Nightmare

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The film series Nightmare [ ˈnaɪtmɛɹ ] ( Eng . " Nightmare ") or A Nightmare on Elm Street (original title) is a popular horror film series about a serial killer named Freddy Krueger , which now includes seven movies . The starting point of the series was published in 1984, the success of horror movie Nightmare - Elm Street by Wes Craven . The commercially extremely successful Nightmare series extends the genre of the so-called “ teen slashers ” with supernatural elements. In addition to Wes Craven, who directed the first and seventh part of the series, the following directors were each involved in the film series once in the order of publication: Jack Sholder , Chuck Russell , Renny Harlin , Stephen Hopkins , Rachel Talalay and Ronny Yu . In April 2010, a remake of the first part appeared under the title A Nightmare on Elm Street ; It was directed by Samuel Bayer , produced by Michael Bay , and played by Jackie Earle Haley for Freddy Krueger . After the moderate success and mostly bad reviews, there was no sequel. In 2015, however, a new reboot was announced, which has not yet been realized until today (2020).

Films in the series

Movie Director script Producers
Nightmare (1984) Wes Craven Wes Craven Robert Shaye
Nightmare II (1985) Jack Sholder David Chaskin
Nightmare III - Freddy Krueger Lives (1987) Chuck Russell Wes Craven, Frank Darabont , Chuck Russell, Bruce Wagner
Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988) Renny Harlin Brian Helgeland , Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat Robert Shaye, Rachel Talalay
Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Trauma (1989) Stephen Hopkins Leslie Bohem Robert Shaye, Rupert Harvey
Freddy's Finale - Nightmare on Elm Street 6 (1991) Rachel Talalay Michael De Luca Robert Shaye, Aron Warner
Freddy's New Nightmare (1994) Wes Craven Wes Craven Marianne Maddalena
Freddy vs. Jason (2003) Ronny Yu Damian Shannon, Mark Swift Sean S. Cunningham
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Samuel Bayer Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer Michael Bay , Andrew Form, Brad Fuller

Emergence

The creator of Nightmare is the American director and screenwriter Wes Craven . The idea came to him in 1978 in a restaurant while reading an article about a young immigrant from Laos ( Khmer ) who was plagued by violent nightmares and later died in his sleep. Shortly afterwards, two similar reports appeared.

Craven thought of a framework for this topic and created the insane child killer " Freddy Krueger ", who haunts his victims in dreams. If Krueger kills a child in a dream , it also dies in reality. Freddy Krueger was the name of a boy whom Wes had been bullied by as a child. The name was given partly for fun, partly out of revenge.

When Craven presented the idea to New Line Cinema producer Robert Shaye , he was immediately enthusiastic. Although he says he couldn't do much with horror films because he suffered from nightmares as a child, he financed the production. Some dream sequences from the films, such as sinking into the steps of a staircase, Robert Shaye has already experienced in dreams.

The appearance and character of Freddy Krueger changed significantly during the production phase. At first it was planned as a silent, murderous monster in the style of Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers . But already for the first film he received some dark lines of text, which were then increasingly peppered with black humor in the course of the film series .

The world premiere took place at the Hof International Film Festival.

The song of the black man

A central element in all films is the "Song of the Bad, Black Man". The actors repeatedly meet little girls who play skipping rope together and sing the following song:

"One, two, Freddy's coming for you
Three, four, better lock your door
Five, six, grab your crucifix
Seven, eight, gonna stay up late
Nine, ten, never sleep again!"

There are small variations. In the fifth part the last stanza is nine, ten, he's back again . The translation into German is also inconsistent. The "original version" from Part 1 reads:

“One, two - Freddy will come over.
Three, four - lock your door.
Five, six - take your crucifix.
Seven, eight - don't fall asleep at night.
Nine, ten - you shouldn't go to sleep! "

There are deviations especially in the third verse, which has repeatedly been translated as "Five, six - the hex will get you right now" . Also, you can hear several times "three, four - he stands at your door" , "Seven, eight - it is equal to midnight" , "Nine, ten -. We woll'n not geh'n sleep" . In the sixth part of the series, the English rhyme, which cannot be translated into German, was translated from “six” to “crucifix” with “five, six - take your crucifix and ex!” .

actor

character Nightmare (1984) Nightmare II - The Vengeance Nightmare III - Freddy Krueger is alive Nightmare on Elm Street 4 Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Trauma Freddy's Finale - Nightmare on Elm Street 6 Freddy's New Nightmare Freddy vs. Jason A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Fred "Freddy" Krueger Robert Englund Jackie Earle Haley
Nancy Thompson Heather Langenkamp Heather Langenkamp Heather Langenkamp 1 Heather Langenkamp 2 Rooney Mara 3
Lt. Donald Thompson John Saxon John Saxon John Saxon 1
Tina Gray Amanda Wyss Amanda Wyss 2 Katie Cassidy 4
Jesse Walsh Mark Patton Mark Patton 2
Kristen Parker Patricia Arquette Tuesday Knight Patricia Arquette 2
Roland Kincaid Ken Sagoes Ken Sagoes 2
Joseph "Joey" Crusel Rodney Eastman Rodney Eastman 2
Amanda Krueger Nan Martin Beatrice Boepple
Elaine Parker Brooke Bundy
Alice Johnson Lisa Wilcox Lisa Wilcox 2
Dan Jordan Danny Hassel
1 ... mostly embodies himself in the film.
2 Archival material
3The character here was named Nancy Holbrook .
4thThe character here was named Kris Fowles .

indexing

This article or paragraph presents the situation in Germany . Help us to describe the situation in other countries.

As horror films, all parts of the Nightmare series were subject to strict controls. In Germany, parts 1 and 3–6 were on the index . The films have now been officially released as a DVD collection box (parts 1–7) from Warner Home Video Germany . This box of 7 contains the so-called R-rated versions , which are considered unabridged, and are largely identical to the US and UK boxes. In some countries, including Germany , there are bootleg versions that contain at least part 1 of the seven seconds longer so-called unrated version of the film. The unrated version of part 1 was only officially released on video in Germany .

There is only an R-rated version of the fifth part available, although there is an unrated version in America that is much more brutal.

There are even two cut versions of the sixth part, the German and the US version. The German cut version (German theatrical version) was released on DVD by Laser Paradise and the US version in German by Warner. The cut versions differ enormously see Schnittberichte.com!

Further differences to the cut versions and published DVDs can be found at OFDB.

If a nightmare film is broadcast on German television, it is usually heavily edited.

In July 2007 the first part of the BPjM was deleted from the index. In addition, it was approved in full by the FSK on August 8, 2007, after a new examination, for young people aged 16 and over. In addition, the 3rd and 5th parts were also downgraded to FSK 16.

The first part ( Nightmare - Murderous Dreams ) was first broadcast on June 26, 1992 as part of the "Hildes Wilde Horrorshow" on RTL PLUS and in Austria on ORF in a version based on the unrated version. The scene in which the first murder can be seen was shown in the 7 second longer version, which is otherwise officially only available on VHS in Germany. All other scenes of violence were also completely uncensored, but there were several action cuts that were already missing in the copy that was given to the broadcasters. These scenes were also missing in the new TV masters, but there is also a cut during the blood fountain. On the DVD from Warner Home Video there are sound jumps in exactly these scenes, where either newly dubbed passages or briefly the English sound was inserted.

Television series

A Nightmare television series was also produced in the wake of the cinema success. It is a series of short stories in which Robert Englund in the role of Freddy Krueger made short snappy comments at the beginning and end of each episode.

In contrast to the television series Friday the 13th: The Series based on the film “ Friday the 13th ” (known in German-speaking countries as heirs of the curse ), in which the supposed main character Jason Voorhees was not even mentioned (since the series, except for the title, which has absolutely nothing to do with the films), Freddy's Nightmares - A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series revolved several episodes specifically around the character of Freddy Krueger . Several episodes showed both the persecution and execution of Krueger by the parents of the children on Elm Street, as well as his first victims after he became a dream demon . Some facts do not coincide with the movies, which is why the series is to be seen as an independent work.

In 1988, 16 episodes of the first season of the series appeared in Germany on 8 VHS cassettes, but it was not successful. A total of two seasons were broadcast in America.

Trivia

  • In the German dubbing, Freddy Krueger's name was pronounced partly in German ( Krüger ) and partly in English ( Kruger ).
  • Elm Street is the name of the street in Dallas where the 1963 assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy took place.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cinema : online
  2. ↑ GIGA : Freddy Kruger returns
  3. ^ IMDB : Production Notes
  4. ↑ Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, about minute 5
  5. ↑ A brief history of the Hof Film Festival 1977–1984 (last paragraph)
  6. ↑ Cut report for the TV premiere at DVD-Forum.at
  7. ↑ Cutting report on the newer TV master at DVD-Forum.at