Nightmare On Elm St-- The Prequel

[Inevitable]

It's been almost 20 years since A Nightmare On Elm Street was released in theatres. Now there is talks about doing a prequel?? First of all you can tell they have run out of ideas because this is just not a good idea IMO. There is no point to it. I mean I'm pretty sure not many people (horror fan or not horror fan) wan't to see how Freddy became the demonic dreamaster. It's pointless and in this day in age people want to see something new and innovative.

[AlucardXXVII]

I didn't read all the replies, since I have to take a good shit, ASAP, but:

Freddy's Dead The Final Nightmare has a lot of "memory footage", and it is sort of like a prequel in itself.

It really explains the entire deal.

[Inevitable]

Originally posted by AlucardXXVII@15 August 2003 - 18:52
I didn't read all the replies, since I have to take a good shit, ASAP, but:

Freddy's Dead The Final Nightmare has a lot of "memory footage", and it is sort of like a prequel in itself.

It really explains the entire deal.

Freddy's Dead is one of the worst movies ever made. Period.

[Busyman]

I'm sorry guys but....
A Nightmare On Elm St 0 is a great idea just like a Halloween 0 about a younger Michael Myers would be great.
You would definitely get older folks like myself who saw the original movies WHEN THEY CAME OUT and you'd also get the average teenager. The movies wouldn't have any demonic or supernatural things in it; just pure terror.

Everyone says "we know happens before the original movies" but SEEING it is entirely different.
Imagine if George Lucas actually did a movie on the Clone Wars. We know some of what happens in the war (if you've read some of the books) like clones of some Jedi being a little nutty, but actually seeing it would be grand.
SEEING Freddy as a janitor and luring kids to their death would make a great film.
I'm not sure but I think there wasn't enough prove to link him legally to their deaths (maybe an arrest, court trial, and acquittal) so the parents get pissed and turn vigilante. Maybe when he dies we see some hint of the demon that will come much like the end of Jason Goes To Hell with Freddy's hand pulling Jason's mask into the ground was an epilogue to Freddy VS Jason. excellent!!!

[ApacNTS]

i forgot to include my thoughts about a prequel, im am not really for it, i think the story's progression of freddy has been fine, the basic slaughter shed light on past memories has done fine, if we want to see the past do a flashback scene, not a whole movie. they(filmakers) need to remember that if you reveal to much the series dies quicker, its better if they just let freddy say his one liners, spill blood and guts, and then parlay off into another venture, i dont think freddy could ever truly die, he's a victim of his own creation, his power has become his own hell. he's stuck in a world that is really nothing.

[The Horror fanatic]

If they did prequel it would be interesting to see how it turned out, either for Halloween or Freddy. But haven't they done a prequel to the exorcist ,man why bother it was not scary anyway