Everyone dreams, everyone wants to have a good dream, but there is always a backlash, some people always have nightmares, and they don't wake up. How do you represent dreams in horror movies? It depends on whether the creative's imagination is rich enough. I remember the first time I saw an exceptionally visually stunning dream scene on the screen, it should be Master Hitchcock's "Dr. Edward", and the dream scene designed by Dalí impressed me too much. By the end of the 1970s, I had seen an American horror film in theaters called "Dreamland", which was about killing people in dreams, probably because there were too few such films at that time, and it felt very good. Later, after working, I came into contact with more movies, and I watched more such films. By far the most impressive thing for me is the "Ghost Street" series that I'm going to talk about today.
To talk about "Ghost Street", we must first briefly introduce the founder of this film, the famous American director Wes Craven, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1939, and studied at the University of Illinois, majoring in philosophy and literature. After graduation, he served as a professor of literature. He entered the film industry first engaged in editing work, and then successively served as a screenwriter, director, actor and producer, and many of his films were self-written and self-directed, which can be described as versatile. His first film, Last House on the Left, directed in 1972, was a screenwriter and began to attract attention. In 1982, "Swamp Alien" took the horror film route and was popular, and in 1984, it established its important writer and director status as an important screenwriter and director of horror films with the "Ghost Street" series. 1996's "Scream" once again set off a box office boom, and successively spawned sequels such as 2000's "Scream 3". Robert Ingren, who plays the main role in this film - Freddigug, was originally a handsome actor, who knows but became a big star with a vicious-looking ghost.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > Episode 1: Ghost Street (1984).</h1>
【Synopsis】
Nancy is a young girl who lives on Am Street. One day, a strange man with a knife scar on her face and razor-like fingers appeared in her dream, and from then on, she was tormented by this nightmare night and night. It is strange that all the children on Eim Street have dreamed the same nightmare! Soon after, Nancy's friends die one by one, and she realizes that she must stay awake to have a chance to survive. After Nancy's investigation, she discovers that the killer of her dreams is Freddy (Robert Ingrand), who was burned alive by his angry parents many years ago for harassing children, and many years later, Freddy returned as a ghost! He can enter the children's dreams at will and kill them in an extremely cruel way as a sign of revenge. Today, the only person who can stop this nightmare is Nancy. If she fails, then no one can live...
The film was well received, and in addition to focusing on the cold-blooded murderer Ferdi, it also brought red to the then nameless Johnny. Tepp. Since then, there has been a classic evil ghost image on the screen - Freddigug.
Year: 1984
Region: United States
Duration: 91 min
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Genre: Thriller / Horror
Starring: Ronnie Blakeley
Robert Inglen
John Saxony
Johnny Depp officially entered the film industry with the horror film "Ghost Street"
Heather Langdenkamp
Charles Fleischer
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > Episode 2: Freddie's Revenge (1985</h1>).
After the first episode of the big sale, just one year later, New Line launched the second episode. The foreshadowing left at the end of the first episode is to lay the groundwork for the sequel, and in this episode's story, the fierce ghost reappears, and he once again opens his teeth and claws to prepare for a massacre, and the bloody scene is even worse than the first episode. In this episode, an unsuspecting new family moves into the house of one of the victims, and their young son Langerrey is tormented by nightmares shortly after moving in, and he constantly dreams of the diabolical Freddy. When Lang grey wakes up and discovers that the demons have taken over his body and soul, Freddy wants to kill people with a knife and destroy all the teenagers in the neighborhood! Nowadays, only By relying on Lang's girlfriend can we stop Freddy's evil deeds, and the creepy realistic film special effects are the focus of the whole film.
Year: 1985
Duration: 87 min
Directed by Jack Sholder
Writers: David Chaskin
Type: Horror
Starring: Marshall Bell
Kerry Remson
Robert Russler
Hope Langer
Kru Gillargil
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > Episode 3: The Ghost Finds a Stand-in (1987</h1>).
This film is the third episode of the "Ghost Street" series, and it is the best one in filming. Directed by Chuck Russell ("Stranger in Disguise", "Evaporation Secret Order").
The story describes a young man who was harassed by the ghost king Fodi in his sleep, so he ran to the psychiatric hospital for treatment, but the ghost king was still entangled. At this point, Nanshi (the only survivor in the first episode) has become a psychiatrist, and she uses her own experience and medical skills to assist other doctors in fighting back against the Ghost King. The whole film is deeply imaginative, and the stunt scenes are also handled effectively, bringing a genred story to a fresh and vibrant.
Year: 1987
Duration: 96 min
Directed by Chuck Russell
Writer: Bruce Wagner
Chuck Russell
Frank Darabont
Genre: Horror / Absurd / Sci-Fi
Starring: Robert Inglen
Lawrence Fishburn
Zaza Gaibao
Patricia Aquette
Notty Ismen
Craig Watson
Nam Martin
Jennifer Rubin
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > Episode IV: Dream Lord (1988).</h1>
The dream killer demon Freddy in the film is still played by Robert. Played by Ingron, he reappears in Christine's dream in order to kill the children of Elm Street. Before Being tortured to death, Christine passed on this special ability to Iris, resulting in the killing of her friends one after another. In order to avenge her friend, Iris enters a dream and duels with Freddy. Unexpectedly, Freddy was immortal in the dream, but it put Iris herself in danger.
Now a master action film director, Lenny. Haring (director of The Exorcist Prequel, Demon Covenant, and Die Hard 2) broke into Hollywood from Europe with the fourth episode of the famous horror film series "Ghost Street". Although the production scale of this film is small and the plot is more formulaic, it has shown Haring's ability to handle the rhythm of action, and the use of stunts is also quite outstanding.
Year: 1988
Duration: 99 min
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Writers: Brian Helgeland
Jim Wheat
Ken Wheat
Genre: Thriller / Horror / Absurd / Sci-Fi
Linney Quigley
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > Episode V: The Monster (1989</h1>).
Alice, having survived the nightmares of the Nightmare series, is sought out by Fredigug again. This time, the killer prepares to enter Alice's unborn child, intending to enter the real world to "be born again" and see how Alice saves herself and her son.
Year: 1989
Duration: 89 min
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Writers: Craig Spector
John Skipp
Leslie Bohem
Starring: Matt Brownsea
Steven Grievez
Burr DeBenning
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > Episode 6: The Ultimate Nightmare (1992</h1>).
Freddie is back, and after killing all the children of Elm Street, he extends his claws to the wider world by deliberately banishing the last survivor. Dr. Maggie of the Juvenile Correctional Center receives a strange teenager in a state of amnesia and, through the only clue he has, comes to a desolate Elm Street to try to find the mystery of his origins. Several teenagers who tried to escape from the rescue center also came here together. During this time, the children began to be chased and killed by Freddie one by one. Maggie discovers that she is Freddie's daughter during the investigation, freddie tries to achieve the purpose of killing people in the larger world through her body, and Freddie's killing ability has become more advanced with Maggie's appearance, and even when people are awake. But with the help of the psychiatrist in the rescue center, Maggie also seems to have found the ultimate way to eliminate Freddie completely...
Year: 1991
Director: Rachel Talalay
Writers: Michael De Luca
Rachel Talalay
Wes P. Craven (Wes Craven)
Genre: Comedy / Horror / Suspense
Starring: Rossini Robert
Ingran Blackkin Meyer
Lisa Zane
Janfit Cotto
Tom Arnold
Johnny Depp
Alice Cooper
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > Episode 7: A New Nightmare (1994</h1>).
In this episode, the main cast of the first episode appears again, and even the director Craven appears in white, and the film adopts a play-within-a-play approach, blurring the boundaries between virtual and reality. The film tells that due to the popularity of "Fierce Ghost Street", the filmmaker decided to shoot a sequel, and the producer decided to resurrect the ghost Frey enemy who was killed by Nanxi in the film. The studio also tried its best to get Id to participate in the performance. Ed's gentle resignation of the new film's performance, because she constantly dreams of the ghost Freddy trying to hunt her down and her family, and what scares her most is that Freddy has a steel claw that catches anyone. Id's husband was mysteriously killed in a car accident, and the scratches on his body told Id that Freddy was real, not dreamy. Now, she and her son Dylan are Freddy's next targets. With the determination and courage of his beloved son, the helpless Id has Freddy's pursuit, kills him, saves his life, kills him, saves Dylan, whose life is threatened, and comes out of the nightmare.
Year: 1994
Region: United States (more...)
Duration: 112 min
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Horror / Absurd / Suspense
Sarah Risha
Marianna Medelläner
Wes Craven
Tracy Middledorff
Rob Rabel
Mike Hughes
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > Freddy Vs. Jason 2003</h1>
Freddy and Jason, from two of New Line's most famous horror series, A Nightmare on Elm Street (aka Ghost Street) and Friday the 13th. Freddy uses his specialty to enter Jason's dreams, uses the image of Jason's mother to control him, orders him to kill people in Elm Street, so that Freddy can regain the power to resurrect, until Jason realizes that he has been fooled by the cunning Freddy, and decides to kill him back to the human world, finding Freddy to see who is the perverted killer king. So they killed all the way from Elm Street to the Crystal Lake Junior Camp, where a group of young people who were on vacation were involved in the killing competition between the two demon heads, but now, unlike in the past, a few young people were of course unable to wait, and they secretly provoked and divided Jason and Freddy. In the end, two murderous maniacs who had already looked at each other unfavorably staged a bloody drama on the shores of Crystal Lake
Screened: August 15, 2003
Directed by Yu Rentai
Famous Hong Kong director. He studied business administration at the University of Ohio in the United States, while studying film at the University of Southern California. In 1997, he set foot in Hollywood again, successfully repackaging the "Baby Ghost" series for Universal Pictures, and directed "Baby Ghost Bride" in a new way.
Screenwriter Wes Craven
Actor Robert England
Monica Kana
Kelly Rowland
Chris Marquette
Brydon Fletcher
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > the master of horror movies, Wes Craven</h1>
It all started in 1939, when a baby boy descended on Clefland, Ohio, named Wesley Earl Craven, who could not have imagined that the child would become the face of the devil. Having an unhappy childhood in an Baptist family, Wes grew up attending Witton College in Illinois, earning a degree in literature and psychology in 1963 and a master's degree from J. Hopkins University the following year. After his divorce, he left his job as an anthropology lecturer to become a sound editor for a post-production company in New York.
With Sean M. After Sean S. Cunningham co-directed the film "Together," Wes made his first horror film, The Last House on the Left, in 1972, which was a huge success after its release in August, and Weiss began to gain attention. In 1977, The Hills Have Eyes won Weiss's second self-written and directed film, earning it the Sitges Film Festival Critics Award. In 1984, Weiss continued to work hard, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" not only won the best film at the Avoriaz Film Festival, but also laid the foundation for its important screenwriter and director of horror films, the film itself because of the novelty of the subject matter, as well as the creation of a strange and strange dream, attracted a large number of supporters, as a classic horror series of 7 consecutive episodes. 1996's Scream once again set off a box office hit and spawned two sequels.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > Ghost King's past life and this life Freddy</h1>
All stories are drawn from an experience. Weiss's childhood was not very good, he was often bullied by a big kid named Freddy in high school, and one night at the age of 17, he looked at a mysterious dark shadow for a long time, which became a long-lasting shadow for him.
In the late 1970s, a true incident revealed in the newspaper caught Weiss's attention. A child in California is often trapped in the pain of nightmares, the family wants to get rid of the trouble, trying to help the child explain the dream, but it is counterproductive, more nightmares have become the most terrible part of the child's life, and sleeplessness has become the habit of the whole family. Three days later, the child died in a nightmare. Bizarre events evoke memories of Wes's childhood, and three months after the idea, a demon wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a red-and-green sweater, severely burned skin, and a blade glove on his right hand, dedicated to killing children in nightmares, was born. In revenge for his high school classmate, Wes named him Freddy Kruger, and the story takes place on a trail called Elm Street in Potsdam, New York, where clarkson University, a former professor of anthropology, is located.
After the script of "Ghost Street" was written, no one cared, and under the recommendation of a producer, Weiss found a new line company. The early new lines, which began as a small company serving college campuses, were responsible for a small part of the film distribution until the success of "Friday the 13th" in 1980, when the company was able to get out of obscurity.
"Ghost Street" was the first film the company actually invested in, but for small companies, the financial problems were still stretched, and the company could only provide $100,000 in shooting costs. New Line's CEO and producer, Robert Shaye, had to lobby around with the script to raise money. They brought in Robert Englund, who had starred in a series of low-budget horror films, to play Freddy, which was an acting breakthrough for him. Inglen changed the image setting of the silent killer in the early stages, and while portraying the cruelty and evil of the character to the point of three points, he also created the character's strong black humor through performance. Although the film was almost aborted due to the withdrawal of the original distribution company in the middle of the shooting, the great success of the film saved the new line company on the verge of bankruptcy, which was jokingly called "the victory created by Freddy".
Since then, Shinsen has produced a series of sequels, a total of 6 films. Thanks to her excellent performances in the first episode, Inglen was able to play Freddy from beginning to end, even including the TV series Freddy's Nightmares, which aired from 1988 to 1990. In 1994, as the end of the 10th anniversary of "Ghost Street", Weiss directed the tube again, filming the seventh episode, "New Nightmare". The "real" element of the film has been greatly strengthened, not only getting rid of the storyline of the previous series, but also spreading fear to the real world, and the film's main actors, choreographers and even producers have appeared in their real identities, making the horror atmosphere even more advanced.
In 2003, New Line decided to team up two of its horror strikers, Freddy Vs. Jason (from the Friday 13 series), which was revived by The On-Screen Horror image of Freddy Vs. Jason, directed by Rentai, with Rob Shire as executive producer and Weiss as one of the writers.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > New Line-Up Michael Bay recreates ghost street nightmares</h1>
A few days ago, it was reported that Michael Bay's company, Platinum Dunes, will remake the classic 1984 horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street", and the murderous Freddy in the dream will be played by Angelina Julie's ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton.
It is reported that this news was revealed by Robert Englund, the actor of the original Freddy, when he promoted his new film on the show. Although the news has not yet been officially confirmed, Robert admits that he does not mind having someone play this classic horror role for him, and also hopes that the remake of the film can surpass the original, especially in the plot of dream killing.
New Line hopes to launch a new version to commemorate the strongest horror film in history on the 25th anniversary of "Ghost Street", but the specific shooting schedule has not yet been determined.
Everything is the beginning without an ending
Everything is a fleeting pursuit
All hope comes with annotations
All faiths groan
There was a moment of tranquility in everything that erupted
All deaths have lengthy echoes
It's all because of a nightmare -- "Ghost Street" from "DVD Guide"
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