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Video distributors use scare tactics Box sets omen for horror fans
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`The Omen" can boast of Gregory Peck, millions in box office
receipts, and such show-stoppers as the impalement of a priest by a
lightning rod and the decapitation of a photographer by a sheet of
plate glass, but you knew that already.
The real surprise in "The Omen Collection" gift set is "Omen IV:
The Awakening," a forgotten made-for-TV sequel that's more hoot than
holler.
The spawn of Satan this time is not Damien but a girl, Delia (Asia
Vieira), who leaves teeth marks in the ...
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Sleepless Frights; `Elm Street 3': Return to Nightmare Alley
The Washington Post
; Wes Craven's "A Nightmare on Elm Street" was a rarity-an imaginatively constructed, well-made and compellingly acted horror film. It had its share of truly special effects and gave the film world one of its more memorable apparitions, Freddy Krueger, he of the burned face, slouched hat, nasty
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Forever Freddy; Actor Robert Englund, Making A Final Killing on `Elm Street'
The Washington Post
; Freddy's dead, but there will always be an Englund. After six "Nightmare on Elm Street" films that have already earned more than $460 million, actor Robert Englund is hanging up his razor power-glove along with the battered fedora and threading sweater. He's pulling his punch lines. He's letting
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It was 15 years ago: Freddy Krueger slashed his way into the cinema with Wes Craven's `A Nightmare on Elm Street'
The Independent - London
; `One, two Freddy's coming for you / Three, four better lock your door / Five, six grab your crucifix / Seven, eight gonna stay up late / Nine, ten never sleep again Not exactly Sophocles, but then Wes Craven never had his eye on classical tragedy when he wrote and directed A Nightmare on Elm
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What is it with Wes Craven and teenage girls?
The Independent - London
; There's a specific moment in the horror film Scream, when you just can't believe that it was written and directed by two middle-aged men and not a teenage girl. Unmasking as a psychopathic killer the nice boy she happily lost her virginity to only three reels earlier, Sidney (Neve Campbell) spits,
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LETTER FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE; Elm Street Strikes the Set on Its Political Stage
The Washington Post
; Yesterday, you could see Elm Street as Elm Street truly is, main drag of an old mill town whose mills are but redbrick memories. The sky was low and dark, the air thick and wet and heavy, a hole in the world where the noise had been. Storefront windows lately teeming with star-spangled posters
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Wes Craven turns fears into films
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... ideas are generally reflective. I just give back things the audience is already receiving from the world at large. The network news is usually a lot scarier than anything I can dish up. "I just pull out those primal screams the conscious mind has hidden away ...
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Wes Craven crawls toward respectability with `The Serpent'
Chicago Sun-Times
; Meeting an established director of cult or horror films for the first time can be a tricky affair, a convention of nervous expectations. When invited to have lunch with one of these offbeat auteurs, you are inclined to decline, fearful that their strange visions and happy propensity for gore may
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`WISHMASTER' IS NO `ELM STREET'.(Entertainment)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Along with plastic pumpkins and piles of candy corn, the advent of autumn has coughed up another harbinger of Halloween in the form of ``Wishmaster which is equally hollow and loaded with empty cinematic calories. Though the name of Wes Craven, director of ``A Nightmare on Elm Street is draped over
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Film: Scream if you're fed up with all this irony After `Blair Witch', ultra-hip teen slasher movies are looking a bit passe. What will Wes Craven do next? Matthew Sweet asked him
The Independent - London
; Try this on for postmodernity. In Scream, a masked serial killer hunts down a bunch of teenagers - and their knowledge of the conventions of movies in which masked serial killers hunt down bunches of teenagers doesn't stop them from being kebabbed one by one. In Scream II, the survivors of Scream
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
American Cinematographer
; A Nightman on Elm Street (1984) 1.85:1 (16x9 Enhanced) Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 6.1 New Line Home Entertainment, $26.99 When director Wes Craven wrote a screenplay that merged the conventions of the slasher genre with the philosophical and stylistic concerns of Luis Bunuel's films, nearly every
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