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86-507: Avatar also publishes the comics news site Bleeding Cool , helmed by Rich Johnston . Avatar Press launched in December 1996 with three titles: Pandora , Silent Rapture , and Donna Mia . Lookers followed in January, 1997. The founding publisher was Richard Christensen, his son William Christensen was editor-in-chief, and Mark Seifert was creative director. The Christensens previously founded

172-440: A 1982 Scientific American that said these two colors were the most clashing colors to the human retina. Craven strove to make Krueger different from other horror film villains of the era. In 2014, he recalled, "A lot of the killers were wearing masks: Leatherface , Michael Myers , Jason . I wanted my villain to have a mask, but be able to talk and taunt and threaten. So I thought of him being burned and scarred." He also said

258-507: A burn mark on her arm. Nancy visits Rod at the police station, where he describes Tina's death along with his own recent nightmares about the same man. At home, Nancy falls asleep in the bathtub and is nearly drowned by the man. She then relies on caffeine to stay awake and invites Glen to watch over her as she sleeps. In her dream, she sees the man preparing to kill Rod in his cell, but he turns his attention toward her. Nancy wakes up when her alarm clock goes off. The man kills Rod, staging it as

344-438: A callback. Wes Craven decided immediately upon mixing Wyss and Langenkamp that this was the duo he wanted. Craven then mixed the duo with auditioners for the male teenage roles trying to find actors who had chemistry with Wyss and/or Langenkamp. Johnny Depp was another unknown when he was cast, initially accompanying his friend ( Jackie Earle Haley who went on to play Freddy in the 2010 remake) to an audition. According to Depp,

430-458: A fictionalized version of herself in Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). There were no separate auditions for the characters of Tina and Nancy; all actresses who auditioned for one of the two female roles read for the role of Nancy, and upon potentially being called back, were mixed with other actresses trying to find a pair that had chemistry. Amanda Wyss was among those switched to Tina after

516-588: A further two seconds for subsequent releases (which the Ultra HD Blu-ray release did not involve with Media Home Entertainment and Smart Egg Pictures). It was released in the United States on November 9, 1984, through New Line Cinema and in the United Kingdom on August 30, 1985, through Palace Pictures . The film was first introduced to the home video market by Media Home Entertainment in early 1985 and

602-520: A new Lookers title in 2016. Avatar's Bleeding Cool website was criticized in 2018 after publishing an interview with far-right writer Vox Day conducted by Seifert. Bleeding Cool apologized for running the interview and appointed Kaitlyn Booth as editor-in-chief. Seifert remains managing editor of the site, according to his author page on the site. As of June 2023, the Avatar Press website's news page has not been updated since October, 2020. In 2021,

688-410: A script ... I just didn't get it completely, but I still took a meeting with Wes. And when I met him, I said, "Look, with all due respect, and as a fan of your talents, I just don't see this guy wearing a funny hat with a rotted face and a striped sweater and a bunch of clacky fingers. I just don't see this catching on." Mark Patton , who would later be cast as Jesse Walsh in the sequel, auditioned for

774-404: A sense, Freddy stands for the worst of parenthood and adulthood – the dirty old man, the nasty father and the adult who wants children to die rather than help them prosper. He's the boogey man and the worst fear of children – the adult that's out to get them. He's a very primal figure, sort of like Kronos devouring his children – that evil, twisted, perverted father figure that wants to destroy and

860-456: A startled Craven and walked off. This served as the inspiration for Krueger. Initially, Fred Krueger was intended to be a child molester, but Craven eventually characterized him as a child murderer to avoid being accused of exploiting a spate of highly publicized child molestation cases that occurred in California around the time of the film's production. On Freddy's nature, Craven states that "in

946-402: A suicide. At his funeral, Nancy's parents become worried when she describes her dreams. Her mother, Marge, takes her to a sleep disorder clinic where, in a dream, Nancy grabs the man's fedora with the name " Fred Krueger " written in it and pulls it into the real world. After barricading the house, Marge explains that Krueger was an insane child murderer who killed 20 children but was released on

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1032-566: A superhero assassinating the President of the United States, garnered a cover story from American Prospect magazine. Asked in 2009 how Avatar attracted well-known writers like Ellis and Moore, Christiansen cited creative freedom. Millar says Avatar was the only company willing to publish his series The Unfunnies because it was so "extreme." Eventually the company became better known for publishing titles by critically acclaimed, popular writers featuring extreme content, such as Crossed , than for

1118-414: A technicality. He was then burned alive by the victims' parents, who sought vigilante justice. Now a vengeful ghost , Krueger is killing Nancy and her friends out of revenge and to satiate his psychopathic needs. Glen falls asleep and is killed by Krueger. Now alone, Nancy asks her father, who is across the street investigating Glen's death, to break into the house in 20 minutes. She rigs booby traps around

1204-432: A terrifying nightmare in which a disfigured man wearing a bladed glove attacks her in a boiler room. Her mother points out the mysterious slashes on her nightgown. Tina's best friend Nancy Thompson and Nancy's boyfriend, Glen Lantz, reveal that they too had nightmares about the same disfigured man. During a sleepover at Tina's house, Tina's boyfriend, Rod Lane, arrives, and they have sex. When Tina falls asleep, she dreams of

1290-449: A translucent body bag. During the scene in which Freddy kills Rod in the prison cell, Nancy witnesses a centipede crawl out of Tina's mouth. The filmmakers initially attempted to achieve this effect by having Wyss force a rubber centipede out of her mouth; the effect seen in the final film was accomplished by having an actual centipede crawl out of the mouth of a clay sculpture of Wyss's likeness, sculpted by David B. Miller. During filming,

1376-399: A twist ending, in which Krueger disappears and all seems to have been a dream, only for the audience to discover that it was a dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream. According to Craven, The original ending of the script has Nancy come out the door. It's an unusually cloudy and foggy day. A car pulls up with her dead friends in it. She's startled. She goes out and gets in the car wondering what

1462-576: A “Torture variant” cover anyway?" MacDonald's article prompted numerous responses, including one from then new Crossed writer Justin Jordan, but MacDonald noted how civil the debate remained. Avatar launched a new imprint called Boundless Comics in 2010 to publish a new line of Lady Death titles and similar bad girl and " cheesecake " comics titles similar to those Avatar published during its early days. The imprint launched War Goddess featuring early Avatar characters Pandora , Hellina, and Widow in 2011 and

1548-694: Is a 1984 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Robert Shaye . It is the first installment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and stars Heather Langenkamp , John Saxon , Ronee Blakley , Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger , and Johnny Depp in his film debut. The film's plot concerns a group of teenagers who are targeted by Krueger, an undead child killer who murders teenagers through their dreams, as retribution against their parents who burned him alive. Craven filmed A Nightmare on Elm Street in Los Angeles on an estimated budget of $ 1.8 million. It

1634-493: Is a feminist movie, but I look at it more as a 'youth power' film." When the film was submitted to the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system (MPAA), they required two cuts to grant it an R rating . The theatrical version was released with an R rating and thirteen seconds of cuts. In the United Kingdom, the film was released theatrically and on home video uncut. The Australian theatrical release

1720-495: Is able to get them at their most vulnerable moment, which is when they're asleep!". By Craven's account, his own adolescent experiences led him to the name Freddy Krueger; he had been bullied at school by a child named Fred Krueger. Craven had done the same thing in his film The Last House on the Left (1972), where the villain's name was shortened to Krug. Craven chose to make Krueger's sweater red and green after reading an article in

1806-630: Is an Internet news site, focusing on comics, television, film, board games, and video games. Owned by Avatar Press , it was launched by Rich Johnston on March 27, 2009. Avatar Press also publishes an associated magazine, also called Bleeding Cool . Among Bleeding Cool's features are a power list detailing the most influential people in the comics industry. In 2012, Bleeding Cool covered sexual harassment accusations leveled against DC Comics editor Eddie Berganza , beginning with an incident at WonderCon in Anaheim, California . Though that initial article

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1892-480: Is attacked by Krueger in her bathtub was accomplished with a special bottomless tub. The tub was put in a bathroom set that was built over a swimming pool. During the underwater sequence, Heather Langenkamp was replaced with a stuntwoman. The melting staircase in Nancy's dream was Robert Shaye's idea based on his own nightmares; it was created using pancake mix. The film's special effects artist Jim Doyle portrayed Freddy on

1978-492: Is fueled by his victims' fear, she calmly turns her back to him, and Krueger evaporates. Nancy steps outside into a foggy morning where all her friends and her mother are still alive. She gets into Glen's convertible to go to school when the top suddenly comes down (colored in green and red stripes) and locks them in as the car speeds down the street, while Marge waves them goodbye on the doorstep. Three girls in white dresses playing jump rope chant Krueger's nursery rhyme as Marge

2064-452: Is grabbed by Krueger through the front door window. The cast of A Nightmare on Elm Street included veteran actors such as Robert Englund and John Saxon and aspiring young actors like Johnny Depp and Heather Langenkamp. Robert Shaye has two uncredited roles as broadcasters for local television news and KRGR Radio station. Make-up artist David B. Miller designed Krueger's disfigured face based on photographs of burn victims obtained from

2150-450: Is present in Freudian images and is almost exclusively displayed in a threatening and mysterious context (e.g., Tina's death visually evokes a rape, Freddy's glove between Nancy's legs in the bath). The original script called for Krueger to be a child molester, rather than a child murderer, before being murdered. Wes Craven has explained that "the notion of the screenplay is that the sins of

2236-590: The UCLA Medical Center . A Nightmare on Elm Street contains many biographical elements from director Wes Craven's childhood. The film was inspired by several newspaper articles printed in the Los Angeles Times in the 1970s about Hmong refugees, who, after fleeing to the United States because of war and genocide in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, suffered disturbing nightmares and refused to sleep. Some of

2322-413: The morality play that revolves around sexual promiscuity in teenagers resulting in their eventual death, leading to the term "slasher film". Critics and film historians state that the film's premise is the struggle to define the distinction between dreams and reality, manifested by the lives and dreams of the teens in the film. Later critics praise the film's ability to transgress "the boundaries between

2408-408: The Left (1972), helped Craven at the end of the shooting, heading the second film unit during the filming of some of Nancy's dream scenes. Craven originally planned for the film to have a more evocative ending: Nancy kills Krueger by ceasing to believe in him, then awakens to discover that everything that happened in the film was an elongated nightmare. However, New Line leader Robert Shaye demanded

2494-480: The bathroom between takes. In 2014, he revealed that he was high on heroin during the scene with Langenkamp in the jail cell. "His eyes were watery and they weren't focused," Langenkamp said. "I thought, 'Wow, he's giving the best performance of his life. ' " Craven said in a 2014 interview that twelve frames of blood had to be cut during Tina's death scene or the film would have been axed. Following Tina's death, Nancy repeatedly dreams of an animate corpse of Tina in

2580-660: The centipede was temporarily lost on set before being found again. About halfway through the film, when Nancy is trying to stay awake, a scene from Sam Raimi 's The Evil Dead appears on a television. Craven decided to include the scene because Raimi had featured a Hills Have Eyes (Craven, 1977) poster in The Evil Dead . In return, Raimi featured a Freddy Krueger glove in the workshed scene of Evil Dead II , and later in Ash vs Evil Dead . Sean Cunningham , whom Wes Craven had previously worked with while filming The Last House on

2666-435: The comic book retail outfit Comic Cavalcade in 1989, when William Christensen was 16 years old. Seifert worked as a manager at Comic Cavalcade. Seifert and William Christensen co-bylined several articles for Wizard magazine during the early 1990s, including installments of "The Wizard’s Crystal Ball" column, an interview with Alan Moore , and a Jack Kirby retrospective. Before the launch of Avatar Press, William Christensen

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2752-404: The company published four comics written by Ellis under the label " Apparat Singles Group ." Described as "a group of imaginary first issues of imaginary series from an imaginary line of comics," the books represented Ellis's vision of what comics could have been like if the industry had drawn more inspiration from pulp magazines instead of superhero comics. Ellis's 2007 title Black Summer , about

2838-727: The company released the Providence Compendium and the Warrior Nun Dora graphic novel, both of which had been crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2020. Avatar also released a new Jungle Fantasy Fauna series under the Boundless imprint in 2021. No new issues of Jungle Fantasy Fauna were published in 2022, but the fifth issue is solicited for December 2023. Meanwhile both Avatar and Boundless continue to solicit reprints and bundles of previously published material and Bleeding Cool continues to operate. Bleeding Cool Bleeding Cool

2924-563: The company's earlier bad girl titles. Avatar also licensed comic book adaptations of famous science-fiction and horror movies and television shows, such as RoboCop , Stargate , Night of the Living Dead , A Nightmare on Elm Street , Friday the 13th and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre . The company launched the comic book and pop culture news site Bleeding Cool in 2009 with Rich Johnston as head writer and Mark Seiffert as managing editor. Moore expanded his output for Avatar over

3010-628: The company's flagship character, appearing in crossovers with numerous other "bad girl" characters, including Hellina , Razor , Lady Death , Shotgun Mary , and Widow . In 2000, Avatar Press began publishing comics featuring characters licensed from Rob Liefeld 's defunct Awesome Comics company, including Avengelyne and The Coven . The next year, Avatar began publishing previously unreleased issues of Glory written by Moore and originally intended for Awesome. More works by Moore followed, including adaptations of his prose stories and song lyrics, such as Alan Moore's Magic Words, and reprints such as

3096-436: The company's rejection letter on the wall of his office, which reads in its December 14, 1982 print: "We have reviewed the script you have submitted, A Nightmare on Elm Street . Unfortunately, the script did not receive an enthusiastic enough response from us to go forward at this time. However, when you have a finished print, please get in touch and we would be delighted to screen it for a possible negative pick up." Finally,

3182-479: The course of the 2010s. In need of quick money to pay a tax bill, Moore created a new comic book mini-series for Avatar called Neonomicon . The series was published in 2010 and featured art by Jacen Burrows . Much of what Moore says will be his final comics work before retiring from the medium was published by Avatar Press, including Crossed +100 , Providence , and Cinema Purgatorio . Avatar continued to expand its line-up of titles from high profile writers in

3268-533: The dark places in his mind. Robert understood Freddy." Englund has stated that Craven was indeed in search of a "big, giant man" originally, but casting director Annette Benson had talked Craven into seeing him about the role after Englund had auditioned for National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982) previously. Before Englund's agent at the time, Joe Rice, sent him to the casting office, Rice's friend Rhet Topham recommended Englund to act "rat-like", "weasel-like", adding that "When we read about abusers and molesters in

3354-432: The disfigured man who attacks her; in real life, Rod sees her fatally slashed by an unseen force, forcing him to flee. Nancy and Glen find Tina bloodied and dead. Nancy's policeman father, Don Thompson, arrests Rod despite his pleas of innocence. At school, Nancy falls asleep in class and dreams that the man chases her to the boiler room. She deliberately burns her arm on a pipe, which startles her awake in class, and notices

3440-402: The driver's seat, and we thought up about five different endings. The one we used, with Freddy pulling the mother through the doorway amused us all so much, we couldn't not use it. Craven explains that the effect of the mentioned fog did not work out for the team and they had to film without it: there were around 20 persons with fog machines, but the breeze at the time was too much, and the fog

3526-619: The early 2010s, adding books like Kieron Gillen 's Uber and Jonathan Hickman 's God Is Dead , both in 2013. In 2016, Comics Alliance described Uber as "the backbone of Avatar Press' overall line" and "one of the publisher's most well-received and critically acclaimed comics." In 2013, Delano said he wouldn't do any " and further work for Avatar after the company sold a "torture" variant cover depicting sexual violence towards women for an issue of Crossed he wrote. Later that year comics journalist Heidi MacDonald criticized Avatar's "torture" covers in general, asking "what kind of person buys

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3612-403: The film crew constructed a whole sleeping place for Freddy, showing that he was quite a hobo , an outcast and reject from society, living and sleeping where he worked, and surrounding himself with naked Barbie dolls and other things as a showcase of his fantasies and perversions. This place was supposed to be where he forged his glove and abducted and murdered his victims. The scene where Nancy

3698-543: The film is 1428 Elm Street ; in real life this house is a private home located in Los Angeles at 1428 North Genesee Avenue. The Lantz' family home was at 1419 North Genesee Avenue on the other side of the road. The boiler room scenes and police station interior were shot in the Lincoln Heights Jail (closed since 1965) building, while the exterior used for the police station was Cahuenga Branch Library . Rod's burial

3784-467: The film picture and sound restored (DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, and original mono audio track) and another DVD with special features. Along with the restored version of the film, DVD one also had two commentaries, and other nightmares (if not all) from the film's sequels (two through seven and Freddy Vs. Jason ). It also included additional, extended or alternate scenes of the film, such as one scene where Marge reveals to Nancy that she had another sibling who

3870-405: The fledgling and independent New Line Cinema corporation, which had up to that point only distributed films, agreed to produce the film. During filming, New Line's distribution deal for the film fell through and for two weeks it was unable to pay its cast and crew.Although New Line has gone on to make bigger and more profitable films, A Nightmare on Elm Street was its first commercial success and

3956-448: The franchise soundtracks excluding the remake and again in 2016 in the 12-CD box Little Box of Horror with various other horror film scores. Bernstein's film score was also re-released in 2017, along with the soundtracks of the first seven films, on the label Death Waltz Recording Company in another 8-LP vinyl box set named A Nightmare On Elm Street: Box Of Souls . In 2017 and 2019, the label also released standalone extended versions of

4042-618: The graphic novel A Small Killing . Avatar soon attracted other critically acclaimed writers such as Garth Ennis , Jamie Delano , and Mark Millar . Ennis became a particularly active writer for the company. He brought his series Dicks with John McCrea over from Caliber Comics in 2002, then wrote a series of new titles, including 303 in 2004, Chronicles of Wormwood in 2006, Crossed in 2008, and Stitched in 2012. He brought his series War Stories , previously published under DC's Vertigo imprint, to Avatar in 2014. Ellis continued to publish material through Avatar as well. In 2004,

4128-416: The hell is going on, and they drive off into the fog, with the mother left standing on the doorstep and that's it. It was very brief, and suggestive that maybe life is sort of dream-like too. Shaye wanted Freddy Krueger to be driving the car, and have the kids screaming. It all became very negative. I felt a philosophical tension to my ending. Shaye said, "That's so 60s, it's stupid." I refused to have Freddy in

4214-417: The house and grabs Krueger out of her dream and into the real world. The booby traps allow her to light him on fire and lock him in the basement. The police arrive to find that Krueger has escaped from the basement. Nancy and Don find a burning Krueger smothering Marge in her bedroom. After Don extinguishes the fire, Krueger and Marge vanish into the bed before Krueger rises behind Nancy. Realizing that Krueger

4300-417: The imaginary and real", toying with audience perceptions. A Nightmare on Elm Street was released on November 9, 1984, in limited theaters until its nationwide theatrical release on November 16, 1984, and grossed $ 57.1 million worldwide. The film received critical acclaim upon its release, and has since been considered to be one of the greatest horror films ever made . In 2021, A Nightmare on Elm Street

4386-477: The inspiration for the film to be a 1968 student film project made by Craven's students at Clarkson University . The student film parodied contemporary horror films, and was filmed along Elm Street in Potsdam, New York . The film's villain, Freddy Krueger, is drawn from Craven's early life. One night, a young Craven saw an elderly man walking on the sidepath outside the window of his home. The man stopped to glance at

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4472-411: The killer should use something other than a knife because it was too common. "So I thought, 'How about a glove with steak knives?' I gave the idea to our special effects guy, Jim Doyle." Ultimately two models of the glove were built: the hero glove that was only used whenever anything needed to be cut, and the stunt glove that was less likely to cause injury. For a time, Craven had considered a sickle as

4558-467: The men died in their sleep soon after. Medical authorities called the phenomenon Asian Death Syndrome. The condition afflicted men between the ages of 19 and 57 and was believed to be sudden unexplained death syndrome or Brugada syndrome or both. Craven stated, "It was a series of articles in the LA Times ; three small articles about men from South East Asia, who were from immigrant families and had died in

4644-427: The middle of nightmares—and the paper never correlated them, never said, 'Hey, we've had another story like this." The 1970s pop song " Dream Weaver " by Gary Wright sealed the story for Craven, giving him not only an artistic setting to jump off from, but a synthesizer riff for the movie soundtrack. Craven has also stated that he drew some inspiration for the film from Eastern religions . Other sources attribute

4730-416: The newspaper, they're not big, hulking men, but weasels. I thought he should go in and play it like that. And it worked!". Englund had darkened his lower eyelids with cigarette ash on his way to the audition and slicked his hair back. "I looked strange. I sat there and listened to Wes talk. He was tall and preppy and erudite. I posed a bit, like Klaus Kinski , and that was the audition," he said later. He took

4816-454: The original budget. Four weeks before production began, the English investor who had contributed 40% backed out, but Media Home Entertainment added in another 40% to the budget. Among the backers were also Heron Communications and Smart Egg Pictures. According to producer Robert Shaye , all the film's original investors backed out at one point or another during pre-production. The original budget

4902-536: The parents are visited upon the children, but the fact that each child is not necessarily stuck with their lot is still there." Robert Englund observes that "in Nightmare , all the adults are damaged: They're alcoholic, they're on pills, they're not around". Blakley says the parents in the film "verge on being villains." Englund adds: "the adolescents have to wade through that, and Heather is the last girl standing. She lives. She defeats Freddy." Langenkamp agrees: " Nightmare

4988-401: The part because it was the only project that fit his schedule during the hiatus between the V miniseries and series. Craven said he wanted someone very non-Hollywood for the role of Nancy, and he believed Langenkamp met this quality. Langenkamp, who had appeared in several commercials and a TV film, had taken time off from her studies at Stanford to continue acting. Eventually she landed

5074-630: The part, but I do think Wes made the right choice". Hodder would in a way eventually play Freddy, as the hand that grabs Jason's mask at the epilogue in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993). Wes Craven explains that: "I couldn't find an actor to play Freddy Krueger with the sense of ferocity I was seeking", Craven recalled on the film's 30th anniversary. "Everyone was too quiet, too compassionate towards children. Then Robert Englund auditioned. [He] wasn't as tall I'd hoped, and he had baby fat on his face, but he impressed me with his willingness to go to

5160-449: The red water poured out in an unexpected way and caused the rotating room to spin. Much of the water spilled out of the bedroom window covering Craven and Langenkamp. Earth's gravity was also used to film another take for the TV version in which a skeleton shoots out from the hollowed out bed and smashes into the "ceiling". More work was done for Freddy's boiler room than made it into the film;

5246-553: The role but allegedly wanted too much money. Anette Benson states that they did in fact offer the part to Sheen but he passed on it due to his agent demanding twice the weekly wage of $ 1,142 for Sheen, which New Line Cinema did not consider themselves to have the budget for. Sheen himself objects to the sentiment that he turned down the role for the reason of money, saying: I didn't price myself out of it because I didn't get greedy until years later. That came much later. I just didn't get it, and I've never been more wrong about interpreting

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5332-460: The role of Glen Lantz and claimed that the auditioners had been winnowed down to him and Johnny Depp before Depp got the role. Other actors like John Cusack , Jon Cryer , Brad Pitt , Kiefer Sutherland , Nicolas Cage , and C. Thomas Howell have been mentioned over the years, but Anette Benson has failed to definitely recall those actors as having been among the auditioners. Though Cage had probably not auditioned for A Nightmare on Elm Street , he

5418-453: The role of Glen was originally written as a "big, blond, beach-jock, football-player guy", far from his own appearance, but Wes Craven's daughters picked Depp's headshot from the set he showed them. Depp got his own nod in a cameo role in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare as a man on TV and later in the Freddy vs. Jason intro, in clips from earlier films. Charlie Sheen was considered for

5504-665: The role of Nancy Thompson after an open audition, beating out more than 200 actresses. Langenkamp was already known to Anette Benson as she had auditioned for Night of the Comet and The Last Starfighter previously, losing out to Catherine Mary Stewart at both occasions. Demi Moore , Courteney Cox , Tracey Gold , and Jennifer Grey have all been rumoured to have auditioned for A Nightmare on Elm Street , but Benson definitely ruled out Moore and Cox while also being unsure of Gold and Grey. Langenkamp returned as Nancy in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), and also played

5590-408: The scene where his face and hands that stretch through the wall and reach out for Nancy when she dreams; the wall was built by Doyle out of spandex . In the scene where Freddy walks through the prison bars to threaten Rod as seen by Nancy, Wes Craven explains that, "we took triangulations of the camera so we knew exactly the height of it from the floor and the angle towards the point where the killer

5676-406: The scenes, the cameraman and Craven himself were mounted in fixed seats taken from a Datsun B-210 car while the set rotated. The film crew inverted the set and attached the camera so that it looked like the room was right side up, then they poured the red water into the room. They used dyed water because the special effects blood did not have the right look for a geyser. During filming of this scene,

5762-420: The soundtrack with many snippets that were left out of the original releases. The lyrics for Freddy's theme song, sung by the jumprope children throughout the series and based on " One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ", was already written and included in the script when Bernstein started writing the soundtrack, while the melody for it was not set by Bernstein, but by Heather Langenkamp's boyfriend and soon-to-be husband at

5848-408: The story that writer/editor C.B. Cebulski , who had recently been promoted to Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics , had written a number of Japanese-themed stories for Marvel in 2003 and 2004 under the pseudonym Akira Yoshida, which led to accusations of cultural appropriation , yellowfacing , and "Orientalist profiteering". The site has published regular work by writers including: Bleeding Cool

5934-548: The studio is often referred to as "The House That Freddy Built". New Line Cinema lacked the financial resources for the production themselves and so had to turn to external financiers. They found two investors in England who each contributed 40% and 30% respectively to the necessary funds; one of the producers of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre contributed 10%, and home video distributor Media Home Entertainment contributed 20% of

6020-514: The time, Alan Pasqua , who was a musician himself. Bernstein integrated Pasqua's contribution into his soundtrack as he saw fit. One of the three girls who recorded the vocal part of the theme was Robert Shaye's then-14-year-old daughter. Freddy exclusively attacks teenagers and his actions have been interpreted as symbolic of the often traumatic experiences of adolescence. Nancy, like the archetypal teenager, experiences social anxiety and her relationship with her parents becomes strained. Sexuality

6106-438: The twist ending. As a result, Craven who never wanted the film to be an ongoing franchise, did not work on the first sequel, Freddy's Revenge (1985). Filming wrapped at the end of July, and the film was rushed to get ready for its November release. The film score was written by composer Charles Bernstein and first released in 1984 on label Varèse Sarabande . The label re-released the soundtrack in 2015 in an 8-CD box for

6192-407: The weapon of choice for the killer, but around the third or fourth drafts of the script, the iconic glove had become his final choice. Wes Craven began writing the screenplay for A Nightmare on Elm Street around 1981, after he had finished production on Swamp Thing (1982). He pitched it to several studios, but each one of them rejected it for different reasons. The first studio to show interest

6278-445: Was Walt Disney Productions , although they wanted Craven to tone down the content to make it suitable for children and preteens as a family-friendly PG-13 film; Craven declined. Another studio Craven pitched to was Paramount Pictures , which passed on the project due to its similarity to Dreamscape (1984). Universal Studios also passed; Craven, who was in desperate personal and financial straits during this period, later framed

6364-410: Was $ 700,000. "It ended up at $ 1.1 million ... half the funding came from a Yugoslavian guy who had a girlfriend he wanted in movies." Actor David Warner was originally cast to play Freddy. Make-up tests were done, but he had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. Replacing him was difficult at first. Kane Hodder , who would later be best known for playing fellow slasher icon Jason Voorhees ,

6450-448: Was a blind item that did not name the victim or accused, four years later, Bleeding Cool named Berganza when it accused him of sexual harassment, and detailed how he had risen in the ranks at DC even after the accusations became known to his employers. This was followed by a November 2017 BuzzFeed report on accusations leveled against Berganza by several women that led to his termination from DC. In November 2017, Bleeding Cool broke

6536-412: Was also credited as "managing editor," among other roles, at London Night Studios in 1995 and 1996. Avatar began publishing at the end of the 1990s comic book speculation boom and bust , when many publishers and retailers were going out of business, yet the company expanded, publishing titles by creators such as Mike Wolfer , David Quinn , Tim Vigil , Eric Powell , and Warren Ellis . Pandora became

6622-553: Was among those who Wes Craven talked with about the role of Freddy. According to Hodder, "I had a meeting with Wes Craven about playing a character he was developing called Freddy Krueger. At the time, Wes wasn't sure what kind of person he wanted for the role of Freddy, so I had as good a shot as anybody else. He was initially thinking of a big guy for the part, and he was also thinking of somebody who had real burn scars. But obviously, he changed his whole line of thinking and went with Robert Englund, who's smaller. I would have loved to play

6708-540: Was edited to an M rating , but the VHS home video was released uncut in 1985 with an Australian R rating. The uncut version would not see a release in the United States until the 1996 Elite Entertainment Laserdisc release. All DVD, digital, and Blu-ray releases use the R-rated theatrical version; the uncut version would not be released on a digital format until 2024, though six seconds had previously been restored for home video and

6794-462: Was eventually released on Laserdisc . It has since been released on DVD , first in 1999 in the United States as part of the Nightmare on Elm Street Collection box set (along with the other six sequels), and once again in a restored Infinifilm special edition in 2006, containing various special features with contributions from Wes Craven, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon and the director of photography. The special edition consisted of two DVDs, one with

6880-516: Was filmed at Evergreen Cemetery . The American Jewish University on 15600 Mulholland Drive was used for the Katja Institute for the Study of Sleep Disorders visited by Marge and Nancy. During production, over 500 gallons of fake blood were used for special effects production. For the blood geyser sequence, the filmmakers used the same revolving room set that was used for Tina's death. While filming

6966-462: Was going to walk through", and then "we put the camera again at the exact height and walked the actor through that space. Then those two images were married and a rotoscope artist went through and matted out the bars so it appeared they were going straight through his body." Jsu Garcia , who was cast as Rod and credited as Nick Corri, says the production was difficult for him. He was dealing with depression due to recent homelessness by snorting heroin in

7052-408: Was gone before they had the opportunity to film the intendedly foggy scene. Though several variants of an end scene were considered and filmed, Heather Langenkamp states that "there always was this sense that Freddy was the car", while according to Sara Risher, "it was always Wes' idea to pan to the little girls' jumping rope". Both a happy ending and a twist ending were filmed, but the final film used

7138-546: Was in fact involved in introducing Johnny Depp to acting, through Cage's own agent who introduced Benson to him, resulting in an audition for the film. Principal photography began on June 11, 1984, and lasted a total of 32 days, in and around Los Angeles, California. The high school the protagonists attend was filmed at John Marshall High School , where many other productions such as Grease and Pretty in Pink have been filmed. The fictional street address of Nancy's house in

7224-547: Was nominated for the "Favourite Comics Related Website" Eagle Award in 2010 and 2011 and won in 2012. It was named as one of PC Magazine 's top blogs of 2010 and Technorati gave it a perfect 1000 score for influence in the comics category in 2011. Johnston was awarded the Shel Dorf Award for Best Comics Blogger for his work on Bleeding Cool in 2012. He was also nominated in 2011 and 2013. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 film) A Nightmare on Elm Street

7310-458: Was one of the first films produced by New Line Cinema , who by that point mostly distributed films, leading the company to become a successful mini-major film studio and earning it the nickname "The House that Freddy Built". The film is credited with carrying on many tropes found in low-budget horror films of the 1970s and 1980s, originating in John Carpenter 's Halloween (1978), including

7396-596: Was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film spawned a franchise consisting of six sequels, a television series, a crossover with Friday the 13th , various other merchandise, and a remake of the same name . The film was followed by A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985). Teenager Tina Gray awakens from

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