Sunday, 8 February 2015

Opening analysis of a Night Mare on Elm Street

A Nightmare On Elm Street

Introduction: 
A nightmare on elm street is a 1984 american supernatural slasher/horror film written and directed by wes craven, and the first of the Nightmare On Elm Street Franchise. Notable actors star within the movie such as heather langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronnie Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia as well as many others. Set predominantly in the fictional Midwestern town of spring wood, Ohio, the plot revolves around several teenagers who are stalked and killed within their dreams, (and killed in reality therefore) By Freddy Krueger.

Plot:
Tina Grey wanders about a Boiler room where she is stalked by a burn-scarred killer. Just as he grabs her, she wakes up screaming; terrified of slashes in her nightgown reminiscent of the killers clawed glove, she is unable to fall back to sleep. The next day, Tina's best friend Nancy Thompson consoles her about her dream, remembering a nursery rhyme "One, Two, Freddy's Coming for You" but her boyfriend Glen Lantz advises her to tell herself that it's just a dream, as it works for him when he has nightmares, hinting he'd had one as well. That night, Nancy and Glen stay at Tina's who is still afraid to sleep alone when her boyfriend Rod Lane crashes in order to apologize for an argument they'd had earlier. They sleep together while Glen and Nancy sleep in adjacent rooms. Tina falls asleep, and is again stalked by the killer, before he chases her and pins her down in her back yard. Her struggles and screams awaken Rod, who witnesses her being stabbed by a strange and unseen force, before she is dragged up the wall, her screams alert Nancy and Glen who are unable to enter the room. When Tina falls dead onto the bed, Rod flees through a window trying to find what killed her, but implicating that he had killed her instead. At the police station, she is questioned by her father Lieutenant Don Thompson and she explains Tina dreamed someone was trying to kill her.

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