A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET · NIGHTMARE – MÖRDERISCHE TRÄUME - Black Box Filmmuseum Düsseldorf

In the organizer's words:

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET - NIGHTMARE - MURDEROUS DREAMS

USA 1984 - 91 min - OmU - digitalDCP - FSK 16
R/B: Wes Craven - K: Jacques Haitkin - D: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Johnny Depp and others.


"One, two, Freddy's coming over. Three, four, just lock your door."

A nightmare begins for the teenagers on Elm Street, in the truest sense of the word. In their dreams, they are all attacked by the same stranger. His distinctive look: scarred face, hat, striped sweater, razor-sharp blades on worn leather gloves. The dangerous thing about the mysterious attacker is that every injury he inflicts on the teenagers in their dreams also becomes reality. The first victim is not long in coming.
With the nightmarish killer Freddy Krueger, director and author Wes Craven has created an icon of the slasher genre. Freddy differs from other, more taciturn pillar saints of the cinematic slasher genre (such as Michael Myers from the HALLOWEEN series) not only in his special modus operandi, in which sleep becomes a deadly trap. Craven's creation has a cynical sense of humor and shows macabre and playful ingenuity in his murders. No wonder horror fans wanted to see more of Freddy Krueger - and got it. Robert Englund played the slasher icon in a total of eight films.

Introduction on May 19: Andreas Unterberger
(Filmforum - Freundeskreis des Filmmuseums)