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04-03-2006, 11:52 PM
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Elm Street Prequel to be directed by Henry: POASK Director
Seems New Line in following the lead of recent "torture" flicks.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer director John McNaughton is set to direct the upcoming Elm Street Prequel/Sequel.
Since this movie is set to take place at least partially before the burning, this is set to be more realistic in tone. But, I wonder how they will handle a very iffy subject? Krueger's human life revolved around the murders of small children. I don't know if a storyline based on those events will go over well.
I assume Nightmares and Burned Freddy will play some part in the movie. But, that is unknown.
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04-04-2006, 12:25 AM
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Great news. If anyone can take Freddy back to his dark roots, it's McNaughtan. Henry is more than enough proof of that, but the real question is how dark New Line will allow the film to be. Either way, McNaughtan (whose gothic Masters of Horror ep was one of the three best of the series) is a great choice.
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04-04-2006, 08:43 AM
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Sounds very interesting and has been a subject many have wanted to see for years now. I doubt it has much Box Office potential though.
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04-04-2006, 11:12 AM
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I really hope they go dark and gritty with this. Hell, go all the way in to 70's sleeze/ Last House On The Left territory. IT would shock the hell out of casual Freddy fans.
This could be really great.
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04-04-2006, 12:45 PM
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Could be pretty dark if they keep the same persona of Freddy from the first Nightmare.
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04-04-2006, 05:11 PM
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I'm not the world's biggest McNaughton fan, but I'd be pretty exited for a film like this. It'll be interesting to see if they can keep the fantasy tone from the existing films. The first is different from the rest, but still has a definite dreamlike (almost Cronenberg-esque) tone. That'll be hard to accomplish if they're just focusing on Freddy's murders.
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04-04-2006, 05:48 PM
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I have to disagree in part with Matt (not on the McNaughton part, he's hardly gold as a director goes, and I really hope he doesn't try to inject the satire of HENRY into this. I'm hopeful for the gritty aspects of HENRY, which of course could be a budget thing as opposed to style) but I'd love to see them jetison all the humor and fantasy aspects, and display a very real, perverted, deviant monster that the "real" (undead) Freddy was. 
Unfortunately, I suspect that the ratings concious, mainstream aspect of the Nightmare franchise well prove this type of take to be impossible.
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04-05-2006, 12:08 AM
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I'm not sure how I feel about this prequel idea. Part of me feels it would take alot of the mystique away or fall victim to the simple fact that people's imaginations tend to be more powerful and that a film could never match it. I kind of like not knowing the whole Krueger story myself, though I AM interested in the Hannibal Lecter prequel.
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04-05-2006, 12:16 AM
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The director is certainly very talented but I'd rather see him coming up with an original movie instead of adding another film in a very long series. I'd much rather see Craven return and do the prequel.
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I like McNaughton and think he's an interesting choice to direct. Fred Krueger needs to be a sick, disturbing killer. The intro to Freddy vs Jason where Krueger licks the newspaper clipping and puts it in his scrapbook was perfect. More stuff like that. "What's the matter Joey, toungue-tied?" isn't gonna cut it for this film (and Dream Warriors is my second favorite Nightmare for the record). The ending could be tricky. The studio will probably want to tie it in nicely with the rest of the franchise but the dream demons from Freddy's Dead would look completely stupid in a more gritty horror flick. We'll just have to see how it turns out.