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I haven't seen In America yet, but I'm REALLY REALLY hoping that it turns out to be a surprise installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and Freddie is after those two cute little kids and Djimon Hounsou becomes a powerful Basquiatesque dream warrior and slays him!

what else would be a good surprise Nightmare on Elm Street movie?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

oh I know, 21 grams!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, monster! aileen wuornos vs. freddie!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)

8 1/2! saraghina vs. freddie! asa nisi masa is the special incantation that can kill him!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Cold Mountain. Freddy turns into a bunch of trees and strangles Nic Kidman with his branches. Huzzah!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha! Well, Big Fish, of course...
"This Christmas: Whatever you do, and whereever you go, don't reexamine your dying father's fantasy life"

― antexit (antexit), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"Finding Nemo"!!!!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah it would be great if freddie featured in all of albert finney's fantasies! or if all of his stories ended with him fighting freddie!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"Life Without Me":

"Okay, then..."

X-Men 3 is actually Krueger vs. Wolverine.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

vs. Edward Scissorhands.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

vs. Lorenzo's Oil

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Saturday Night & Sunday Morning"

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Groundhog's Day"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

American Hot Wax

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

secrets and lies!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Topsy-Turvy

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha Dan just won.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

JFK

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Lost in Translation. But only at the very end, on the sidewalk, while the audience is all leaning forward enraptured with the question: "what is bill murray whispering?"

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anybody seen Waydowntown?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

GIGLI

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"It's gobble gobble time!"

"NOOOOOOOO!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

What would be really cool is if, in a Nightmare on Elm St. movie, the characters watched a movie, and LO AND BEHOLD IT IS TEH FREDDIE COUGAR OH NO META HORRORSHOW OH NO!

― dur hur coffee is good (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

anyway, Waydowntown is a secret something movie, but not nightmare on elm st. But everyone here should run out and see it. SERIOUSLY.
It is one of the five best movies ever made in Canada.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Jandek on Corwood

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Insomnia, obv.

Also every M. Night Shyamalan movie (this would actually be great, as long as I didn't have to watch them).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

what if freddy vs. jason was a surprise topsy-turvy movie?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

that makes it sound like Krueger and Voorhees did the 69!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Mad Dog and Glory
Breakin' 2

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 January 2004 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Waking Life

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 8 January 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Celine and Julie Go Boating

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 8 January 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

JD wins, I think! hahahaha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The Birth of a Nation

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

s1ocki, this was the greatest idea for a thread ever.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 19 March 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

the remake of Welcome Back, Kotter.

― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Sunday, 19 March 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

I know I'm on a Crichton-hate kick at the moment, but...Looker.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 19 March 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

s1ocki, this was the greatest idea for a thread ever.

It really was. The movie would have been so much better had this been the actual plot.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Sunday, 19 March 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

whoa barely remember this one!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

"surprise"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

That movie should've been called Wes Craven Pwned.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

it was actually kind of a cool idea for a movie but dude fucked it up

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

every movie, maybe? Always loved that FREDDY. Especially when he makes BAD JOKES,

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Monday, 20 March 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

I still think slocki's best alternate movie idea was The Village as Gargamel's origin story.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 20 March 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha i'm obsessed with surprise secret origins movies

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

that don't exist

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

This is possibly the only way to have redeemed 'Crash'.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 March 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.moviemusicplastic.com/freddy-fat_boys.jpg

― and what, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:11 (seventeen years ago)

i had that 45

also the fresh prince song

― jeff, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:16 (seventeen years ago)

Flight of the Navigator

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:21 (seventeen years ago)

what dreams may come

― omar little, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:38 (seventeen years ago)

episode of Dallas with JR inthe shower

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:41 (seventeen years ago)

once again i forgot this thread ever existed

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 05:18 (seventeen years ago)

in the opening posts i think you can see me shedding capital letters and becoming the laid-back lower-case dude you all know and love!

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 05:19 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

I was surprised to see this appears to be the only Elm Street post. I would have thought there would be a thread.

I was invited to see the Elm Street reboot at midnight tonight by some friends, and I accepted, because I am a fan of the original and wanted some visual fun.

Let me put it this way: 34 of 38 critics quoted on Rotten Tomatoes said it sucked, and this time, they are right.

Jackie Earle Haley is surprisingly not menacing, and his makeup looks bad. Yes, he does look more like what a real burn victim would look like, but the cartoonish look of Freddy's original makeup was more menacing and eye-catching. Besides, the dude appears in dreams, how realistic is he supposed to look?

I can't fault the bad acting or dialogue, those were present in the original too. But the visuals weren't very entertaining, and there were a few shot recreations that seemed pointless (the bathtub fingerknives one was botched). While the original was a surrealist nightmare, the surrealism was largely muted and absent from this one, and the tension very muted.

Like Zombie, Sam Bayer spent too much time concocting more of a backstory for Krueger and it is just SO BORING! The deaths are unimaginative too. Whereas Freddy pursued his victims through various fantasy settings, way too many of them occurred in the same damn industrial warehouse, and instead of milking them, they were very abrupt and unimaginative.

This is horror gone retarded. I'll never pay to see another horror reboot again, and my gal is going to laugh at me when she finds out I went.

― Pippi Longstockings (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Friday, 30 April 2010 06:58 (fifteen years ago)

Its kinda hard to top the original, and Robert Englund is just a freaky, freaky motherfucker.

The Onion article had a funny bit about this - it stated that with this and his performance in "Little Children," Jackie Earl Haley confirmed his place as the go-to guy for child molester characters.

― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:23 (fifteen years ago)

Haha, that's great and very true. Honestly it's sad when you're barely beating Furry Vengeance in terms of critical reception...

― Pippi Longstockings (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Friday, 30 April 2010 23:24 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.ryanjbell.net/intersections/images/2007/12/28/once.jpg

to answer the original post. great thread though!

― jed_, Friday, 30 April 2010 23:41 (fifteen years ago)

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