Nightmare on Elm Street Collection [8 Discs]Nightmare on Elm Street Collection [8 Discs]

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  • Aspect Ratio:
    Widescreen
  • Rating:
     R
  • Language:
      English
  • Studio:
      New Line Home Video
  • UPC:
      794043478826
  • Year of Release:
      1999
  • Item Number:
      NLD004788
  • Release Date:
      09/06/2005
  • Genre:
     

    Horror –

    Slasher Film –

    Supernatural Horror

  • Format:
     

    DVD

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

    This impressive eight-disc set from Warner contains everything anyone could ever want to know about the fictional baddie Freddy Kruger. The set contains all seven films in the series: A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, and Wes Craven's New Nightmare. The eighth disc is loaded with goodies, including rare television appearances by Kruger. Fans of this successful horror series should greatly enjoy this fine package, guaranteeing many future generations will feel a tingle at their spine when they here the screech of Freddy's distinctive manicure. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:
  • Region: 1
  • Number of Discs: 8
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (Theatre Wide Screen)
  • Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Mono
  • Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
  • Subtitle: English
  • Features:
      • cc Widescreen version
      • Original mono soundtrack and newly remixed Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
      • Commentary by writer/director Wes Craven, director of photography Jacques Haitkin, actors Heather Langenkamp and John Saxon
      • Cast and crew biographies from the original theatrical press kit
      • Scene navigation
      • DVD-ROM content:
      • Interactive screen play
      • Trivia game
      • Up to the minute cast and crew biographies with web links
AWARDS
  • Independent Spirit Awards
  •     Nominated Best Picture - 1994 (Marianne Maddalena)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
REVIEWS:
  • The third entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street series benefits from a bigger budget, a widened scope, and the participation of some notable talent. Wes Craven returned to work on the screenplay, joined in the long run by Frank Darabont, Bruce Wagner, and Chuck Russell, whose direction brings a new slickness to the series. In future entries, this would prove a problem, but ANOES 3 benefits, its bigger special-effects budget allowing it to push the series closer to outright surrealism than ever before. The film's memorable collection of damaged characters helps as well, with Robert Englund's bogeyman operating as an objective correlative to their already abundant fears. Not counting the post-modern coda of Wes Craven's New Nightmare, this is hands down the best Nightmare movie after the original. It would also set a pattern for each of its successors to follow (to lesser effect), with each new entry assembling a similar band of intrepid, troubled teens and revealing a little more of Freddy's origins before assigning him a less-than-final end. ~ Keith Phipps, Rovi
  • Perhaps the most effectively frightening entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, with the noted exception of the original, Wes Craven's postmodern New Nightmare re-imagines the child-murdering Freddy Krueger as the pure embodiment of ancient evil instead of the wisecracking menace that audiences had come to expect at this point. In this respect, Craven's bid to reclaim Krueger as a truly inspired villain pays off, providing the character with a fresh sense of unpredictability that had previously waned as the series became more formulaic. Audiences content to sit back and giggle as Krueger spouted one-liners and did in teens by the handful were given a hefty dose of reinterpretation in this supposedly final installment of the series. It's difficult to fear something that has become so engrained in pop culture it has become a ubiquitous parody of itself, but inject an external and unfamiliar threat into that same omnipresent vessel and all bets are off. This is the refreshingly original manner with which Craven tapped into the universal fear of the unknown with New Nightmare. Approached from an unfamiliar angle, audiences' sense of safety and comfort are stripped away, leaving them mentally unprepared for whatever terror may lie ahead -- a real terror from which, as in the original, there is no logical and proven escape. New Nightmare may not prove quite as effective as Craven's earlier efforts, but it certainly set the stage for his massive success with Scream (yet another franchise whose effectiveness would dull with overexposure) two short years later, and re-established him as a pioneer of inventive horror-fantasy. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
  • Behold the horror epic that started the Krueger craze and the Elm Street franchise. This low-budget effort not only put frightmaster Wes Craven on the map, but it slashed new life into the dying horror genre. Nightmare on Elm Street is a surreal and artistic experiment in dark and bloody filmmaking, levitating above the senseless gorefests seen in Friday the 13th. Built upon a brilliant premise, Elm Street became known as a near-masterpiece of post-'70s terror that skillfully blurred the line between reality and fantasy. The character of Freddy Kreuger instantly joined the ranks of infamous modern horror villains. While Jason Vorhees and Michael Myers were steadfast and robotic, Freddy was a humorous sadist who refused to hide behind a mask. The dreamscape and surreal atmosphere that Craven creates is a key reason why A Nightmare on Elm Street remains so haunting to this day. Cinematographer Jacques Haitkin knows how to use shadow and light to his advantage, most notably in the trippy and eerie basement scenes and the moment in which a character is dragged across the ceiling. For a movie with a budget just over $1 million, Elm Street possesses a surprisingly stylish look; even the low-grade special effects manage to be effective. The film is tailor-made for those who like their gore coupled with smart and inventive ideas, a rarity in the horror genre. ~ Adam Goldberg, Rovi

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