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Freddy will soon be back but how soon? We reported back in 2015 that A Nightmare On Elm Street was getting another reboot courtesy of Warner Bros./New Line Cinema. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) marks the return of the Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) character to the horror franchise.

All 9 A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Movies, Ranked from Best to Worst. A few months ago, we lost a horror legend when filmmaker Wes Craven passed away.

A few months ago we posted an article titled ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street: Freddy’s Krueger’s 10 Hottest Victims’. As the months went by, we slowly started to. A description of tropes appearing in A Nightmare on Elm Street. The Nightmare on Elm Street film franchise centers around Slasher Movie icon Freddy Krueger (. The "Nightmare on Elm Street" series has a reputation in the movie business as sort of a high-rent answer to the "Friday the 13th" saga, and this third episode lives.

Although Craven made several great horror movies in his four decades of filmmaking, Craven’s single greatest contribution to horror cinema was no doubt the creation of Freddy Krueger. Craven’s original A Nightmare On Elm Steet is a film that still ranks as one of the greatest horror films of all time. To celebrate Craven’s greatest creation, not to mention Nerdoween, we are ranking all nine Nightmare films (yup, even the remake) from best to worst. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover (that Elm St. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1.

As with most horror franchises, it never gets better than that first, classic installment, and. A Nightmare on Elm Street is no different. Writer/director Wes Craven hit all the right notes on almost every beat of the movie, and the result is a classic horror film that stands the test of time and still works on audiences to this day. All the right ideas came together for Craven when he created Freddy Krueger. The premise of a killer who stalks you in your dreams, only to have your die for real if you die while asleep, is such a genius concept, it’s crazy to think it took so long for someone to think of it. Craven was inspired by stories he read in the newspaper about Cambodian refugees who felt they were being stalked by some kind of dream killer, only to never wake up.

He then fused those stories to a childhood memory of a hobo who scared him as a child and turned that into Freddy Krueger. The burned face and claw glove were equally genius notions that instantly set Freddy apart from his fellow slashers. And then Craven cast the part perfectly with actor Robert Englund, who brought a twisted glee to the part. There are so many other things that make the original film great, it’s hard to pinpoint just one. First off, you’ve got the great core concept of the sins of the parents being visited upon their children.

This was a potent idea, especially in the Reagan ’8. American suburban dream. Then you’ve got a great cast of actors as the teens of Springwood (including a young Johnny Depp), who unlike many in the slasher flicks of years prior, came across as real and relatable, not just mindless horny teens being punished for having pre- marital sex. Watch The Crying Game Online. None of these kids was better than lead character Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp), one of horror cinema’s greatest “final girls.” Unlike many so- called “Scream Queens” before her, Nancy broke the mold by doing more than just screaming and running from Freddy. She ultimately takes the fight to him, and kicks his ass. And finally, much like John Carpenter’s Halloween before it, Nightmare has the perfect theme music, crafted by composer Charles Bernstein.

Friday the 1. 3th, for example, only has an iconic sound effect.)Sure, there are some things that don’t work about Nightmare 1. Some of the acting choices (especially from country singer Ronee Blakely, who played Nancy’s mother) are questionable, and sometimes the super- low budget shows some of the seams in the production, but ultimately those things are minor quibbles. A Nightmare On Elm Street is just an example of one of those movies where all the right elements came together to create an enduring classic.#2 – A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1. Most horror sequels suck, or at least are vastly inferior to the original films. And often especially lame are slasher sequels, which we mostly like just for their camp value. But there’s one great exception to this rule, and it’s A Nightmare on Elm St. Dream Warriors. Dream Warriors is the Empire Stikes Back or Godfather II of horror films.

It finds ways to expand upon the characters and mythology introduced in the first film and introduce new characters that we instantly like just as much. When it comes to sequels, this one does it all right. Chuck Russell stepped in as director, but Craven did come back as a producer and writer, and his touch is instantly felt. With the return of Craven also comes the return of Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson, who sat out the second Nightmare.

The original film’s “final girl” is now a slightly older den mother of sorts to the last surviving children of the parents who killed Freddy. Instead of a typical high school setting, we are introduced to this set of kids in a mental hospital, where they’ve been sent by their parents who don’t know how to deal with their nightmares, and would rather just let their kids become someone else’s problem. The nightmare sequences are taken to a whole new surreal level in this movie, pushed far more than the budget of the first two movies would allow. Because of this, Freddy’s kills are insanely inventive this time around. Most notable of these nightmare sequences is when Freddy turns into a giant phallic snake and tries to eat a young Patricia Arquette, who plays one of the new kids.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Freddy’s kills in this one. This movie takes things into an almost comic book level when Nancy shows the kids how to use their dream abilities against Freddy. When they become the titular “Dream Warriors” and take the fight to his realm, the movie becomes a kind of cool, supernatural superhero movie. Add to that the new wrinkles in Freddy’s backstory and mythology about the circumstances surrounding his birth, and this movie is a damn near perfect sequel. It even has the best celebrity cameo of the entire series. Seriously, what’s not to love about Dream Warriors?#3 – Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1.

Three years after Freddy was officially put out to pasture in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, New Line Cinema had a change of heart of about leaving Freddy Krueger dead and buried. Either they just thought more money could still be milked from this franchise, or they realized Freddy’s Dead was an awful ending to such a great saga (not to mention a franchise that literally built their studio into what it was). In any case, they decided to go back to the man who started it all, Wes Craven, for what would eventually be called Wes Craven’s New Nightmare. In New Nightmare, Craven creates a meta commentary on the franchise he started, suggesting that what we know as Freddy is really some kind of otherworldly, demonic presence that somehow taps into this fictional being called Freddy Krueger, only to lose his potency as the series got more and more watered down with sequel after sequel.

Without having a “host story” to channel his evil through, Freddy begins unleashing his evil into the real world. He starts by going after actress Heather Langenkamp, who played Nancy in parts 1 and 3. Not only does Langenkamp play “herself”, but so does writer/director Craven. Robert Englund does double duty as himself and the “real” Freddy, who is more terrifying here than he’d been since the second film.

New Nightmare is an effective and inventive horror movie, and it’s a much more fitting finale to the saga Craven started ten years earlier. It’s no surprise that the three best Nightmare films have his direct involvement; it just proves Freddy was most effective when his Daddy was involved. Sadly, the movie wasn’t really appreciated in its day, but Craven would do the meta- horror thing to much greater success with Scream just two years later. Now, some twenty years later, New Nightmare serves as a testament to Wes Craven’s creative genius and is the grand finale that the original Nightmare series truly deserved.#4 – A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1. In terms of commercial success, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master was the peak of the franchise, and one of the most financially successful horror movies of the decade. The previous installment had turned the franchise around, and the hope was that the fourth one would take things even further than Dream Warriors did. That’s not quite what happened, at least creatively speaking.