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!
