A Nightmare on Elm Street

Tis the season to once again to give praises to the kings of cold, the sultans of slash, the queens of screams, the icons who make Halloween what it is and what it always should be. from a evil possessed doll to a super strong momma's boy with a machete, the horror icons of the 70's to the 90's and early 2000's have made a deep bloody impact on the horror world to this day, if you were to ask your parents what scared them the most when they were your age they would most likely say Freddy Kruger…

“Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep,” an iconic line in the 1984 horror film, “Nightmare on Elm Street”. Dream-demon Freddy Krueger stalked and killed his victims (mostly teenagers) from within their dreams taking their souls also causing their deaths in real life. In his dream world he is a powerful force and nearly invulnerable. This movie is scary because of his disfigured appearance, he plays on the subconscious fears of many, goes beyond the boundaries between imaginary and real life.…

The article Sex and Violence in Slasher Films: Re-examining the Assumption written by Barry S. Sapolsky, Fred Molitor, and Sarah Luque observes a research on cruel, violent and sexual images in horror movies from the 1980s to 1990s. The main point of the article is researching on victims' gender and connection between sex and murders in slashers. Horror movies of the 1960s-1970s were thrillers featuring awful bloodbath. Blood and violent picture attracted audience of young movie fans. Such…

From Washington Irving, comes a story of horror, action, mystery, and witchcraft. He tells Telling the story of a man named Ichabod Crane, a dDetective from Connecticut. From his home, Ichabod travels to Sleepy Hollow, New York. His purpose is to investigate multiple murders under mysterious circumstances. People say a headless soldier from the Revolutionary war is behind the murders. Ichabod goes through a lot of adventures to find out the answer to the mystery, the scientific way...…..at least…

were at its prime, including writers like: Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and herself, Mary Shelley. In this day and time we have parallel characteristics of modern horror tales such as Stephen King's, or contemporary films such as Nightmare…

us to hide, to run away, or to freeze in our shoes. Fear may arise from a confrontation or from avoiding a threat, or it may come in the form of a discovery. When I was younger, fear came in the form of a scary movie, like The Shining or Nightmare on Elm Street. A little bit later, the fright was whether or not I would get picked in the neighborhood basketball game, and a little bit after that it was which girl I should ask to the school dance. After that, dread was dealt in the form of finding…

watchers view horror films to be a negative genre because it plays on peoples fear. Like clowns, vampires, zombies, and home invasions. Most people would rather watch a positive film that can make them optimistic and not want to go to bed having nightmares and new fears. That’s why horror movies isn’t for everyone. The genre of horror started hundreds of years ago in actual theaters in Europe. But horror started in the early 1900’s on television. As stated in the article A Brief History of…

The arguments in this article are presented clearly, and they follow a logical organization. Kord uses ample evidence to show how horror film are a payback for people’s failure towards feeling responsible for social, economic, political, and ecological horrors that they themselves inflict on other people, and the world around them. This offers a unique way to analyze the audience of horror films, and understand how horror film elicit guilt by dividing alignment from allegiance or, visual…

killers psychopaths? Mental and emotional psychological factors can be a reason why many commit crimes. In 2009, a man named David Gonzalez who was diagnosed with schizophrenia murdered four people and told officials his inspiration was “Nightmare on Elm Street”. Various serial killers are diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder. This disorder allows a person to manipulate and not feel any empathy. An example of this is when a serial killer named Ted Bundy simply stated “I'm as cold…

face from Scream. He of course created many other films other than the gruesome tale of Krueger that deserve recognition, two of my favorites being Pulse (2006) and Cursed (2005). Though he had a wide selection of films one can?t deny that A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and Scream (1996) are the most well-known. This infamous movies and their creator didn?t just pop up out of know where though. It was Ingmar Bergman?s The Virgin Spring (1960) that inspired Craven in the first place.…