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 […]
Nightmares Horror anthologies can be a pretty tough sell since they usually involve asking an audience to invest themselves at least 3 to 5 separate times in each individual segment and of course the varying quality of those segments can result in a pretty uneven viewing experience. Oddly enough, the anthology horror films have become […]
9 ½ Weeks Erotic softcore cinema pretty much got kickstarted with this 1986 release based upon a semi autobiographical novel by one Elizabeth McNeill, a woman who allegedly found herself in a serious sadomasochistic relationship all while she was working at a well known feminist magazine, an experience she reportedly never recovered from and may […]