A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984): The $1M Dream That Built New Line | Horror Facts

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984): The $1M Dream That Built New Line | Horror Facts One, two — Freddy's coming for you. Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street gave us the burned dream-killer with knives for fingers, Johnny Depp's film debut, the rotating room, the blood geyser, and the red-and-green sweater designed to hurt your eyes — and it was made for about a million dollars in thirty-two days by a studio on the brink of bankruptcy. This is the true story of the real-life newspaper horror that inspired it, the three years every studio said no, the Freddy who was almost a very different monster, the casting accidents that found Robert Englund and Johnny Depp, the glove with real knives, the rotating-room dream effects, Charles Bernstein's rotting-lullaby score, the November 1984 release that saved New Line Cinema, and the twist ending that built a franchise. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open 1:05 The News Stories 2:24 Three Years of No 3:22 A Different Freddy 4:32 Casting Freddy 5:37 Casting the Kids 7:09 The Glove and the Sweater 8:16 Thirty-Two Days 9:26 Dream Effects 10:59 Bernstein's Score 12:03 November 1984 13:21 Immortality All stills are posters, promotional photos, and historical images. No film footage is used. Subscribe to Horror Facts for a new horror movie deep dive every day. #HorrorFacts #NightmareOnElmStreet #FreddyKrueger #WesCraven #80sHorror #JohnnyDepp #RobertEnglund #SlasherMovies #CultClassic #HorrorHistory #BehindTheScenes #MovieTrivia