Nightmare On Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street questions the existence of a rare psychological affiliation that causes unexplained nocturnal deaths happening in seemingly healthy young adults and whether or not it is linked to a post-traumatic tension in their past that must have built fear in them.
The idea behind this movie was the enigmatic deaths of healthy refugees in 1981 just three years earlier to the production of the first Elm Street film. As newspapers looked into the causes of the mysterious deaths the included findings was what is known as the “Nightmare Death syndrome”. It sounds more reasonable when you consider the stress that they were going through post-traumatic tension as they escaped their home countries. Throughout the movie it seemed like the deaths that were happening were mysterious but when we got a deeper we learnt that it was a nightmare that caused the nocturnal deaths.
The colors that were used to make Freddy Krueger’s sweater were actually picked for a scientific reason. After reading in Scientific American that the human eye has difficulty identifying specific shades of red and green side-by-side. Moreover, they are disturbing and subliminally …show more content…
It was used to create shadows and a dim shade, they were usually at eye level or lower throughout the movie. . The tone and the mood it created was associated with danger and the music was disturbing especially in the scene where Tina, one of the teenagers, was being chased by Freddy Krueger. I noticed that the lights would tend to be relocated every time the actor is placed differently. This created high tension and suspense with a dark and mysterious atmosphere and it controlled how much of the surroundings we as audience were allowed to see. Low-lighting is usually there to intrigue and entice the audience to focus on specific areas and wonder about the dark spectral areas in the