1...2... Freddy's Comming For You...

[BarTopDancer]

3....4.... Better lock the door...

Nightmare on Elm St. is being re-released for two nights in select theaters in preperation for it's remastered DVD release. (http://www.fandango.com/MoviePage.aspx?mid=98922&source=bm_title)

I could stomach this at 10, not sure if I can now. But man did the preview look stunning.

[CoasterMatt]

They could always digitally give Johnny Depp the Edward Scissorhands, and an alternate ending.

[innerSpaceman]

ah, yes, the Depp connection. Well, it couldn't save The Libertine, but Nightmare is genuinely a good film. I'd love to see it in a theater.

[scaeagles]

That came out my senior year in HS, and it was the BEST HS date movie ever. Seriously.

[Jughead P. Jones]

Might be worth checking out if they have the same deal in Canada.

Since I was only 3 years old when that film first came out, I never really got to see the movie in theatres.

I wish I was old enough to actually have enjoyed the '80's. :(

[Alex]

Until a few years ago I was somewhat proud to have never seen any of the Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, or Halloween movies. Then Lani bought the 20th Anniversary DVD for Halloween and I ended up watching that. Saw nothing that indicated I was wrong to have not seen these movies.

Nightmare on Elm Street has been playing on TNT or one of the cable channels a lot lately and I've seen the final 10 minutes several times now so I figure that is good enough.

[flippyshark]

That came out my senior year in HS, and it was the BEST HS date movie ever. Seriously.

Yes, I completely agree. I worked in a movie theater when that came out, and it was a HUGE couples movie. I took a date to it myself. She hated it, but she spent the whole movie cluthing my hand and hiding her face aganst my shoulder. I can't tell you how much I loved it!

[scaeagles]

She hated it, but she spent the whole movie cluthing my hand and hiding her face aganst my shoulder. I can't tell you how much I loved it!

Bingo. And jumping into the lap.

[tracilicious]

I've never seen any of the movies in Alex post either. The mask always looked cheesy to me. I did see Halloween H2O. I'm sure I don't need to mention how much that movie sucked. I was happy they cut his head off though. When will more people learn that you have to cut the head off a serial killer to get them to really die?

[scaeagles]

I've never seen a Halloween movie. I'm not a slasher film kind of guy. But there was something about Freddy - most likely the timing of it coming out during my senior year - that I enjoyed. I never saw another after the original. When I worked as a waiter in a steak house during college I used to tape steak knives to my fingers and play Freddy.

[Not Afraid]

Never saw it or any of it's siblings and genre siblings - but I guess you might have guessed that, huh. ;)

[innerSpaceman]

Well, the originals of each of those series were films that rightfully spawned a series. Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street, especially, are deserved classics of their genre.

View sequels at your peril, but there's usually something there in most movies that do well enough to inspire the greed of sequels.


A couple of the later Freddy movies were pretty good, as a matter of fact. But definitely hit and miss.

[flippyshark]

I have a certain fondness for most of the Freddy sequels, as they occasionally displayed some creativity in the dream sequnces and made some effort to keep things different and lively. They are easier to love than the highly repetitive Friday the 13th sequels, anyway. I do own the Freddy boxed set, and I probably view everything in it once evey three years or so, over a series of nights. I won't waste a moment trying to persuade anyone else that they should do likewise.

I would love to take a date to the theatrical re-release!

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

One of the best. Can't wait. Thanks!

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Then Lani bought the 20th Anniversary DVD for Halloween and I ended up watching that. Saw nothing that indicated I was wrong to have not seen these movies.

Halloween's actually the only horror movie I really loved.

[mousepod]

As a horror movie apologist, I like any attention that's given to the genre. I admit that I also really like three of the Nightmare films (the first, Dream Warriors, and New Nightmare). What gets my goat is the constant reissuing and "remastering" of these movies. C'mon people, when you put out a box set - that should be it. While I may or may not pick up the "infinifilm" edition, I'm sure that the HD (or BluRay) version is just around the corner.

Among video collectors, this is called "double-dipping". Bleh.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Dream Warriors was super fun. And New Nightmare was hugely clever.

[innerSpaceman]

Yep, those are the three good ones. I would buy a box set if it contained only those.