What makes this trilogy so unique is: #1: Iconic villain #2: Fantastic special effects #3: Memorable moments #4: Strong female heroines #5: Made the slasher genre good again as it was starting to get stale by 1984.
You forgot the perhaps most important aspect... relatability... After you watched the movie you would go to bed... people of all ages have had nightmares, and it's very easy to imagine them becoming real..
Freddy was honestly terrifying in the original film. As a kid, he was the most horrifying thing I'd ever seen. And knowing what he was in his human life, there's nothing worse. He hurt little children. The lowest of the low. The first 3 films kept that and didn't make him quite such a goofball. The later movies seemed to forget what he was. He's not a comedian. He's a monster. Even though he did make a few jokes in Dream Warriors, he wasn't quite the Freddy's Dead level of ridiculous.
I get what you are saying, and I do agree, but think of it like this. What if he was real? Someone like him when he was human doing those things to those kids, and while he did it, he's having that much fun with it! If you keep that in mind while he's cracking wise, if you remember that while those children were trapped in his boiler room dungeon, screaming out in abject terror, begging him to stop, screeching with ever hoarsening voices for their mommy to come and save them... It makes his wisecracks hit in a whole different way... And yeah, admittedly it is hard to keep that in mind because his jokes take you out of the moment, and it is a really hard thing to fit into a healthy mind so we don't WANT to think about it!
Freddy was truly frightening in 2. Very little comedy. He was vicious, aggressive, and almost always very darkly lit. He came across as genuinely threatening. People tend to forget about that because Jesse's stuff was so unintentionally campy.
Everyone ignores or doesn’t understand 2, but 2 is honestly one of my favorites. The way I take it ties to the idea that Freddy needs fear and notoriety to kill. Like Jesse comes into the story at a time when the murders of the first film have been almost forgotten, besides the idea that Nancy Thompson went crazy after seeing Glen’s murder. Eventually with the passing of time, Freddy has lost his power to outright kill in dreams but not the ability to influence in them. When Jesse comes in, he’s struggling with the shame and fear that comes from being closeted, and Freddy can sense that fear so he uses it to invade Jesse’s body and bring himself back into the real world, and he uses the attack at the pool party to strike fear in the community again. I also read the ending of that movie as very queer empowering. Like Freddy is feeding off of Jesse’s fear of himself, and when Jesse finds the power to turn that fear supply off he ends Freddy’s hold on him. And the reason Freddy is able to come back in 3 is because his massacre at the pool has drummed up enough fear for Freddy to kill in dreams again.
When I was about 10 years old, Freddy had already been a reocurring star in my nightmares. I was always terrified of him, but fascinated at the same time. I think that is what makes characters like this so great. Nightmare on Elm Street is still my all time favorite horror franchise 30 years later, even though it horrified me as a child.
I take part 2 as Nancy drained most of his energy so he needed people to remember and fear him again to get strong enough to kill again in the dream world. Like they kind of showed in Freddy v jason...he needed Jason to make kids fear him again.
One of the saddest things I've ever heard was that an actor in the remake said they'd spoken to Haley right before shooting began and he said he'd just watched the movie for the first time like the night before.
Great subject - Love Nightmare on Elm Street. Those "rocks" thrown at Tina's window weren't rocks ... They were teeth. yeah, look real close. (Gives an even greater darkness to that scene, huh?) Also we knew Tina wasn't the main character throughout the film , after all, Nancy is the one on the Poster, and The caption reads: "If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all." - Also Nancy is shown, right away to be the "Moral compass" - the smart girl - I don't see why people would think she wasn't the lead role all along. Oh by the way - that wasn't a goat - it was a sheep. It's symbolic. (Lamb to slaughter - "Counting sheep to sleep" - even may have a religious significance.) The scene in which Tina is standing in her white body bag, her feet surrounded by squirming eels, (just before the centipede comes out of her mouth) was very religiously symbolic as a Virgin Mary statue with snakes at her feet. Wes Craven went deep while remaining subtle in his technique. The first Nightmare on Elm was the best for fear - and kept Freddy's "smart-ass" to a minimum - using his words as threats and to insight fear and not for some kind of "4rth wall break entertainment value." This, Freddy, in my opinion, was the best Freddy.
I always admired how strong and resilient the female heroines were in this franchise, especially Nancy, who is the first example who springs to mind whenever you hear "Final Girl."
The "trilogy" was unique in showing how powerful Fred had become within that time span. We got glimpses of his power in nightmare 1...then his expanded power in 2...and arguably his peak in 3 (if we ignore FD)
I wonder why no one ever talks about the cut scene with Nancy and her Mom talking in their basement about Freddy. The cut scene makes the parents of Elm Street motive for vigilante justice make much more sense. I didn’t see the deleted scene until almost 30 years after initially viewing the film. Freddy basically kill3d Nancy, Tina, Glen, Rod and the other Elm Street kids older siblings!! They didn’t even know they had older siblings.
I feel like NOES 4 should be included to truly have the trilogy. It was so satisfying to see some of the dream warriors come back (even though they didn't last long). Also NOES 4 has one of my favorite movies opener songs (from Tuesday Knight). ❤
Yes. Part 2 often feels like it the script was originally for a completely different horror movie, and they then inserted Freddie into it, especially when Freddie can randomly appear in the real world at the pool party and still act like he's in a dream.
I find the “soft reboot” interpretation of 2 interesting but considering how much emphasis is placed on Freddy’s power being on a spectrum (more souls=more power), I find the view that Freddy during the 2nd film is trying to regain power (sort of like in Freddy v Jason) more satisfying personally. I think Freddy’s desperation in the beginning conveyed this to me; his lack of quips, to borrow an observation from a tv show, underscores his lack of strength in his current circumstance.That is just my opinion but I think it would actually make the first 3 movies feel more connected and give more weight to Nancy’s initial battle with Freddy.
@@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax I agree with you. Considering all of the different opinions from the creative minds across the first three movies, I know viewing this as a traditional trilogy is really built on fan interpretations. Still, there is so much there which makes me think about what could of been, like exploring what it might have been for Nancy to have been viewed as her mom’s killer (never acknowledged in text but seems like a reasonable assumption based on story details), the role her dad might of had hurting Freddy by keeping his name out of public domain, how the events of the 2nd movie could have caused the new spike in deaths preceding the 3rd and maybe the idea that dream powers are a byproduct of having had dreams with Freddy. Sigh…minor vent over.
The big problem with trying to say that part 2 is a soft "reboot" is that it directly references Part 1 on multiple occasions, so there is no way it can be a reboot. Instead, let's call it what it really was : a mis-step that they had to course correct in part 3. I enjoy the movie as a stand alone, but don't consider it as part of a "trilogy" with parts 1 and 3.
This series also shows us the evolution of Heather Langenkamp's acting ability. In 1 she's..... trying her best let's say lol. But by New Nightmare she's really grown into quite a good actor
Robert Englund’s cameo in Stranger Things 4 really worked as his grand sendoff from playing Freddy, and passing the torch/claws to the next dream-haunting monster. (Also, the character Will’s entire character arc is a long-form reboot of Nightmare 2’s story, about being a closeted gay teen boy in the ‘80s.)
Something you need to consider with A Nightmare on Elm Street is all the controversy that surrounded its filming and release. There were protests by christian groups at movie theaters. They latched on to Freddy being a child murderer and went further claiming he was a full-blown murdering pedophile. Then there was the MPAA threatening to not allow the release unless anyone purchasing tickets/attending the movie had to show ID proving they were 18, and no one under the age of 17 would be allowed in. If you were under 18, you had to have a parent or guardian 18 or older with you, and you needed ID to prove ages and guardianship. So all this made young horror hounds like me have to see this. I was 16 and didn't have my license yet(so no ID). The girl I was dating was in the same boat. I worked at a grocery store with a really cool cashier. She and her husband were both horror junkies. So we made plans to go see it at midnight showing about a week or so after the initial release. We get there. Gary goes up to get all our tickets, and the cashier asks for ID. All our IDs. No ID. No ticket. We'll fuck me Freddy. My girlfriend and I had to see another movie. It ended up being Purple Rain(this made the 3rd time I had seen it). I didn't see A Nightmare on Elm Street for about another 3 years.. on video.. on a tiny 20-inch television. But that was life growing up in the 80s.
The first 3 are only a trilogy in name only. For a closer trilogy I’d have to go with either 1,3 and 4 or 3,4 and 5. Part 2 is just too different to what the rules of 1 were and what he was in 3
NOEM 2 is a dolled up installment. That is, it was an unrelated project that got shoehorned into the NOEM franchise to get green lit. I advise newcomers to the franchise to just skip it and skip the remake.
To me the 'Dream Trilogy' of 3, 4 and 5 is the Nightmare on Elm Street trilogy, a trilogy that a lot of people overlook, and these three flows so well if you watch them back to back. Stylistically Nightmare 3 is more similar to 4 and 5 than 1 and New Nightmare. The three films have good continuity with cast carried over from one to the next and introduced Freddy's backstory with Amanda Krueger in 3, established the Dream Master Alice in 4 and wrapped it up in 5. I think 1 and New Nightmare are good opening prologue and epilogues for the trilogy of 3-4-5 in the middle, making it a nice 5-film saga.
The 1st one is more hardcore and a creepier one all around but the 3rd one my favorite is a perfect combo of action, great cast and horror. Part 2 was soso. I loved watching these with my aunts uncle's and cousins in the mid 80s.
I agree with the concept of an Elm Street trilogy. The first film is the best - spooky and effective. The second film is fairly underrated - weird and homoerotic but Freddy comes across as truly dark and scary and the movie expands the lore just a bit. The third film is my personal favorite - creative, interesting, and brings together all the elements needed to wrap up both Nancy and Freddy's stories nicely. All the other Elm Streets are just disposable non-canon fun to me.
I love freddy's revenge but the rule breaking is the only thing that lets it down,love how freddy gets in Jesse head because he confuses about his sexuality freddy the king at mind games
I loved the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movies, TV series, etc. so much...I had freddy Krueger tattooed on my back looking like he's rpping his way out of it. When my wife saw it, she jokingly said: Now I have to wake up to 2 horrors every morning...lol. That was 30 years (ish) ago...although I'm nearly 60 now, it is extremely faded as tattoos tend to do over time.
I look at Freddy's Revenge as its own movie 1,3 and 4 are a trilogy what makes it unique the dream sequence, the creative death scenes great cast of characters and a villain who loves to get under your skill
The trilogy for me is 1, 3 and New Nightmare. I also love 4. I try not to hate too hard on 2 but it's not good and I hate that the director didn't give a damn about the original or the rules of Freddy in making part 2. It showed.
I've often seen it as Glen is the boy next door type, where as Rod is the bad boy type. So really, getting both extreme opposite sides in the same movie. But yeah, Nancy I'll say ranks up there as one of my fav final girls in horror movies. She is sooooooo badass, I love it! Anyways, thank you so very much, did enjoy your video.
Wes craven cleared the scream line up of Casey Becker saying the rest suck, he didn't write that in there someone else did. lol cause it was weird at first considering New Nightmare but he states he had nothing to do w/ that line.
Nightmare's 1,3 And 7 Are My All-Time Favorites 4 And 5 Are Not Bad Either 2 And 6 Are Good But Not Great And In Closing Happy Father's Day JOBLO Horror. P.S. Can You Guys Do Uncle Sam (1996) For 4th Of July.
I found the second movie to be incredibly sad. I felt really sorry for Jesse 'cos I felt how scared and out of place he felt not just with Freddy but with his father and the community in general. And I was 15 years old when it came out and was struggling with my sexuality then too. I saw the subtle signs (and not so subtle with the coach) of the gay subtext, whether it was purposefully written that way or not.
@@lex_rodriguez I agree in the sense that it’s the first sequel, so improved upon Freddy’s look. But if there’s a trilogy within the series of films, it’s the Nancy Trilogy.
I've never understood the "X next door" thing. It would imply common and normal, not someone spectacularly gorgeous as well as kind? Those are very very rare.
I've never had a nightmare featuring Freddy. But then again maybe I have, and it was so traumatic that my brain blocked it out so as to protect my sanity.😅
A lot of people hate on part 2 but the more I watch it the more I love it. That bus scene is one of my favorite nightmares if not the best one of all. The pool scene. When Freddy comes out of Jesse. The tongue. Nowadays, they call it the gay nightmare but thats only in hindsight. People don't understand that IT WAS THE 80S, people didn't see it back then the way they do now. People forget that Freddy is FUCKING WITH JESSE.
Dream Warriors was my favorite. The first one was my second favorite and the second one was... kind of weird but not too bad. The rest became a bit too silly though.
The way to reboot Freddy is clear to me. Just make a sequel to Freddy vs Jason set on Christmas with Holiday themed kills and a final showdown between Freddy and Santa Claus... this shit writes itself.
I don't count 2 as even a real Freddy film. It depends on the discussion but I normally think of the entire story as 1, 3 and 4. Sometimes I'll give 5 the nod and include it but it's just so bad that it's hard. Because of New Nightmare though, it tends to feel like 1 and 3 are the only actual canonical films while the rest are side stories or what-ifs.
Mr craven did a very good job of filming nightmare on elm Street 😄🤣💯😊 and when I was little I used to watch it 😁🤣🤣🤣 and also I have a DVDs God bless you 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Hmm was watching on my TV and picked up my phone to co-sign a comment thread that spotted this as old content that has been combined/chopped and slapped with a new title but somehow… it has disappeared.
The correct trilogy is actually 1,3,7 It's a biblical truth However in Hollywood traditional method it's 1,3,4 leading towards the next trilogy to come.
It’s funny you say if Freddy wanted to hurt someone why would he only hurt their kids, how fucked up that is. Reminds me of a pretty well known story about a Pharaoh and plagues from God, one being the death of each first born. Freddy isn’t the only one going after kids
If we really were to have a trilogy out of these movies without the later films, the trilogy would be better if... 1. The movies were 10+ minutes longer. The fact these were 85-88 minutes is a joke. Too short and needed more story and character development. Those deleted Part 1 scenes were a treat to look at and a shame these were axed. 2. Part 3 had a connective link with the second movie like with Jesse returning as one of the Westin Hill patients. Nothing beats a good trilogy like making sure all movies share a coherent and connective narrative. Would any of the Star Wars trilogies work well if the third entry ignored the middle one? Hell no. 3. Part 3 ended better like with 4 where the souls were busted out of Freddy, then he "returns" as Nancy's dad which is why she's easily fooled and he reacts so much when she stabs him with his glove. The ending as is was dumb. Joey's scream was clearly not powerful enough to defeat Freddy for Nancy to think "it was over" and he basically dies with all those poor souls still in him that we don't see them set free from him. Due to him having those souls, he has enormous strength so why does a glove to the gut cause him so much pain but earlier a metal rod couldn't? LAME. Besides, this is the dream world anyway how can anything hurt him? But if the souls were removed from him, it would probably be a bit different since his power fuel is gone and thus can feel some pain as if it was in reality. 4. I would have axed Neil Gordon from 3 entirely, but nothing personal. I love the character, but Nancy's dad would have taken over his role as a cop who occasionally checks in on the kids and acts as "doctor" to them given his now belief in Freddy following how the first movie turned out. He was very underutilized here and I would have given him more screentime. It also would have given more moments of him and Nancy together. Basically all the stuff with the skeleton, he'd do with a partner who gets killed like how he was. Donald would be the one to bury and holy water sprinkle the bones to end Freddy for good. Those are my suggestions.
My stance is….. Part 1 is the scariest, part 3 is the best, part 2 is my favorite. I know that’s a strange ranking, but I love Freddy’s Revenge for going rogue, and it’s just a wild ride (no pun intended to the opening). The films after the first 3 don’t matter to me at all. This would be one of the best trilogies ever if it stopped at 3
Part 3 will always be the best. Freddy is scary in this one, he tells jokes in this one but he had not become a full comedian like he did in movies after. The 1st movie is a classic, I like part 2 I think freddy is at his most evil in this one, it just does not have the best script. Phillips death is the best death scene in all of the NOES movies.
1, 3 and New Nightmare (the Nancy trilogy) has always been the trilogy for me. Wes and Heather were the special sauce.
exactly they are the only ones that i really watch anymore
Agreed, the rest are almost unwatchable for how poor they are
3,4,5 is the Dream Trilogy, 1 and New Nightmare are opening prologue and closing epilogues.
What makes this trilogy so unique is:
#1: Iconic villain
#2: Fantastic special effects
#3: Memorable moments
#4: Strong female heroines
#5: Made the slasher genre good again as it was starting to get stale by 1984.
You forgot the perhaps most important aspect... relatability...
After you watched the movie you would go to bed... people of all ages have had nightmares, and it's very easy to imagine them becoming real..
@@ophe1867 Ah yes ofc you are right
OG, Dream Warriors, and New Nightmare.
That's my top 3.
Hard agree. Dream warriors is so damn good and you can’t get much better than OG and New Nightmare
@@markymarkeaton Facts.🙌
Freddy was honestly terrifying in the original film. As a kid, he was the most horrifying thing I'd ever seen. And knowing what he was in his human life, there's nothing worse. He hurt little children. The lowest of the low. The first 3 films kept that and didn't make him quite such a goofball. The later movies seemed to forget what he was. He's not a comedian. He's a monster. Even though he did make a few jokes in Dream Warriors, he wasn't quite the Freddy's Dead level of ridiculous.
I get what you are saying, and I do agree, but think of it like this. What if he was real? Someone like him when he was human doing those things to those kids, and while he did it, he's having that much fun with it! If you keep that in mind while he's cracking wise, if you remember that while those children were trapped in his boiler room dungeon, screaming out in abject terror, begging him to stop, screeching with ever hoarsening voices for their mommy to come and save them...
It makes his wisecracks hit in a whole different way...
And yeah, admittedly it is hard to keep that in mind because his jokes take you out of the moment, and it is a really hard thing to fit into a healthy mind so we don't WANT to think about it!
2 has the best Freddy makeup of the entire franchise. Those reddish brown eyes and witch nose still haunt me
But the movie sucked
Scariest iteration of Freddy-that scene where he threatened Jesse in the hallway was the best Freddy encounter IMO.
@@nicholasbennett7367 Not for me and clearly not for the narrator. Keep your opinions to yourself.
@@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax first time on the internet? Soft ass grape
Freddy was truly frightening in 2. Very little comedy. He was vicious, aggressive, and almost always very darkly lit. He came across as genuinely threatening. People tend to forget about that because Jesse's stuff was so unintentionally campy.
Everyone ignores or doesn’t understand 2, but 2 is honestly one of my favorites. The way I take it ties to the idea that Freddy needs fear and notoriety to kill. Like Jesse comes into the story at a time when the murders of the first film have been almost forgotten, besides the idea that Nancy Thompson went crazy after seeing Glen’s murder. Eventually with the passing of time, Freddy has lost his power to outright kill in dreams but not the ability to influence in them. When Jesse comes in, he’s struggling with the shame and fear that comes from being closeted, and Freddy can sense that fear so he uses it to invade Jesse’s body and bring himself back into the real world, and he uses the attack at the pool party to strike fear in the community again. I also read the ending of that movie as very queer empowering. Like Freddy is feeding off of Jesse’s fear of himself, and when Jesse finds the power to turn that fear supply off he ends Freddy’s hold on him. And the reason Freddy is able to come back in 3 is because his massacre at the pool has drummed up enough fear for Freddy to kill in dreams again.
When I was about 10 years old, Freddy had already been a reocurring star in my nightmares. I was always terrified of him, but fascinated at the same time. I think that is what makes characters like this so great. Nightmare on Elm Street is still my all time favorite horror franchise 30 years later, even though it horrified me as a child.
Dream Warriors the puppet death....omg i remember the feeling when i saw it in the early 90s....great stuff
One of the best scenes in the franchise! My other favorite was the tv scene in part 3.. welcome to prime time biatch lol 😅
I take part 2 as Nancy drained most of his energy so he needed people to remember and fear him again to get strong enough to kill again in the dream world. Like they kind of showed in Freddy v jason...he needed Jason to make kids fear him again.
A compliation of the Mostly Serious Freddy Kruger Trilogy is the perfect Father's Day Present.
Dream Warriors & Dream Master are my two favorite from the series
They are the two most entertaining for sure and I have watched them the most
Mine too! Love the feel and intense story of part 3, followed by the fun and imagination of part 4.
For me it’s 1,3,&4.
One of the saddest things I've ever heard was that an actor in the remake said they'd spoken to Haley right before shooting began and he said he'd just watched the movie for the first time like the night before.
Not only that he didn’t even like the movie
And he said something like “it’s one of the worst movies he’s ever seen”. I’m paraphrasing but it’s something to that effect
Great subject - Love Nightmare on Elm Street. Those "rocks" thrown at Tina's window weren't rocks ... They were teeth. yeah, look real close. (Gives an even greater darkness to that scene, huh?) Also we knew Tina wasn't the main character throughout the film , after all, Nancy is the one on the Poster, and The caption reads: "If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all." - Also Nancy is shown, right away to be the "Moral compass" - the smart girl - I don't see why people would think she wasn't the lead role all along. Oh by the way - that wasn't a goat - it was a sheep. It's symbolic. (Lamb to slaughter - "Counting sheep to sleep" - even may have a religious significance.) The scene in which Tina is standing in her white body bag, her feet surrounded by squirming eels, (just before the centipede comes out of her mouth) was very religiously symbolic as a Virgin Mary statue with snakes at her feet. Wes Craven went deep while remaining subtle in his technique. The first Nightmare on Elm was the best for fear - and kept Freddy's "smart-ass" to a minimum - using his words as threats and to insight fear and not for some kind of "4rth wall break entertainment value." This, Freddy, in my opinion, was the best Freddy.
I always admired how strong and resilient the female heroines were in this franchise, especially Nancy, who is the first example who springs to mind whenever you hear "Final Girl."
The "trilogy" was unique in showing how powerful Fred had become within that time span. We got glimpses of his power in nightmare 1...then his expanded power in 2...and arguably his peak in 3 (if we ignore FD)
Whats FD?
@@ivanborgia3580 Freddy's dead
I wonder why no one ever talks about the cut scene with Nancy and her Mom talking in their basement about Freddy. The cut scene makes the parents of Elm Street motive for vigilante justice make much more sense. I didn’t see the deleted scene until almost 30 years after initially viewing the film. Freddy basically kill3d Nancy, Tina, Glen, Rod and the other Elm Street kids older siblings!! They didn’t even know they had older siblings.
Really? Is there a cut scene about older siblings out there? Where did you see that?
I feel like NOES 4 should be included to truly have the trilogy. It was so satisfying to see some of the dream warriors come back (even though they didn't last long).
Also NOES 4 has one of my favorite movies opener songs (from Tuesday Knight). ❤
I love that song too
"What do you think I'm some kind of fruitcake or something?!"
1, 3 and 4 are the true trilogy for me
That’s right
Me too! With 3 being my favorite one
4 is the batman forever of the franchise. Love the soundtrack too.
Yes. Part 2 often feels like it the script was originally for a completely different horror movie, and they then inserted Freddie into it, especially when Freddie can randomly appear in the real world at the pool party and still act like he's in a dream.
Facts!
Freddy driving the car at the end of 1 would have been awesome
I find the “soft reboot” interpretation of 2 interesting but considering how much emphasis is placed on Freddy’s power being on a spectrum (more souls=more power), I find the view that Freddy during the 2nd film is trying to regain power (sort of like in Freddy v Jason) more satisfying personally. I think Freddy’s desperation in the beginning conveyed this to me; his lack of quips, to borrow an observation from a tv show, underscores his lack of strength in his current circumstance.That is just my opinion but I think it would actually make the first 3 movies feel more connected and give more weight to Nancy’s initial battle with Freddy.
I like the second one but then again I liked them all in one way or another
@@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax I agree with you. Considering all of the different opinions from the creative minds across the first three movies, I know viewing this as a traditional trilogy is really built on fan interpretations. Still, there is so much there which makes me think about what could of been, like exploring what it might have been for Nancy to have been viewed as her mom’s killer (never acknowledged in text but seems like a reasonable assumption based on story details), the role her dad might of had hurting Freddy by keeping his name out of public domain, how the events of the 2nd movie could have caused the new spike in deaths preceding the 3rd and maybe the idea that dream powers are a byproduct of having had dreams with Freddy. Sigh…minor vent over.
Or you can just skip number 2. It’s not a real NOEM anyway. It’s a dolled up installment. That’s the real reason it’s so different.
So weird a future A list actor and future Oscar winner came from this trilogy.😊 Johnny and Patricia.
Not his first film, but Lawrence Fishburn also appeared in the 3rd.
The big problem with trying to say that part 2 is a soft "reboot" is that it directly references Part 1 on multiple occasions, so there is no way it can be a reboot. Instead, let's call it what it really was : a mis-step that they had to course correct in part 3. I enjoy the movie as a stand alone, but don't consider it as part of a "trilogy" with parts 1 and 3.
It's defintely is a good movie but yeah.....it is a stand alone and shouldn't really be a part of the trilogy.
This series also shows us the evolution of Heather Langenkamp's acting ability. In 1 she's..... trying her best let's say lol. But by New Nightmare she's really grown into quite a good actor
fredys prosthetics was wicked as hell in part 1 and 2
Robert Englund’s cameo in Stranger Things 4 really worked as his grand sendoff from playing Freddy, and passing the torch/claws to the next dream-haunting monster. (Also, the character Will’s entire character arc is a long-form reboot of Nightmare 2’s story, about being a closeted gay teen boy in the ‘80s.)
Something you need to consider with A Nightmare on Elm Street is all the controversy that surrounded its filming and release. There were protests by christian groups at movie theaters. They latched on to Freddy being a child murderer and went further claiming he was a full-blown murdering pedophile. Then there was the MPAA threatening to not allow the release unless anyone purchasing tickets/attending the movie had to show ID proving they were 18, and no one under the age of 17 would be allowed in. If you were under 18, you had to have a parent or guardian 18 or older with you, and you needed ID to prove ages and guardianship. So all this made young horror hounds like me have to see this. I was 16 and didn't have my license yet(so no ID). The girl I was dating was in the same boat. I worked at a grocery store with a really cool cashier. She and her husband were both horror junkies. So we made plans to go see it at midnight showing about a week or so after the initial release. We get there. Gary goes up to get all our tickets, and the cashier asks for ID. All our IDs. No ID. No ticket. We'll fuck me Freddy. My girlfriend and I had to see another movie. It ended up being Purple Rain(this made the 3rd time I had seen it). I didn't see A Nightmare on Elm Street for about another 3 years.. on video.. on a tiny 20-inch television. But that was life growing up in the 80s.
The MPAA sucks. I can’t stand censorship
Glens death was pretty impressive. They did that entire room on the ceiling for the effects.
The first 3 are only a trilogy in name only. For a closer trilogy I’d have to go with either 1,3 and 4 or 3,4 and 5. Part 2 is just too different to what the rules of 1 were and what he was in 3
NOEM 2 is a dolled up installment. That is, it was an unrelated project that got shoehorned into the NOEM franchise to get green lit. I advise newcomers to the franchise to just skip it and skip the remake.
To me the 'Dream Trilogy' of 3, 4 and 5 is the Nightmare on Elm Street trilogy, a trilogy that a lot of people overlook, and these three flows so well if you watch them back to back. Stylistically Nightmare 3 is more similar to 4 and 5 than 1 and New Nightmare. The three films have good continuity with cast carried over from one to the next and introduced Freddy's backstory with Amanda Krueger in 3, established the Dream Master Alice in 4 and wrapped it up in 5. I think 1 and New Nightmare are good opening prologue and epilogues for the trilogy of 3-4-5 in the middle, making it a nice 5-film saga.
The 1st one is more hardcore and a creepier one all around but the 3rd one my favorite is a perfect combo of action, great cast and horror. Part 2 was soso. I loved watching these with my aunts uncle's and cousins in the mid 80s.
1, 2, 3, and 4 is my Nightmare canon. New Nightmare makes a nice book end as well.
1, 3, and New Nightmare/Freddy vs. Jason
I love revenge. Robert is dark as hell in this movie.
too bad most scenes with Fred were with a different actor
@@DavidDrouantThat’s not true. I think the only shot with a different actor is the scene where the gym coach is killed
1 and 3 are really the only two that I enjoy. Which is crazy because I can watch all of the Paramount Friday movies no problem.
what about new nightmare?
You better add 4 to that
@@Look-at-the-ghost 4 is not bad I just hate how they kill off all of my favorite characters from part 3.
@@thecunninlynguist the design of Freddy in new nightmare is pretty cool.
I agree with the concept of an Elm Street trilogy. The first film is the best - spooky and effective. The second film is fairly underrated - weird and homoerotic but Freddy comes across as truly dark and scary and the movie expands the lore just a bit. The third film is my personal favorite - creative, interesting, and brings together all the elements needed to wrap up both Nancy and Freddy's stories nicely. All the other Elm Streets are just disposable non-canon fun to me.
I know people don't care for Part 2, BUT Part 2 was actually the last time Freddy was actually dark and scary. Until New Nightmare
Actually The Beginning of part 2 in the bus is the only Dream kill with the 2 girls and Jesse waking up Screaming✅️
I love freddy's revenge but the rule breaking is the only thing that lets it down,love how freddy gets in Jesse head because he confuses about his sexuality freddy the king at mind games
I loved the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movies, TV series, etc. so much...I had freddy Krueger tattooed on my back looking like he's rpping his way out of it. When my wife saw it, she jokingly said: Now I have to wake up to 2 horrors every morning...lol. That was 30 years (ish) ago...although I'm nearly 60 now, it is extremely faded as tattoos tend to do over time.
Dream Warriors is my favorite of the franchise
nightamre 1-4 and new nightmare is Golden for me , Freddy Krueger is a Slasher pop culture icon and defines the 1980s forever total Game changer
I look at Freddy's Revenge as its own movie 1,3 and 4 are a trilogy what makes it unique the dream sequence, the creative death scenes great cast of characters and a villain who loves to get under your skill
Thanks for including #2, it's my favorite!
Favourite one is Dream Warrriors!
1 and 3 make a fantastic and horrifying epic. Its seamless
Happy Father's Day!
The trilogy for me is 1, 3 and New Nightmare. I also love 4. I try not to hate too hard on 2 but it's not good and I hate that the director didn't give a damn about the original or the rules of Freddy in making part 2. It showed.
I've often seen it as Glen is the boy next door type, where as Rod is the bad boy type. So really, getting both extreme opposite sides in the same movie. But yeah, Nancy I'll say ranks up there as one of my fav final girls in horror movies. She is sooooooo badass, I love it! Anyways, thank you so very much, did enjoy your video.
I've binged through every Nightmare movie so many times. As bad as they are I do enjoy 4 and 5, can't stand 6 though.
Wes craven cleared the scream line up of Casey Becker saying the rest suck, he didn't write that in there someone else did. lol cause it was weird at first considering New Nightmare but he states he had nothing to do w/ that line.
Nightmare's 1,3 And 7 Are My All-Time Favorites 4 And 5 Are Not Bad Either 2 And 6 Are Good But Not Great And In Closing Happy Father's Day JOBLO Horror. P.S. Can You Guys Do Uncle Sam (1996) For 4th Of July.
I found the second movie to be incredibly sad. I felt really sorry for Jesse 'cos I felt how scared and out of place he felt not just with Freddy but with his father and the community in general. And I was 15 years old when it came out and was struggling with my sexuality then too. I saw the subtle signs (and not so subtle with the coach) of the gay subtext, whether it was purposefully written that way or not.
1 & 3 with New Nightmare as the spin off is always mine - though the version of Freddy in 2 is fantastic
My mom had that VHS box set. I remember it cost almost $100 and she bought it at Sam Goody.
The Nancy Trilogy of the original movie, the third, and New Nightmare is the trilogy. Everything else in the series are just lesser sequels.
The second one is solid. It also has the best Freddy look.
@@lex_rodriguez I agree in the sense that it’s the first sequel, so improved upon Freddy’s look. But if there’s a trilogy within the series of films, it’s the Nancy Trilogy.
My favorite horror movie series of all time and yes some of them got dumb like all series but I love them all!!!
I am definitely the only person who would've liked the ending where Fred drove the Car. I liked a couple of those Alternate Takes too.
I love 1,3,4,New Nightmare
3 is my favourite
Freddy pioneered the ceiling crawl
2 has some of the scariest scenes in the franchise
I've never understood the "X next door" thing. It would imply common and normal, not someone spectacularly gorgeous as well as kind? Those are very very rare.
Yeah I always thought the "girl next door" was meant to be like a wholesome Marianne type as opposed to a sultry Ginger type.
Wes cravens new nightmare for me was the best and scariest
I've never had a nightmare featuring Freddy.
But then again maybe I have, and it was so traumatic that my brain blocked it out so as to protect my sanity.😅
Twirling lawnmower 😀👍👑
A lot of people hate on part 2 but the more I watch it the more I love it.
That bus scene is one of my favorite nightmares if not the best one of all. The pool scene. When Freddy comes out of Jesse. The tongue.
Nowadays, they call it the gay nightmare but thats only in hindsight. People don't understand that IT WAS THE 80S, people didn't see it back then the way they do now. People forget that Freddy is FUCKING WITH JESSE.
Freddy's glove can also be seen in Evil Dead 2 and Ash vs Evil Dead.
I think the goat motiff is that the teens are the sacrificial lambs to freddy vengeful slaughter of them
Hiding alcohol bottles is just a normal part of parenting. You never know where you'll be when you need a drink
This was Johnny Depp's second movie his first film role was the movie that he starred as the main character which was called private resort
1,2&3 were in a era that was fresh out the bag
I listen to the videos on my route ...your voice is the best ..
My favorites are the original and New Nightmare.
I about LOVE this. Thank you.
The scene in the alley way when they introduce us to him for the first time is just 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
Dream Warriors was my favorite. The first one was my second favorite and the second one was... kind of weird but not too bad. The rest became a bit too silly though.
If we ever get a prequel, then it should be titled Springwood Slasher.
3 was always my favorite. Wish 3 was the end of the series. It would have been a perfect ending
The way to reboot Freddy is clear to me. Just make a sequel to Freddy vs Jason set on Christmas with Holiday themed kills and a final showdown between Freddy and Santa Claus... this shit writes itself.
What would Jennifer’s dream power have been?
Winning an emmy?
1 and 2 are my favourites
I don't count 2 as even a real Freddy film. It depends on the discussion but I normally think of the entire story as 1, 3 and 4. Sometimes I'll give 5 the nod and include it but it's just so bad that it's hard. Because of New Nightmare though, it tends to feel like 1 and 3 are the only actual canonical films while the rest are side stories or what-ifs.
They should have a Freddy Kruger: Inception. A crew goes into the dream world through Inception to battle Freddy.
South Park did it
Mr craven did a very good job of filming nightmare on elm Street 😄🤣💯😊 and when I was little I used to watch it 😁🤣🤣🤣 and also I have a DVDs God bless you 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
I guess everyone was❤crushing on Nancy😉
7:53 it is a sheep man. It is reference also for sacrifice inocense young who doesnt know why its happend. Dont worry about it. 😉Still good review.
Hmm was watching on my TV and picked up my phone to co-sign a comment thread that spotted this as old content that has been combined/chopped and slapped with a new title but somehow… it has disappeared.
Grady should’ve been Jesse’s love interest instead of Lisa.
Dream Warriors would make a sick RPG.
It would have been good if they were a couple but we all know that in the early 80's they wouldn't have got away with that storyline.
Is that the Bye Bye Man!?! 😂
The correct trilogy is actually 1,3,7
It's a biblical truth
However in Hollywood traditional method it's 1,3,4 leading towards the next trilogy to come.
Nightmare and Scanners (at 17:00) have strongly influenced Stranger Things
It’s funny you say if Freddy wanted to hurt someone why would he only hurt their kids, how fucked up that is. Reminds me of a pretty well known story about a Pharaoh and plagues from God, one being the death of each first born. Freddy isn’t the only one going after kids
3 is my favorite than 1, than kinda tied between 4 & 5, than 2 and least but still a guilty pleasure freddys dead, love freddy vs jason, its a fav...
Somehow Freddy came back
If we really were to have a trilogy out of these movies without the later films, the trilogy would be better if...
1. The movies were 10+ minutes longer. The fact these were 85-88 minutes is a joke. Too short and needed more story and character development. Those deleted Part 1 scenes were a treat to look at and a shame these were axed.
2. Part 3 had a connective link with the second movie like with Jesse returning as one of the Westin Hill patients. Nothing beats a good trilogy like making sure all movies share a coherent and connective narrative. Would any of the Star Wars trilogies work well if the third entry ignored the middle one? Hell no.
3. Part 3 ended better like with 4 where the souls were busted out of Freddy, then he "returns" as Nancy's dad which is why she's easily fooled and he reacts so much when she stabs him with his glove. The ending as is was dumb. Joey's scream was clearly not powerful enough to defeat Freddy for Nancy to think "it was over" and he basically dies with all those poor souls still in him that we don't see them set free from him. Due to him having those souls, he has enormous strength so why does a glove to the gut cause him so much pain but earlier a metal rod couldn't? LAME. Besides, this is the dream world anyway how can anything hurt him? But if the souls were removed from him, it would probably be a bit different since his power fuel is gone and thus can feel some pain as if it was in reality.
4. I would have axed Neil Gordon from 3 entirely, but nothing personal. I love the character, but Nancy's dad would have taken over his role as a cop who occasionally checks in on the kids and acts as "doctor" to them given his now belief in Freddy following how the first movie turned out. He was very underutilized here and I would have given him more screentime. It also would have given more moments of him and Nancy together. Basically all the stuff with the skeleton, he'd do with a partner who gets killed like how he was. Donald would be the one to bury and holy water sprinkle the bones to end Freddy for good.
Those are my suggestions.
For me the trilogy is the first, third and Freddy Vs Jason.
My stance is….. Part 1 is the scariest, part 3 is the best, part 2 is my favorite. I know that’s a strange ranking, but I love Freddy’s Revenge for going rogue, and it’s just a wild ride (no pun intended to the opening). The films after the first 3 don’t matter to me at all. This would be one of the best trilogies ever if it stopped at 3
Part 3 will always be the best. Freddy is scary in this one, he tells jokes in this one but he had not become a full comedian like he did in movies after. The 1st movie is a classic, I like part 2 I think freddy is at his most evil in this one, it just does not have the best script. Phillips death is the best death scene in all of the NOES movies.
1, 3, 4 and 5 are a complete story and the only ones that matter.
@Stang2023 You got something against Alice? She did more than Kristen and Nancy were able to. 👍😅
5 sucks, sorry