A Nightmare on Elm Street Blog 3: The Final Nightmare
Just listening to the latest MuppetCast episode (show #72) and all of a sudden Steve Swanson (the host) is reading another one of my emails. In this particular read, he also mentions my blog, so for anyone new tot his blog that came on here from the MuppetCast, Welcome! I am sure I will have numerous posts about Muppet realted things, but if you enjoy movies you will enjoy my blog.
Anyways, back to the Nightmare on Elm Street series. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: Dream Master is the next movie in the series. Kristen (played by Tuesday Knight this time), Joey, and Kincaid, have been released from the mental hospital and are now living normal lives and attending high school. Kristen has managed to make some new friends: Alice, who is a bright, young girl and frequent daydreamer; Sheila, a brainy, quiet girl with asthma; and Debbie, a tough girl who hates bugs for some reason. She has also found herself a boyfriend, Rick, who happens to be Alice’s brother and is extremely obnoxious and knows karate. Kristen begins to have bad dreams and feels as though Freddy has once again come back from the dead. She then pulls Kincaid and Joey into her dream, which then leads to their deaths and Kristen’s. Freddy is back! Right before Kristen dies, some how she sends her power to pull people into dreams to Alice. Then Alice’s friends begin the be picked off one by one. The only cool deaths in this one are when Sheila gets all her insides sucked out and when Debbie is turned into a bug. Alice somehow figures out that this rhyme called “The Dream Master” will destroy Freddy by making him see the true evil inside him and set the souls free. At the end, Alice and Dan (now her boyfriend) are by a pond and Alice makes a wish. As they walk away Freddy’s image appears in the ripples left in the fountain from the tossed coin.
This film isn’t as good as 1 and 3, but is better than 2. Freddy is getting more campy and comical, but its still gruesome and funny. Most of the new characters this time aren’t great, but i like the character Alice and i was glad her lame brother dies. The next film, Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child, takes place a year later as Alice and Dan are graduating high school. Alice is starting to have nightmares again, but of an asylum and she see’s Amanda Krueger being locked in a room full of maniacs. She then sees Amanda giving birth on a table. The baby breaks free from the doctors and escapes the room. Alice follows it into the same church Alice had defeated Freddy in before. Before she can stop him, the baby finds Freddy’s clothes and quickly grows into an adult. Amanda shows up to help Alice, but she’s disrupted when Freddy slams the church doors closed on her. Freddy’s back again. Dan is on the road and falls asleep and in his sleep Freddy kills him. Alice then finds out she is pregnant with Dan’s baby, but little does she know that Freddy is using her unborn baby’s dreams to get into here friends dreams. Alice sees here unborn child (at like age 7) in here dreams and he helps her defeat Freddy. This one is to me the worst of the series and i do not really want to discuss it any more.
Now onto Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare…which like this blog, isn’t really the last in this series. Freddy Krueger has somehow returned again and has been successful in killing almost all of the Elm Street kids in Springwood. Only one survivor remains, John Doe, a boy who Freddy use’s to track down his child. Freddy drops John off at a place for troubled teens where he meets some new friends and a doctor named Maggie. To find out more on John, Maggie takes him to Springwood, not knowing the other 3 kids are in the van too. Once there we find out that Freddy had a daughter back when he was alive. That daughter just so happens so be Maggie. Everyone is killed in Springwood except Maggie and this other girl Tacy. They go back to the shelter and run in to Doc, who is the only one who remembers anything because he figured out how to control his dreams. Doc tells Maggie that he found out in his dream that Freddy is using her to get to another town to kill more teens. Doc also discovers Freddy’s power comes from the dream demons who continually revive him, and that Freddy can be killed if he’s pulled into the real world. Maggie decides to get dear old dad and goes into dream world with 3D glasses on. The next 10 min. of the movie are actually in 3D and it is pretty sweet, especially any scene with pointy objects, Freddy’s glove, and the dream demons. Maggie pulls Freddy into the real world and they have a fist fight. She then stabs him with his own glove and sticks a pipe bomb in him as she says “Happy Fathers Day” and Freddy says “Kids…”. As Maggie escapes the explosion she says “Freddy’s Dead!” The movie ends and they show a montage of all the deaths through out the film series history.
Though we now think he is dead after 7 years of killing (1984-1991), we are dead wrong. Three years later Wes Craven returns to his original creation for, what might be the best film in the series. And after that, Freddy faces off against another horror icon….Jason! BoombaSnake out!!
A Nightmare on Elm Street Blog 2
Well I just got done watching some recent episodes of Tom Green and for some reason I felt the need to blog as well. For those of you that don’t know Tom Green still has a show that is online at www.tomgreen.com and on The Canadian Comedy Network. The show is Tom Green’s House tonight, it is actually filmed in his house and he has some pretty awesome guests on there. I highly recommend the Fred Durst episode because you won’t believe that it’s Fred Durst. Anyways, on to the main topic of this post The Nightmare on Elm Street film series.
Last time I mainly talked about the first movie and how I think that Freddy is one of the greatest villains ever. I also forgot to mention that the first Nightmare was Johnny Depp’s first movie. Well now I would like to go into my thoughts on the sequel and the upcoming remake of this movie. As these movies went on they did get very campy (with the exception of New Nightmare and maybe Nightmare Part 5), but they still had very inventive death scenes and you learned more about Freddy’s past. At the end of the first movie Nancy realizes that she cam bring Freddy through to the real world by holding onto him as she wakes up. She does this and shows him that she is not afraid which drains his power and “kills him.” The next morning we assume everything was a dream until Freddy posses the car she is in and her mom is pulled through a window by a claw.
Now the second movie takes place 5 years after the events of the first one and we are ntroduced to Jesse who has moved into Nancy’s old house. This is the only movie in the series that doesn’t afterwards because they pretty much act like it almost never happened. Granted this movie is kind of lame and might be my least favorite in the series, but it had some good things about it too. The scene where Freddy comes out of Jesse is an amazing and extremely scary sequence, the way he just starts bursting out of his body is nuts. But the one thing i hate about this film is that nothing really happens in anyones nightmares, just Jesse’s. Freddy only uses Jesse to get to the other kids, and I don’t understand how at the end when Freddy attacks at the pool party, just how he was now scene in the real world but had like supernatural powers still. I mean i understand he used Jesse, but it was not explained well. Also, the way the “kill” Freddy in this one is just blah and I won’t even explain it.
Next, we have Nightmare Part 3: Dream Warriors, which features an “awesome” them song by Dokken with the song title the same as the movie. I highly suggest looking the music video up on YouTube, it’s very funny. Anyways, we kind of get back in the whole nightmare groove again when were introduced to Kristen, who sees the house from the first 2 movies in her dreams and freaks out. This movie also takes place 6 years after the original. She is then taken to some sort of mental institute, after a nightmare she has where her wrists a slit, where there are kids with similar dreams being kept there. Here we also are re-introduced to Nancy from the first movie. Anyways, I enjoyed all of the characters in this movie and thought the concept was really cool how they could connect there dreams and battle Freddy there with these “powers” they had only in there dreams. It gets corny when the one doctor (who’s name I don’t feel like looking up) and Nancy’s dad are burying Freddy’s bones and then his skeleton comes alive, but granted the effects aren’t the best due to the time period. The other kids who join Kristen to fight Freddy are Joey, Kincaid, Jennifer, Will, Philip, and Taryn. Also, the character Kincaid seemed to me like a fat (maybe straight) version of Lamar from Revenge of the Nerds, but maybe thats just me. Anyways, inside the dreamworld Nancy dies, but soon after the doctor buries Freddy’s bones and throws holy water on them, which burns Freddy and bright light pours out from within his body. The doctor takes a crucifix from his pocket and places it on the skull. A cross shape is burned into Freddy’s head, killing him.At the end, the doctor falls asleep with a toy of Nancy’s house next to his head, and the lights suddenly come on in it, just before the credits roll.
Nightmare part 3 also has one of my favorite Freddy lines. It is when he kills Jennifer and right before he smashes her head into the TV he says “Welcome to prime-time bitch!” Alright, I need some sleep, hopefully I will finish the whole Nightmare series next post, since the others wont be so in-depth. BoombaSnake out!
A Nightmare on Elm Street Blog 1
Like I said in the last post, I recently picked up the box set of A Nightmare on Elm Street. I love these movies and to me Freddy Krueger is my favorite villain EVER. I will get to that either later in this post or in a later one. In this first post about the Nightmare franchise I would like to give some thoughts on the first film in this series.
For anyone who doesn’t know what the series is about, I’ll give you a little plot synopsis. The franchise is based on the fictional character of Freddy Krueger, who wears a glove with knives on it and stalks and kills teenagers in their dreams; if Freddy kills the teenager in the dream world then they are ultimately killed in the real world. His motives were to seek revenge on their parents, who had burned him alive years before the events of the first Nightmare film. The first movie came out in 1984 and was created by Wes Craven. After the success of the first movie came 6 sequels (not including Freddy vs Jason); even though the movies got campier as they went on, they still had some god things about them. This film series can also be credited to the rise of New Line Films. Also, if you need some help remembering things about this movie or want to know more about it check out the Wikipedia page on the film, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_nightmare_on_elm_street.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is easily one of my favorite horror movies ever. This is a movie i still get kind of scared from, the fact that you could go to sleep and then die in your dreams is one of the craziest things ever. I learned that Wes Craven actually came up with the idea from some true stories of a small group of kids in India not wanting to sleep do to fear of dying in there sleep and once they did they died. Most slasher movies at the time were just here is a guy who is going to kill people with a knife and I am not trying to knock Jason, Leatherface, or Michael Myers, but Freddy’s style of killing is so unique. The deaths in the first film are so creative and unlike anything done before it’s time. I remember seeing this when i was younger being so freaked out seeing Tina being dragged across the walls and ceiling. Something else that also scared me shitless was Freddy’s look. Wow for the budget they had, the make-up effects on Freddy were amazing.
Speaking of Freddy, he is easily my favorite villain from any movie ever. He is a cocky, sadistic asshole who just doesn’t care what anyone tries to do to him because he will just find some way to come back and kill some more. Whether its in their nightmares, coming out through someone else’s body, or even using an unborn babies dreams, the man just doesn’t give up. He is pure evil; I’d say even more evil that Pinhead and the Cenobites from Hellraiser, which is another film I’m sure I will discuss sometime on here. Also, Freddy’s look is almost just as iconic as his habits. The glove, the sweater, the hat, and his nasty burnt skin, they are all so recognizable. I also love how Freddy loves to crack jokes and be goofy while killing his prey. Even though some of the jokes got cornier, they were still amazing and the way he killed was like no other.
Ok, enough about Freddy for now, I need to get some sleep. The next post will be a little more on the Nightmare series. BoombaSnake out!
Thunder Casts
In this post I would like to discuss two things : 1) Tropic Thunder and 2) podcasts.
1)This past Thursday I went and saw Tropic Thunder. Now the week before I had seen Pineapple Express and thought that I had seen the funniest movie of the year so far, that was until I witnessed the amazingness that was Tropic Thunder. (Warning Some SPOILERS) This movie kicks ass on all over the place and I cannot wait until I see it again. Everyone in this movie gives a superb performance, there wasn’t a point in the movie when I wasn’t laughing. While everyone in this film was funny, two actors really stole the show. The first was Robert Downey Jr, who played a black man so well and it was so amazing how his character (Kirk Lazerous) was always in character as a black man. The lines he delivered were so amazing, especially the scene where the gang leader was asking where his farm was. The line “Here’s my farm mother fuckers!” had me laughing so hard. The other actor who I was talking about was Tom Cruise. I cannot remember the last time Tom Cruise was in a comedy, but wow….thats really all I can say is wow. He was so funny in this movie and I had no clue his role was going to be as big as it was. All in all I truly loved Tropic Thunder, it is easily the funniest movie of the year so far and I really don’t think there will be one funnier.
2) Something else I would like to discuss is some podcasts that I listen to and figured if there is anyone reading this blog, maybe they could check them out too. I thoroughly enjoy four podcasts through IGN. The four I listen to are Keepin’ It Reel (the IGN movies podcast), DVD Digigods (DVD podcast), Nintendo Voice Chat (IGN Nintendo Team), and Channel Surfing (IGN’s TV podcast). Everyone on all four of these are great to listen to and have a lot of interesting opinions about the issues the discuss. Also, from time to time people from these various podcasts show up on some of these other IGN podcasts. Other podcasts I enjoy is the SlashFilm Cast, which features the guys over at SlashFilm.com, SideScrollers, which features the gang over at ScrewAttack.com, and Remember When with Jay and Paris, from Uncle Gamer Radio. But my two favorite podcasts have to be Kevin Smith’s Smodcast and The MuppetCast with Steve Swanson. I am a huge Kevin Smith fan and frankly he inspires me to make movies and to write this blog, and I am also a huge Muppet fan and have a lot of respect for Steve for putting so much dedication into doing something he loves.
Ok i have gone on to much of a rant, so I am going to stop now. My next couple posts will be about the film series A Nightmare on Elm Street, because i recently picked up the box set of all 7 movies and feel the need to talk about them. BoombaSnake out!
An Introduction to Me…
I am new to this whole blog thing, but have always wanted to express my opinions and what-not on the internet so here we go. First, I would like to tell you a little about myself. I am a 21 year old male who lives in Illinois and am currently attending Joliet Junior College. I love movies…I love them so much, I am obsessed with them. My stacks of DVD’s are getting outrageous and I need to invest in some sort of shelf or stand for them. Anyways, I am sure from that small rant alone that most of my blogs will be about movies, but also I will blog about TV, music, video games, and anything else that sparks my interest. Well, here is to my first ever blog, sorry for making this one short and boring, but it is almost 3 am, so I promise the rest will not be like this.
