Is A Nightmare on Elm Street a Slasher Movie? Robert Englund & Heather Langenkamp on the Debate

[@PatGunn]

I love how intelligent both actors are

[@frankthetank819]

Wish he could do one more he’s the best nobody can replace Freddy

[@RansomHollywood]

I've been to 'Horror-Con' conventions, and the ONE celebrity fans FLOCK to are those who played the VILLAN! It's the Villan's character that is MOST remembered

[@greenrobot5]

I like that Robert likes all his movies, and sometimes mentions parts of them, not necessarily only the ones people like the most which are 1, 3 and New Nightmare

[@caseyharmon7662]

Great interview, sir!

[@sebastianalegria3401]

Robert is to Freddy Krueger like Hugh Jackman is to Wolverine and regarding Heather, she's aged very well over the years.

[@88cowgrl]

I love Robert so much!!! He’s so cool. And Heather is still so beautiful! They both have aged so well.

[@KrystianFractal]

Nothing will ever beat Elm Street. Nancy❤

[@TheCaptain610]

I am not just saying this, Heather Langenkamp is genuinely still so stunningly beautiful after all these years.

[@andrewlampe6116]

Her face is so perfectly beautiful in a delicate way

[@Bricks_shakur]

My childhood right here

[@stephenvelez9710]

I want Nancy/Heather Funkos, action figures, etc!!!

[@rhysdaniels1003]

This one and Wes Cravens New Nightmare is one of my fave,Robert staring has 2 Freddy’s as a costume in the show that Heather is being interviewed on and then being the real life Freddy ❤ and still this first one ❤

[@greenrobot5]

It would be sweet if after all these years they became a couple

[@scottneil1187]

He's a slasher villain. Always has been, always will be, anyone who says otherwise is just dumb. Krueger was known as the Springwood slasher when he was alive ffs.

[@carlosantoniovasquezrivera6782]

Love horror movies and nightmate elm street 3 scared me tp death on 1987, it was an awesome movie in that period time. Thank you Heather and Robert, you look great .

[@rhysdaniels1003]

New Nightmare set meta up

[@xcmoorex241]

Robert said there is 8 films, I can only think of 7… was he including Freddy vs Jason as the 8th movie? Or is there 8(not including FreddyvsJason) and I just can’t think of it

[@greenrobot5]

Original saga are six movies, then seven would be "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" and eight is "Freddy vs Jason"

[@scottneil1187]

Only 7, Freddy vs Jason is a Friday movie, Sean Cunningham was involved in it, Wes Craven wasn't and Jason won.

[@romeyromel]

The Best way for Heather and Robert to revamp their roles is to do a reboot anime OR a reboot through a Video game Franchise but this time with a solid story based on Wes Craven's Freddy .. after part three the other sequels were just thrown together because of Freddy's popularity .

[@nerdjournal]

4 and 5 still had a certain charm to them. But if I could have a wish come true is I would literally wish for a reboot that picked up after the events of Part 3 and bring back most of the cast from the 3rd one and have Freddy coming back as adults coming for THEIR kids. Put Robert In since he would be in make-up, they could hide the age through cosmetics. Because it wouldn't make sense for Freddy to age. I just think that has the MOST potential for the best way to reboot Nightmare on Elm Street. Then I would focus on the next movie being based on passing the torch to a new Krueger, someone who isn't trying to play their own version of Freddy but is trying to play the Character of Freddy that we already know.

[@roysjsg]

One thing I love about Heather is she never became a Hollyweird snob...she's sweet, down to earth and the perfect beautiful girl next door actress. She made it big without showing cleavage and only showing her great acting talents. Heather is head and shoulders above Jamie Lee,Demi Moore and Patricia Arquette etc...Heather IS the final girl!

[@josephirizarry5195]

weird, i had a dream about part 3 while i was dreaming this morning. and i was a huge fan of the series as a kid because i was always lucid dreaming. and being a horror junkie as a child, i had the most horrifying nightmares, while being awake in them. sometimes i could escape. never had a nightmare about Freddy though, thank goodness

[@nerdjournal]

I used to have lucid dreams about horror movie characters. I don't remember but a few of them, and they were the more absurd ones, I think. Once I laughed at Pennywise, because he was talking about the Derry Sewer plant behind him and that I would float in it, only we were standing in the creek that ran through the front of my yard, so he had trees behind him, and we were thousands of miles from the potential of Derry if it actually existed. And the Second one was I got mad a Jason Voorhees for breaking my door and I killed him, cooked him and ate his lungs like a brisket. Ahh, the absurdity of dreams!

[@sadomensgaudaprime8142]

How many of us punched the air at the line " Hello im Nancy " that was delivered to Robert Englunds character in the last series of Stranger things? 👍

[@junior6677]

I hope we get a New Nightmare on elm street film in the near future.

[@scottneil1187]

I hope we don't considering that last awful remake.

[@junior6677]

@scottneil1187 Imo the 2010 Remake is a criminally underrated horror remake, I honestly loved the darker serious take on Freddy.

[@88cowgrl]

I actually think the remake was pretty decent but nobody can beat Robert’s portrayal of Freddy.

[@nerdjournal]

Nightmare on Elm Street isn't a slasher. Or it could be better said maybe as it isn't JUST a slasher. Personally, I don't label it as one, but can't fault people who might. The article I read on the Collider website was pretty compelling and voiced a lot of my own opinions. It's a movie that plays on the tropes of the slasher craze, but in a supernatural meets psychological horror meld of perfection.

[@scottneil1187]

It is and always has been a slasher. Freddy Krueger was known as the Springwood slasher when he was alive.

[@VanessaDo-lu7cd]

❤❤❤❤first Rogert and Heather

[@frankthetank819]

Every movie was amazing 💪

[@LanaK.fan8337]

I really ❤ the 1st & 3rd.

[@frankthetank819]

@@LanaK.fan8337 I agree ☝️

[@Fiendstein]

Lets face it. Timing was also a major factor. the 80's. The fact its this Amazing original slasher from 1984 just brings it all home.

[@frankthetank819]

To me Freddy will always be the best nothing can touch nightmare on elm street 💪 and the best actor and the way he portrayed Freddy an absolute legend

[@martianhighmile9088]

Bullshit. Art the clown from Terrifier shits on everything Freddy ever did with just 3 movies released.

[@frankthetank819]

@@martianhighmile9088 there always has to be a hater 😆 Bud get a life keep hating tho lol Robert Englund is the best and Freddy is the best and he’s the best actor in the horror genre he’s a legend 👍

[@samuelduvall8130]

I met them both

[@randallagbayani7466]

I consider the nightmare on elm street movie franchise a slasher no doubt, but its the game changer that took the slasher Halloween, Friday the 13th films by that mid 80s coming out of the late 70s early 80s boom of a traditional slasher film being made from that time stamp mid 70s if u wanna include The original texas chainsaw massacre 1974 film a real start with a weapon n being masked of some form in leatherface s case it was his victims skin removed from their bodies..then u could say Their was that blonde brown haired good nice girl that survives and fights her way through the ordeal of her friends being offed one by one hunted down n chased to her being a final girl to make a survival stamp of a girl strong enough to succeed and escape the main killer or killers in Sallys case then in 1974 the olivia hussey survives Black Christmas 1974.. n so by 1978 we got the most noted well received knowledge ment of the famous iconic Ledgendary scream queen of the horror realm due to her big Hollywood actress movie star mom janet Leigh from Hitchcock s 1960 Psycho getting i believe the first woman to be shown getting stabbed in a shower which set as another standard format that other slashers later after psycho atarted to cliche the shower killed woman in a slasher trope..n her daughter is of course miss Jamie lee curtis start of her career doing oddly enough horror film after another till she noticed their pattern of her work by coincidence that her roles after her debut in 1978s Halloween as a terrified surviving smart fighting victimizec teen girl who fought back at her slasher killer then next Friday the 13th had their couple of surviving leading ladies to survive jason and in the original mrs psychotic mother Mrs Voorhees then we get a much more elevated different slasher to be different freddy krueger in which he was more super natural n a evil entity that was once a human serial child killer then turned super natural by coming back to taunt his victims as young adults of his neighborhood community that killed him with vigilante justice so he returns in evil entity form killing slashing them with instead of just having a single tool or weapon or knife etc, he has many knives made on a glove he hand crafted himself to use as a killing tool and he was able to talk and speak to taunt his victims unlike his othet fellow slasher villains that came b4 him freddy just eievated the typical slasher killer

[@RelentlessOhiox]

I mean okay but Halloween started it

[@ACD1994]

@@RelentlessOhiox Black Christmas

[@randallagbayani7466]

@RelentlessOhiox yea ,but im just sayin on regards to the debate rather nightmare on elm street is a slasher or not and im sayin nightmare took the typical regular slasher film troups and made a different unique thing where its a slasher but mixed in with a almost fantasy supernatural entity element to its own stand alone slashet film id in my opinion do consider nightmare on elm street a most definite slasher no doubt, it just gets debatable from fans out in the horror world community, and when u gotta put ur foot down at the end of the day just take it for what it is and just see the obvious standards of earlier previous slasher films that came before nightmare and nightmare is no exception, it certainly has the same beat to a Halloween but in a different situation and another mid western town setting just like Halloween

[@scottneil1187]

​@@RelentlessOhioxThe Town That Dreaded Sundown started it.

[@scottneil1187]

Good grief, ever heard of punctuation.

[@mynameisnotearl4383]

heather doesn’t like getting interrupted, Robert can’t help it he’s a Chatty Cathy

[@danielwhite455]

we need Robert Englund as a skin For Freddy with voicelines in dead by daylight

[@mikewhite8663]

It’s always been a horror comedy for sure I never thought it was a slasher at all

[@BooneLuleyo]

The first one is definitely not a horror comedy.

[@dopesoul7179]

What about the movie is horror comedy?

[@blackmetalhead5883]

NOES is a supernatural slasher 100%. I guess Candyman wouldn't be one if we are questioning Freddy

[@greenrobot5]

it's horror bro, the main difference is the supernatural entity, slashers are simple humans

[@blackmetalhead5883]

@@greenrobot5 Jason is supernatural too because he is dead so he's not a slasher? Even Michael continues to come back despites being killed numerous of times. This "slashers are only human" logic make no sense to me

[@greenrobot5]

@@blackmetalhead5883 Jason and Michael are closer to being slashers, but they are unstoppable forces which makes them less human. Freddy is on another level cause he definitely has powers to kill people in their dreams

[@blackmetalhead5883]

@@greenrobot5 still remains a slasher cause he is killing people off one by one and he has blades which makes him a slasher. He's just isn't your run in the mill cookie cutter typical killer like Jason but still is a slasher flick

[@scottneil1187]

​@@greenrobot5Jason and Chucky prove you wrong.

[@marcicisketti4608]

heather, i love American horror story, and also American horror stories awesome series. thank you for working with my favorite singer Lady Gaga!! Lady Gaga came along ways since 2007, I have her name tattooed on my underneath left forearm and her peace sign in the same place. I hope heather sees this comment

[@micahbell5572]

Probably not, he only slashes on person to death in the original. The rest of the kills were one hanging, one strangle (and burn), and whatever he did to Glenn

[@scottneil1187]

By that logic there's no slasher films then, all the slasher use various weapons and methods of execution.

[@Nick-tj8ek]

Horrors have monsters Slashers have human killers, Freddy is a monster end of

[@scottneil1187]

Then explain Chucky, Jason and most of the Halloween films. Freddy is a slasher, his nickname in life was the Springwood slasher.

[@Nick-tj8ek]

@scottneil1187 Supernatural (horror) Serial Killers (Slasher) Halloween is a Slasher

[@Nick-tj8ek]

Okay, the first couple of Friday the 13th films are slashers too I guess

[@JamesCline-yy8pm]

You can tell Robert is just so used to talking.

[@LouieD85]

I’ll never understand why actors do interviews with these irrelevant channels like collider

[@dopesoul7179]

Y’all are a tough crowd. Why tf wouldn’t they give lesser known channels a chance??

[@LouieD85]

@@dopesoul7179 lesser known channels? Collider has been around for years dude lol. And they were once well known. They lost relevance when people started seeing they weren’t genuine with their reviews. They are the access media. They get free access to everything Disney if they give them great reviews. If you’re an actor why tf wouldn’t you go on a bigger channel that has more respect so more people can see what you say?

[@dopesoul7179]

@@LouieD85 lesser known.. irrelevant..who tf cares. U sat and demeaned them either way. They are making their rounds. I’m sure they will hit “major” circuits. How “Hollywood” and bougie of you

[@pilot8220]

First

[@Hails27]

Luv Nancy when was kid Freddy only horror I truly scared of now am 41 it's Art clown omg the terrifier 1 2 3 omg just saw new one great