Elm Street Franchise

Nightmare on Elm Street

* A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American horror franchise that consists of eight slasher films, a television show, novels, and comic books


* The franchise began with the film series, which was created by Wes Craven, with various other individuals taking over those jobs for each film sequel


* The franchise is based on the fictional character of Freddy Kruger, introduced in A Nightmare on Elm Street(1984), who stalks and kills teenagers in their dreams; if Freddy kills the teenager in the dream world then they are ultimately killed in the real world.


* New nightmare movie planned to be released in April 2009

Wes Craven New Nightmare

* This film is kind of a spoof to the nightmare franchise

*The plot focuses on Freddy invading the real world and haunting the actors and crew responsible for the Nightmare on Elm Street films.

* It stands out from the rest of the franchise movies because it isn't part of the storyline that the franchise follows but instead takes a step into "real life"

* For New Nightmare, Freddy Kruger is portrayed closer to what Craven had imagined which was more darker and less comical

Summary



The Elm street franchise has grown a lot since it first came about producing very different yet similar style movies to one another all involving the villain Freddy Kruger, 5 of the 8 movies within the franchise were made in the 80s which is highlighted by the lack of key differences in technology or camera work between the movies. The new nightmare 1994 (spoof/ slasher)and Freddy vs Jason 2003(slasher/horror) films which are both hybrid are a world apart from the 80s movies in terms of the zeitgeist and the clear improvements of surroundings, editing and narrative as well as machinery like their weapons of choice being more dynamic from what they used in the 80s.

I think Wes cravens new nightmare helped paved the way for more movies of its kind which is considered the spoof genre, it was his idea to create a movie that was separate from the franchise movies that followed a storyline and intertwined with the rest of the movies in the franchise such as Freddy's dead: the final night mare and nightmare on elm street 5 : the dream child. As it was out of the ordinary in terms of the narrative and ideology of the film it made people take notice as it wasn't what they had been used to seeing.

cravens new nightmare combines fictional aspects of the films he had made such as the characters and setting with a real life spin on it making it seem like Freddy Kruger is carrying out his punishment in reality after escaping form the movie world, seemingly mocking the rules of the slasher genre thus why it is a spoof style movie. Scream which is made a couple years later reinforces some of the rules that slasher films go by but mocking some of the features of horror/ slasher movies that have come before it so in this case it would seem that Wes cravens new nightmare acted as a platform to build scream on to give a comical twist while still meeting audiences expectations in the process.