A Nightmare on Elm Street

They would attract millions of people due to how amazing they were made. Movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, and Halloween have been a few of the most successful horror movies of all time. These movies have such a huge following, they are considered the fathers of horror films. The one thing they have in common? There a…

The film industry has been around for many years. And throughout these years, many great movies have been created, ranging from romantic films: The Notebook, to death, and gore horror films: Nightmare On Elm Street, to action films: The Avengers, and to calm us down an offer a laugh or two, comedic films: Scary Movie. Each genre offers its own special element, and message relates, to us in some way or form. I first start off with the Queen of Romance, the Romantic Movie. Highly praised…

Basically, if you want to have a good night sleep, I advise you don’t take this call as it might give you nightmares after nightmares not only for one night, but up to a few weeks. However, if you really want to have that eye bags on you, then Creep’s hotline is definitely the one for you, 1-900-909-CREEP. 4. Al “Grandpa Munster” Lewis Vampire Vampires no longer…

At seven years old, little minds still developing, bodies still growing. We understand very little of the real world, there are no worries, no responsibilities. There is very little choice, at this age, feeling relieved that we can choose our own movie before bedtime. Browsing through the movie selection we know the different types of movies, Family, Comedy, Disney and Horror. We skip over anything that looks even a little scary; because you’re still traumatised from the time you snuck behind…

portray a more dramatic and frighting story. This added sense of realism can provide induced feelings of fear in the viewer as the potential threats can occur to the watcher and pose real life threats of danger. Horror movies such as the “The nightmare on elm street” use fantasy…

The horror genre in the 2000’s is very different to what it was in 1930, for example a 1930 horror movie would consist of monsters and vampires, whereas nowadays, the new direction it has taken is the teenage slasher movies, such as scream, and my bloody valentine. In the new direction there is more blood and murder, it involves more serial killers, rather than ghosts. So it gives it a more of a real feel behind it to give you that extra scare. Most of these changes came from psycho (1960) In…

mass murderer with a knack for children, torments Jason Voorhees, a masked serial killer who slices teens with a machete, by forcing him to revert back to his child state, in which he is vulnerable and terrified of his mother. We see this in Nightmare on Elm Street when we learn Freddy Kruger was a child molester and murderer until a neighborhood of parents decided to burn him alive. We also see this in Saw when we finally learn the entire story of John Kramer, A.K.A. Jigsaw, a man who puts…

The fall of the studio film system gave rise to independent films. This rise showed America that you did not need a big budget and famous actors to draw in a large audience at the box office. One genre that really took off was the horror genre. This genre plays on the fear of human kind whether it be demons, ghosts, or monsters which are supernatural beings which one does not have a defense for. One may also have the fear of death or pain which could be caused by another human being; this fear…

director. All the movie’s process, most likely is toward his direction. There are two famous directors of horror genre, who contributed so many valuable movies to Horror world. The first one is Wes Craven, the writer of The Hills Have Eyes, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream series. People, who don’t have a chance to watch these movies, must somehow, heard about their stories or at least their name. According…

You remember what happened when we watched ‘’the nightmare on Elm Street’’. I can still recall you being too scared to go to bed and ending up falling asleep in class. I was the one that had to go by your school to explain your teacher why you were sleep debrived.’’ You had the habit of acting as his legal guardian…