A Nightmare On Elm Street.

[luka]

I haven't watched this. I got it on DVD from Oxfam recently. Should I watch tonight?

 

[version]

Yes.

 

[luka]

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[version]

It's one of those where the idea's so strong that once it's in your head it has a certain pull, like Jumanji, Event Horizon and Hellraiser.

 

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Strange film in that it is a children's film in all respects (no nudity even) but it has an 18 certificate

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How she sets all those Beano comic booby traps for Freddie at the end. Home Alone before Home Alone

 

[luka]

Seeing it for the first time as a 40 year old was not optimum.

 

[IdleRich]

Seeing it for the first time as a 40 year old was not optimum.

Were you scared?

When I was growing up my cousin who was from London and a year or two older was really cool, every time we met up he'd have new words that we'd never heard before and he just gave it the big one the whole time, It was great when his sister told us that after watching Nightmare On Elem Street he was too scared to sleep for days after.

 

[sus]

A perfect film. Ronee Blakely is perfectly cast as the alcoholic-hysteric mother. Everything magical is metaphor for the supramaterial: most memorably, Freddy's knives mirror the switchblades of the badboy greaser. The boilerroom under the school is Hades; the dimensional portal/seedy underbelly pure Lynch. The girls are hypnotised by the voice calling them from the dark, begging them to step out into it. So much to say about this film.

 

[sus]

It's like the Wizard of Oz. A long dream rearranging her mundane reality but conveying emergent emotional truths through fantasy. Everything that happens in this film is real life

 

[Corpsey]

Never seen this or any of those films.

As a child I was fascinated and terrified by the images of Freddy on the VHS covers.

In fact looking back there was some sort of formidable power to all those 18 certificate VHSs I'd steal a peek at in Blockbusters, particularly the horror ones. I was particularly disturbed by Chuckie, and wished I hadn't looked at the case for Childs Play 3.

I wonder what the first horror film I saw was?

 

[IdleRich]

One, two Freddy's coming for you....

 

[luka]

Freddy had a central position in the group imaginary of my primary school. I remember the nursery rhyme even now from how much they used to incant it

 

[catalog]

I think I watched part 4 first, the Johnny Depp one. Legendary film tho, all the kids talked about it

 

[IdleRich]

Johnny Depp is in the first one isn't he?

 

[version]

Johnny Depp is in the first one isn't he?

Yeah, he's the guy who gets sucked into the bed with that huge blast of blood.

 

[yyaldrin]

Never seen this or any of those films.

As a child I was fascinated and terrified by the images of Freddy on the VHS covers.

In fact looking back there was some sort of formidable power to all those 18 certificate VHSs I'd steal a peek at in Blockbusters, particularly the horror ones. I was particularly disturbed by Chuckie, and wished I hadn't looked at the case for Childs Play 3.

I wonder what the first horror film I saw was?

this sounds very relatable. the thing of not having seen something but being scared of it because your brother or your nephew or just older kids were watching it. all of the gabber and rave music from that time were also heavily sampling these horror/sci-fi movies so that the whole thing became even more mythical.

 

[yyaldrin]

the horror stuff is probably one of the reasons why the evangelicals always had a bus outside the gabber parties where they'd invite people inside and try to save them from the hands of satan

 

[version]

The genius of Elm Street was making Freddy's environment one you can't avoid. You have to sleep at some point.

 

[0bleak]

Didnt really work on me though. I had already developed some weird mind game by that time where I never had bad dreams again by that age, or if I did, I became the biggest baddy in the dream.

 

[0bleak]

the horror stuff is probably one of the reasons why the evangelicals always had a bus outside the gabber parties where they'd invite people inside and try to save them from the hands of satan

wow, y'all have them over though, too?