A nightmare on elm street

A nightmare on elm street is a film that focuses on the main characteter who is Freddie Krueger. You can say that Freddie is an iconography of the film A nightmare on elm street himself as he is very famous and recognisable in hollywood cinema. The first film of a nightmare on elm street was originally directed by Craven and also the New Nightmare (1994) was also written and directed by him however, The second sequel was only co-scrited by him.

In the first film the story focuses on Freddie as we see him attempting to kill Nancy Thompson though he ironicly kills everyone but nancy. In the second sequel, freddie kills the new family in nancy's house and he also possesses Jesse walsh and uses him to kill people. Lisa then helps Jesse to fight the curse that made him a killer. Freddie comes back in the third sequel which was released in 1987 where he murders the remaining elm street children.

In the 4th sequel, the spot light moves slightly from Krueger and focuses more on Kristen and Alice. Alice place the role of the hero and rescues all her friends that freddy killed and kills him in the process as they rip out of his body.

The New nightmare by Craven in 1994 is one of the films were reality comes in play as Craven Langenkamp, and Englund all play themselves in this post-mordern film.##



This clip shows how Craven uses some of the same ideas in this film in his sequel Scream. One example is the mask the girl is making in the opening sequence as the main iconography in Scream is the mask and it is one of the most recognisable images in the horror genre of cinema. He also uses the same tense, slow music that builds up every now and again and goes back to being slow in his film Scream. This is a great convention to use as it raise the audiences heart beat and gets their adrlanin running through out the film.