Tag: A Nightmare on Elm Street
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‘George Lucas is Making This Space Movie’: Robert Englund on Helping Mark Hamill Land ‘Star Wars’ Audition
With “Obi-Wan Kenobi” revisiting some of the “Star Wars” franchise’s most iconic characters on Disney+, nostalgia for the series is a hot topic right now. The fan reaction to seeing actors like James Earl Jones reprise their roles from the films serves as a reminder of how inseparable the characters can be from the actors…
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Here’s How Robert Englund Landed His Stranger Things Role
Spoilers for “Stranger Things” 4 follow.Horror fans were thrilled to hear that Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, would appear in “Stranger Things” season 4. Be warned that there are spoilers ahead for the first seven episodes of the current season. Englund is royalty in the horror world, and with the nods to classic films of…
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Vecna From Stranger Things Season 4 Is An Allegory For Depression
Warning: there are spoilers for “Stranger Things” season 4 below.”Stranger Things” season 4 is here — and it’s bigger, more ambitious, and the scariest chapter set in Hawkins yet. Vecna, the sci-fi show’s latest big bad, is the most terrifying monster in the show’s history — and makes the previously introduced Demogorgons and Mind Flayers…
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Send us your questions for Robert Englund, Aka Freddy Krueger
Do you have a question for the Nightmare on Elm Street actor, who became the star of many actual nightmares? Let us know and we’ll put it to himIt’s hard to think of a horror movie character more iconic than Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger. He stars in Wes Craven’s 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm…
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‘Fellowship of the Ring,’ ‘Return of the Jedi,’ ‘Wall-e,’ and 23 More Movies Join National Film Registry
The National Film Registry — known as the preservation arm of the Library of Congress — has added 25 new films to its 825 titles of culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant movies. But that’s just a small portion of the Library’s whopping 1.7 million titles.Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act, the movies…
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‘Wall-e,’ ‘Star Wars: Return of the Jedi’ and ‘Selena’ Among Movies Added to National Film Registry
Pixar’s “Wall-e,” “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi” and “Selena” have been selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.Each year, the Librarian of Congress names 25 motion pictures that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant. Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act, the movies have to be at least 10 years old.Other…
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The Scariest Scene In The Friday The 13th Remake Happens Right Out Of The Gate
(Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition: Ariel talks about what makes the opening of the “Friday the 13th” remake so terrifying, while Matt breaks down the unholy amounts of ass it whips.)Horror…
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The Tournament Of Terror Results: Alien Is The Greatest Horror Franchise Ever
For the past two weeks, we have pitted the greatest horror franchises of all time against each other in /Film’s Tournament of Terrors. And they have fallen one-by-one. A few dark horses were defeated early and a few top contenders lost some very tight races (no one here saw “Halloween” going down so early). And…
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The Daily Stream: Wes Craven’s New Nightmare Brought The Horror Genre To A Meta Crossroads
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare”Where You Can Stream It: AMC+The Pitch: “Let me cut to the chase. How would you like to join us in the definitive…
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All The Films Of Don Coscarelli Ranked Worst To Best
The Halloween season sees many horror film fans exhuming familiar favorites — from Tod Browning’s “Dracula” and James Whale’s “Frankenstein,” to John Carpenter’s “Halloween” and Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street” — but one filmmaker who always deserves more recognition, especially as the daylight hours grow shorter, is Don Coscarelli.Coscarelli’s resume can be a…