Welcome to Elm Street
Welcome to Elm Street

Author: Wayne Byrne

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-03-17

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1476684529

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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.

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

Author: Thommy Hutson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-05-03

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1618686402

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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.

Killers on Elm Street
Killers on Elm Street

Author: Romell Tukes

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-27

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781955270021

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WOLF is trying his best not to answer the call of the streets in Yonkers, N.Y. But when his little sister is killed by a local gangsta, he has no choice but to avenge her murder. Is Wolf built to go gunshot for gunshot with one of the city's most notorious thugs? When Wolf meets BELLA, a beautiful college student whose father is a corrupt FBI agent, he gains a powerful ally. But at what cost? Will this alliance send Wolf's life spiraling out of control? Meanwhile, there's a war going on in Yonkers, ignited by the robbery of a high ranking Mexican gang member. Things go from bad to worse when Wolf and his brothers are thrown into the fold. With so many KILLERS ON ELM STREET, and so many plots against one another, things are about to erupt.

Freddy Krueger
Freddy Krueger

Author: Kenny Abdo

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 1532128436

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This title focuses on Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street series and gives information related to his origin, Hollywood influence, and legacy. This hi-lo title is complete with thrilling and colorful photographs, simple text, glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Fly! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.

Nick McLean Behind the Camera
Nick McLean Behind the Camera

Author: Wayne Byrne

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-04-06

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1476677832

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Nick McLean was one of the most acclaimed camera operators in American cinema of the 1970s, during which time he shot many classics of the New Hollywood movement including McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Heaven Can Wait, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, Marathon Man, and Being There. As a cinematographer throughout the 1980s, McLean would film blockbusters such as Cannonball Run II, City Heat, The Goonies, and Short Circuit before being lured into television to photograph some of the biggest shows in town, including Evening Shade, Cybill, and the pop culture phenomenon Friends, for which he was thrice Emmy-nominated.

The House With a Clock In Its Walls
The House With a Clock In Its Walls

Author: John Bellairs

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-08-03

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1101659718

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A haunting gothic tale by master mysery writer John Bellairs--soon to be a major motion picture starring Cate Blanchett and Jack Black! "The House With a Clock in Its Walls will cast its spell for a long time."--The New York Times Book Review When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan. comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both magicians! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watchng magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Selenna Izard. It seems that Selenna and her husband built a timepiece into the walls--a clock that could obliterate humankind. And only the Barnavelts can stop it!

Dreamspawn
Dreamspawn

Author: Christa Faust

Publisher: Black Library

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781844161737

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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.

Welcome to Our Nightmares
Welcome to Our Nightmares

Author: Jason Norman

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-11-19

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1476617244

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George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Amy Adams, Tom Hanks--many of today's most celebrated actors began their careers on the sets of horror movies. However, the majority of performers in even the most popular horror films remain relatively unknown. This engaging collection of profiles introduces many of the actors behind the heroes, heroines, monsters and villains who have terrified and fascinated moviegoers around the world. From Michelle Argyris, who embodied a possessed college student in Devil Seed (2012), to Ian Whyte, the 7 foot tall former basketball player who portrayed one of cinema's most iconic monsters in Aliens vs. Predator (2004), the profiles offer insight into how the actors prepared for and performed their roles. Longer essays explore the casts of renowned horror series, including Saw, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th, providing a window into the world of horror filmmaking.

Welcome to Arkham Asylum
Welcome to Arkham Asylum

Author: Sharon Packer, M.D.

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-01-02

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1476670986

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Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more. The Arkham franchise, supposedly light-weight entertainment, has tackled weighty issues in contemporary psychiatry. Its plotlines reference clinical and ethical controversies that perplex even the most up-to-date professionals. The 25 essays in this collection explore the significance of Arkham's sinister psychiatrists, murderous mental patients, and unethical geneticists. It invites debates about the criminalization of the mentally ill, mental patients who move from defunct state hospitals into expanding prisons, madness versus badness, sociopathy versus psychosis, the "insanity defense" and more. Invoking literary figures from Lovecraft to Poe to Caligari, the 25 essays in this collection are a broad-ranging and thorough assessment of the franchise and its relationship to contemporary psychiatry.