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The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection

starring: Robert Englund

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: ENGLUND,ROBERT
EAN: 9780780626966
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780626966
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 8
Number Of Pages: 310
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 21, 1999
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 375
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 11, 1989



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Description:
For two generations Freddy Krueger has scared the dickens out of movie goers. Now the most-dreamed-about name in horror history can be seen from beginning to end in this must-have collection.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
DVD ROM Features
Music Video
Theatrical Trailer




Amazon.com essential video:
In the trinity of modern horror films, there's the father (Michael Myers of Halloween), the son (Jason of Friday the 13th fame, a knockoff), and the unholy spirit, Freddy Krueger of the Nightmare on Elm Street films. The spectral man who haunted the nightmares of unsuspecting teenagers with deadly consequences, Freddy (as played by Robert Englund) was a truly frightening bogeyman and icon for the '80s. Unlike the hockey-masked Jason, who dispatched horny teenagers with mechanical and monotonous ease (he never talked, never took off his mask), Freddy was a truly creative and diabolical villain, with a sadistic and blackly funny personality. The hallmarks of the Nightmare on Elm Street series were imaginatively gruesome suspense pieces, set in the overactive imaginations of the teen victims. The first film of the series, Wes Craven's truly intelligent and scary film, was so hugely successful it begat not one, not two, but six more sequels, each pretty much diluting the originality and horror of its predecesor. (Horror fans will fondly remember Drew Barrymore's assertion in Scream that the first Nightmare film was great but all the rest sucked.) Still, there's fun to be had in the remaining films in the series, seeing as a number of aspiring filmmakers cut their teeth on the continuing saga of Freddy. Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) and Chuck Russell (The Mask) worked on the third installment, Dream Warriors (starring a young Patricia Arquette), and Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2) came to prominence with the ingeniously macabre fourth film, The Dream Master, coscripted by Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential). Craven and original star Heather Langenkamp did return for the last film, New Nightmare, which presaged the tongue-in-cheek postmodernism of the Scream films and resharpened Freddy's ability to scare. --Mark Englehart



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Freddy Krueger is my favorite!
I would just like to say that this collection is the best. It includes all the movies plus more. It ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - No nightmare here...this box set is a dream come true!
As a big fan of horror in general it's nice to finally have THE definative collection of the Elm Street ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection
This has always been one of my favourite series of horror, the one I could actually watch as a child and ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Amazing Box Set, Shipping from Amazon was horrible
The box set itself is perfect. Anything and everything you could possibly want relating to the films. My ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The best gift ever
I got this collection as a gift to myself, and it is the best thing I've gotten all year!!! Wonderful gift ... Read More

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