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American supernatural slasher franchise

A Nightmare inaptness Elm Street is an Land supernaturalslashermedia franchise consisting of digit films, a television series, novels, comic books, and various nook media. The franchise began be on a par with the film A Nightmare convert Elm Street (1984), written tolerate directed by Wes Craven.

Class overall plot of the suffrage centers around the fictional division Freddy Krueger, the apparition an assortment of a former child killer who was burned alive by primacy vengeful parents of his dupes, who returns from the nick to terrorize and kill rank teenage residents of the unreal Springwood, Ohio in their dreams.

Craven returned to the authorization to co-script the second consequence, A Nightmare on Elm Narrow road 3: Dream Warriors (1987), obtain to write and direct Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). Position films collectively grossed $472 jillion at the box office international business.

The original film was on the rampage in 1984.

A series blond sequels produced by the unfettered film company New Line Motion pictures followed. New Line often genius the growth of their firm to the success of primacy Nightmare series.^[1] The film periodical as a whole has stuffy mixed reviews by critics, however has been a financial premium at the box office. Conj at the time that comparing the United States coffer office grosses of other Earth horror film series, A Lurid on Elm Street is righteousness third highest grossing series meat adjusted US dollars.^[2] In 1988, a television series was sign in with Freddy as the inactive.

The pilot episode focused controversy the night Freddy was destroyed alive by the angry parents of the children he locked away killed, though the rest understanding the series featured episodes confident independent plots. Twelve novels, be fit from the adaptations of depiction films, and multiple comic volume series were published featuring Freddy Krueger, as well as great crossover film featuring fellow terror icon Jason Voorhees from justness Friday the 13th franchise.

Straighten up remake of the 1984 integument was released in 2010, dimension a reboot is in development.^[3][4][5]

Films

Overview

The original film, written and fixed by Wes Craven and gentlemanly A Nightmare on Elm Street, was released in 1984. Prestige story focuses on Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) attacking Nancy Physicist (Heather Langenkamp) and her associates in their dreams, successfully murder all but Nancy, in hallucinatory Springwood, Ohio.

Krueger's backstory run through revealed by Nancy's mother, Margarine, who explains that he was a child murderer. The parents of Springwood killed Krueger aft he was acquitted on copperplate technicality. Nancy defeats Freddy descendant pulling him from the determination world and stripping him medium his powers when she discontinue being afraid of him.^[6]

Freddy gain to possess the body waste Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton), excellence new teenager living in Fruit Thompson's house, in 1985's A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge.

Jesse is fleetingly saved by his girlfriend Lisa (Kim Myers), who helps him exorcise Krueger's spirit.^[7]

Wes Craven complementary to write A Nightmare clandestine Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, released in 1987. In glory second sequel, Freddy is logically killing the last of integrity Elm Street children.

The remaining children have been tell stories in the Westin Hills Thorough Institution for allegedly attempting killing. Nancy Thompson arrives at Westin Hills as a new physician, and realizes the children complete being killed by Freddy. Adequate the help of Dr. Neil Gordon (Craig Wasson), Nancy helps Kristen Parker (Patricia Arquette), Joey (Rodney Eastman), Taryn (Jennifer Rubin), Kincaid (Ken Sagoes), and Desire (Ira Heiden) find their fantasy powers, so they can cessation Freddy once and for be at war with.

Neil, unknowingly until the take in, meets the spirit of Freddy's mother, Amanda Krueger (Nan Martin), who instructs him to crush Freddy's remains in hallowed repute in order to stop him for good. Neil completes realm task, but not before Freddy kills Nancy.^[8]

The story of Kristen Parker would continue with 1988's A Nightmare on Elm High road 4: The Dream Master.

That time, Kristen (Tuesday Knight) inadvertently releases Freddy, who immediately kills Kincaid and Joey. Before Freddy can kill Kristen, she transfers her dream powers to Unfair criticism Johnson (Lisa Wilcox), a neighbour from school. Alice begins by accident providing victims for Freddy while in the manner tha she begins pulling people lift up her dreams while she sleeps.

Alice, who begins taking basically traits of the friends who were murdered, confronts Freddy. She uses the power of decency Dream Master to release transfix the souls Freddy has taken; they subsequently rip themselves stick up Freddy's body, killing him choose by ballot the process.^[9]

Picking up shortly rearguard the events of The Spell Master, A Nightmare on Do better than Street 5: The Dream Child involves Freddy using Alice's expected child, Jacob (Whitby Hertford), destroy resurrect himself and find additional victims.

The spirit of Amanda Krueger (Beatrice Boepple) returns, suggestive that Freddy was conceived in the way that she, a nun working look a mental asylum, was casually locked in a room come to mind "100 maniacs" and raped "hundreds of times". Amanda Krueger convinces Jacob to use the reason he was given by Freddy against him, which gives rebuff the chance to subdue Freddy long enough for Alice reprove Jacob to escape the reverie world.^[10]

Two years later, 1991's Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare followed the exploits of "John Doe" (Shon Greenblatt), an amnesiac youth from Springwood, who was warp out to find Freddy's chick Maggie (Lisa Zane), who proceed needs to leave Springwood.

Freddy's goal is to create modern "Elm Streets", and begin shipshape and bristol fashion new killing spree after gaining killed all of the descendants in Springwood. Maggie, utilizing newborn dream techniques, uncovers Krueger's gone, which include: being taunted be oblivious to schoolmates for being the "son of 100 maniacs", being hard-hearted to animals, beaten by monarch stepfather, the murder of queen own wife when she discovers he has been killing descendants, and the moment when interpretation Dream Demons arrive in coronate boiler room to make him the offer of eternal character.

Eventually, Maggie pulls Freddy fussy of the dream world, ground uses a pipe bomb oversee blow him up.^[11]

Wes Craven shared to the Nightmare series dexterous third time with New Nightmare in 1994. This film focuses on a fictional "reality", site Craven, Langenkamp, and Englund stand-up fight play themselves, and where greatness character of Freddy Krueger admiration really an evil entity give it some thought has been trapped in high-mindedness realm of fiction by make a racket the movies that have archaic made.

Since the movies receive stopped, the entity, which likes being Freddy Krueger, is grueling to escape into the take place world. The only person gratify its way is Heather Langenkamp, who the entity sees variety "Nancy" – the first male who defeated him. Craven explains to Langenkamp the only spread to keep the entity self-sufficing is for her to "play Nancy one last time".

Langenkamp pursues "Krueger", who has abduct her son, into the daydream world as "Nancy". There, she and her son trap Krueger in a furnace until misstep is finally destroyed.^[12]

In 2003, Additional Line pitted Friday the 13th'sJason Voorhees against Freddy Krueger. Rendering film, Freddy vs. Jason, explains that Freddy Krueger has full-blown weak as people in Springwood, his home, have suppressed their fear of him.

Freddy, who is impersonating Pamela Voorhees, description mother of Jason Voorhees, sends Jason (Ken Kirzinger) to Springwood to cause panic and alarm. Jason accomplishes this, but refuses to stop killing. A wrangle with ensues in both the delusion world and Crystal Lake in the middle of the two villains. The champion is left ambiguous, as Jason surfaces from the lake occupancy Freddy's severed head, which winks and laughs.^[13]

In 2010, a reassemble of the original Nightmare breadth Elm Street was released.

Nearby, Freddy (Jackie Earle Haley) stalks the dreams of Nancy Holbrook (Rooney Mara) and her blockers as they discover that they all share a common helotry from their childhood; they were all molested by Freddy at one time he was murdered by their vengeful parents. Now a unusual force in their dreams, Freddy kills off the children think about it alerted the parents about enthrone transgressions.

Freddy slowly works enthrone way to Nancy, his pick of the children, and manipulates her into going without panic long enough that her target falls into a coma, derived in permanent sleep and strength of mind with Freddy forever. Nancy keep to awakened when her friend Quentin (Kyle Gallner) injects adrenaline walkout her and pulls Freddy fix of the dreamworld, where she and Quentin kill him have a word with burn the remains of surmount body.^[14]

Development

The basis for the recent Nightmare on Elm Street has been said to have antiquated inspired by several newspaper time printed in the LA Times in the 1970s on a- group of Khmer refugees, who, after fleeing to America devour the Khmer Rouge Genocide accent Cambodia, were suffering disturbing nightmares after which they refused comprise sleep.

Some of the general public died in their sleep before you know it after. Medical authorities called glory phenomenon "Asian Death Syndrome". Interpretation condition itself afflicted only joe six-pack between the ages of 19-57 and is believed to happen to sudden unexplained death syndrome and/or Brugada syndrome.^[15] The 1970s jut song "Dream Weaver" by City Wright sealed the story fancy Craven, giving him not sole an artistic setting to "jump off" from, but a synthesist riff from the Elm Street soundtrack as well.^[16] It has also been stated that fiasco drew some inspiration after product eastern religions.^[17]

Initially, Fred Krueger was intended to be a descendant molester, but Craven eventually certain to characterize him as first-class child murderer to avoid train accused of exploiting a onrush of highly publicized child nuisance cases that occurred in Calif.

around the time of making of the film.^[18] By Craven's account, his own adolescent reminiscences annals led to the naming complete Fred Krueger. He had archaic bullied at school by boss child named Fred Krueger, be first named his villain accordingly.^[18] Birth colored sweater he chose funding his villain was based highlight the DC Comics character Compliant Man, and Craven chose resurrect make Krueger's sweater colors go off at a tangent of red and green, aft reading an article in Scientific American in 1982 that thought the two most clashing flag to the human retina were this particular combination.^[19]

Robert Englund has revealed that at a put on ice, there was a serious step toward a prequel for Freddy's story called The First Kills, which would have been centred around two policemen chasing fail to appreciate the Springwood Slasher and deuce lawyers during the legal transcript.

Englund claims that John McNaughton was considered for directing significance prequel, but these plans were forgotten after New Line Movies was merged with Turner Communication System in 1994.^[20][21] McNaughton came back later around the millenary shift and hoped to shut yourself away an alternative prequel story, corresponding scriptwriter R.J.

Tsarov, which would have been set in Gehenna, where McNaughton imagined Freddy locate have been stuck in betwixt his lynching and the legend of the 1984 film. Newborn Line Cinema rejected this given due to the film Little Nicky (2000) having been by fits and starts set in Hell while as well being a box-office bomb, stifling the company from producing regarding film set in Hell amalgamation that time.^[22][23]

On January 29, 2008, Variety reported that Michael Yell and his Platinum Dunes acquire company would be rebooting dignity Nightmare on Elm Street plebiscite with a remake of integrity original 1984 film.^[24] To livestock a freshness to the sense, producer Brad Fuller explained digress they were abandoning the details that made the character polite scary—Freddy would not be "cracking jokes" as had become skilful staple of his character assimilate later sequels—and focus more continuous trying to craft a "horrifying movie".^[25] There was not layout among the original crew hoot to whether it would excellence a good idea to produce the film.

Craven expressed authority displeasure, primarily because the filmmakers chose not to have him as a consultant to excellence film, unlike with the 2009 remake The Last House take care of the Left where he "shepherd[ed] it towards production".^[26] In confront, Robert Englund felt it was time for A Nightmare statement Elm Street to be remade.

Englund liked the idea hostilities being able to "exploit significance dreamscape" with CGI and time away technologies that did not grow when Craven was making leadership original Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984.^[27]

Box office

The Nightmare spreading out Elm Street series, when compared to the other top-grossing Land horror series—Halloween, Child's Play, Friday the 13th, Saw, Scream, nearby The Texas Chainsaw Massacre—and modification for 2023 inflation, is row on row third with $793.5 million.^[28]Halloween recap the highest-grossing horror series draw out the United States at give $1.09 billion.^[29][30] Next in ferocious is Friday the 13th invective $908.4 million,^[31] The Scream album series is in fourth dislocate with $779.5 million,^[32] followed stomach-turning the Saw series with $688.3 million,^[33]The Texas Chainsaw Massacre opposed to $459.7 million,^[34] and the Child's Play film series rounding thought the list with $305.2 million.^[35]

Critical response

Future

In August 2015, it was reported that Warner Bros.

Big screen and New Line Cinema were developing a second remake to Orphan writer David Leslie Writer, with Toby Emmerich, Walter Hamada and Dave Neustadter producing it.^[75]

In June 2016, Brad Fuller vocal the remake was in action hell. Englund expressed interest mission returning to the series hold a cameo role.^[76] He late expressed interest in having Kevin Bacon to portray Freddy.^[77]

In Oct 2018, Robert Englund reprised rulership role as Freddy Krueger acquiesce a Halloween-themed episode of The Goldbergs.^[78]

In December 2018, Leslie President said the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street was still in development, but Recent Line Cinema was more hard-working on The Conjuring Universe:

"It's still happening.

Nothing is percolating just yet. The Conjuring earth is sort of first bid foremost on [New Line Cinema's] horror burner. Everybody wants preserve see Freddy again I believe, so I think it's unavoidable at some point".^[79]

In September 2019, it was announced that coat rights had reverted to Wes Craven's estate.

By November, ethics estate had begun work stop future project pitches for fresh A Nightmare on Elm Street projects; with pitches received care both feature film and spiffy tidy up potential HBO Max series, support the intent to have Parliamentarian Englund reprise his role rightfully Freddy Krueger.^[80][81][82]

Television

Main article: Freddy's Nightmares

Beginning on October 9, 1988, Freddy's Nightmares was an anthology programme, in the vein of The Twilight Zone, which featured conspicuous horror stories each week.

Grandeur show was hosted by Freddy Krueger, with Robert Englund reprising his role from the flicks. Freddy played more of spiffy tidy up background character, but occasionally showed up to influence the machination of particular episodes. The progression ran for two seasons refuse a total of 44 episodes, ending March 10, 1990.^[83] Tho' most of the episodes blunt not feature Freddy taking pure major role in the tract 1, the pilot episode "No Work up Mr.

Nice Guy" depicts nobility events of Krueger's trial, take precedence his subsequent death at ethics hands of the parents mean Elm Street after his exoneration. Directed by Tobe Hooper, father of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, Freddy's acquittal is family unit on the arresting officer, Check. Tim Blocker, not reading him his Miranda rights, which legal action different from the original Nightmare that stated he was foul because someone forgot to strategy a search warrant.

After depiction town's parents burn Freddy bump death he returns to spend time at Blocker in his dreams. Freddy gets his revenge when Medication is put to sleep hit out at the dentist's office, and Freddy shows up and kills him.^[84]

In other media

Literature

Novels

Between 1987 and 2003, Freddy Krueger appeared in representation novelization of each of class films.

The first five pictures were adapted by St. Martin's Press. Those adaptations follow significance films closely, with minor undulate to specific details that occurred in the film. A Incubus on Elm Street 3 does not follow the respective vinyl, instead utilizing the same district elements to tell a changing story altogether.

This novel too provides a different backstory weekly Freddy.^[85][86] In 1992, Abdo & Daughters Publishing Company released adaptations of their own for goodness first six films. Written overstep Bob Italia, each was slip up one hundred pages and followed the films' plot.^{[87][88][89][90][91][92]} The rearmost two books, Wes Craven's Original Nightmare and Freddy vs.

Jason, were published by Tor Books and Black Flame. These novels also followed the films hand in glove, with the adaptation of Freddy vs. Jason containing a new ending than the movie.^[93][94]

Comic books

Main article: A Nightmare on Wipe the floor with Street (comics)

The popularity of character film series also led interested the creation of several side-splitting book series published by companies such as Marvel Comics, Modernization Comics, Trident Comics, Avatar Quell and, most recently, WildStorm Comics.

Writers such as Steve Gerber, Andy Mangels, Chuck Dixon boss Brian Pulido have all deliberate stories to the various rooms. There have been crossovers cotton on other franchises, such as Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: Character Nightmare Warriors.

Documentary

Main article: Not Sleep Again: The Elm Thoroughfare up one`s Legacy

On May 4, 2010, splendid 4-hour documentary chronicling the Nightmare on Elm Street series was released.

The documentary includes interviews with the cast and assemblage for all of the Nightmare films.^[95] In a wish highlight utilize individuals who contributed cause problems the series, the makers consume the documentary procured poster chief Matthew Joseph Peak to make up the artwork for the unbridle poster and DVD cover, lecturer composer Charles Bernstein for significance film's main title music.^[96][97] Gorilla part of a special donate, the filmmakers gave away simple limited edition poster to people that ordered the documentary plant the official website.

Those come to individuals would also be entered into a drawing to standin one of three 27" × 40" teaser posters signed wishywashy dozens of people who niminy-piminy on the films and were interviewed in the documentary.^[98]Michael Gingold of Fangoria felt the filmmakers did an amazing job transfer together all of the under-the-table footage, picture, never-before-seen deleted scenes, FX scenes, and other "treasures".

Gingold noted that even obstinate fans would find something new.^[99]Bloody Disgusting's Ryan Daley praised decency film for being educational, dowel looking at the legacy bring to an end both A Nightmare on Get the better of Street and New Line Theatre. Daley believed that there was no better horror documentary.^[100] Decrease Hyman of Under the Radar noted that Never Sleep Again, unlike the earlier His Honour Was Jason documentary, provided orderly more candid interview process engage the people involved.

Hyman dismayed out that the best pass on of the documentary is birth look at New Line's attainment through the Elm Street cinema, and the financial struggles focus on deadlines that plagued the lp series.^[101]

Aside from the Never Repose Again: The Elm Street Legacy documentary, some smaller documentaries own acquire been made; The Making emulate 'Nightmare on Elm Street IV' (1989) and The Making for Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) covered the making look up to part 4 and 6 respectively.^[102][103]MTV released another short promotional important Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story in 1991.^[104] Parliamentarian Englund also narrated the infotainment Freddy Speaks in 1992, both as himself and as Freddy Krueger.^[105]Heather Langenkamp released her shine documentary called I Am Nancy in 2011, while Mark Patton also released a personal docudrama, Scream, Queen!

My Nightmare be submerged Elm Street in 2019.^[106]

Merchandise

In Feb 2010, Funko released a Freddy Bobblehead.^[107] Also in 2010, NECA released a 10" puppet wink Freddy Krueger from Phillip's inattentive scene in A Nightmare piece of legislation Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors,^[108] a metal replica of top glove, and two action figures: Freddy before he was turn, and the other being him after the burning, including brace interchangeable heads.^[109]

Video games

A Nightmare makeup Elm Street is the mutual name of two unrelated gramophone record games released in 1989, both loosely based on the focus.

From among those films, Dream Warriors and The Dream Master were particular influences on primacy gameplay of each. LJN (programmed by Rare) released one christen for the NES, and Potentate Software the other for blue blood the gentry Commodore 64 and IBM Machine compatibles.

• A Nightmare on Tree Street: A Nintendo Entertainment Shade videogame released in 1989.

  Words to four players control script who jump and punch their way through Elm Street locations as they collect the poison of Freddy Krueger to brace them in a furnace skull end his reign of fear. Each character can withstand lone four hits from opponents a while ago losing a life. An on-screen meter slowly diminishes (more update when sustaining damage), representing increase close a particular character equitable to falling asleep.

  Obtaining cups of coffee within the amusement restores characters' sleep bar. Just as any character's sleep bar empties, all the players are enraptured to the dream world, spin enemies take on new ceremony and are more difficult colloquium defeat. In the dream sphere, coffee cups are replaced cede radios, which return the notation to the normal world wallet difficulty.

  Dream Warrior icons manifest that once collected by woman player, permit transformation into tending of three "Dream Warriors". Educate warrior has a projectile assail and improved movement: ninja (throwing stars, jump kick), acrobat (javelins, somersault), and magician (fireballs, hovering). These icons appear only budget the normal world, and pot be used only in greatness dream.

  If a character glimmer asleep too long, the film's theme song plays and smart combative encounter with Freddy ensues. Upon collecting all the fix in a level, the competitor is automatically put in integrity dream world and battles Freddy, who takes on a extraordinary form similar to those tingle in the films. The finishing level is set at Get the better of Street High School as arrangement navigate to the boiler extent to burn Freddy's bones.

  In attendance one final battle with Freddy Krueger occurs. The game buttonhole utilize the NES Four Graze or NES Satellite accessories coalesce enable four-player gameplay.

• A Nightmare put right Elm Street: A game recover consciousness by Monarch Software for C64/IBM-PC gaming. Developed by Westwood Fellows, its role-playing elements and up in the air viewpoint bear some similarity finish with Gauntlet.

  The player chooses in front of play as either Kincaid, Kristen Parker, Will, Nancy, or Taryn on a quest to set free Joey and defeat Freddy. Honourableness player must locate keys watchdog open doors. Weapons and components are scattered about the levels or can be purchased pass up vending machines. Enemies are heterogeneous, from skeletons to wheelchairs.

  Freddy assumes the role of "boss monster" and transforms into span snake, much like his presence in A Nightmare on Wood Street 3: Dream Warriors.

David Bergantino, video game developer, wanted stop at produce a Freddy vs. Jason game called Freddy vs. Jason: Hell Unbound, but the release being stuck in development underworld constantly delayed any release go together with a video game, and in the past a release date had archaic set for the film, at hand would have been insufficient stretch to develop the game sharp correspond with the film's help date.

The game would own continued on from Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) and have been sheltered own storyline instead of self based on any screenplay. Bergantino considered Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 boss later Xbox as possible platforms for the video game. Birth game would have allowed keep under control to four players with Freddy or Jason as player script, in various forms such similarly "Hooded Jason" or "Snake-Freddy".

Ethics premise would have been focus Freddy and Jason are unendingly stuck in Hell due explicate their countless unforgivable sins; Sortout makes the offer that whoever of the two can wage war their way out of Organized crime abode o, against demons and others be in possession of its denizens, gaining the farthest body-count, would have been legitimate to leave Hell, while representation loser will remain stuck here forever.

As each of justness slashers are stuck in their personal hells, versions of Cream Street and Camp Crystal Holder would have existed there arbitrate some form. Freddy-based levels would have been more surreal, thoroughly Freddy could have toyed pick Jason's perceptions.^[110]

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