@CandyNecklace6 🎶 I always look forward to random Hannah singing outbreaks for this reason! She often sings little tunes on her channel, especially in her intros; @DontTrustHannah ❤️🧡💛💚🩵
Fun Fact: The joke behind 15 year old Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) looking in the mirror and saying, "God, I look like I'm 20" is because she actually was when she made this movie. Another Fun Fact: This is Johnny Depp's first movie. Also, Fred "Freddy" Krueger (Robert Englund) performance was so popular, as the series progressed he was allowed to add his own flavor to it and he intentionally added a strange humor to the character, giving him some pretty memorable one-liners. It became something that viewers looked forward to. So, actually there was some intentional humor and that helped make the series popular.
fun fact: this film was inspired by something called Hmong sleep deaths, from Sudden Nocturnal Death Syndrome. All these young healthy Asian men were dying in their sleep..I think it's due to a gene among the people..something with schizophrenia..but those people thought it was an evil spirit. I didn't articulate that well, but either way, it's crazy and scary.
I figured the actress was older than her character, given certain scenes. Hollywood tends to do that alot though. Also, Freddy's one liners are some of the best in the horror genre.
@@wheelmanstanActually the reason for the Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome was psychosomatic. It was like a reverse of the placebo effect. The immigrants were from a very spiritual society, and when someone suffered from Sleep Paralysis, they legitimately and sincerely believed that it was due to being stalked by a demon. Back home they would send for a witch doctor who would perform an exorcism to drive off the demon. But that wasn't an option in America, so the pattern nightmares got worse and worse until the victims belief in the demon eventually killed them.
@Cadinho93 actually it was the writers who wanted Freddy Krueger to be "more witty". Robert Englund may have added a little bit to Freddy's personality in Part 2 and maybe Part 3, but it was the writers that decided to go overboard with it in the later instalments. I have actually met Robert Englund at a fan convention, and he told me that he wanted to keep Freddy scary, but it was the studio executives and the writers that kept giving him bad puns and one liners in the sequels. A quip here and there is one thing. Not being able to open your mouth without saying something "funny" is something else entirely.
No, I mean you only had to push legit ANYTHING sharp into the hole, it would pop and unlock with pressure. My houses built since 2000 have a flat-tipped "key" you have to insert and twist.
@@lsu1992 No, they already get that. They're saying there are STILL doorknobs that work like that. It went on at least into the mid 2010's, and maybe further. Don't forget people who buy houses from other owners also don't always replace the doorknobs.
Not only was this Johnny Depp’s first movie, but he attended the audition with Jackie Earle Haley, the actor who played Freddy in the 2010 remake. Depp drove Haley to the audition and the producers, upon seeing Depp, asked him to audition, and he got the role of Glen over Haley.
in 1976 Robert Englund was up for the role of Luke Sywalker but he didn't do well in the audition and wasn't really interested in doing some SciFi fantasy pic, so he suggested one of the guys (and fellow struggling actor) sharing their apartment go for it. He did. Yes, Mark Hamill.
22:18. They cut the scene showing how Nancy stays awake. She eats instant coffee out of the jar and washes it down with Jolt cola, and diet pills. In the early 90s they removed any remnant of that scene from all copies of the movie because kids were trying it to stay up all night to study, and dying.
You're confusing "A Nightmare on Elm Street" with "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3." That's exactly how Kristen stays up in the movie and they absolutely show it
That first kill is probably my favorite kill in the whole franchise, and they did it with a fixed camera in a spinning-room, so it looks like Tina is being dragged around the room but the room is actually spinning and the actress is just rolling herself around. That was a ground-breaking effect at the time and several movies have used the same trick since.
"Jungle man fix Jane" was a reference to Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan books and the films based on them. John Clayton was a child who was lost in the jungle but was raised by apes and takes the name "Tarzan". Later he meets a young woman who is lost in the jungle named Jane. They then have a romance that drives most of the stories as most of them involve following Jane and rescuing her from various dangers.
I always thought that Nancy realizes at the very end of the movie that it is her mother's dream that she is in, not hers. Nancy has defeated Freddy at this point, so he can't come after her in Nancy's, or her friend's dreams. The sequence with the car is Freddy simply moving Nancy and her friends out of the picture, so he can then proceed to attack one of the people he really hates, Nancy's mom. Nancy's shouts of "Mother!" is our heroine desperately trying to get her mom to wake up from the dream before Freddy gets her. Part 2 of the franchise does give the audience one, brief line of dialogue about the final fate of Nancy's mom.
How is that possible when Freddy was pulled out the dream and he kills the mom. So how would the mom be dreaming? I see another comment where someone says the dream looks pleasant bec Nancy's bf told her think of a pleasant dream and Freddy will disappear but the dream goes to show it didn't work and he's still not defeated
Not only is this Johnny Depp’s first film but he never had acting experience before while sleeping on nicolas cage’s couch and stealing sandwiches from 711 and he only got this role because the teen daughter of the director voted for him
It's not the same to first reactions these days, if they're too young they don't get the references or realize how much tech we didn't have yet. I'm always amazed when people don't even have a clue of what these movies are about. NoES, Halloween, Friday the 13th... I get you might not have seen it yet but how have you not even heard of it or anything? Still surprises me
The experience is different if you see it in the theater first.... Also having to make comments etc. for the sake of a reaction video will affect the viewing experience.
@@kimberlyjeanne9456 Younger people still to a large degree are interested in 80's horror movies (Halloween is '78 but close enough) and they still work fairly well I would say... Yeah the reactors in this video do dismiss the movie to a degree but it clearly held their interest. Also it's pretty widely believed by ALL generations that practical special effects were best in the 80's and 90's. Also, stuff shot in real film in the 80's looks a lot better than the digital photography of today.
@@kimberlyjeanne9456 He said the exorcist was scary so I don't think it has to do with tech advancement but depends on the person. I've seen another young person watch this and they were scared😂
Fear is SO individualistic. Some people are more scared of killers, others supernatural, cult or mob mentality, aliens, government, etc. I know it has to be very specific for me to be scared. I was forced to watch IT, then the second IT, then the original IT, then read IT because people kept telling me, "OK, this one will scare you," lol. Am I gonna follow a man in a sewage drain? No. But I am not phased by clowns, lol. Some people are very afraid of them because of their ambiguity, Gacy, or Stephen King. I really liked the original Scream because it waa mostly a mystery. I was only "afraid" of Ghostface when they took off the masks and it was people she knew and loved. Ick 😂 But a lot of kids I knew growing up found Ghostface to be the scary part.
Loved this movie as a kid, still fantastic. Nancy is such a badass, active protagonist, especially in an era where nearly all the female leads in slasher horror were just helpless and screaming the whole time.
This has always been a false narrative. The first final girl from Friday the 13th literally took the head off the bad guy at the end. The second one dressed as Jason's mother before delivering the fatal blow. Most of them were always capable and took the big bad villain at the end. And Nancy was indeed smart and badass.
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 The trope is that they're useless until the very end when they beat the villain. In Friday The 13th, Alice spends the entire time running around screaming until the final confrontation. Similar deal in Psycho, several Friday sequels, Halloween, Prom Night, Texas Chainsaw and several others. Nightmare On Elm Street is pretty unique in that it (along with Alien) is one of the few slasher movies of the era that shows the female protagonist actively fighting against the villain throughout rather than just trying to run for their life.
@@tortoiseoflegends4466 When a psycho monster is after you, you scream and run in fear. It doesn't make you useless! You wait till your survival instinict kicks in. The only reason Nancy did not run in fear is cause she was stuck in a dream! She could not run! lol At the end of the day, ALL these ladies defeated the villain with their smarts.
Glenn - "Yeah, Nancy, I had a bad dream too. I dreamed I was an undercover police officer at a local high school in that investigated potential drug rings going on. I believe the task force was called 21 Jump something. Strange"
One thing to keep in mind is that this film came out like 40 years ago so everything was “Practical Effects” with only a few tiny exceptions. Also as Ash pointed out “THE CONCEPT” was unlike anything before it which is why even 40 years later people who are just now discovering this movie are “Shook” by the idea of being hunted down in your Dreams. Everyone NEEDS to Sleep and in your Dreams anything can happen. We’ve all had those dreams where you are trying to run but it’s like you are running in thick mud, or you try and punch but you either just land glancing blows that do no damage OR your hits are Pillow soft. I was born in 1972 and I grew up watching movies like The Exorcist which I saw when I was like 6-7 years old, Saw “The Thing” when I was 11 saw “Night of the Living Dead” when I was 12 And saw this film when I was like 13-14 years old. Horror movies have always been one of my favorite genres of movies and THIS MOVIE was a GAME CHANGER!
Wes Craven was a professor at Clarkson University where I live in northern NY. He mentioned that Freddies face was inspired by pizza from a local pizzeria. One of the ongoing debates in Potsdam NY is whether it was a slice from Josies or Sergies pizzeria.
Man Freddy was so iconic in the 80s. His striped sweater, hat, and claws were so original and instantly recognizable. Despite being the bad guy, he was a huge hit with us kids. Tons of clothing and merchandise everywhere.
The movie Nancy was watching was the original Evil Dead from 1981. It was a callback to the fact in the original Evil Dead they had a "the Hills have Eyes" poster in the background, one of Wes Cravens films. Sam Raimi and Wes Craven had a sort of joke running between them where they would add little things from each others films in their own, so in the second Evil Dead, there's a Freddy glove hanging inside the work shed. It's a cute little thing in the horror community
I love the way Wes messes with the audience: People: "That was a scary movie. Let's fall asleep fast." Wes in Nightmare: "It would be funny if falling asleep was scary af." People: "Nightmare is scary af. Luckily, it's just a movie" Wes in New Nightmare: "Do you know what would be funny?"
So when this movie was released I was 12 years old my bedroom was next to the furnace room in the basement, separated by a door without a door knob... Talk about losing sleep...😜
THE ENDING EXPLAINED: Nancy remembered what her boyfriend told her: "change your nightmare into a happy dream and the monster will disappear", so Nancy dreamed her mom is alive, her boyfriend and friends are alive, and they go for a happy ride in the convertible... but Freddy reoccurs and takes the mom, meaning the happy dream doesn't really get rid of the monster.
It was meant to be a dream all along until that part outside the house where it's a real life happy end with Nancy's friends alive and well but the producer Robert Shaye changed it to that wierd twisted ending against Wes Craven's wishes so as more movies could be made. New Line Cinema is referred to as the house that Freddy built for this reason.
Unfortunately, you've read more into it then is merited. It represented studio executives writing in a cheap twist ending that was fully objected to by Wes Craven because it negated the whole central idea of the film.
I love that Ash and Hannah went into this without knowing anything at all about Freddy or how he goes after people in their dreams. Their realization of it all was great. Especially with Tina's death. Like wtf is happening?! 😂 And I have to agree with Hannah about the sound Freddy's claws make. I haaaaate it! Lol
Yep, Glen was played by the one and only Johnny Depp in his movie debut. Talk about one hell of way to start an amazing career. Also, Hannah has a beautiful singing voice.
Wes Craven was inspired to write a Nightmare on Elm Street-based cases of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS), formerly known as SUNDS-Sundden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome, which happened to most healthy Southeast Asian minorities that appeared in the newspaper where Craven was exposed to. The name Freddy Krueger was based on a bully, while the iconic hat was worn by a drunken man who frightened a young Craven.
This movie is loosely based on real cases where people have actually died on their sleep, which is pretty scary if you ask me. They spoofed this movie in an episode of The Simpsons Treehouse Of HOROR, where Groundskeeper Willie comes back to seek revenge against the parents of Springfield, by killing their children, in their dreams.
This is one of the best horror characters ever created. The knife scraps are such a trigger for so many people, which just adds to hits character. The actor John Saxon ( Nancy Dad) was also in Enter the Dragon.
Nancy's dad was played by John Saxon, who, it was mentioned, was also in Enter the Dragon. He also held his own as a teen idol in the 50's, often playing the bad boy girls can't resist.
I was a 17 year old projectionist when this came out, I watched it the night before it came out, after hours in an empty theater..best movie experience ever.
25:00 LOL😁 Ash talking about how unique the concept is and Hannah says “why haven’t they done this before?” They did! In 1984! 🤣 I mean… it has only been 40 years with multiple sequels.
Ash has to remember this movie was made on a shoestring budget and was basically the make-or-break film for a relatively tiny and then-unheard of studio named New Line Cinema. It was innovative as fuck and accomplished more with less money than many of the movies that would come after. That you think it could have been better has probably been influenced by you seeing a million other things that stole from it afterwards
They aren't well versed in movie history. The movie on it's initial release was considered by both audiences and critics to be several steps above typical low budget horror fare.
Fun fact: american bathroom doors have a tiny hole for a paperclip to unlock in case of emergencies. Fun fact: you dont get to choose shoes or no shoes while in a dream.
7:30 -- Freddy stretching the wall like that was a ground-breaking special effect back in the 80s.. A combination of lighting and practical effect along with a brilliantly designed set.
lol is this something parents normally did back then? Cause my dad sat me down in front of the tv when I was 5 or 6 so I could watch these, I still remember. They didn’t scare me but I think it’s wild that he let me watch these as a lil tot. 😅
Freddy Krueger was my mom's (may she rest in peace) worst childhood fear. Next to that, it was jack o' lanterns and Rabbits. (She got nipped as a kid by a bunny and never got over it.) 💜
i love how ash & hannah are watching the movies i grew up watching in the 90s... like i remember watching them on vhs tapes when i was a kid... these were the days man... still waiting for the Bruce Lee watchathon tho side note: the 80s & 90 movies were a different breed man
But when the name was said Hannah said she heard that name before. Plus for various reasons they may not be so familiar with the villain such as age and exposure to American horror. I believe Hannah never really watched much films before this channel esp horror
Hannah is the same age as me, 30 as well as Ash (I believe) as he had a birthday vlog with Hannah and Ash’s family - beautiful birthday party and video by the way 😊 It’s on this channel if you’d like to check it out. Ash’s mom is an absolute doll ♥️ I still think about how delicious his cake looked 🎂 I wouldn’t mind more vlog style videos from both our Hannah and Ash; doing any and everything 🙂
Luv your voice Hannah!!!.....luv when you sang "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"....btw that is Johnny Depp......first movie he made I believe. Luv watching these movies with you guys....so fun reactions!!! Take care.
And Nancy just met Robert Englund in S4 of ST. S4 was all a big homage to NoES with the nightmares of Vecna. He even had one huge hand with long fingers. The NoES poster with the clawed hands over her face is like what Vecna did to his victims.
Hannah has a crackin' set of lungs on her. Has she ever been in any singing competitions...? I feel like she could earn a few quid from it. Seeing Johnny Depp that young is pretty surreal. Thanks for sharing your reactions...! 👍🏻👍🏻
I am surprised Ash didn't fanboy over the dad being the gambler from Enter The Dragon. I guess he wore a different hairpiece in each movie and threw off Ash's recognition skills.
Yes, when Tina is being murdered it's an upside-down room. She's actually on the floor when she's up on the ceiling. It's the same room they used for Glenn's room during the bed scene. The blood is coming from the ceiling onto the floor, but they digitally switched it to make it look like it's shooting out the bed onto the ceiling. The part where Freddy is coming through the wall over Nancy, the wall panel was replaced with spandex and it was Jim Doyle, the props maker who did that. Jim Doyle was the one playing Freddy when his hand comes through the tub. It's a hole cut out and the tub is on a tank with cameras set up. But the part where Nancy is in water and you can't see anything, they were under a pool with a tarp over it so you can't tell how deep they are--they had a scuba team with them of course for safety. And Jim did it because they were using the glove with real blades on it, so he had to do it instead of the actor. They had different gloves for shooting. Plastic blades, real blades, rubber blades.
The Childs Play (Chucky the killer doll) franchise is probably my favorite of the classic slasher movies, next to the Halloween movies. I do have a soft spot for Scream, though. 💜
What is really scary is there is an element of truth to this story. In the late 60s & 70s dozens of otherwise healthy men died in their sleep nearly all of them were from the Hmong people (as featured in Gran Torino) In one of the cases a teenager kept having extreme night terrors and he begged his parents to keep him awake but after 48 hours he fell asleep then the parents were woken by screaming but by the time they got to their sons room he was dead. There's a 25 minute video on the Scary mysteries channel called Terrifying true origins of your favourite horror movies which covers this and over cases
ASHHHHHH, HANNAH ......YOU GUYS SHOULD WATCH CRYBABY with Johnny Depp and Ricky Lake and iggy pop and many more ❤ Its hilarious and amazing. came out in 1990
I’d read an article in the L.A. Times about a family who had escaped the Killing Fields in Cambodia and managed to get to the U.S," Craven told Vulture in 2014. "Things were fine, and then suddenly the young son was having very disturbing nightmares. He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time. When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare. Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying. That became the central line of Nightmare on Elm Street." I remember hearing Wes craven based this on a story he read about!
Fun facts* The concept of the movie came from an article West Craven read about a boy who was scared to go to sleep cause the thought he was going to die then actually died in real life from unknown causes in his sleep. The other is the image of Freddy Kruger was inspired by a man who lived in Wes Craven's complex who terrified him as a kid.
It's so funny to watch this now, when I was a kid these movies scared the hell out of me! These, Jason, Hellraiser, etc. And now they are downright comical lmao. I still appreciate them, just in a different way, thanks for the content!
#3 Dream Warriors is the best, at least in my opinion. It was the first horror movie I saw, late at night while everyone slept. I was very young, and having subsequent nightmares was interesting, in retrospect. I, ironically, came to a similar solution as in Nancy's case. I never had another nightmare again. I enjoyed the reaction, and I can't wait to see you watch Dream Warriors. Take care and God bless. ✝️
The worst part about Freddy is that since he's an evil spirit that lives in dreams, he can't be killed or even captured. He's always going to be out there, always.
This series is my favorite horror of all time! I’m glad you are watching and hope you can get in the whole series 😊 the third and the fifth movies are the best imo.
If not watched they def had to have heard about Freddy. I think they both are 30 so even then you can't tell me they never heard of Freddy who is considered top 1 or 2 villains of all time. It's usually either Freddy or Jason or some might say Michael Myers.
@@E84-l4gExactly, they absolutely know who Freddy Krueger is and how he looks like, they're just acting dumb and faking it for content. Very disappointing to see.
Fun fact: This was Johnny Depp's film debut! 💜
Also the original 21 jump street
As many times I watch this movie I never know that was Johnny Depp that's crazy
i like Johnny in Cry Baby, v fun film imo
That ain't fun
@aang2629 Yeah, but not everyone pays attention to the opening credits of movies.
"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" is the perfect song to sing before watching "A Nightmare on Elm Street".
We need more videos of her singing 🤷♂️
They both came out in 1984
Lol, I didn't even think about that, I was enjoying her pretty singing voice 🤣
@CandyNecklace6 🎶 I always look forward to random Hannah singing outbreaks for this reason! She often sings little tunes on her channel, especially in her intros; @DontTrustHannah ❤️🧡💛💚🩵
Best comment for this video lol
Fun Fact: The joke behind 15 year old Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) looking in the mirror and saying, "God, I look like I'm 20" is because she actually was when she made this movie.
Another Fun Fact: This is Johnny Depp's first movie.
Also, Fred "Freddy" Krueger (Robert Englund) performance was so popular, as the series progressed he was allowed to add his own flavor to it and he intentionally added a strange humor to the character, giving him some pretty memorable one-liners. It became something that viewers looked forward to. So, actually there was some intentional humor and that helped make the series popular.
fun fact: this film was inspired by something called Hmong sleep deaths, from Sudden Nocturnal Death Syndrome. All these young healthy Asian men were dying in their sleep..I think it's due to a gene among the people..something with schizophrenia..but those people thought it was an evil spirit. I didn't articulate that well, but either way, it's crazy and scary.
Literally nobody fucking cares you’re not in school anymore no one’s gonna give you a pat on the head
I figured the actress was older than her character, given certain scenes. Hollywood tends to do that alot though. Also, Freddy's one liners are some of the best in the horror genre.
@@wheelmanstanActually the reason for the Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome was psychosomatic. It was like a reverse of the placebo effect. The immigrants were from a very spiritual society, and when someone suffered from Sleep Paralysis, they legitimately and sincerely believed that it was due to being stalked by a demon. Back home they would send for a witch doctor who would perform an exorcism to drive off the demon. But that wasn't an option in America, so the pattern nightmares got worse and worse until the victims belief in the demon eventually killed them.
@Cadinho93 actually it was the writers who wanted Freddy Krueger to be "more witty". Robert Englund may have added a little bit to Freddy's personality in Part 2 and maybe Part 3, but it was the writers that decided to go overboard with it in the later instalments. I have actually met Robert Englund at a fan convention, and he told me that he wanted to keep Freddy scary, but it was the studio executives and the writers that kept giving him bad puns and one liners in the sequels. A quip here and there is one thing. Not being able to open your mouth without saying something "funny" is something else entirely.
Mom wasn't a thief.
Lol 80s interior door knobs just had a hole you pushed a sharp tip in to unlock em.
They still do....
@@jeetkunedoatlanta2464some do. I was shocked my doors that lock in my apartment need actual keys.
Just like today's ones. 😂
No, I mean you only had to push legit ANYTHING sharp into the hole, it would pop and unlock with pressure. My houses built since 2000 have a flat-tipped "key" you have to insert and twist.
@@lsu1992 No, they already get that. They're saying there are STILL doorknobs that work like that. It went on at least into the mid 2010's, and maybe further. Don't forget people who buy houses from other owners also don't always replace the doorknobs.
Mere seconds earlier: Introducing Johnny Depp
Subsequently: "Is that Johnny Depp?" and "That's not Johnny Depp."
They're obviously acting.
@@ChucksCherubs3 Eh, well, it's a movie, that's what actors do in movies.
@ Huh, I think you're not following.
Robert Englund always absolutely steals the whole show in these movies as Freddy! 💜
Not only was this Johnny Depp’s first movie, but he attended the audition with Jackie Earle Haley, the actor who played Freddy in the 2010 remake. Depp drove Haley to the audition and the producers, upon seeing Depp, asked him to audition, and he got the role of Glen over Haley.
This was one hell of a way to start an incredible movie career.
Note to self - don't drive to an audition with a movie star good looking friend
Honestly Johnny wanted to be a rock star instead of a movie star
I did not know that.
@@skylaquinn219 -Yep. In fact, he was on his way to band practice when he drove Haley to his audition.
in 1976 Robert Englund was up for the role of Luke Sywalker but he didn't do well in the audition and wasn't really interested in doing some SciFi fantasy pic, so he suggested one of the guys (and fellow struggling actor) sharing their apartment go for it. He did. Yes, Mark Hamill.
So, we owe Freddy Krueger for Luke Skywalker. 😳😳😳 We owe everything to horror, don't we?
That big blood splatter was the 2nd worst thing to happen on Depp's bed.
The first was obviously not being able to hear Miss Nude America.
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Lol... that really made me laugh. :)
Nightmare On Heard’s Sheets…
@@everyonelovesmajima I meant something else xD
*first kill*
Hannah: “ this is an actual blood bath.”
Us who know: just you wait …. 😎😎😎
22:18. They cut the scene showing how Nancy stays awake. She eats instant coffee out of the jar and washes it down with Jolt cola, and diet pills. In the early 90s they removed any remnant of that scene from all copies of the movie because kids were trying it to stay up all night to study, and dying.
The full reaction is probably on their Patreon
@@deed2157 Its not in the movie at all anymore. Just her drinking coffee.
Thats wild! I never knew that
You're confusing "A Nightmare on Elm Street" with "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3." That's exactly how Kristen stays up in the movie and they absolutely show it
That first kill is probably my favorite kill in the whole franchise, and they did it with a fixed camera in a spinning-room, so it looks like Tina is being dragged around the room but the room is actually spinning and the actress is just rolling herself around. That was a ground-breaking effect at the time and several movies have used the same trick since.
...except the camera was NOT fixed, everything else in the room was,.dumbass.
"Jungle man fix Jane" was a reference to Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan books and the films based on them. John Clayton was a child who was lost in the jungle but was raised by apes and takes the name "Tarzan". Later he meets a young woman who is lost in the jungle named Jane. They then have a romance that drives most of the stories as most of them involve following Jane and rescuing her from various dangers.
Just shook my head when they didn't get that refrence 😂 They need to watch "Greystoke the Legend of Tarzan" at some point, haha
I always thought that Nancy realizes at the very end of the movie that it is her mother's dream that she is in, not hers. Nancy has defeated Freddy at this point, so he can't come after her in Nancy's, or her friend's dreams. The sequence with the car is Freddy simply moving Nancy and her friends out of the picture, so he can then proceed to attack one of the people he really hates, Nancy's mom.
Nancy's shouts of "Mother!" is our heroine desperately trying to get her mom to wake up from the dream before Freddy gets her.
Part 2 of the franchise does give the audience one, brief line of dialogue about the final fate of Nancy's mom.
How is that possible if her mom died. Didn't Nancy pull him out the dream and he killed the mom
How is that possible when Freddy was pulled out the dream and he kills the mom. So how would the mom be dreaming? I see another comment where someone says the dream looks pleasant bec Nancy's bf told her think of a pleasant dream and Freddy will disappear but the dream goes to show it didn't work and he's still not defeated
"it's like the Texshash Chainshaw Mashacre"
"What? You sounded like Sean Connery when you said that"
I cracked up way too much at that lol
Not only is this Johnny Depp’s first film but he never had acting experience before while sleeping on nicolas cage’s couch and stealing sandwiches from 711 and he only got this role because the teen daughter of the director voted for him
And as they say the rest is history
@@redwolf6407 I know that’s right ;)
Been in love since 21 Jump Street even though he hated it and hated being a teen idol 😂
I like how Ash says it wasn't scary, and we have a whole generation of people who couldn't sleep after watching this movie.
It's not the same to first reactions these days, if they're too young they don't get the references or realize how much tech we didn't have yet. I'm always amazed when people don't even have a clue of what these movies are about. NoES, Halloween, Friday the 13th... I get you might not have seen it yet but how have you not even heard of it or anything? Still surprises me
The experience is different if you see it in the theater first.... Also having to make comments etc. for the sake of a reaction video will affect the viewing experience.
@@kimberlyjeanne9456 Younger people still to a large degree are interested in 80's horror movies (Halloween is '78 but close enough) and they still work fairly well I would say... Yeah the reactors in this video do dismiss the movie to a degree but it clearly held their interest. Also it's pretty widely believed by ALL generations that practical special effects were best in the 80's and 90's. Also, stuff shot in real film in the 80's looks a lot better than the digital photography of today.
@@kimberlyjeanne9456 He said the exorcist was scary so I don't think it has to do with tech advancement but depends on the person. I've seen another young person watch this and they were scared😂
Fear is SO individualistic. Some people are more scared of killers, others supernatural, cult or mob mentality, aliens, government, etc. I know it has to be very specific for me to be scared.
I was forced to watch IT, then the second IT, then the original IT, then read IT because people kept telling me, "OK, this one will scare you," lol. Am I gonna follow a man in a sewage drain? No. But I am not phased by clowns, lol. Some people are very afraid of them because of their ambiguity, Gacy, or Stephen King.
I really liked the original Scream because it waa mostly a mystery. I was only "afraid" of Ghostface when they took off the masks and it was people she knew and loved. Ick 😂 But a lot of kids I knew growing up found Ghostface to be the scary part.
Loved this movie as a kid, still fantastic. Nancy is such a badass, active protagonist, especially in an era where nearly all the female leads in slasher horror were just helpless and screaming the whole time.
This has always been a false narrative. The first final girl from Friday the 13th literally took the head off the bad guy at the end. The second one dressed as Jason's mother before delivering the fatal blow. Most of them were always capable and took the big bad villain at the end. And Nancy was indeed smart and badass.
Like any normal child, I taped steak knives to my fingers.
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 The trope is that they're useless until the very end when they beat the villain. In Friday The 13th, Alice spends the entire time running around screaming until the final confrontation. Similar deal in Psycho, several Friday sequels, Halloween, Prom Night, Texas Chainsaw and several others.
Nightmare On Elm Street is pretty unique in that it (along with Alien) is one of the few slasher movies of the era that shows the female protagonist actively fighting against the villain throughout rather than just trying to run for their life.
@@tortoiseoflegends4466 When a psycho monster is after you, you scream and run in fear. It doesn't make you useless! You wait till your survival instinict kicks in. The only reason Nancy did not run in fear is cause she was stuck in a dream! She could not run! lol At the end of the day, ALL these ladies defeated the villain with their smarts.
@tortoiseoflegends4466
Nothing like that happened in Psycho, idiot.
Elise from Insidious plays Nancy's teacher when she falls asleep in class.
She's also the sister of New Line Cinema head Bob Shaye, hence why she's in a lot of New Line movies.
@@xavvi Bob himself shows up, from time to time. Several times in this series alone.
@@danielallen3454 yeah I specifically remember him in New Nightmare and I want to say NOES 2?
@@xavvi Yeah. 2, 4, and Final Nightmare in cameos. New Nightmare for one scene as himself.
Glenn - "Yeah, Nancy, I had a bad dream too. I dreamed I was an undercover police officer at a local high school in that investigated potential drug rings going on. I believe the task force was called 21 Jump something. Strange"
"Knives for hands? Scissors seem so much more practical."
One thing to keep in mind is that this film came out like 40 years ago so everything was “Practical Effects” with only a few tiny exceptions.
Also as Ash pointed out “THE CONCEPT” was unlike anything before it which is why even 40 years later people who are just now discovering this movie are “Shook” by the idea of being hunted down in your Dreams.
Everyone NEEDS to Sleep and in your Dreams anything can happen.
We’ve all had those dreams where you are trying to run but it’s like you are running in thick mud, or you try and punch but you either just land glancing blows that do no damage OR your hits are Pillow soft.
I was born in 1972 and I grew up watching movies like The Exorcist which I saw when I was like 6-7 years old, Saw “The Thing” when I was 11 saw “Night of the Living Dead” when I was 12
And saw this film when I was like 13-14 years old.
Horror movies have always been one of my favorite genres of movies and THIS MOVIE was a GAME CHANGER!
Wes Craven was a professor at Clarkson University where I live in northern NY. He mentioned that Freddies face was inspired by pizza from a local pizzeria. One of the ongoing debates in Potsdam NY is whether it was a slice from Josies or Sergies pizzeria.
14:52 No, she's watching The Evil Dead. Or, more exactly, she's watching the original trailer for The Evil Dead.
Man Freddy was so iconic in the 80s. His striped sweater, hat, and claws were so original and instantly recognizable. Despite being the bad guy, he was a huge hit with us kids. Tons of clothing and merchandise everywhere.
Tina's death has stuck with me since I was 10
Who's Tina?
@@MiArcangel the blonde who was thrown around the room. Floatin n shit
Lmfao
Who let you watch the film as a child
@ethanlewis1459 my dad
Ah yes the classic film “the texash chainshaw mashaccre” 😂
Shtarring the horror icon Leatherfache
The movie Nancy was watching was the original Evil Dead from 1981. It was a callback to the fact in the original Evil Dead they had a "the Hills have Eyes" poster in the background, one of Wes Cravens films. Sam Raimi and Wes Craven had a sort of joke running between them where they would add little things from each others films in their own, so in the second Evil Dead, there's a Freddy glove hanging inside the work shed. It's a cute little thing in the horror community
I love the way Wes messes with the audience:
People: "That was a scary movie. Let's fall asleep fast."
Wes in Nightmare: "It would be funny if falling asleep was scary af."
People: "Nightmare is scary af. Luckily, it's just a movie"
Wes in New Nightmare: "Do you know what would be funny?"
So when this movie was released I was 12 years old my bedroom was next to the furnace room in the basement, separated by a door without a door knob...
Talk about losing sleep...😜
Wait why was your bedroom in the basement? 😂
THE ENDING EXPLAINED: Nancy remembered what her boyfriend told her: "change your nightmare into a happy dream and the monster will disappear", so Nancy dreamed her mom is alive, her boyfriend and friends are alive, and they go for a happy ride in the convertible... but Freddy reoccurs and takes the mom, meaning the happy dream doesn't really get rid of the monster.
Didn’t Wes craven hate that ending because he didn’t want it to be a franchise but new line wanted more movies
It was meant to be a dream all along until that part outside the house where it's a real life happy end with Nancy's friends alive and well but the producer Robert Shaye changed it to that wierd twisted ending against Wes Craven's wishes so as more movies could be made.
New Line Cinema is referred to as the house that Freddy built for this reason.
Unfortunately, you've read more into it then is merited. It represented studio executives writing in a cheap twist ending that was fully objected to by Wes Craven because it negated the whole central idea of the film.
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Welcome to the internet where people make shit up and just say it as fact.
I love that Ash and Hannah went into this without knowing anything at all about Freddy or how he goes after people in their dreams. Their realization of it all was great. Especially with Tina's death. Like wtf is happening?! 😂 And I have to agree with Hannah about the sound Freddy's claws make. I haaaaate it! Lol
Yep, Glen was played by the one and only Johnny Depp in his movie debut. Talk about one hell of way to start an amazing career. Also, Hannah has a beautiful singing voice.
Wes Craven was inspired to write a Nightmare on Elm Street-based cases of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS), formerly known as SUNDS-Sundden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome, which happened to most healthy Southeast Asian minorities that appeared in the newspaper where Craven was exposed to. The name Freddy Krueger was based on a bully, while the iconic hat was worn by a drunken man who frightened a young Craven.
I have never heard "knob end" or "plonker" before in my life. I get not only symbolisms, but also high culture.
Wow.
I'm very disapponted about Ash didn't recognize John Saxon (Nancy's father), from the Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon" movie. 😂
I did it’s on the Patreon edit 😂
This movie is loosely based on real cases where people have actually died on their sleep, which is pretty scary if you ask me.
They spoofed this movie in an episode of The Simpsons Treehouse Of HOROR, where Groundskeeper Willie comes back to seek revenge against the parents of Springfield, by killing their children, in their dreams.
Don't Touch Willy! Good Advice!
This is one of the best horror characters ever created. The knife scraps are such a trigger for so many people, which just adds to hits character.
The actor John Saxon ( Nancy Dad) was also in Enter the Dragon.
Nancy's dad was played by John Saxon, who, it was mentioned, was also in Enter the Dragon. He also held his own as a teen idol in the 50's, often playing the bad boy girls can't resist.
I was a 17 year old projectionist when this came out, I watched it the night before it came out, after hours in an empty theater..best movie experience ever.
25:00 LOL😁 Ash talking about how unique the concept is and Hannah says “why haven’t they done this before?” They did! In 1984! 🤣 I mean… it has only been 40 years with multiple sequels.
Fun Fact: The writer and Director of A Nightmare On Elm Street(1984) Wes Craven is the man who directed Scream 1-4.
Ash has to remember this movie was made on a shoestring budget and was basically the make-or-break film for a relatively tiny and then-unheard of studio named New Line Cinema. It was innovative as fuck and accomplished more with less money than many of the movies that would come after. That you think it could have been better has probably been influenced by you seeing a million other things that stole from it afterwards
They aren't well versed in movie history. The movie on it's initial release was considered by both audiences and critics to be several steps above typical low budget horror fare.
@xavvi
No it wasn't, it had a very big budget and the studio wasn't small,.dumbass.
"Johnny's nightmare was Amber Heard." Ooooooosh! Yes, Ash! Symbolism! 😂😂😂
Fun fact: american bathroom doors have a tiny hole for a paperclip to unlock in case of emergencies.
Fun fact: you dont get to choose shoes or no shoes while in a dream.
7:30 -- Freddy stretching the wall like that was a ground-breaking special effect back in the 80s.. A combination of lighting and practical effect along with a brilliantly designed set.
I was 9 when this originally came to theaters and my dad took me to see it. I was terrified for weeks. Haha
lol is this something parents normally did back then? Cause my dad sat me down in front of the tv when I was 5 or 6 so I could watch these, I still remember. They didn’t scare me but I think it’s wild that he let me watch these as a lil tot. 😅
Hannah with them vocals! Never misses
Freddy Krueger was my mom's (may she rest in peace) worst childhood fear. Next to that, it was jack o' lanterns and Rabbits. (She got nipped as a kid by a bunny and never got over it.) 💜
This movie ranked at #17 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo, cool reaction as always Ash & Hannah, you both take care and have a nice day
Jungle man fix Jane is a Tarzan reference. Also, speaking of Depp. You need to watch What's Eating Gilbert Grape with Depp and a REALLY young Leo.
The teacher was played by Lin Shaye who also played Elise from Insidious
And New Line Cinema's head honcho, Bob Shaye's, sister.
The Landlady in Kingpin (1996), dog kissing roommate, Magda, in There's Something About Mary (1998).
I have been waiting on yall to react to this movie! 😂 thank you for sharing your videos with us!!
Just recently saw Robert Englund (the actor that plays Freddy) at Houston Comicpalooza two days ago
Nice guy
My all time favorite franchise, I can't take that much happiness and can't wait to watch all Hannah's jumpy reactions and all the gagging no-necks.
You two are so radiant ✨️
i love how ash & hannah are watching the movies i grew up watching in the 90s... like i remember watching them on vhs tapes when i was a kid... these were the days man...
still waiting for the Bruce Lee watchathon tho
side note: the 80s & 90 movies were a different breed man
I can't believe they had no idea who Freddy Krueger is, I envy them so much 😅
Yeah it's crazy especially when he's consider one of the top horror villains ever lol Freddy, Jason or Michael Myers
chuckyyyyy
But when the name was said Hannah said she heard that name before. Plus for various reasons they may not be so familiar with the villain such as age and exposure to American horror. I believe Hannah never really watched much films before this channel esp horror
@@deed2157are they millennials (1981-1996) or gen Z (1997-2012)?
Hannah is the same age as me, 30 as well as Ash (I believe) as he had a birthday vlog with Hannah and Ash’s family - beautiful birthday party and video by the way 😊 It’s on this channel if you’d like to check it out. Ash’s mom is an absolute doll ♥️ I still think about how delicious his cake looked 🎂
I wouldn’t mind more vlog style videos from both our Hannah and Ash; doing any and everything 🙂
JUST TRUST ASH, This is awesome! I subscribed because I want to see more!
12:39 is that the lady from Insidious?
You folks seem to keep forgetting they are in the dream world... hence no shoes and clean/quite streets lol
It is Johnny Depp and this is the movie that opened all the doors for him.
Luv your voice Hannah!!!.....luv when you sang "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"....btw that is Johnny Depp......first movie he made I believe. Luv watching these movies with you guys....so fun reactions!!! Take care.
I just released that Nancy from Stranger things was probably called Nancy because of this movie😅😮😮
And Nancy just met Robert Englund in S4 of ST. S4 was all a big homage to NoES with the nightmares of Vecna. He even had one huge hand with long fingers. The NoES poster with the clawed hands over her face is like what Vecna did to his victims.
Hannah has a crackin' set of lungs on her. Has she ever been in any singing competitions...? I feel like she could earn a few quid from it.
Seeing Johnny Depp that young is pretty surreal.
Thanks for sharing your reactions...! 👍🏻👍🏻
This movie is a whole vibe and was a horror movie game changer
I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH ❤ your banter is next level. that's how you know their the one when they can give as good as they get. 😂
I am surprised Ash didn't fanboy over the dad being the gambler from Enter The Dragon. I guess he wore a different hairpiece in each movie and threw off Ash's recognition skills.
Wow.
Nancy's teacher was the nasty Landlord in Kingpin.
😝🤮
What is it about good sex that makes ya have to crap?
@22:20- ''Where's the blood flow?'' Ten seconds later, Glenn becomes a geyser! There you go! Lol!
That is Johnny, at once upon a time Johnny was young
Gotta be honest I love when Hannah breaks into song in the intros 😂 such a great voice! Love you guys!
Speaking of Johnny Depp, I'm just wondering, are you two beautiful individuals gonna continue the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise? 💜 🙏
Yes, when Tina is being murdered it's an upside-down room. She's actually on the floor when she's up on the ceiling. It's the same room they used for Glenn's room during the bed scene. The blood is coming from the ceiling onto the floor, but they digitally switched it to make it look like it's shooting out the bed onto the ceiling.
The part where Freddy is coming through the wall over Nancy, the wall panel was replaced with spandex and it was Jim Doyle, the props maker who did that.
Jim Doyle was the one playing Freddy when his hand comes through the tub. It's a hole cut out and the tub is on a tank with cameras set up. But the part where Nancy is in water and you can't see anything, they were under a pool with a tarp over it so you can't tell how deep they are--they had a scuba team with them of course for safety. And Jim did it because they were using the glove with real blades on it, so he had to do it instead of the actor. They had different gloves for shooting. Plastic blades, real blades, rubber blades.
The Childs Play (Chucky the killer doll) franchise is probably my favorite of the classic slasher movies, next to the Halloween movies. I do have a soft spot for Scream, though. 💜
I love all of those franchises too, Chucky and Michael are my favorite killers. Scream is just nostalgia times 10.
chucky and freddy are top tier
That singing at the start gave me a smile I needed for a long time.
You guys are relationship goals in person.
Man Wes Craven made so many hits this and scream are his most memorable but one of his most underrated tbh is the people under the stairs
What is really scary is there is an element of truth to this story. In the late 60s & 70s dozens of otherwise healthy men died in their sleep nearly all of them were from the Hmong people (as featured in Gran Torino) In one of the cases a teenager kept having extreme night terrors and he begged his parents to keep him awake but after 48 hours he fell asleep then the parents were woken by screaming but by the time they got to their sons room he was dead.
There's a 25 minute video on the Scary mysteries channel called Terrifying true origins of your favourite horror movies which covers this and over cases
ASHHHHHH, HANNAH ......YOU GUYS SHOULD WATCH CRYBABY with Johnny Depp and Ricky Lake and iggy pop and many more ❤ Its hilarious and amazing. came out in 1990
I’d read an article in the L.A. Times about a family who had escaped the Killing Fields in Cambodia and managed to get to the U.S," Craven told Vulture in 2014. "Things were fine, and then suddenly the young son was having very disturbing nightmares. He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time. When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare. Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying. That became the central line of Nightmare on Elm Street."
I remember hearing Wes craven based this on a story he read about!
The house Nancy lives in is a real house. It sold in 2022 for 2.98 million.
Fun facts* The concept of the movie came from an article West Craven read about a boy who was scared to go to sleep cause the thought he was going to die then actually died in real life from unknown causes in his sleep. The other is the image of Freddy Kruger was inspired by a man who lived in Wes Craven's complex who terrified him as a kid.
The best ones in the franchise are this one, number 3 and Wes Cravens new nightmare. Nancy is my favorite final girl.
It's so funny to watch this now, when I was a kid these movies scared the hell out of me! These, Jason, Hellraiser, etc. And now they are downright comical lmao. I still appreciate them, just in a different way, thanks for the content!
Omg u guys need to watch final destination 3 it’s so funny you’ll love it 😂😂
"You absolute plonker" I laughed so hard!
Awesome reaction of my favorite A Nightmare On Elm Street movie!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I rewinded like 4 times just to hear Hannah singing, so pleasing to ears
#3 Dream Warriors is the best, at least in my opinion. It was the first horror movie I saw, late at night while everyone slept. I was very young, and having subsequent nightmares was interesting, in retrospect. I, ironically, came to a similar solution as in Nancy's case. I never had another nightmare again.
I enjoyed the reaction, and I can't wait to see you watch Dream Warriors. Take care and God bless. ✝️
I think Dream Warriors is the highlight of all these films. Such a fun movie.
I'd maybe also say "New Nightmare" is close-ish to the original film.
The worst part about Freddy is that since he's an evil spirit that lives in dreams, he can't be killed or even captured. He's always going to be out there, always.
17:12 johnny’s nightmare was amber heard 😭😭😭😭
I did a quick scroll down to find if anyone else quoted him!🤣
Fun fact: The convertible top wasn't supposed to come down that fast, that was their genuine reaction.
A Nightmare On Elm Street from the man who created the Scream Franchise.
This series is my favorite horror of all time! I’m glad you are watching and hope you can get in the whole series 😊 the third and the fifth movies are the best imo.
Ok, so now you're telling me you never watched this? Even as teenagers on Halloween? I'm starting to think you guys lived under a rock 😂
If not watched they def had to have heard about Freddy. I think they both are 30 so even then you can't tell me they never heard of Freddy who is considered top 1 or 2 villains of all time. It's usually either Freddy or Jason or some might say Michael Myers.
@@E84-l4gExactly, they absolutely know who Freddy Krueger is and how he looks like, they're just acting dumb and faking it for content. Very disappointing to see.
They heard about him before. No doubt about it.
Fun fact: The school teacher waking up Nancy in class, is played by Lin Shaye who herself became a horror icon in the Insidious films.
Freddy vs Jason ....need it!
Loved that you gave props to The Exorcist at the end 🙏🏼. One of the all time greats.
watch Martyrs 2008
The direct sequel to this movie is actually Nightmare Part 3. 2 focuses on different people.
I hope you all go down the Freddy rabbit hole and maybe even Friday the 13th so we can get a reaction to one of the best horror crossover's ever!
hell yeah