A Nightmare on Elm Street Turns 40, Plus An Interview With Robert Englund and Heather Langenkamp
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On the October 15, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor BJ Colangelo and staff writer Bill Bria to talk about Wes Craven’s 1984 horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, and then we’ll present an interview with stars Robert Englund and Heather Langenkamp.
In Our Feature Presentation:
- Relationship to this first film
- Fears the movie taps into
- Robert Englund and Heather Langenkamp interview
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Tuesday, October 15, 2024. |
| 0:04.6 | On today's episode of the show, we're going to have a spoiler-filled discussion about West Craven's 1984 movie, A Nightmare on Elm Street, |
| 0:11.0 | and we'll present an interview with stars Robert England and Heather |
| 0:14.3 | Langencamp. My name is Ben Pearson I am an editor at slash film.com and I'm joined on |
| 0:18.9 | today's episode by slash film editor B.J. Colangelo. Hi, hi, hi, ya. |
| 0:23.7 | And staff writer Bill Bria. |
| 0:25.7 | Ho, ho, yeah. |
| 0:27.1 | Okay, so this film is now available to own on digital, and as of today, it's also available on 4k so WB sent me the disc which has the |
| 0:36.0 | theatrical cut and an uncut version of the movie it has multiple commentaries on it |
| 0:40.5 | alternate endings a few featureettes and stuff like that as well. |
| 0:43.8 | The transfer looked pretty great to my eye. |
| 0:45.8 | I know James Cameron recently released a few of his movies on 4K and there's a big uproar about |
| 0:50.1 | how bad some of them looked and I think he was using AI to smooth some elements of the picture out. |
| 0:55.0 | There's nothing disastrous like that happening here as far as I could tell. |
| 0:58.0 | So I want to start with a two-part question for both of you. |
| 1:01.0 | Do you remember how old you were when you first saw the original |
| 1:05.8 | Nightmare on Elk Street and what is your relationship just to this first movie not |
| 1:09.7 | the rest of the franchise? So B.J. Let's start with you. Great news. I was probably eight years old. |
| 1:17.3 | And the reason is that I was a horror kid growing up and my mom was really big into horror movies |
| 1:22.3 | but there was this sort of mythos |
| 1:23.9 | that surrounded Freddie Krueger because from a very very young age my mom always |
| 1:29.2 | used to say that a Nightmare on Elm Street was the scariest movie she had ever seen |
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