It’s hard not to think of A Nightmare on Elm Street when watching Elle climb into a makeshift sensory deprivation tank in “The Bathtub,” the breathless penultimate episode of Stranger Things. Yet they must sleep, as all humans do, so they try to develop survival strategies, like having someone in the waking world ready to pull them back into consciousness. By falling asleep, its characters open up a portal through which a serial killer can attack them at their most vulnerable state. With Freddy Krueger, its razor-gloved killer seeking revenge from beyond the grave, the film toys with an irresistible idea: Nightmares are not just contained in sleep, but capable of invading the real world. Released amid a wave of cheapo slasher films that flooded theaters after John Carpenter’s Halloween, Wes Craven’s 1984 horror classic, A Nightmare on Elm Street, stood out for submerging the slice-and-dice subgenre in a vivid dreamscape.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |