I once heard a story where Robert Englund fell asleep during his makeup session. He woke up alone, saw his reflection in a big mirror and screamed! When I got to meet him at a Supanova, I asked him about it. He grinned and confirmed: it really happened. He was a lovely guy to chat with.
Met Robert Englund. He was the only actor there that didn’t take a break or go for lunch. He stayed their and made sure the line kept moving. He talked everyone like we were his friends. Cool guy. If you have the chance to meet him, do it.
Completely agree! Robert Englund was amazing when I met him years back. Took plenty of time talking and joking with everyone there to see him. A great experience
This is so awesome. You guys are right on. I haven’t met him but I would love too. Where did you meet him? After reading these posts and watching this video I had to do it. Why is it 330 AM and I’m up watching Freddy movies. Part 4. Wow 🤩 hbo max has all of them!
Still, I think David Warner would have been AS good as Englund and just as iconic. It's a shame that he didn't work out, just like Tim Curry had opportunities to play the Joker that didn't work out. I like Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy (but the shoes may have been just too big for him), but the remake movie was a disappointment.
It is especially interesting since at the time it seemed as horrible a miscast (at least, to me at the time) as Jesse Eisenberg playing Lex Luthor since irl he looks so... harmless (and up to then had played rather mousey characters like the good alien character Willie in V the miniseries). But he showed some real acting chops and made the role iconic.
Along with McConaughey as Rust Cohle HBO wanted him to play Woodys role but he said he would only do it if he had the Rust role then recommend Harrelson for Marty lol
#3 Dream Warriors to this day is still my favorite. Got the NECA figure from that film and a glove signed by Robert at a horror con. Such a great experience. He loves all his fans and wants to spend time talking to each and everyone, the con staff are the one's pushing everyone along basically telling Robert to hurry up lol. Such a down to earth guy. And he came out saying in his freddy voice "You are all my children now!!" and that was one of the most amazing things to personally experience lol
I believe you boss, I've been to comacons too, the people working their and security staff could be real assholes. I've heard Robert's a real down to earth guy to talk too, I haven't had the chance too meet him yet, I did meet Kane hodder, he was pretty cool, big guy in person too.
He's not just the best Freddy, he's the only Freddy. No disrespect to any future Freddy's but no matter how good they are or how well they pull off the part there will never be anyone to match Robert. It's not a character like Jason or Michael who don't show their faces but also don't talk and Freddy wasn't just scary bc of the face but also his voice it's too unique and recognizable. When you hear it there's no question you know it's Freddy.
I watched this movie in 1985 when I was 7 and it ruined the next three years of my life -absolutely scared the crap out of me! Just an awesome movie. Thanks again Minty!!!
Werewolf movies always scared me more but I still was scared of this movie. I was afraid to go to bed at night and afraid to fall asleep because I didn't want to die in my sleep.
I always like Englund's performances include his earlier stuff back in the 70's. His going from confused, innocent, naive alien in the several V tv series (between 83 and 85) to being the horror master he made Freddy to be was fun to see him show such diverse acting chops in the 80's. How he was brought in to play a creepy seeming janitor for a 2010 episode of Bones, and used in the plot to suspect him as the bad guy instead of the eventually revealed killer was fun to see happen as well.
Getting Robert England to wish my wife a happy birthday was the best thing ever. He's seriously one of the nicest guys ever and he gave me nightmares at the age of 7.
Wes Craven was a great director, and a major contributor to the 80s Horror Film Revolution. He scared us as kids in the 80s with A Nightmare Elm Street, and again with Scream in the 90s. Can't deny the Longevity of his career.
What always made Freddy so scary to me as a kid was the pure joy he got from psychologically torturing his victims before the actual murder. Other slashers of the time were scary because of their imposing figures or the jump-scare nature of the scenes. Just knowing that Freddy could do anything he wanted to kill you, and seeing the pure joy in his face and expressions while drawing out the moment really took him to the top in my book.
@@AnimeOtakuDrew Some of the coolest, most underrated sci fi ever. I remember when, after it aired, our grade school social studies teacher asked who'd seen it, students hands shot up, big discussion about *V* for the whole period.
Agreed it was awful ! i like that Heather Langenkamp has said she didn't see it . Because she only wants to remember Wes Craven's version as the true film .
In my opinion, remakes should be reserved for lesser known films that could be improved with an update or movies so old that filmmaking has changed significantly since their release. Remaking iconic films that still hold up is a mistake.
Honestly I liked the movie for the most part til they revealed the "twist" Especially as for most of the film it seemed like they were going with the Freddy was innocent of what he was accused of plot line which imo would of been a interesting story beat to explore
@@NeloBladeOfRanni I, too, would have liked the idea of Freddy being innocent of the original charges against him and his motives being about revenge, but they didn’t play it that way in the end by a long shot. In that remake the guy was a pedo. There are some things I do not want in a movie and pedo is definitely a prime example. They also made a huge mistake by starting with the assumption that the characters already knew Freddy’s identity. They should have stuck to the handful of main characters and walked them through figuring it all out again. Sure, the audience knows who Freddy is, but that doesn’t mean the characters have to start out knowing. The discovery of Freddy’s identity and history is a key piece of the canonical story. Plus, that way, they could have answered a question or two, such as why we only heard about those four teens, when Freddy surely had a grudge against many more. The parents of the four teens should have been revealed to be the ring leaders of the lynch mob, giving a nice explanation for that. That’s an example if something they could have offered but missed out on. They also could have improved the ending from the original, which could have been far more compelling. I always thought that everything in the 1984 film should have been a dream which Nancy mentions in Glen’s car at the end and that’s when Tina says, this time in what is their real life, that she had the same dream. That would have been a huge, juicy, cliffhanger signaling that the murders were about to start happening for real. That would have been f***ing amazing and would have set us up with great future films (including the missing story of how Nancy finally started on Hypnocil, maybe a chapter of her life in college when she makes the choice to go into counseling; that was all left out of the original canon). So yeah, some good potential in the remake we got but they didn’t play it out properly.
I really want to see you do a video about the original Phantasm. It's actually my favorite horror film. Angus Scrimm as the Tall Man gave me nightmares for weeks when I was young! I would love to learn the kind of interesting facts you present about this amazing movie!
I didn’t know until just now that Heather Langenkamp is exactly ten years older than I am. She’s fifty-seven, which means she *really was* twenty during the scene where she looks at herself and laments: “Oh, God! I look twenty years old!”
It's called 'negligent parenting'. A LOT of kids in the 80s were raised by lazy, incompetent baby boomers that let tvs raise thier children, instead of doing it themselves. As a guy born in the 70s, I 100% understand millenials hatred of boomers, they're just an asshole generation. They called my generation useless slackers.
I loved being less supervised in my childhood in the 70s and 80s than kids are these days. PS: I’m always trying to convince the boomers how awesome millennials and zoomers are. I guess sometimes some fellow Gen Xers yeah maybe
Robert Englund is an amazing person. Helped run a Halloween and horror convention in the mid 2000s. Robert Englund was there for a q and a for his killer pad movie. Got to be security detail for him for the event. Also have some elm street cards with his signature still boxed and wrapped in plastic
My favorite fact about the first Nightmare on Elm Street is when Freddy says "No! This is God." It's an improvised line that Englund delivered and it gives off a truly haunting presence for Freddy.
The Russian - So Englund just made up that line?!! Wow. I always got the impression that Robert really enjoyed playing this role and I think it shows. Great video by the way, Minty, as always.
@@Dblubee That's just wrong. He improvised ONE line- "Welcome to prime-time, bitch!" Craven, as well as Englund and other staff-members throughout the series confirmed that in the "Never sleep again"-documentary.
Yep, that’s exactly why you hire a great actor or actress for those crucial kinds of roles. Would you hire an amateur baker to make your wedding cake? No, so you do the same when you make a movie.
I love his other improvised line in Nightmare on Elm Street 3. "Welcome to primetime, bitch!" Chucky in child's play 3 also has the best one liners. Don't F, with the Chuck." "Just think, Chucky's gonna be a bro!"
The best thing about nightmare is the consistency of it being played by one actor...Robert Englund. Whereas in other franchises like Halloween & F13 there was a different actor in the role from movie to movie, which to me always took away from those franchises. That's why I like the portrayals of Michael from Rob Zombie's movies & current iteration bcuz you've got the same actors portraying Michael.
Craven had the original screenplay for A Nightmare On Elm Street already written WELL before he started working on Swamp Thing. There are NO pictures from A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child on that Matchbox doll box. It was released in 1988. Media Home Entertainment released the original 5 films on VHS in the U.S., as part of a last-minute deal that Bob Shaye made in order to get the money needed for the print company to release the film strips of the original movie for distribution. There are differences in the glove in EVERY movie. Same with Englund's make-up AND the sweater. The bathtub set was built on top of a swimming pool, not a "bottomless tub". The school used in A Nightmare On Elm Street was also used in Teen Wolf, and several times in the Freddy's Nightmares television series. Robert Englund has already said, definitively, MANY times, that he is DONE playing Freddy in movies. We were DAMNED lucky that the producers of The Goldbergs managed to convince him to put the make-up on for a single day for their Nightmare On Elm Street tribute episode 3 years ago. Other than the SUPER-RARE "1 day only" in make-up convention appearance for fans, Robert has officially retired from the role for good. ////
I had a Freddy shirt. It had been red and black but the black faded a lot and as it gained holes and runs it became super creepy. And I'm pretty good at mimicking voices and Freddy is a favorite.
@@jeremiahrose4681 I think that maybe for kids like me we saw past the appearance & intended fear of the character, and in the process maybe catching a glimpse of Robert Englund as a human being without knowing it (I like the story that Monica Keena was afraid of Freddy as a kid, and her mom gave her a photo of Robert Englund without the makeup). I mean, when Freddy became funny (I admit it eventually went too far, as most things do), I now see that as totally natural due to Englund's personality.
Yep, my favorite installment. That scene where the friends body is in the plastic bag and is dragged in the school halls is scary as hell. The way the legs are levitating and then dragged scared the hell out of me. That deleted scene with Deps character comes out of the bed looks pretty damn good. Wonder why they cut it?
I love the use of the rotating bedroom, the nylon wall where Freddy presses his body against, and the hole in the bed where Glenn gets pulled into. Trick photography is always great.
Me at 8 years old, cousins rented this movie. It was the first horror movie I ever saw. Scared the living shit outta me. My love of horror films began but I didn't know it yet. Second Horror movie I saw was Hellraiser. Good times!
This was one of the few movies that actually creeped me out. My girlfriend at the time was so frightened by this movie that she had to have someone in the room with her while she took a bath. Her sister was fired from that job when she nodded off once. So I happily took on the burden of watching her bath. No chance of me nodding off.
I have met the majority of the cast, and I can easily say they are the most down to earth and sweetest people I have ever encountered. Everyone is proud of what they did and love to hear stories about what their characters mean to us, the fans. Robert is probably the coolest celeb I’ve ever met. So engaging and friendly. I told him I would buy him beers all night just to hear his stories. If any of you out there ever have a chance to meet any of them, do it! You will not regret it. Such good people.
I was six when this came out and 7 years old the first time I saw it. My uncle rented the VHS from a local movie shop in Baltimore. Out of the entire movie the scene that got me and caused nightmares for a few days was when Freddy's walking up the alley and makes his arms longer so that he can scrape the garages while he walked by them.
The same actress who plays Tina Gray also played Beth in Better off Dead. So, if Layne Meyer was having a nightmare, would Freddy be asking if HE could date Beth?
@@marquitaglenn5296 my stepdad rented Hellraiser when I was like 7, but I loved it, I saw the third Hellraiser in the theater when it first came out. I still had more nightmares involving Evil than dreams with Pinhead.
I was one of those people who instead of getting scared and freaking out watching horror movies, I laughed. The slasher movies to me were comedies. Then I saw this movie! For some reason this maniac scared the crap out of me and creeped me out. For me the entire idea that he gets you in your sleep really worked.
well Disney has done some messed up films in the past look at Return to Oz for example or Don't look under the bed or watcher in the woods or something wicked this way comes or the short Runaway Brain
@@jsmith3946 People are ignorant as fuck. Disney has been making fucked up/horror movies for decades, mostly through other studios they own, like Dimension films, in particular Craven's Scream franchise. Most people that talk shit about Disney are dumb children that don't know anything about film.
Dream Warriors definitely my favorite, but the original is a close 2nd. *Honorable Mention* The rotating room used for Tina & Glen’s death scene, also used in Turbo’s iconic dancing on the ceiling scene in Breakin’ 2 Electric Boogaloo! Another 80s favorite!
You need to do a 10 things you didn't know about the movie, "The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane". Robert England plays an awesome, wise cracking villain. Not to mention the movie is just hilarious.
1] I heard that Josh Brolin and Nicolas Cage were also considered to play Glen. 2] I didn't see the "N.O.E.S." films until my twenties, but I'd already seen a piece of Robert's work. When I was eight years old, I saw a movie that'd come out two years earlier: "The Paper Brigade", and the memory of the slightly-unhinged war veteran who befriends the main protagonist never left me. When the "Never Sleep Again" retrospective came out, and it cut to Robert's first piece of being interviewed, I said to myself, "Wait a second. I know that guy." I Googled him, and I was surprised to feel a little sentimental. 3] Robert loves to talk about the fact that he auditioned for both Han Solo AND Luke Skywalker in "A New Hope", and that he and Mark Hamill are good friends. 4] My interpretation of the original movie's ending came about, courtesy of the first sequel. Shortly after Jesse finds and reads Nancy's diary, he learns that she was taken to a mental hospital. That's when I came up with the idea that this occurred immediately after the events of the first film, and the ending seen by the audience is actually what powerful drugs given by the EMTs caused Nancy to imagine. (10/8/2021)
It's amazing how this movie used simple practical effects to good use compared to that horrible remake of 2010 that use crappy CGI. Rest in Power John Saxon 🥀🥀🥀
This movie gave some seriously f*cked up nightmares as a 9 year old kid but now as an adult, it's not only one of the best horror movies that I've ever seen. It's one of the most iconic.
exactly! i used to have the worst nightmares of freddy kruger as a kid... knowing he can get me in my sleep really made me have so many sleepless nights, funny now as i'm a huge horror and gore fan, but back then i was only scared of freddy! 😂
It had the opposite effect for me. After Dream Warriors, I realized that I was a lucid dreamer. I actually dreamed about Freddy and kicked his ass up and down. I ruled my dream world ever since.
I actually dreamed that I got stabbed by Freddy's glove. I woke up without a scratch and stopped being scared. Since then I only dream that I am Freddy or I get teased of another movie coming out.
Nightmare on elm Street was first horror movie that I ever seen way back when I was five. Instead of ring around the rosy my kindergarten classmates and me would sing one two Freddie's coming for you.
NOES came out a Year before I was born. Same year as Ghostbusters. My dad LOVED both. He also Loved CHUCKY. He loved HALLOWEEN (Michael Meyers) but didn't like JASON
@@Rando1975 yeah I actually feel it adds to the film but they may as well have just straight up said "yeah freddy is an alagory for Jessie's homosexuality." because the films not very subtle about it lol.
I didn't see part one until 2 years after it's release when I was in the army. To this day, no other movie has horrified me like this one! There was something about seeing a dead friend in a body bag talking. And the fact that he can kill you in your dreams and you'll never wake up! I've seen hundreds of horror movies that entertained but didn't frighten. This one got to me.
Another in Wes Cravens filmography is the serial killer slasher titled ' Shocker ' featuring Peter Berg and Mitch Pileggi. Violent and darkly satirical⚡🗡️👍. In case people weren't aware or had forgotten Robert Englund also turns up in Andrew Dice Clays 'The adventures of Ford Fairlane' bonus appearances by Gilbert Gotfried, David Patrick Kelly( " warriooors come out to play-yay"), Lauren Holly, Morris Day and Polk Highs favourite son Al Bundy. "Hit paydirt with kdirt, unfarkinbelievable". 👌
I love the Freddy franchise, but “A nightmare on elm street 3” is my favorite of the whole franchise with the original coming in second. Just my opinion
Totally agree. The third showed how helpless the characters were against a villain like Krueger. The thought that there is nowhere to run, a person HAS to sleep makes Freddy the scariest monster ever.
That VHS cover always frightened a then 9 years old me. I think the 1st movie is the best, a true masterpiece and after that, i consider No3-4-5 a great horror/fantasy/black humor trilogy with a continuing and evolving story with great cast, directors, fx and climaxes!!!!! The garbages No2 and 6 don't even exist for me! And the New Nightmare is a great meta horror movie which gave birth to a whole new genre with its first chilp being Scream.
A surreal horror classic....! Phenomenal concept from the late great Wes Craven...RIP! Freddy Krueger is obviously one of the most iconic characters of all time. Scary & creepy stuff. Lets not forget Robert England, perfect casting. I must admit ...David Warner would have been very interesting. The makeup test look great!
I had the honor of meeting Robert Englund when Freddy v Jason was released and he autographed my dvd copy of the movie. He was promoting it at Walmart of all places🤣...
One thing this movie did for me was making the “ghost under a sheet” trope a LOT more real and creepy when I first saw the chick in the white body-bag. I was in 4th grade! lol
Another connection between the two besides Wes directing both and Time Warner distributing both is that Charles Bernstein did both music scores and Roger Rabbit himself Charles Fleischer who's the doc in film also voiced BB in Deadly Friend
I watched this in the theater when I was 10. My older brother and I snuck in (you could do that back then). I was NOT ready for it at that time. After Tina’s death my brother turned to me and asked if I wanted to leave. I nodded my head and we bailed. I was so glad he could see I was terrified. I’ve loved horror movies my whole life but I’ll always remember this as the one that took my past my limit!
I actually lived somewhere in Florida where he had a house estate when I was a kid. I would always pay extra attention on the school bus ride to see if I can catch a glimpse of Englund.. truth be told I only saw him once getting into his car lol
On the lake? I never did spot him, but I heard on Halloween he'd hand out candy from a bowl with a hole in it so he could wear the glove and pop it up through the candy. 😆
The first Nightmare of Elm Street was only the beginning. Great acting from Robert Englund. Crazy special effects and and lots of humor from Freddy. I also enjoyed the sequels. And I will never forget the showdown between Fraddy and Jason.
There could be no one else on this planet that could play Freddy better than Robert Englund, he's Freddy thru n thru. The remake with a diff Freddy i couldn't even watch
Can we just thank the Gods that Robert Englund was casted for this iconic character!!!! The guy deserves so many rewards for everything, I think he was the first real villian to actually have a personality! His acting was beyond perfection. All the other villians had zero personality, that is the MAIN reason this film exploded and then came along Pinhead which also had a personality.
I mostly know the facts in your videos because I'm a movie buff but I find them enjoyable nonetheless. But this one really educated me. I love that. Well done Minty. Keep up the stellar work that you do. I'll let you know next time you school me. Peace bro
"I think Englund has one or two more preformances in him. Make it happen." Well the creator of Child's Play just might. His current big desire is 'Child's Play on Elm Street' where Chucky and Freddy meet, sorta fangasm about each other and then challenge each other to see who can kill the most teens before sun rise. He's been in talks since 2017 to try and make it happen.
Reading the comments it amazes me how young so may people were when they watched this for the first time. Having said that, when I was 10, we used to hire out 18 certs with a note written by our mum giving permission. We hired out Nightmare on Elm Street 1, 2, 3 and 4 and binge watch the lot one weekend!
@@hollypate2655 Oh you poor kid, I bet you were traumatized. I was 7 when that came out, the day after Christmas '73. It scared the crap out of me when it was the "Movie of the week' on TV I think in '77. Edited to hell, yet when you're 7, it left a big impact. It still does.
@@Scottocaster6668 I kept crying and disturbing others people watching it and my Dad marched me out of the theater and bust my ass all the way.to the car.
@@hollypate2655 What did he expect? You poor kid. I'm sorry, no disrespect but that wasn't cool. That movie messed up a lot of people, mentally and physically.
As a baby, I would watch horror movies while sitting in my dad's knee. Someone would get killed and I'd say "more daddy more" Dad would Rewind the tape for me over and over.
One, two, are the only Nightmares that do... I won’t ever rewatch any of the sequels after that. I want my horror to be horror, not comedy. I still have such a crush on Heather Langencamp!
Actually! The knife glove was inspired by cave bears claws. Craven said this himself with the knowable how cave bear are with prey. As they claw at unsuspecting humans for centuries. That’s what inspired him. But hey we make mistakes minty
YES!!! Show us your movie memorabilia for every movie you cover!!!! YES! FUCKING YES! P.S Please do a whole video that is just memorabilia for the videos that you've already covered. Also a video of your favorite memorabilia from anything!!!!
It always seemed on that such a sweet soft spoken man could bring this character to life. Robert is a friend of a friend and I have head some funny stories about him on different movie sets.
Actually it was because Wes' daughters were adamant. "But dad he's so cute!!" No joke he actually said that there was no way for him to argue with them when it came to female attraction to a dude and apparently a lot of the other women who were working on the project that saw the casting tapes had the same reaction. So he canned his stereotype for real-life response sex appeal.
@@searchingfororion... maybe reread what I said? I watched the video too, I know the crush detail.. his pal was the one who went for the part originally though
@@MISFITaddict I was quoting from Wes himself. Originally he didn't want Johnny either, responding to his daughters reactions with the thought "Really? He looks kind of sickly and pale." This quote has created a long running joke between myself and my GenX caregiver: "It must have made it though the grapevine. 'Sickly and pale?' That's it! I've found my new leading man! - Tim Burton"
U and Freddy are smoking crack if u actually believe that. The Derek Mears Jason and Tyler Mane Michael Myers would rip Freddy's arms off and beat him to death with them. He would have nightmares of that halloween theme and ki ki ki ma ma ma. Don't get me wrong I love Robert englund and Freddy but he's #3 on my favorite horror icons
I am sure that I am not the only one to think that the only Freddy is THE ONE AND ONLY Mr. Robert England the remake in 2010 just left me feeling unsatisfied. At 46 years I always make my daughter or nephew to watch the any original movie that has been remade.
The box for the matchbox doll features screenshots of the third movie. And all the gloves after part 2 are all very distinct from each other. Great video!
I know it’s 2022, but he deserves the best monster/killer icon award. No one can compare. He brought something really special to these movies. No disrespect to the “newer” one but 🤮 His comedy made you love the villain. I grew up on his movies and so did my son. He has some memorabilia that I was able to pass down to him. Freddy lives!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
1) Other film channels showcase horror films as well on this month (of course this one does it better!); 2) The Tuesday after the first Sunday of October means the twice-weekly video gets dropped one hour _earlier_ (greetings from ROK, where there is no time change, which is the case in much of Australia as well).
I wish Freddy Kruger had spoofed Freddie MERCURY at some point in the franchise; it would suit his dark humour. For example, he could have tortured his victims while crooning the beginning of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'; after all, the characters don't know if their nightmares are the real life or just fantasy.
Johnny Depp's Blood fountain scene is my favourite scene in the film, and I think its the best horror scene of all horror but I'll always prefer Jason Voorhees (though I love most horror films over all)
