Co-screenwriters Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River Conspiracy Theory, The Order) and Jim Wheat (Pitch Black, The Fly II) got together and penned A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 (NOES 5). The film became the highest-grossing entry in the series, not because...
Director Chuck Russell (The Mask, The Blob) shares co-writing credits with Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Frankenstein, The Blob, The Fly II) and series originator Wes Craven in an attempt to correct Jack Sholder’s cinematic atrocity known...
Director Jack Sholder and screenwriter David Chaskin create a flaccid, homoerotic horror sequel to Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. Though conceptually intriguing, the work lacks focus and merely served as an excuse for the filmmakers to establish themselves as...
The latest Platinum Dunes remake, a year on from FRIDAY THE 13TH, is their weakest. It displays mild promise at the outset via an effectively eerie title sequence accompanied by Steve Jablosnky’s otherwise generic score offering a creepy appropriation of the...
Not only did the character of Freddy Kruger save New Line Cinema from bankruptcy, prompting the studio to be jokingly referred to as “The House That Freddy Built,” but the iconographic figure added much-needed fuel to the waning slasher film–Paramount having...
