1...2...Freddy's Coming For You...
Yeah, nearly 30 years later and it's STILL creepy!!!
The Story:
It's time to take a look back at the franchise that put New Line Cinema on the map, and created not only a horror franchise, but a world-wide phenomenon that is... Freddy Krueger.
First, this is a documentary made with love by Heather Langenkamp (Nancy!) from the first Elm Street movie.
It clocks in at an impressive 4 hours, but it goes by in an instant. Each movie receives its own screen time as they talk with as many actors and directors, producers, FX personnel as they can.
Really, they've got Robert Englund and Wes Craven, so anything else is gravy.
That the only people that don't come and chat about it are Johnny Depp and Patricia Arquette, well apparently they're too important to remember before they were stars.
: )
The most interesting thing that this documentary uncovers is how Freddy Krueger paralleled the rise and fall of New Line Cinema. For that, we are met with Bob Shaye, the man that created New Line. It's hard to be sad at what was probably a very wealthy settlement when New Line was absorbed into Time Warner, but still...
For what New Line was created to do, you can see that a void was created when the studios start sucking up all the independent ventures that are happening in Hollywood.
I realized that I'm not as much of an Elm Street fan as I had thought because I have never seen anything past Part IV.
I may have to rectify that in the future! : )
This documentary came out before the remake, and let me just go on record as saying that the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street was utter garbage.
There was no excitement, no fun.
The only thing it got right, was better special effects at the end.
While it's true that you can put anyone behind Jason's mask (sorry Kane Hodder), there is only one Freddy, and that's Robert Englund.
Final Grade: B+
Would I Own It: Only if, and when, I own the series. Wondering if I want to creep myself out an watch the original again? Eeep!
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