Coming soon: The Final Countdown: A Nightmare on Elm Street

[yendi]

Longtime readers (god help you) might remember that I did a countdown of the Friday the 13th movies (in reverse order of quality) last May.

I followed that up with a similar countdown of the Halloween movies last October.

Starting next Monday, I'll be finishing the "trilogy" with a countdown of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. As always, the posts will be long, opinionated, and chock full of spoilers. Monday's post will probably be a prologue about the series, as, in spite of being lumped with the other two series, the Nightmare movies are most definitely not straightforward slasher flicks.

Comments

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

This, sir, is why we love you.

[yendi]

You say that now. The memories of my cut-tag-free posts may well have faded.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Not waiting til Halloween? Why?

Not that I mind, mind you!

[yendi]

Eh. No patience. Plus, nightmares can happen any day. :-)

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

[lubedpumpkin.livejournal.com]

Hey! That was written about where I live.

From the Potsdam (http://www.potsdam.ny.us/pictures.html)website:

"In 1968, a Clarkson student film project, spoofing horror flicks capturing scenes along Elm Street in Potsdam, became the inspiration for Hollywood film producer (and former Clarkson instructor) Wes Craven's smash box-office movie series, "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Elm Street is pretty creepy. :)

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful, I love the Freddie movies best of all - probably because they aren't your standard horror movie! They're funny!

[zeyr.livejournal.com]

Happy happy.

Happy enough to spur me out of my no-comment, no-post LJ lethargy I've been in lately. :)

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

When a horror movie series gets the approving nod of Harlan Ellison, I know it's something worthwhile... (Paraphrased from Harlan: "Contrary to all normal rules about this sort of thing, the Nightmare on Elm Street movies have become more interesting as time's gone one...")

Having only seen the first, fourth and Wes Craven's New Nightmare (I haven't seen the one Frank Darabont wrote), I'm looking forward to hearing more. Though I remember the Elm Street TV series actually being kind of interesting, too, especially the one about how Krueger became undead evil instead of just evil.

[windswept.livejournal.com]

*squee!*

I love your series.

[kajivar]

Excellent! I've been waiting for this one. :)

[averyslave.livejournal.com]

Nice! I've been wondering if you'd take up the mantle.

[mermaidnchains.livejournal.com]

Yeah! I cant wait. :)