby traps the hell out of her house, falls asleep, grabs onto Freddy in her dream, and again forces her own wakefulness, this time dragging Freddy into the woken world along with her. After some Home Alone-style horror hijinks, Freddy and Nancy meet in a bedroom face-off.

One of the most central tenets of the Final Girl trope is her eventual masculinization. In order to kill off the villain, she undergoes phallic appropriation. Nancy turns her back on Freddy. “You’re nothing,” she tells Freddy. “You’re shit.” By declaring herself no longer afraid of him, he loses his powers.

Nancy’s win is all the sweeter after she’s spent the length of the film being called crazy. Nancy is dismissed as a girlish nutcase dozens of times, yet it is she alone who defeats the danger—she alone who even recognizes the danger for what it is in the first place”. ( The Atlantic)

Keating, S. (2014, October 31). ‘I’m into survival’: A nightmare on elm street’s Nancy, 30 years later. The Atlantic. Retrieved October 22, 2021, from https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/im-into-survival-a-nightmare-on-elm-streets-nancy-30-years-later/382201/.

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A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

A mysterious man walks into a decrepit boiler room, where he makes a sharp clawed glove. On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson and a group of her friends including Tina Gray, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger. Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you?

Genre: Horror, Drama

Actor: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

Director: Wes Craven

Country: United States

Duration: 90 min

Quality: HD

Release: 1984

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A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

Jesse Walsh and his family have moved into Nancy Thompson’s old house on Elm Street. No sooner are they moved in than Jesse begins to have horrific nightmares – ones that feature a burned man in a dirty red and green sweater, with knives on the fingers of his right hand. His neighbor and new sweetheart, Lisa, discovers the truth behind Fred Krueger and his horrible murder spree.

Genre: Horror

Actor: Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler

Director: Jack Sholder

Country: United States

Duration: 87 min

Quality: HD

Release: 1985

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A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) is a story about a young girl who dreams herself into an abandoned house in Elm Street where she is chased by serial killer Freddy Krueger. She wakes up and goes to the bathroom. A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) is a horror film which is directed by Renny Harlin.

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Actor: Larry Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson

Director: Chuck Russell

Country: United States

Duration: 96 min

Quality: HD

Release: 1987

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A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

Since the events of the previous film, Kristen, Kincaid, and Joey have been released from Westin Hills and are living lives as normal teenagers. However, Kristen believes Freddy is coming back and summons Joey and Kincaid into her dreams, they warn her that dreaming of Freddy might cause his return. The next day, Kristen meets up with her boyfriend, martial arts enthusiast Rick Johnson, and their friends: Rick’s sister Alice, Sheila, an asthmatic genius, and Debbie, a tough girl who doesn’t like bugs.

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Actor: Robert Englund, Rodney Eastman, Lisa Wilcox

Director: Renny Harlin

Country: United States

Duration: 93 min

Quality: HD

Release: 1988

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A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice’s unborn child. His intention is to be “born again” into the real world. The only one who can stop Freddy is his dead mother, but can Alice free her spirit in time to save her own son?

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Actor: Lisa Wilcox, Kelly Jo Minter, Robert Englund

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Country: United States

Duration: 89 min

Quality: HD

Release: 1989

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Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

In part six of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, dream monster Freddy Krueger has finally killed all the children of his hometown, and seeks to escape its confines to hunt fresh prey. To this end, he recruits the aid of his (previously unmentioned) daughter. However, she discovers the demonic origin of her father’s powers and meets Dad head-on in a final showdown.

Genre: Horror, Comedy, Thriller

Actor: Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Deane

Director: Rachel Talalay

Country: United States

Duration: 89 min

Quality: HD

Release: 1991

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Wes Cravens New Nightmare (1994)

Freddy Krueger is back on Elm Street again. He’s gone beyond his old tricks of stalking everyone’s dreams. Heather Langenkamp learns the Nightmare movies were protecting the world from a real-life demon. Film is directed by Wes Craven with the participation of many stars such as John Saxon, Sara Risher, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Miko Hughes, David Newsom, Wes Craven, and Tracy Middendorf.

Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Mystery

Actor: Miko Hughes, Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund

Director: Wes Craven

Country: United States

Duration: 112 min

Quality: HD

Release: 1994

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“YES, IT TURNS OUT IF YOU DIE IN A DREAM, YOU COULD DIE IN REAL LIFE. NO ONE TELL FREDDY.

SUNDS means – Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome

If you die in a dream, you’ll die in real life.

It’s one of those urban legends most of us have heard, the sort of knowledge that gets passed around the playground without being questioned.

The legend, as I originally heard it, was definitive. If ever you die in a dream, you will absolutely die for real. It wasn’t a suggestion or a could-be, it was presented as irrefutable fact.

On this front, at least, we’re safe. We can say with certainty that dying in a dream does not absolutely result in real death.

Dreams of dying and death are not uncommon.

First, it is possible (though unlikely) for a person to be scared to death. When we’re frightened, the body flings itself into fight or flight mode, which is triggered by a flood of adrenaline. The heart beats faster and blood flow is rerouted to major muscle groups. Particularly in those who are already predisposed, the influx of adrenaline can cause a cardiac event, which could lead to death: An ironic result from a process that is meant to keep us alive when sensing danger.

In short, adrenaline is useful; it can cause increased cognitive ability for short periods of time in addition to increased physical response, giving you the opportunity to escape danger. But it’s also toxic in large amounts, causing damage to the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys. With regard to the heart, a surge of adrenaline causes calcium to enter the cardiac cells, causing the heart to contract. If enough adrenaline is pumped in, the heart just keeps contracting, you get into an arrhythmia, and die.

Fear is certainly one way to cause these surges of adrenaline, but any strong emotion can do it.

Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS).

In 1981, reports of sudden death during sleep began being reported to the CDC. These incidents seemed to be isolated to populations who had recently immigrated from Southeast Asia. Otherwise-healthy individuals, most of them between the ages of 25 to 44 years old, were dying in their sleep.

In total, 117 cases were reported from 1981 to 1988. It seemed, so far as anyone could tell, that their hearts just stopped. None of these individuals had any prior history of cardiac events, and all but one had no family history.

Night terrors, a sort of half-waking dream state accompanied by feelings of fear and panic, have been observed in cases of SUNDS prior to death. It might also explain why the incidents of SUNDS decreased over time.

It’s unclear, and in fact unknowable, if reported SUNDS cases were the result of dreams in which an individual died, but there is some correlation between parasomnias (sleep disorders) like night terrors, and the sudden onset of death during sleep.

It’s also worth noting that as the years progressed, the number of reported incidents decreased. There was, for all intents and purposes, a temporary outbreak of death caused by, or at least occurring during sleep.

We also know that the mechanisms exist for the heart to be catastrophically impacted by overwhelming emotions, like fear. All of which is to say, while dreaming of death is not in and of itself a death sentence, it probably doesn’t help.

The good news is, maintaining your heart health can help to limit these risks. So, if ever you’re in a dream and something wicked comes your way, run”. (Syfy)

The above paragraphs where directly taken from;

Ward, C. (2020, October 21). Yes, it turns out if you die in a dream, you could die in real life. no one tell Freddy. SYFY Official Site. Retrieved October 22, 2021, from https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/die-in-dream-real-life-true-false-nightmare-elm-street.