A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Freddy and Nancy Are Ready for a Rematch

The details of Freddy Krueger’s ratty red-and-green sweater and knife-tipped mitt volition look other horrific erstwhile A Nightmare connected Elm Street, Wes Craven‘s 1984 slasher classic, arrives connected 4K UHD conscionable successful clip for a spooky play re-watch. To people the occasion, io9 got to talk with its stars, Heather Langenkamp (who plays astute yet sleepy last miss Nancy Thompson) and Robert Englund (the imagination demon himself), astir their experiences making the film—and whether they’d beryllium consenting to get backmost successful quality again.

Cheryl Eddy, io9: Which country successful A Nightmare connected Elm Street bash you deliberation volition payment the astir from the 4K UHD upgrade?

Robert Englund: Here’s the thing. What we person to remember—and it’s hard for maine due to the fact that I ever wanted to beryllium a movie actor—I ever imagined Nightmare connected Elm Street playing successful a movie theater. But astir of our fans discovered this movie arsenic portion of the video generation. So they saw it little than perfect. Their memories of it are little than perfect. They person large memories of sharing it with ma and dad, oregon a stepdad oregon a step-mom, oregon brothers and sisters, you know, caller from the video store, moving location with a copy. But a batch of them besides saw old, dog-eared copies that had been lying astir successful the bookshelf for a portion oregon passed astir the dormitory. This is an accidental to spot this amended than Heather and I’ve ever seen it. To spot it perfectly pristine and enhanced, you know, ultra precocious def 4K. I conscionable had this acquisition with the aged Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window; it was caput blowing to spot it successful my surviving room, that cleanable and wonderful. And I’m truthful looking guardant to this. And there’s immoderate caller worldly [in the “uncut” version, included successful the remastered merchandise on with the theatrical version], right?

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Heather Langenkamp: The caller worldly is successful Tina’s decease scene. So [there] volition beryllium adjacent much footage successful there. Plus, that country is truthful moody, each the blood. I’m conscionable imagining that it’s going to beryllium other vivid. The opening country wherever Tina is having her imagination with the lamb scurrying crossed the boiler country floor—like those truly magical, dreamy scenes, I deliberation are going to evidently look truthful beautiful.

Englund: Also, I deliberation each of the radical that worked successful the creation section were incredible, and they went connected to bash different 50 movies for New Line Cinema. But the lighting successful the boiler country and successful the dreams is conscionable a small different. And I deliberation that’ll beryllium much pronounced, you know, successful this caller version.

io9: If the close publication and filmmaker came along, would you beryllium tempted into a re-teaming of Freddy and Nancy?

Langenkamp: I deliberation so. I mean, wherefore not? I’m game.

Englund: I’d emotion to enactment with Heather again. I mean, it would beryllium fun.

Langenkamp: For anything!

Englund: I’d emotion to nonstop Heather. Yeah. And determination mightiness beryllium immoderate benignant of pun and immoderate benignant of worth to playing america against each other, maine arsenic a nemesis and she arsenic my prey.

Langenkamp: [Interjects] Or the opposite!

Englund: Even successful a thriller oregon thing similar that. You know, Heather is simply a psychiatrist who has a diligent that’s acting up and has immoderate truly psychotic problems. And I commencement to prosecute her. And the amusive of that would be, “Oh yeah, and past also, we’re Freddy and Nancy.”

Langenkamp: Wait, I get to prosecute you. We person to crook the tables!

Englund: So I’ll beryllium the psychiatrist!

Langenkamp: You beryllium the victim, I’ll beryllium the Freddy!

Englund: Okay, I got you. [Both laugh]

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io9: Do you person a favourite representation astir moving with Wes Craven?

Langenkamp: Well, I ever accidental that it’s the bathtub scene, which was specified an interesting, antithetic time of work. Nobody ever expects to spell to enactment and person to beryllium successful a bathtub each time with bubbles. It conscionable was Wes astatine his best, benignant of reasoning connected his feet. A batch of it was connected the fly, and conscionable I deliberation however helium ended up shooting that with the mitt coming successful and retired of the h2o was—I deliberation it was amended than helium adjacent expected. So that was astir apt my favourite country to shoot.

Englund: On Nightmare [part] seven, [New Nightmare], it got a small really surreal. We were shooting, Heather and I and the child, Miko [Hughes], and alternatively of utilizing snakes, they utilized albino eels. And it was conscionable truthful strange. Wes, me, Heather, the kid, the albino eels. And Wes couldn’t halt making jokes astir it, and helium was disquieted that helium was gonna person to wage the unit other due to the fact that helium changeable into luncheon hour. And Wes yelled astatine everybody, “We person to get a changeable oregon there’s going to beryllium an eel penalty!”—instead of a repast penalty.

And that’s the existent Wes Craven, ever coming up with those goofy puns and jokes. I had him successful my flat erstwhile connected location. [We were] watching Saturday Night Live, and helium laughed truthful hard helium was crying astatine an occurrence of SNL. “Massive Head Wound Harry” was the sketch, with Dana Carvey, but helium fell disconnected the couch. And for Wes—we each cognize helium was this erudite gentleman—for Wes to autumn disconnected a sofa laughing and crying astatine an SNL sketch and allowing maine to spot that. I deliberation that was truly his acquisition to me, of saying, you know, “I’m not your brag anymore. I’m not your manager anymore. I’m your friend.”

A Nightmare connected Elm Street hits 4K Ultra HD connected Digital October 1; it volition beryllium disposable connected Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, Fandango astatine Home, and more. The Blu-ray 4K UHD arrives October 15. The 4K UHD remaster includes some the theatrical and uncut versions; the second features 8 further seconds of unrated footage.

Other antecedently released peculiar features included are arsenic follows, according to a Warner Bros. property release:

• Ready Freddy Focus Points
• Commentary with Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Ronnie Blakely, Robert Shaye, and Sara Risher.
• Commentary with Wes Craven, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, and Jacques Haitkin.
• Alternate endings
• The House that Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror
• Never Sleep Again: A Nightmare connected Elm Street
• Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven’s Nightmares

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