Basically Nancy lived, we know this cause she's alive in (the Dream Warriors). Her trick worked but, her mother was still asleep vulnerable to Freddy who slipped into her dream to survive. Mom is seeing Nancy with all her dead friends.
@@ifrankenstein1885 Dasha from Russia? She's also in Canada and I'm fairly certain that George edits for her. If you watch one of her vids, the flow is similar.
I was a 17 year old kid who worked as a projectionist/usher in a theater when this came out. I watched it in a empty theater after hours the night before it officially premiered. To this day it was the only time I was actually scared watching a movie. This movie is a all timer.👍
Well horror movies all had rules that made them not quite as threatening. Don't want to get murdered by Jason? Don't go to Crystal Lake. Don't want to be killed by The Thing? Don't go to Antarctica. But with Nightmare on Elm Street, he killed you if you slept....good luck not dong that.
Wes Craven and Sam Raimi used to reference each other's work in their movies. The first Evil Dead had a Hills Have Eyes poster in the background, in this one Nancy watches the Evil Dead before falling asleep. Later on in Evil Dead 2, you can see Freddy's glove hanging on a wall. That's some wholesome horror community moment right there. Also, you guys should watch the Evil Dead trilogy asap, some truly great stuff.
"Turning down the bed" just means to "turn down" (fold over) the covers so that it's easy to slip under them. Also, the title of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is play on "The Night Before Christmas", a famous poem by Clement Moore.
Fun fact: The doctor in the sleep clinic is actually the voice of Roger Rabbit. Also, the reason they chose "the Christmas Sweater" is because those two colors put side by side are supposed to be painful on the human eye.
Well,there's more to it.The studios would cast adult actors for teenage roles because of child labor laws.Underage kids could only work a certain amount of time during the day.
@@greggburke3770 at least my mom knows how to spell Greg properly. Do u have to say the g on the end twice or for longer?? Or did you smell like rotten egg when u was born 🤷♂️🍳
Fun fact: Wes Craven went EVERYWHERE to find a company to produce this film... Even *Disney!* Disney almost said yes but on the condition that Wes tone down the language and violence. Wes said "no" and went with an smaller studio names New Line Cinema instead. In answer to this, Disney created their own horror icon named Mr Boogedy... He got two made for TV films and was never spoken of since!
There's a lot of cool behind the scenes stuff out there about this film. Some of it shared in other comments. The Tina and Glenn kills were done using the same special set they built (for Tina). It was a room built to be able to turn completely upside down, which caused actors and crew to get sick with vertigo because it was so disorienting. For Glenn's death, they dumped so much fake blood into the room, and didn't fully take into account the extra weight, that it almost caused a massive, dangerous disaster on set. Instead, we got a couple of great horror set pieces from it! Great reaction, folks.
Fun fact about this movie, Johnny Depp auditioned for this movie as his first movie because his best friend at the time (Nicholas Cage) suggested he'd do it. Johnny at the time was planning to be a musician at the time.
He wasn't "planning", he HAS BEEN a musician. He played in clubs since he was a young teenager, he played on weddings etc.... he moved to California because his Florida band wanted some Hollywood success... well, they split up instead. That's when Nic Cage came up with his idea... Johnny felt doing movies like this one was pretty easy earned money so he did some more... it took awhile to accept that he is an actor.
The look on George’s face as he tries to figure out Simone’s intro is worth the price of admission alone. Simone, you may think the intros are silly, but never stop doing them, they’re great!
I had the pleasure of meeting Robert Englund in the early 90's when I was in my late teens. One of the absolute nicest people that I've ever met in my life. I not only was able to get this autograph, but he also talked to me for a couple minutes about playing Freddy Krueger. One of the best memories I have. Great guy.
When I saw this movie (at night), I fell asleep and had a nightmare that Freddy was chasing me. I woke up in a cold sweat and for a minute I was wondering, am I awake or am I still dreaming? Once I realized I was awake, I had an even greater appreciation of the movie.
There’s a reason why Freddy, Michael and Jason became iconic horror figures. Sequels are more or less cheesy but had some great visuals and ideas and played with the surrealism of dreams with part 7 on a special meta level.
One of my all time favorites. In an era where there were a lot of slasher/monster movies, this one stood out as the most unique and imaginative. The sequels are a lot of fun and have a lot to offer but the 2 gold standards I would recommend are "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" which continues Nancy's story arc and "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" that wraps up the entire Elm street universe. Those 2 films combined with the original, I feel, is the perfect Elm Street trilogy.
The act of 'turning down' your bed simply refers to preparing your bed linen and pillows for use. In some hotels, staff may enter your suite to rearrange your bed at the end of the day - but this quick action may be the reason you often sleep so well.
I love the wake-to-sleep transition when Nancy falls asleep in class. The guy reading Shakespeare goes from an uninterested drone to a strange whisper. It makes the scene that much more unsettling.
So, originally, Freddy's sweater was supposed to be red and yellow until Wes Craven read an article in Science magazine that stated the human eyes have a hard time distinguishing between red and green side by side, so he made the change. The room Tina was killed in was a set built on a giant rotating wheel. Before they filmed her being lifted to the ceiling, they bolted everything down they could, heavily startched everything else and greased down Rod's hair, then started filming with the room turning and the cameraman strapped in to turn with the room. The room would be redecorated and reused for Glens death with something like 200 gallons of fake blood and cows blood pouring back through. If think that was bad, originally the scene ended with the bed regurgitating Johnny Depp, but they were forced to cut it. The scene before Tina's death when Freddy starts coming through the ceiling above Nancy, that was actually just spandex with an actor leaning into it. Freddy Kruger was loosely based on a couple people Wes Craven knew growing up, including a bully named Freddy. The dream idea he got from a series of articles written about young men who survived Pol Pots killing fields in Cambodia. They had night terrors so bad many tried not to fall asleep using many of the methods Nancy used. Some night terrors were so bad that people did die in the midst of those terrors from heart attacks and so on. On an interesting note, Robin Williams and Jack Nicholson were both considered for Freddy but never got called for an audition. This is my favorite horror franchise. My favorite movie franchise is Star Wars, so don't think I'm too weird, just a healthy normal weird.
Wes Craven wanted a happier ending (Nancy turning her back and taking Freddy’s power). One of the producers (Robert Shaye, I think?) wanted an ambiguous/sequel-worthy ending. Craven hastily tacked on the ending you watched, and reportedly really hated it. That’s the story as I remember it, anyway.
Bob Shaye, yeah. Craven wanted to just have them drive off peacefully at the end. "He wanted to just see the kids drive off, and then he panned to the kids jumping rope." Shaye wanted an ending that had Freddy still alive, but wasn't quite sure what he wanted. So they filmed "eight or nine" different endings. Shaye wore Craven down and got what he wanted. BUT, someone forgot to do something: tell editor Rick Shaine what ending to put on. He ended up putting the wrong ending on, but didn't find out until there were 40 minutes left in the screening to New Line and Paramount executives (they were so in debt, New Line wanted to sell it to Paramount Pictures). He got the right ending brought over but was gonna come up about 2 minutes short of being able to seamlessly attach the "new" ending to the film. This killed the momentum of the film and Paramount passed on buying the movie. New Line had to distribute it themselves, and as is often the case, it was make-or-break for the company. If Nightmare failed, no way would the company survived. Nightmare definitely didn't fail.
Nancy was watching Evil Dead as part of a long running rivalry between Sam Raimi and Wes Craven. They liked to call out each other’s movies. I think it started when Evil Dead called out The Hills Have Eyes.
I think “turn down” a bed is probably the same as a hotel turn down service, (I worked in hotels for over a decade) which is basically preparing the bed for sleep. You make the bed, very military style, tucking the blanket and sheets into the mattress tightly with the sheets folded over the top of the blanket etc. Make everything very snug, like swaddling a baby lol. Then you “turn down” the blankets and sheet on one side, at the top, so that the sleeper can enter the swaddle. Slid in. I believe that’s where the phrase comes from. Of course, in a hotel they usually leave a chocolate on the pillow as well, but I don’t think moms would go that far 😂
Great reaction! Funny story: When I was in college I worked in a video store. We had a great customer, a woman with a teenage daughter. The mother came in one day and said her daughter was going to have a few girlfriends over for a slumber party and wanted recommendations. Mom said: Nothing to scary . . . and nothing TOO BLOODY because I'm going to be watching with them and I don't do well with blood. So . . . completely forgetting the oil well of blood coming out of the bed scene, this was one of the movies I recommended. The following day the daughter returned the movies, and she said to me: My mom is really pissed at you. 😲 Thankfully, she forgave me and got over it. LOL
I would love to see you guys check out Nightmare 3: Dream Warriors as a follow-up. I don't know if you need to see the whole series necessarily, but its such a worthy sequel.
It was Jim Doyle, the practical effects supervisor, between Heather Langenkamp's legs in the famous bathtub scene. Heather, of course, was not naked - she was in a swimming suit
"I think what will save me is the fact that it's an 80s movie" I think people get it twisted that 80s horror was just schlock & nothing else...the 80s was chock full of outstanding horror movies & movies in general...also, i would a Nightmare Before Christmas review after George mentioned that 😏 hopefully we get some more Freddy, Jason & Michael in October
@@fridaythe13thsquadlive61 My guess is that she meant that horror movies (or movies in general) from around that time have not aged too well and look very fake by todays standards. Like I personally just found this movie kind of funny.
To get the crawling up the walls they used a spinning room. They used later in the Jonny Depp blood scene. Wes Craven picked Red & Green because he found them described as the most disturbing to colors together.
Freddy is definitely my favorite slasher monster. The transition from horror to humor happens somewhat gradually throughout the Nightmare on Elm Street films. By the 4th film there is very little in the way of character horror, but there is still some good visual horror throughout the original 6 films.
For me Part I, Part III 1987's "Dream Warriors", and 1994's "New Nightmare" make up an effectively worth watching Wes Craven/Nancy trilogy. The opening sequence of Part II has some of my favorite visuals in the series, but the rest of Part II, part IV, and pretty much for hard core fans that just enjoy seeing Freddy do his thing.
Fun fact: while this movie is not a true story it is loosely based on actual events. Craven got the idea from a reading a newspaper. In 1981 people who immigrated to the US from South East Asia where dying by nightmares. Around 105 people died and all where dying while having a nightmare. Nancy the character is based on a boy who was experiencing this. He went days without sleeping and tried telling his parents that if he went to sleep the monster will get him in his dreams. When he actually went to sleep his parents woke up by him screaming in the middle of the night but he was dead when they got to him. In the movie that whole coffee pot under the bed thing was based on that. The boy had a hidden coffee pot under his bed. You can Google it if you want its actually pretty interesting and even today nobody can really explain why only these immigrants from South East Asia were dying in their dreams.
When you make your bed, you “close it”. When you “turn down the bed”, you “open” it. You fold down the blanket and sheet so you can climb in. Think “turn down service” at high end hotels; they take all the random stuff off the bed (extra ornamental pillows, etc) and fold down the sheet&blanket to get it ready for you and usually leave a little chocolate for you. Also, don’t try to figure out the rules of 80s horror. Most were written just for impact and weren’t fully rule based.
The Movies That Made Us on Netflix did an episode on A Nightmare on Elm Street. Well worth checking out. Regarding the ending, was the entire film just a nightmare in Nancy’s mind? There’s an ambiguity there that leaves the final open to interpretation maybe the dreams and reality blend as one, maybe both versions can be true. But if Freddy was really dead there would be space for at least 8 squeals.
A great documentary about this movie that really delves into how the movie was made and a lot of behind the scenes info is Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy from 2010.
I kept trying to figure out where I had seen the actor who played the cop: Enter the Dragon. If you haven’t seen that movie, you guys should. One of Bruce Lee’s best.
I would say Way of the Dragon is his best. Enter the Dragon is an incredible movie though. Donnie Yen's Ip Man movies are well worth a watch too, being a very dramatised telling of the life of Bruce's Sifu.
Hello Simone, has anyone told you that you look like the actress Barbara Bain. She was a huge television actress in the 1960s and 70s and was part of the main cast in the original 'Mission Impossible'. She was married to actor Martin Landau who she starred with in the sci-fi series 'Space 1999'.
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised my parents let me watch this type of stuff when I was young (maybe 8). Yet they went and screened Jurassic Park before they let me go watch that. I was about 11 for that one.
Simone mentioned her mom having the vhs in the house, so I looked up a picture of the vhs case and noticed Robert Englund's name isn't even listed. It says John Saxon (dad), Ronee Blakely (mom) and Heather Langenkamp (Nancy), but it looks like they wanted to keep Freddy's actor secret. The 1930s version of Frankenstein left Boris Karloff's name out of the opening credits to keep the mystique about the Monster, only revealing his name in the ending credits.
"inception into Freddy Kruger's dreams" - this is in an episode of Rick and Morty, except he's a legally distinct Freddy called Scary Terry. Season 1 ep 2, Lawnmower Dog.
Not sure how many of these y'all plan on watching but they're each of varying quality, with the 3rd movie (by far) being the best of the bunch (imo). The 3rd movie takes this concept to some really fun and scary places.
The 3rd movie, Dream Warriors, was the first NOES movie I ever saw, I was about 9 years old. It got to the part where the tricycle rolls into the room by itself leaving bloody wheel marks and I got so scared I had to stop watching. I didn't watch another NOES movie until I was 16. It was also the last movie that ever scared me.
Other dream themed movies for your consideration: - "Dreamscape" (1984) with Dennis Quaid, people with the ability enter dreams of others. - "Cell" (2000) with Jennifer Lopez, she has to enter a comatose killer's mind to find his last victim. - "Paprika" (2006), an anime film where a therapist practices diving into dreams of patients. :D
If you are interested in following up with more, Nightmare 3 (The Dream Warriors) is pretty good, and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is really cool. Don’t bother with the whole series.
The colors of Freddy's sweater were chosen by Carpenter after researching which two colors the eyes had the most trouble resolving side by side - just to add that extra bit of discomfort when Freddy is on screen!
Google says "Dreams are hallucinations that occur during certain stages of sleep. They're strongest during REM sleep, or the rapid eye movement stage, when you may be less likely to recall your dream. Much is known about the role of sleep in regulating our metabolism, blood pressure, brain function, and other aspects of health.".
One of the greatest horror films ever. When my friends and I were starting down the horror movie rabbit hole as 10 year olds, this traumatized us. A must watch for every October.
Yeah, turning down the bed is partially unmaking it so you can get in, prepping the pillow, which may not be on the bed, etc. You usually hear it used in hotels.
God, I love this movie. So well done! The sequels aren't nearly as good, but still fun, but Wes Craven's New Nightmare is excellent and really blurs the lines between reality and dreams!
A fun anecdote - on a trip to Toronto in 1995 whilst wandering around I found an Elm St, and on that street was what seemed to be a university sleep research department. I still wonder to this day if they did that on purpose..
Note on the book Nancy got the bombs and traps from: Back in the 80's, The Anarchist Cookbook was on high rotation because of this film. While it was a manual on making traps, explosives, and poisons, it was also... let us say... questionable about the morality thereof, suggesting testing deadly stuff on homeless people as 'no one would miss them'. As for the 'watch list', it was heavily rumored that the FBI did keep watch on those who ordered the book, checked it out of libraries, etc.
The ending is (sort of) explained in part 3 "Dream Warriors" You can actually skip the second one, it's not good, it doesn't add anything really to the lore, it's not really considered canon. 3-6 actually expands and builds the story to a conclusion. 3 & 4 are pretty good, 5 & 6 aren't great but still fun. "A New Nightmare" is a cool meta-movie where Freddy escapes the movies and terrorizes Wes Craven and classic cast members like Heather Langenkamp (Nancy). After that, they get pretty cheesy. The reboot wasn't received very well and "Vs Jason" is as exploitatively lame as you'd expect.
I hear a lot of people sh*t on FvJ, but I feel it's largely unwarranted. No one was (or should've been) expecting a continuation of either canon, just a fun, stupid popcorn-fodder adult version of pitting your toys from different franchises against each other. Of course the logistics would be complicated if, say, the GI Joes, Ninja Turtles and Transformers all lived in the same reality, but if you shut off your inner canon-nazi, you get to geek out and watch your toybox actually come to life! I personally didn't think the AvP movies were good at all, but it was still fun watching them fight! (Aaaaaaaaand now I'm craving a GI Joe/Ninja Turtles/Transformers movie...)
Fun fact: When Wes Craven made "A New Nightmare" (1994), he had most of the original cast return to reprise their roles (actually they were playing themselves, as "Freddy" was a demon threatening to break into the real world - OUR world, and out of fiction). The one cast member he didn't ask was Johnny Depp. The reason, as Craven revealed, was that Johnny was at that point already a big Hollywood star and he was afraid that Depp would be too expensive, or would outright reject the idea. When the movie released, Johnny Depp got in contact with Wes Craven and asked him why he didn't give him a call. Craven told Depp his reasoning, and he was taken aback. He said, "Are you kidding me? Wes, I got my start because of you. I would've done it for free, man." Wes Craven said that that decision was probably the biggest regret he ever had in his career.
I always like Robert England's interpretation of this film. He called it a pre-cognitive nightmare.The whole thing was just a dream. It hadn't happened yet. Nancy just dreamed that it happened. Something that was going to happen but hadn't happened yet... It's quite a good explanation I think, especially when you add in the bizarre ending(s).
Actual true events inspired Wes Craven to create this story after reading articles in the newspaper about refugees who had lived through and survived horrible things ended up being plagued by nightmares and trying to stay awake, several dying in their sleep during their nightmare.
So you got me wondering. "Turn Down the Bed" comes from higher end hotels prepping the bed for a guest's sleep. Untucking the tightly tucked-in sheets and duvets, placing the decorative pillows aside and prepping the normal pillows for use, etc. How the MOM in the movie is gonna turn down the bed, I'm not sure.
"Turning down a bed". is getting the bed (which is made, tucked in and all) ready for someone to get into it to sleep. Pulling the covers and sheet down basically
that stretching wall effect on the first kill is basically the perfect example of why i hate modern movies. in this movie they did it by stretching a sheet of cloth over a hole for like 10 bucks. the remake makes that same shot in cg and it looks a hundred times worse and cost like 10 thousand bucks.
The imagery in this movie was so fucking good and unique for it's time. Shit was unbelievable. This movie will always be known to every generation. Kids these days are still catching these movies and becoming iconic for them as well.
Wes made the sweater be red and green because he read studies that those are the two colors the eyes have difficulty mashing together, and since Freddy is a dream demon, it felt natural to have that be his color scheme.
The nightmare before Christmas was basically a "dark" spin on the classic santa story The Night Before Christmas. It was originally a poem written by Tim Burton before becoming the movie.
Yes, Simone, you were right about what, "turning down a bed" means. You leave the bed covered to the top all day then turn down one corner, or the entire top 1/4 before bedtime.
I had the idea Craven was aiming for the confusion you had: Having audiences leave, unsure of what may have been real, and what a dream. The sequel ("A NIghtmare on Elm Street 2: Freddie's Revenge") went a slightly different route with Freddie's M.O., but being not so well-received, a more traditional, if far more visually creative basis was used in "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors."
Reportedly, Craven wanted to end the movie with Freddy having been vanquished, but the studio insisted that he include a hook for a sequel. In my opinion, they didn't need that ending to make a sequel. Just have some new young people hear the legend of Freddy and their interest in him is enough to revive him. Simple. Personally, I hate that every single horror movie now ends with the villain coming back.
Believe it or not I watched this in school when I was about 14 with the rest of my class AND teacher during the last week of term! Never get away that now days! 🤣
Loved your reactions to The original Nightmare, Simone and George. This movie was supposed to be a stand alone movie, thus everyone died, because you can't escape your dreams. But of course, money talks, so they made several sequels and actually Nightmare 3 is a direct sequel to this one.
I once went 13 days without sleeping, another time I went 28 days with less than 10 minutes of sleep per night due to a health condition. Yes... you lose your god damned mind, quite literally. You hallucinate and see things that aren't there constantly (in my case, I kept seeing what I thought were bugs or random objects that weren't there), and you also feel like you're outside your own body sort of "on autopilot". It's one of the most terrifying experiences ever, because you feel completely out of control of your faculties and never sure if you're actually awake or not.
Wes Craven's masterpiece of pure horror - good luck trying to ever sleep peacefully again. Iconic Robert Englund as Freddie and Heather Langenkamp's Nancy is the ultimate Final Girl. Nice job watching this guys.
Wes Craven read a news article about kids dying in their sleep with no known cause. He also read that red and green together cause people discomfort. When he was a kid he looked out his window and a man was standing in-front of his house. He looked away but when he looked again the man was staring directly at him.
I dunno the exact etymology of the term, but I work in a hotel and “turndown service” is when the housekeepers remove your old bedding and remake the bed with new sheets and covers in the middle of your stay. Most hotels in my area stopped offering turndown service after COVID :/
You get used to the hallucinations after a while. Once thought there was a garbage can in the middle of the road with a dog sitting in it. I had been up for 6 or 7 days by that point.
I was a kid during the Elm Street craze. My sister and I wanted to watch the movie. We totally thought we could handle it. We made it as far as the Tina death scene and then noped out. That terrified us more than we could imagine. Anyway George, you're right about Freddy changing. With each movie he got more and more silly. That's kind of the tragic fate of horror movie icons. With each sequel they lose more and more of their power. "Wes Craven's really good at the suspense and the things and the..... the things." Keep being adorable, Simone. 🥰
Fun fact: Robert Englund, who played Freddy Krueger in this movie, also voiced Freddy Krueger in the videogame Mortal Kombat (aka MK9, 2011 Krueger was a guest character) and voiced Scarecrow in the videogame Injustice 2 (2017, fighting game with DC comics heroes and villains). Both videogames were developed by NetherRealm Studio.
Basically Nancy lived, we know this cause she's alive in (the Dream Warriors). Her trick worked but, her mother was still asleep vulnerable to Freddy who slipped into her dream to survive. Mom is seeing Nancy with all her dead friends.
"turn down the bed" means to pull the covers and sheet down so the person can get in. Simone nailed it on the first guess.
So funny that young people don't even know what that means anymore.
Just here to say that all of the thumbnails for these reactions are hilariously top-tier. 🙃😂😎
I look forward to the thumbnails as much as the reactions now.
Yeah, thumbnail game is strong!
Right I saw some Russian started copying them, I accidentally clicked on it thinking it was these guys lol
Agreed!
@@ifrankenstein1885 Dasha from Russia? She's also in Canada and I'm fairly certain that George edits for her. If you watch one of her vids, the flow is similar.
I was a 17 year old kid who worked as a projectionist/usher in a theater when this came out. I watched it in a empty theater after hours the night before it officially premiered. To this day it was the only time I was actually scared watching a movie. This movie is a all timer.👍
Well horror movies all had rules that made them not quite as threatening. Don't want to get murdered by Jason? Don't go to Crystal Lake. Don't want to be killed by The Thing? Don't go to Antarctica.
But with Nightmare on Elm Street, he killed you if you slept....good luck not dong that.
That’s sounds both scary and incredibly fun. I bet it was freaking cold with only you being there.
Try "Blair Witch Project" in a dark room.
@@pigpiggypigbigpig681 it was early fall in Illinois at the time, wasn’t cold at all just creepy 🤣👍
@@sydhamelin1265 Actually he only affects Elm Street, so just don't go to Elm Street.
Wes Craven and Sam Raimi used to reference each other's work in their movies. The first Evil Dead had a Hills Have Eyes poster in the background, in this one Nancy watches the Evil Dead before falling asleep. Later on in Evil Dead 2, you can see Freddy's glove hanging on a wall.
That's some wholesome horror community moment right there. Also, you guys should watch the Evil Dead trilogy asap, some truly great stuff.
In the Original Hills Have Eyes by Wes Craven there is ripped Jaws poster
That’s pretty common for directors to place props in a movie as a kind of appreciation for the work of another director that inspired them.
"Turning down the bed" just means to "turn down" (fold over) the covers so that it's easy to slip under them. Also, the title of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is play on "The Night Before Christmas", a famous poem by Clement Moore.
Ooooh, I always thought it had something to do with those beds that you put up against a wall to save space 😂 (Not a native English speaker)
@@timlarsson Those are called murphy beds, named after William Lawrence Murphy.
@@StCerberusEngel Thanks mate!
@@timlarsson No problem. Gotta put some of this dumb trivia to use, right? lol
@@StCerberusEngel Trivia is never dumb :D
Fun fact: The doctor in the sleep clinic is actually the voice of Roger Rabbit.
Also, the reason they chose "the Christmas Sweater" is because those two colors put side by side are supposed to be painful on the human eye.
Lmao and they were right, dark green and red are painful to look at
You're right, Simone, the actress who plays Nancy was 20 years old at the time, & it was a deliberate joke 😆.
Well,there's more to it.The studios would cast adult actors for teenage roles because of child labor laws.Underage kids could only work a certain amount of time during the day.
@@thedragonlee76 They still do that most of the time.
24:50 Simone: "Who's Jason?"
Me: Maybe you'll find out when you watch the Friday the 13th films next time. 😏
Yes
Yes
@@greggburke3770 A: They said "Films" B: He is still in the first one. Stop trying to be "that guy" you suck at it.
@@greggburke3770 who said he was?
@@greggburke3770 at least my mom knows how to spell Greg properly. Do u have to say the g on the end twice or for longer?? Or did you smell like rotten egg when u was born 🤷♂️🍳
Fun fact: Wes Craven went EVERYWHERE to find a company to produce this film... Even *Disney!*
Disney almost said yes but on the condition that Wes tone down the language and violence.
Wes said "no" and went with an smaller studio names New Line Cinema instead.
In answer to this, Disney created their own horror icon named Mr Boogedy... He got two made for TV films and was never spoken of since!
New Line Cinema was often called 'The house that Freddy built'
There's a lot of cool behind the scenes stuff out there about this film. Some of it shared in other comments. The Tina and Glenn kills were done using the same special set they built (for Tina). It was a room built to be able to turn completely upside down, which caused actors and crew to get sick with vertigo because it was so disorienting. For Glenn's death, they dumped so much fake blood into the room, and didn't fully take into account the extra weight, that it almost caused a massive, dangerous disaster on set.
Instead, we got a couple of great horror set pieces from it!
Great reaction, folks.
One of the coolest behind the scenes/ practical effects is that rotating room.
Fun fact about this movie,
Johnny Depp auditioned for this movie as his first movie because his best friend at the time (Nicholas Cage) suggested he'd do it.
Johnny at the time was planning to be a musician at the time.
He wasn't "planning", he HAS BEEN a musician. He played in clubs since he was a young teenager, he played on weddings etc.... he moved to California because his Florida band wanted some Hollywood success... well, they split up instead. That's when Nic Cage came up with his idea... Johnny felt doing movies like this one was pretty easy earned money so he did some more... it took awhile to accept that he is an actor.
The look on George’s face as he tries to figure out Simone’s intro is worth the price of admission alone. Simone, you may think the intros are silly, but never stop doing them, they’re great!
I may not always watch the reactions (most I do - I really enjoy their content) but I ALWAYS click to hear Simone’s intros! So funny!
I had the pleasure of meeting Robert Englund in the early 90's when I was in my late teens. One of the absolute nicest people that I've ever met in my life. I not only was able to get this autograph, but he also talked to me for a couple minutes about playing Freddy Krueger. One of the best memories I have. Great guy.
I love how George basically summarizes a Rick and Morty episode... Scary Terry!
I wondered if anybody else noticed.
@@SanchoSanchoSancho I think those who have seen it noticed 😁
If you know, you know... bitch
"You can run, but you can't hide bitch"
- Scary Terry
“Sex is sacred!” 😂😂
When I saw this movie (at night), I fell asleep and had a nightmare that Freddy was chasing me. I woke up in a cold sweat and for a minute I was wondering, am I awake or am I still dreaming? Once I realized I was awake, I had an even greater appreciation of the movie.
There’s a reason why Freddy, Michael and Jason became iconic horror figures. Sequels are more or less cheesy but had some great visuals and ideas and played with the surrealism of dreams with part 7 on a special meta level.
One of my all time favorites. In an era where there were a lot of slasher/monster movies, this one stood out as the most unique and imaginative. The sequels are a lot of fun and have a lot to offer but the 2 gold standards I would recommend are "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" which continues Nancy's story arc and "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" that wraps up the entire Elm street universe. Those 2 films combined with the original, I feel, is the perfect Elm Street trilogy.
100% agree
I live for George's expressions of utter bafflement at Simone's intros.
The act of 'turning down' your bed simply refers to preparing your bed linen and pillows for use. In some hotels, staff may enter your suite to rearrange your bed at the end of the day - but this quick action may be the reason you often sleep so well.
That doctor doing the sleep tests is Charles Fleischer, who would go on to do the voice of Roger Rabbit in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
I love the wake-to-sleep transition when Nancy falls asleep in class. The guy reading Shakespeare goes from an uninterested drone to a strange whisper. It makes the scene that much more unsettling.
So, originally, Freddy's sweater was supposed to be red and yellow until Wes Craven read an article in Science magazine that stated the human eyes have a hard time distinguishing between red and green side by side, so he made the change.
The room Tina was killed in was a set built on a giant rotating wheel. Before they filmed her being lifted to the ceiling, they bolted everything down they could, heavily startched everything else and greased down Rod's hair, then started filming with the room turning and the cameraman strapped in to turn with the room. The room would be redecorated and reused for Glens death with something like 200 gallons of fake blood and cows blood pouring back through. If think that was bad, originally the scene ended with the bed regurgitating Johnny Depp, but they were forced to cut it.
The scene before Tina's death when Freddy starts coming through the ceiling above Nancy, that was actually just spandex with an actor leaning into it.
Freddy Kruger was loosely based on a couple people Wes Craven knew growing up, including a bully named Freddy.
The dream idea he got from a series of articles written about young men who survived Pol Pots killing fields in Cambodia. They had night terrors so bad many tried not to fall asleep using many of the methods Nancy used. Some night terrors were so bad that people did die in the midst of those terrors from heart attacks and so on.
On an interesting note, Robin Williams and Jack Nicholson were both considered for Freddy but never got called for an audition.
This is my favorite horror franchise. My favorite movie franchise is Star Wars, so don't think I'm too weird, just a healthy normal weird.
That rotating room was also reused for Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Wes Craven wanted a happier ending (Nancy turning her back and taking Freddy’s power). One of the producers (Robert Shaye, I think?) wanted an ambiguous/sequel-worthy ending. Craven hastily tacked on the ending you watched, and reportedly really hated it. That’s the story as I remember it, anyway.
Thanks for this! I really hate this ending and it soured me on the movie back in the day. Craven is redeemed in my eyes now.
Bob Shaye made the right decision and New Line Cinema made lots of money.
@@TearYouApart360 Yeah, I feel like three of the sequels and "New Nightmare" are varying degrees of "Hey, this is actually alright."
Bob Shaye, yeah.
Craven wanted to just have them drive off peacefully at the end. "He wanted to just see the kids drive off, and then he panned to the kids jumping rope." Shaye wanted an ending that had Freddy still alive, but wasn't quite sure what he wanted. So they filmed "eight or nine" different endings. Shaye wore Craven down and got what he wanted. BUT, someone forgot to do something: tell editor Rick Shaine what ending to put on. He ended up putting the wrong ending on, but didn't find out until there were 40 minutes left in the screening to New Line and Paramount executives (they were so in debt, New Line wanted to sell it to Paramount Pictures). He got the right ending brought over but was gonna come up about 2 minutes short of being able to seamlessly attach the "new" ending to the film. This killed the momentum of the film and Paramount passed on buying the movie. New Line had to distribute it themselves, and as is often the case, it was make-or-break for the company. If Nightmare failed, no way would the company survived.
Nightmare definitely didn't fail.
@@daveseesmovies part 2 SUCKS!!!
Nancy was watching Evil Dead as part of a long running rivalry between Sam Raimi and Wes Craven. They liked to call out each other’s movies. I think it started when Evil Dead called out The Hills Have Eyes.
I think “turn down” a bed is probably the same as a hotel turn down service, (I worked in hotels for over a decade) which is basically preparing the bed for sleep. You make the bed, very military style, tucking the blanket and sheets into the mattress tightly with the sheets folded over the top of the blanket etc. Make everything very snug, like swaddling a baby lol. Then you “turn down” the blankets and sheet on one side, at the top, so that the sleeper can enter the swaddle. Slid in. I believe that’s where the phrase comes from. Of course, in a hotel they usually leave a chocolate on the pillow as well, but I don’t think moms would go that far 😂
Great reaction! Funny story: When I was in college I worked in a video store. We had a great customer, a woman with a teenage daughter. The mother came in one day and said her daughter was going to have a few girlfriends over for a slumber party and wanted recommendations. Mom said: Nothing to scary . . . and nothing TOO BLOODY because I'm going to be watching with them and I don't do well with blood. So . . . completely forgetting the oil well of blood coming out of the bed scene, this was one of the movies I recommended. The following day the daughter returned the movies, and she said to me: My mom is really pissed at you. 😲 Thankfully, she forgave me and got over it. LOL
I would love to see you guys check out Nightmare 3: Dream Warriors as a follow-up. I don't know if you need to see the whole series necessarily, but its such a worthy sequel.
With the soundtrack by Dokken!
In "Wes Craven's A New Nightmare" the actors are playing themselves being hunted by Freddy in the "real world." It's pretty trippy.
It was Jim Doyle, the practical effects supervisor, between Heather Langenkamp's legs in the famous bathtub scene. Heather, of course, was not naked - she was in a swimming suit
"I think what will save me is the fact that it's an 80s movie" I think people get it twisted that 80s horror was just schlock & nothing else...the 80s was chock full of outstanding horror movies & movies in general...also, i would a Nightmare Before Christmas review after George mentioned that 😏 hopefully we get some more Freddy, Jason & Michael in October
I don't think Simone meant that she expected it to be shlock, it just sounded like she didn't think it would be very gory.
@@Goomyx1492 80s horror was nothing but gory. They have a whole genre on slasher and splatter on it. So I don't know what she meant by that
@@fridaythe13thsquadlive61 My guess is that she meant that horror movies (or movies in general) from around that time have not aged too well and look very fake by todays standards. Like I personally just found this movie kind of funny.
To get the crawling up the walls they used a spinning room. They used later in the Jonny Depp blood scene. Wes Craven picked Red & Green because he found them described as the most disturbing to colors together.
Freddy is definitely my favorite slasher monster. The transition from horror to humor happens somewhat gradually throughout the Nightmare on Elm Street films. By the 4th film there is very little in the way of character horror, but there is still some good visual horror throughout the original 6 films.
For me Part I, Part III 1987's "Dream Warriors", and 1994's "New Nightmare" make up an effectively worth watching Wes Craven/Nancy trilogy. The opening sequence of Part II has some of my favorite visuals in the series, but the rest of Part II, part IV, and pretty much for hard core fans that just enjoy seeing Freddy do his thing.
Fun fact: while this movie is not a true story it is loosely based on actual events. Craven got the idea from a reading a newspaper. In 1981 people who immigrated to the US from South East Asia where dying by nightmares. Around 105 people died and all where dying while having a nightmare. Nancy the character is based on a boy who was experiencing this. He went days without sleeping and tried telling his parents that if he went to sleep the monster will get him in his dreams. When he actually went to sleep his parents woke up by him screaming in the middle of the night but he was dead when they got to him.
In the movie that whole coffee pot under the bed thing was based on that. The boy had a hidden coffee pot under his bed. You can Google it if you want its actually pretty interesting and even today nobody can really explain why only these immigrants from South East Asia were dying in their dreams.
When you make your bed, you “close it”. When you “turn down the bed”, you “open” it. You fold down the blanket and sheet so you can climb in. Think “turn down service” at high end hotels; they take all the random stuff off the bed (extra ornamental pillows, etc) and fold down the sheet&blanket to get it ready for you and usually leave a little chocolate for you.
Also, don’t try to figure out the rules of 80s horror. Most were written just for impact and weren’t fully rule based.
The Movies That Made Us on Netflix did an episode on A Nightmare on Elm Street. Well worth checking out. Regarding the ending, was the entire film just a nightmare in Nancy’s mind? There’s an ambiguity there that leaves the final open to interpretation maybe the dreams and reality blend as one, maybe both versions can be true. But if Freddy was really dead there would be space for at least 8 squeals.
A great documentary about this movie that really delves into how the movie was made and a lot of behind the scenes info is Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy from 2010.
@@Kiernan5 better set aside a day to watch that one... 4+ hours of delicious behind the scenes/inside baseball footage...
I mean...it's called A Nightmare on Elm Street so it makes sense if the entire thing is a nightmare.
I kept trying to figure out where I had seen the actor who played the cop: Enter the Dragon. If you haven’t seen that movie, you guys should. One of Bruce Lee’s best.
Yep, John Saxon was in some of cinemas better exploitation movies.
And if you're a MST3K fan there's "Mitchell" one of the classics 👌
I would say Way of the Dragon is his best. Enter the Dragon is an incredible movie though.
Donnie Yen's Ip Man movies are well worth a watch too, being a very dramatised telling of the life of Bruce's Sifu.
@@thegrimsaxon790 It's Shifu.
@@Madbandit77 in Cantonese it's Sifu.
Hello Simone, has anyone told you that you look like the actress Barbara Bain. She was a huge television actress in the 1960s and 70s and was part of the main cast in the original 'Mission Impossible'. She was married to actor Martin Landau who she starred with in the sci-fi series 'Space 1999'.
I watched this when I was 10. It was the beginning of my horror addiction. (exorcist at 12). Still one of my favourites.
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised my parents let me watch this type of stuff when I was young (maybe 8). Yet they went and screened Jurassic Park before they let me go watch that. I was about 11 for that one.
My step-dad pulled me out of my 7th grade history class to see The Exorcist with him at the theater. He won major brownie points with that move!
Simone mentioned her mom having the vhs in the house, so I looked up a picture of the vhs case and noticed Robert Englund's name isn't even listed. It says John Saxon (dad), Ronee Blakely (mom) and Heather Langenkamp (Nancy), but it looks like they wanted to keep Freddy's actor secret.
The 1930s version of Frankenstein left Boris Karloff's name out of the opening credits to keep the mystique about the Monster, only revealing his name in the ending credits.
"inception into Freddy Kruger's dreams" - this is in an episode of Rick and Morty, except he's a legally distinct Freddy called Scary Terry. Season 1 ep 2, Lawnmower Dog.
Not sure how many of these y'all plan on watching but they're each of varying quality, with the 3rd movie (by far) being the best of the bunch (imo). The 3rd movie takes this concept to some really fun and scary places.
The 3rd movie, Dream Warriors, was the first NOES movie I ever saw, I was about 9 years old. It got to the part where the tricycle rolls into the room by itself leaving bloody wheel marks and I got so scared I had to stop watching. I didn't watch another NOES movie until I was 16. It was also the last movie that ever scared me.
It's also accompanied by the song of the same name from Dokken
The second one is undertated
@@mikebarratt6767 Agreed. In some ways, it's *the* scariest one of the series. It was the first one I really fell in love with.
@@15blackshirt Hell yeah it is. haha That song freaking rules.
Other dream themed movies for your consideration:
- "Dreamscape" (1984) with Dennis Quaid, people with the ability enter dreams of others.
- "Cell" (2000) with Jennifer Lopez, she has to enter a comatose killer's mind to find his last victim.
- "Paprika" (2006), an anime film where a therapist practices diving into dreams of patients.
:D
Nancy's actress loved the phone licker prop so much the crew gifted her that thing
Nightmare Before Christmas is a multi-holiday film. It has absolutely nothing to do with A Nightmare on Elm Street.
And that’s also definitely a movie worthy of a reaction. It’s creepy and sweet at the same time.
Wes Craven was a College Professor. He was a man of culture and his movies displayed originality. I recommend the People Under the Stairs.
He got his start in film editing adult films. People Under The Stairs is on my watch list. I also recommend The Serpent And The Rainbow.
If you are interested in following up with more, Nightmare 3 (The Dream Warriors) is pretty good, and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is really cool. Don’t bother with the whole series.
This
Dream Warriors is the best Nightmare on Elm St
Yes, "Dream Warriors" was awesome!
I love the whole series, but I recommend this same thing to new people and say if they feel like it, watch the others with low expectations.
Exactly 💯
The colors of Freddy's sweater were chosen by Carpenter after researching which two colors the eyes had the most trouble resolving side by side - just to add that extra bit of discomfort when Freddy is on screen!
i think you mean wes craven lol
I notice George loves to ask questions that can't possibly be answered by someone who is also seeing it for the first time.
Google says "Dreams are hallucinations that occur during certain stages of sleep. They're strongest during REM sleep, or the rapid eye movement stage, when you may be less likely to recall your dream. Much is known about the role of sleep in regulating our metabolism, blood pressure, brain function, and other aspects of health.".
One of the greatest horror films ever. When my friends and I were starting down the horror movie rabbit hole as 10 year olds, this traumatized us. A must watch for every October.
Yeah, turning down the bed is partially unmaking it so you can get in, prepping the pillow, which may not be on the bed, etc. You usually hear it used in hotels.
God, I love this movie. So well done! The sequels aren't nearly as good, but still fun, but Wes Craven's New Nightmare is excellent and really blurs the lines between reality and dreams!
Agree with all of the above 👆
A fun anecdote - on a trip to Toronto in 1995 whilst wandering around I found an Elm St, and on that street was what seemed to be a university sleep research department. I still wonder to this day if they did that on purpose..
Without referring to any specifics: I can't wait for your inevitable reaction to Kubrick's The Shining (1980).
😂😂😂😂 ‘Oh… well then I’m not coming over’
Great response 🤣🤣🤣
Freddy is such a good idea for a killer you can’t really outrun him you could fight him but because of his nature you can’t really escape him
You’re right about the “turn down” a bed translation. Also just discovered y’all’s channel and love it. Keep it up 😊
Note on the book Nancy got the bombs and traps from: Back in the 80's, The Anarchist Cookbook was on high rotation because of this film. While it was a manual on making traps, explosives, and poisons, it was also... let us say... questionable about the morality thereof, suggesting testing deadly stuff on homeless people as 'no one would miss them'. As for the 'watch list', it was heavily rumored that the FBI did keep watch on those who ordered the book, checked it out of libraries, etc.
The Nightmare Before Christmas is a reference to the poem - "T'was the night before Christmas, and all through the house.."
The ending is (sort of) explained in part 3 "Dream Warriors"
You can actually skip the second one, it's not good, it doesn't add anything really to the lore, it's not really considered canon. 3-6 actually expands and builds the story to a conclusion. 3 & 4 are pretty good, 5 & 6 aren't great but still fun.
"A New Nightmare" is a cool meta-movie where Freddy escapes the movies and terrorizes Wes Craven and classic cast members like Heather Langenkamp (Nancy).
After that, they get pretty cheesy. The reboot wasn't received very well and "Vs Jason" is as exploitatively lame as you'd expect.
New Nightmare is my service favorite movie in the series
I hear a lot of people sh*t on FvJ, but I feel it's largely unwarranted. No one was (or should've been) expecting a continuation of either canon, just a fun, stupid popcorn-fodder adult version of pitting your toys from different franchises against each other. Of course the logistics would be complicated if, say, the GI Joes, Ninja Turtles and Transformers all lived in the same reality, but if you shut off your inner canon-nazi, you get to geek out and watch your toybox actually come to life!
I personally didn't think the AvP movies were good at all, but it was still fun watching them fight!
(Aaaaaaaaand now I'm craving a GI Joe/Ninja Turtles/Transformers movie...)
14:48 I used to have a half shirt like that. It was an 80s thing, ok!?!? Of course my abs looked a lot better back then, too 🙂
Fun fact: When Wes Craven made "A New Nightmare" (1994), he had most of the original cast return to reprise their roles (actually they were playing themselves, as "Freddy" was a demon threatening to break into the real world - OUR world, and out of fiction). The one cast member he didn't ask was Johnny Depp. The reason, as Craven revealed, was that Johnny was at that point already a big Hollywood star and he was afraid that Depp would be too expensive, or would outright reject the idea. When the movie released, Johnny Depp got in contact with Wes Craven and asked him why he didn't give him a call. Craven told Depp his reasoning, and he was taken aback. He said, "Are you kidding me? Wes, I got my start because of you. I would've done it for free, man."
Wes Craven said that that decision was probably the biggest regret he ever had in his career.
I always like Robert England's interpretation of this film. He called it a pre-cognitive nightmare.The whole thing was just a dream. It hadn't happened yet. Nancy just dreamed that it happened. Something that was going to happen but hadn't happened yet... It's quite a good explanation I think, especially when you add in the bizarre ending(s).
Actual true events inspired Wes Craven to create this story after reading articles in the newspaper about refugees who had lived through and survived horrible things ended up being plagued by nightmares and trying to stay awake, several dying in their sleep during their nightmare.
that and he said he saw some hobo outside his window in that sweater cussing him out as a kid lol
So you got me wondering. "Turn Down the Bed" comes from higher end hotels prepping the bed for a guest's sleep. Untucking the tightly tucked-in sheets and duvets, placing the decorative pillows aside and prepping the normal pillows for use, etc. How the MOM in the movie is gonna turn down the bed, I'm not sure.
I wonder if Amber Heard’s lawyers tried to cite this movie as a character reference? “See? See what kind in unreliable boyfriend Johnny Depp is?” 😂
"Turning down a bed". is getting the bed (which is made, tucked in and all) ready for someone to get into it to sleep. Pulling the covers and sheet down basically
that stretching wall effect on the first kill is basically the perfect example of why i hate modern movies. in this movie they did it by stretching a sheet of cloth over a hole for like 10 bucks. the remake makes that same shot in cg and it looks a hundred times worse and cost like 10 thousand bucks.
John Saxon was a great actor. He was in Enter the Dragon and several big movies.
Fun Fact: This is Johnny Depp first movie in his entire life.
Not really a 'fun fact'.. The movie literally starts off with "Introducing Johnny Depp"
FUN FACT: The doctor at the sleep clinic was Charles Fleishcer, the voice of Roger Rabbit! Okay, bye.
I'm glad I read through the comments before posting this same thing lol
:How do you turn down a bed ?
Electric blanket, with thermostatic control. "Turn Down".
The imagery in this movie was so fucking good and unique for it's time. Shit was unbelievable. This movie will always be known to every generation. Kids these days are still catching these movies and becoming iconic for them as well.
Wes made the sweater be red and green because he read studies that those are the two colors the eyes have difficulty mashing together, and since Freddy is a dream demon, it felt natural to have that be his color scheme.
The nightmare before Christmas was basically a "dark" spin on the classic santa story The Night Before Christmas. It was originally a poem written by Tim Burton before becoming the movie.
This was the introduction of *Johnny Depp* & in *(Halloween)* is your introduction to *Jamie Lee Curtis*
Yes, Simone, you were right about what, "turning down a bed" means. You leave the bed covered to the top all day then turn down one corner, or the entire top 1/4 before bedtime.
I had the idea Craven was aiming for the confusion you had: Having audiences leave, unsure of what may have been real, and what a dream. The sequel ("A NIghtmare on Elm Street 2: Freddie's Revenge") went a slightly different route with Freddie's M.O., but being not so well-received, a more traditional, if far more visually creative basis was used in "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors."
Reportedly, Craven wanted to end the movie with Freddy having been vanquished, but the studio insisted that he include a hook for a sequel.
In my opinion, they didn't need that ending to make a sequel. Just have some new young people hear the legend of Freddy and their interest in him is enough to revive him. Simple. Personally, I hate that every single horror movie now ends with the villain coming back.
The act of 'turning down' your bed simply refers to preparing your bed linen and pillows for use.
"Turn down" service is also what hotels call when they clean the rooms
Believe it or not I watched this in school when I was about 14 with the rest of my class AND teacher during the last week of term! Never get away that now days! 🤣
The stretchy wallpapers was Spandex. It was a new fabric when they were filming. 😊
The Teacher taking Nancy's class is Lin Shaye ( star of Insidious franchise, Critters 2 , 2001 maniacs and more)
17:50 - take a shot every time Simone says the word "Like" 😂
Loved your reactions to The original Nightmare, Simone and George.
This movie was supposed to be a stand alone movie, thus everyone died, because you can't escape your dreams.
But of course, money talks, so they made several sequels and actually Nightmare 3 is a direct sequel to this one.
I once went 13 days without sleeping, another time I went 28 days with less than 10 minutes of sleep per night due to a health condition.
Yes... you lose your god damned mind, quite literally. You hallucinate and see things that aren't there constantly (in my case, I kept seeing what I thought were bugs or random objects that weren't there), and you also feel like you're outside your own body sort of "on autopilot".
It's one of the most terrifying experiences ever, because you feel completely out of control of your faculties and never sure if you're actually awake or not.
It wasn’t Nancy’s mom who was solely responsible for Freddy’s death it was all of the parents of the kids on Elm Streets who were involved.
Wes Craven's masterpiece of pure horror - good luck trying to ever sleep peacefully again. Iconic Robert Englund as Freddie and Heather Langenkamp's Nancy is the ultimate Final Girl. Nice job watching this guys.
Wes Craven read a news article about kids dying in their sleep with no known cause. He also read that red and green together cause people discomfort. When he was a kid he looked out his window and a man was standing in-front of his house. He looked away but when he looked again the man was staring directly at him.
*(Nightmare on elm Street)* Freddy Krueger
*(Friday the 13th)* Jason Voorhees
*(Halloween)* Michael Myers
*(Chucky)* Charles Lee Ray
I love that the voice of Roger Rabbit (Charles Fleischer) plays the sleep clinic doctor.
I dunno the exact etymology of the term, but I work in a hotel and “turndown service” is when the housekeepers remove your old bedding and remake the bed with new sheets and covers in the middle of your stay. Most hotels in my area stopped offering turndown service after COVID :/
You get used to the hallucinations after a while.
Once thought there was a garbage can in the middle of the road with a dog sitting in it. I had been up for 6 or 7 days by that point.
I was a kid during the Elm Street craze. My sister and I wanted to watch the movie. We totally thought we could handle it. We made it as far as the Tina death scene and then noped out. That terrified us more than we could imagine.
Anyway George, you're right about Freddy changing. With each movie he got more and more silly. That's kind of the tragic fate of horror movie icons. With each sequel they lose more and more of their power.
"Wes Craven's really good at the suspense and the things and the..... the things." Keep being adorable, Simone. 🥰
The actor playing the doctor at the sleep trials is Charles Fleischer, who did the voice of Roger Rabbit.
Fun fact: Robert Englund, who played Freddy Krueger in this movie, also voiced Freddy Krueger in the videogame Mortal Kombat (aka MK9, 2011 Krueger was a guest character) and voiced Scarecrow in the videogame Injustice 2 (2017, fighting game with DC comics heroes and villains). Both videogames were developed by NetherRealm Studio.
George: They should do inception and go into Freddy Kruegers dreams.
Rick Sanchez: Way ahead of you.
He was wearing a football practice jersey. It's made to fit over the shoulder pads but short enough to keep them cool, during practice.
I just go through all the reactions and just watch Simone's intros. They're so frigging hilarious.