Download or read book Welcome to Elm Street written by Wayne Byrne and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the most inventive American films of the 1980s. Its sleeper success bred a series of film sequels and a syndicated television program while its villain, Freddy Krueger, became a Hollywood horror icon for the ages. In the four decades since its release, Craven's creation and subsequent franchise has become firmly established as a pop culture institution and a celebrated symbol of American cinema. This book takes readers on an engrossing journey through the history, production and themes of the Nightmare on Elm Street film series and its spin-off TV show, Freddy's Nightmares. It reveals new stories about the franchise's history and dives into some of the themes and ideas that tend to be overlooked. The book has a foreword by production designer Mick Strawn and exclusive interviews with cast and crew, including legendary Freddy Krueger actor Robert Englund; directors Jack Sholder, Chuck Russell, Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlin, Lisa Gottlieb, and William Malone; cinematographers Jacques Haitkin, Roy H. Wagner, and Steven Fierberg; and many more.

Download or read book The Nightmares on Elm Street written by Jeffrey Cooper and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1987 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Never Sleep Again The Elm Street Legacy written by Thommy Hutson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive chronicle of the making of Wes Craven's 1984 classic horror film. Never Sleep Again is the ultimate chronicle of one of the most important horror films of the 20th century. Hutson takes fans deeper into the movie’s boiler room than they’ve ever dared go, from exploring what spurred mastermind Craven to craft his watershed film to the beginnings of Robert Shaye’s revolutionary New Line Cinema. Never Sleep Again features dozens of exclusive cast and crew interviews, in addition to thoughts from those who worked with Craven and Shaye prior to their Nightmare. This extensively researched, comprehensive look back is the definitive account of the film that began what many have called the best, most frightening and imaginative horror franchise in motion picture history. Includes 100s of photos.

Download or read book Nightmares on Elm Street written by Martin Harry Greenberg and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1991-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The character Freddy Krueger is featured here in seven grotesque tales by authors including Nancy A. Collins, Bentley Little and Tom Elliot.

Download or read book Protege written by Tim Waggoner and published by Black Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this latest installment, Freddy yearns for the patter of tiny feet--he has infected a mother with his evil and her baby grows into a young man with a dark side. Original.

Download or read book The Dream Dealers written by Jeffrey Thomas and published by Black Flame. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a step into the future. Dreams can be recorded and played back as a form of entertainment on the DreamBox. To create one thrilling DreamBox program, dreams have been teased out of the preserved brains of Freddy Krueger's past victims. This program is being tested on a group of teenagers who not only experience the dreams of Freddy's former victims, but also begin having their own dangerous nightmares. One of the kids has made a pirate copy of the program and is creating free access to it via the Internet. That would mean the evil influence of Freddy Krueger would go global.

Download or read book Dreamspawn written by Christa Faust and published by Black Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Freddy inadvertently re-enters the real world as a living, breathing person, he's desperate to change back. He discovers that he must recreate the original circumstances of his death: become a serial killer and then die by fire. Original.

Download or read book Suffer the Children written by David Bishop and published by Black Flame (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When six teenagers volunteer to test a new anti-insomnia drug, all they expect is cash and a good night's sleep.

Download or read book Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash The Nightmare Warriors written by Jeff Katz and published by Wildstorm. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by JEFF KATZ & JAMES KUHORIC - Art by JASON CRAIG Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM Beneath the bloody waters of Crystal Lake, an immortal evil wakes and begins a new cycle of violence in this new collection of the second hit miniseries. Co-published with Dynamite Entertainment.

Download or read book Nightmare on Main Street written by Mark Edmundson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once we've terrified ourselves reading Anne Rice or Stephen King, watching Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Download or read book Screams Nightmares written by Brian J. Robb and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer, producer, and director Wes Craven has successfully tapped into the horror vein for over forty years, serving up scary, funny, cutting-edge thrillers that have become classics in the genre. His films have been both critical and commercial successes, most notably Nightmare on Elm Street, which spawned a series of sequels and made Craven (and his creation, Freddy Kruger) an international sensation. He then created a second indelible series in the horror movie trope with Scream. In Screams & Nightmares, Brian J. Robb examines Craven's entire career, from his low-budget beginnings to his most recent box office hits, from the banned thriller The Last House on the Left and the cult classic The Hills Have Eyes to the outrageous Shocker and The People Under the Stairs. Through exclusive interviews with Craven, Robb provides in-depth accounts of the making of each of the films – including the final instalments of the Scream series – Craven's foray into writing novels, and his numerous television projects.

Download or read book Wes Craven written by John Wooley and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and film genius of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream director Wes Craven Wes Craven is one of the most successful and iconic horror movie directors in Hollywood. His masterful examination of the nightmarish nexus of dreams and reality helped spark a career that has spanned close to forty years. Then, with their mix of horror, sex, and humor, Craven's Scream movies helped revitalize the slasher film genre. An absorbing portrait of cult film director Wes Craven's life and career in film Draws on the author's new interviews with Craven, including little-known details about the director's life and work Insights into the making of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies and the Scream films—the #1 horror franchise of all time Fascinating stories about the director's work with a range of producers, screenwriters, and actors, including Robert Englund Publication timing ties in with the release of Scream 4 If you've ever had nightmares about Freddy Krueger or psychopaths wearing Halloween scream masks, or if want to know more about the director behind the new Scream 4, this is one book you simply have to read.

Download or read book Perchance to Dream written by Natasha Rhodes and published by Black Flame. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the residents of Elm Street stop dreaming, a top psychiatrist is called in to assess the town and discovers something worrying - on the night that the town's dreams stopped, a young woman identified only as DK escaped from a local high-security mental institution. Her case file hints that DK possesses extraordinary telekinetic powers that enable her to control the dreams of others. Oh, and one more thing - her father was Freddy Krueger...

Download or read book The Nightmares on Elm Street Omnibus written by Jeffrey Cooper and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freddy's back and he's bigger and sharper than ever. When he was burnt alive by the outraged parents of Elm Street, they thought he was dead and gone forever. Now, ten years on, as the inhabitants of Springfield sleep soundly in their beds, Freddy returns to haunt children's nightmares once more.

Download or read book The Nightmares on Elm Street written by Jeffrey Cooper and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the full story of Freddy Krueger, the deformed madman with razor-edged fingers of death

Download or read book A Nightmare on Elm Street written by Chuck Dixon and published by Wildstorm. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a pair of original stories featuring Freddy Krueger haunting the nightmares of Springwood teenagers.

Download or read book The Nightmare Never Ends written by William Schoell and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the six Nightmare films, and explains the special effects used to create their most gruesome scenes