Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise

The Nightmare on Elm Street films have been said to be perhaps the most successful within the genre of slasher and yet they introduced a new sub genre, being the supernatural sub genre.

Wes Craven set out to make a deliberately more cerebral film than the previous entries to the franchise - which he regarded as cartoonish and not faithful to his original themes. This was the main reason for changing some of the themes involved in the film and modifying the mask slightly to make it look more scary. More of the props of the original movie have been changed or modified to fit in with the more sinister theme of the movie, for instance the glove which was made to be more sinister.

Wes Cravens New Nightmare was preceeded by Freddy's dead and it was followed by Freddy Vs Jason which was the merge of the two most popular characters within the slasher genre and both have made a name of themselves through killing people and contrasting in their killings.



This film was a forerunner to Wes Cravens Scream which was made just two years later.