Night Patrol Political Correctness and the need to maintain it would become one of the most stifling elements of our entertainment culture when it was formally introduced as a “new way of doing things” by Bill and Hillary Clinton in the early 1990s. Not allowing and / or censoring anything that might “offend” somebody (save […]
Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut Clive Barker is certainly one of the greatest authors in the history of horror fiction and (while not necessarily a walking human franchise maker like Stephen King is) has certainly seen a fair number of his literary works translated into cinema gold, most notably Hellraiser (which he himself directed) and its […]
Nightmare The origin of the American slasher movie is undoubtedly Hitchcock’s Psycho in 1960 with a handful of others in the years after (including 1974’s Black Christmas), but the quantum leap for the subgenre (and the prototype) was John Carpenter’s Halloween in 1978 and then the equally massive success of 1980’s Friday The 13th which […]
A Nightmare On Elm Street (Original) More than anybody else, Wes Craven’s overall contributions to the horror genre are easily the greatest and most encompassing, going all the way back to the 1970s and consisting of several milestone achievements. His most impressive piece of work though, is this 1984 Grand Masterpiece that took the world […]
Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge Taking any kind of an established film franchise in an entirely different or even utterly radical new direction can almost always be seen as the most dangerous of ventures, as one runs the risk of upsetting both the tone and continuity of said franchise or even that of […]
Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors And so, after the unintentionally hilarious homoerotic abomination that was Freddy’s Revenge, New Line Cinema realized that they had made at least a partial mistake here (despite the healthy box office) and when it came time to do Part 3 in the series in 1987, they made an […]
Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master Sometimes in a popular cinematic franchise, a complete shift in tone and mood (while still retaining basic elements) are exactly what is needed to reinvigorate the series and give it a new, entertaining life. In the years after the first Nightmare On Elm Street, the films had […]
Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child Freddy Krueger and The Nightmare On Elm Street Franchise had had a nice, good long run by this point. Robert Englund had gone from being just a lightly regarded character actor to a worldwide movie star solely off of the strength of just this one character. Hundreds […]
Ninth Gate Noted director / convicted child rapist Roman Polanski returns to the same territory from whence his classic Rosemary’s Baby sprung with this 1999 film which in some ways plays as a more drawn-out, complex version of Angel Heart, albeit minus that film’s emotional impact. Johnny Depp plays a rather shady dealer in rare […]