Did you know the words "Elm Street" are never spoken in the first movie? In fact the real location of the house is 1428 North Genesee Avenue in LA. It's recently been rebooted. Freddy terrorized those teenagers less than a block from Sunset Boulevard. There's a Chipotle there.
Amanda Wyss is in Nightmare On Elm Street. I professed my love for her here when we watched the killer baboon LARP movie Shakma. Lin Shaye, perhaps best known as Magda in There's Something About Mary, appears in her fifth movie:
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Critters
Critters 2
The Hidden
Cellular
Although this is the second and third Elm Street movies at BMN it still only brings Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, up to four movies. The fourth being V, where he played the good alien Willie.
Can't beat good alien Willie.
Someone else who has reached 5 BMN movies is director Wes Craven. But he's still slightly behind the leaders John Carpenter and Godfrey Ho, who both have 7.
The third Elm Street movie was written, in part (there are four names on the screenplay), by Frank Darabont. Before he got legitimate with The Shawshank Redemption he was writing movies like The Fly II from two weeks ago. He also wrote The Blob remake which we watched a million years ago. I think of him as a kind of John Sayles (Piranha, Alligator, Eight Men Out) of writers that are not John Sayles.
Both movies star John Saxon. With his B-movie credentials you'd think he has at least 5 movies at BMN but you'd be wrong. Are you tired of always being wrong? He was merely in Black Christmas and The Final Alliance. It's because he suffers from Cirio Santiago-disease, making movies that are almost good enough for BMN. Hands of Steel? Maybe. Nightmare Beach? Sounds like something we'd watch. Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up? You have to cover up your frame ups! Why did it take until the sequel?
Here's what happened last week:
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