Review: Never Sleep Again
Hey horror fans! I just discovered the documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, and boy was it fun watching the nearly 4 hours it offered on everybody’s favorite killer, Freddy Krueger.
Heather Langenkamp (Nancy) produced this direct to DVD documentary, and she also narrates it. There are many who stop by to talk about the movies, from most of the actors, to all of the directors and even people who weren’t in the movies.
Joining the many who spoke about the films was of course Wes Craven, Robert Englund and Robert Shaye. Shaye, of course, was the creator of New Line Cinema. The documentary wasn’t just about Freddy and Elm Street, it was also about New Line, because of course they both go hand in hand.
The documentary talks about every movie in the series, excluding the newer reboot. They talk about casting for each movie, finding a director for each, making sets, props, writing the scripts, box office numbers, and so on. Of course they do, they have 4 hours to kill.
One of the coolest things about the documentary, aside from its topic and seeing a lot of the stars from the films again, are the stories from behind the scenes that I never knew. They might be out there on certain DVD bonus features, but I wasn’t aware of most of the stories. So I learned a lot.
To make the movie more Elm Street, they got original poster designer Matthew Joseph Peak to make the art for the documentary, and they also got Charles Bernstein to compose the main theme for the film. He made the music for the first Elm Street. There was also some awesome clay animation all throughout the movie, made specially for it.
I’m not sure about the extras that come with the DVD, I only got to see the documentary on Netflix. So if you got Netflix and four hours to spare, check this out! It’s awesome.
