Rachel Talalay (Tank Girl, Ghost in the Machine), production manager of A Nightmare on Elm Street (NOES) and its sequel, and producer of parts 3 and 4, makes her directorial debut with the closing chapter in the A Nightmare on Elm Street saga. The garbled work, much...
Prefatory note: Rumor has it that only half of Leslie Bohem’s (Dante’s Peak) script for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child was retained and that William Wisher (The Terminator, The 13th Warrior, Exorcist: The Beginning) and David Schow (The Crow) did rewrites...
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...
