Heather Langenkamp & Robert Englund A NIghtmare on Elm Street 40th Anniversary Interview header
One of the most iconic horror movies is celebrating a major milestone with A Nightmare on Elm Street's 40th anniversary. The 1984 film hailed from writer/director Wes Craven, who had built a solid filmography for himself up to that point with the likes of The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes, and properly put him on the map as one of the genre's greats.
2 Led by Heather Langenkamp as Nancy and Robert Englund as Freddy, the 1984 film not only remains a classic in its own right, but also led to the spawning of a multimedia franchise. The Nightmare on Elm Street series has since gone on to include six sequels, a TV show, the standalone meta twist New Nightmare, a crossover with the Friday the 13th franchise, and a 2010 remake.
Heather Langenkamp: I mean, I know for myself, Robert would agree with me, we're so proud to be part of something that's this culturally significant and important, and we get so much back from our fans, who also appreciate this movie so much. So, I feel really grateful. I feel not that old that I can't possibly be celebrating a 40th anniversary. I feel like that time must have had some kind of mash up in there, but it's humbling and exciting at the same time.
Heather Langenkamp: Well, I did a documentary called I Am Nancy 12 years ago, and one of the women that I featured had lost her leg in an accident. Her story is similar to many, many stories that I hear, but she was in the hospital for many weeks and months, and she watched A Nightmare on Elm Street every single day, thinking to herself,"If Nancy can go through all that with Freddy, then I certainly can go through all this in my life.
Now, we're several generations into our fans, Heather and I, and there are moms and dads that have passed away from that first generation, but I have countless fans come up and tell me about a dad taping steak knives to his fingers and scratching the sliding glass doors of the family room or the den, or a stepfather who would let them watch the movie and mom wouldn't, or their parents were divorced, and they had a Sunday dad, and they would go to his house and he would let him watch it.
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