Original 'Nightmare' To Return To Theaters -- For Two DaysIn advance of its release on DVD, Wes Craven's original Freddy Krueger horror flick A Nightmare on Elm Street will be shown in 124 theaters across the country for two days only, Sept. 20 and 21, New Line announced Wednesday. In addition to the digitally remastered film, the theaters will be showing a reel of "Freddy's Best Kills," from seven Krueger sequels -- a reel, said New Line studios, "that can be seen only in theaters during this special event." Tickets are being sold online by www.BigScreenBoxOffice.com for $10.00.
Man, how lucky are you guys? The original Nightmare isn't the best one (that would be Wes Craven's New Nightmare - that's it's proper name btw) but it's a very solid second. It'd be awesome to see this on the big screen as well as the kill thing. That'd be a hoot.
My favourite death scene from a Nightmare on Elm Street is, obviously, Johnny Depp's death sequence in the original. That is a classic. My favourite scene overall is that one in Wes Craven's New Nightmare that has Heather Langenkarp (playing herself remember) running across the eight-lane freeway. That was so well done.
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Neat, but why September of all months? And Wednesday and Thursday? Weird...
ugh...a reel of death scenes...that's sounds a little "Clock Work Orange" like to me.
--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com
Lol, the first "Nightmare on Elm Street" w/Johnny Depp was the most hilarious thing ever (in a good way).
This has me sooooo excited. I love the original; it's when Freddy was actually scary. Ugh, when his arms branch way out across the entire alleyway... still freaks me out.
And a creepily homoerotic film, as well, or I could just be way fucked up (a little/lot of both, probably), but Johnny Depp in that half-shirt and the other dude in the movie being thrown around in his tighty-whities... these were seminal scenes for a budding horror-loving gay-boy.
I agree about WCNN, it is really great, though I probably wouldn't say it's better than the first. It far better than it should be and was Wes doing the self-conscious thing right before Scream, but there are pieces of it that I find kinda cornball, like the whole segment at the end in Freddy's world, and that explosion right at the end looks like it cost ten cents, at most. But I really love everything before that.
Glad to know that someone else thinks that Wes Craven's New Nightmare is a workof genius. I could never fathom why such a playfully disturbing film was so underrated...
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