Scully1888
06-08-2003, 08:46 AM
I knew there was something I had to tell you schmoes!
I found this out at the end of April and it's taken me a whole month to tell you all so I apoloise.
As you may or may not know, Robert Englund was in Edinburgh at the end of April, signing shit and introducing a screening of A Nightmare On Elm Street, followed by a Q&A.
Now this Q&A consisted mainly of answers I already knew (as a lot of them were already answered on the Nightmare Encyclopedia DVD you get with the US DVD box set), but there was one fucking sweet piece of information that he told us that I never knew (and I'd like to think I'm up there with teenkiller in terms of Nightmare fandom... sorry TK), so I thought I'd share this with you schmoes.
According to Englund, because of Craven's previous experience with the MPAA (Last House On The Left and The Hills Have Eyes among others) he was under the impression that a horror film will always be cut in some way, as a way of somehow proving their power.
Craven was pretty sure the scene the MPAA would cut was the scene with Tina being dragged across the ceiling, but this was among his favourite scenes so, according to Englund, Craven filmed more extreme scenes that he didn't really need in the first place, so the MPAA would cut them and leave the Tina scene (as it wouldn't look so bad in comparison).
So the Tina death was originally much longer and also contained a POV shot from Tina's eyes, looking at Freddy dragging her across the ceiling (much like we see in New Nightmare).
But now comes the sweet touch. I forget exactly what Englund said the blood with made of (try and help me out here Psychocandy... you were there :)), but one of these extra shots has Freddy (on the ceiling) showing his glove (soaked in blood) to Tina and blowing her a kiss.
However, when he spread out his fingers, some of the blood formed a slight film between two of the blades (much like the rod/wand thing in those little pots of bubbles does), so when Freddy blows the kiss (facing the camera, beause it's Tina's POV remember), a little blood bubble flew off the glove and landed right on the camera lens.
According to Englund this looked "beautiful" and he wishes it wasn't cut, but it seems it was never submitted to the MPAA after all. And the Tina scene WAS cut, albeit by a split second (we don't see Tina hitting the bed when she falls... you do in the UK version).
I have always wanted to see what this looked like and have scoured the internet for photos (because Englund claims he saw someone taking photos during that scene, and that Japanese books tend to have photos he's never seen before), but to no avail.
But how fucking sweet would that scene have been?
I found this out at the end of April and it's taken me a whole month to tell you all so I apoloise.
As you may or may not know, Robert Englund was in Edinburgh at the end of April, signing shit and introducing a screening of A Nightmare On Elm Street, followed by a Q&A.
Now this Q&A consisted mainly of answers I already knew (as a lot of them were already answered on the Nightmare Encyclopedia DVD you get with the US DVD box set), but there was one fucking sweet piece of information that he told us that I never knew (and I'd like to think I'm up there with teenkiller in terms of Nightmare fandom... sorry TK), so I thought I'd share this with you schmoes.
According to Englund, because of Craven's previous experience with the MPAA (Last House On The Left and The Hills Have Eyes among others) he was under the impression that a horror film will always be cut in some way, as a way of somehow proving their power.
Craven was pretty sure the scene the MPAA would cut was the scene with Tina being dragged across the ceiling, but this was among his favourite scenes so, according to Englund, Craven filmed more extreme scenes that he didn't really need in the first place, so the MPAA would cut them and leave the Tina scene (as it wouldn't look so bad in comparison).
So the Tina death was originally much longer and also contained a POV shot from Tina's eyes, looking at Freddy dragging her across the ceiling (much like we see in New Nightmare).
But now comes the sweet touch. I forget exactly what Englund said the blood with made of (try and help me out here Psychocandy... you were there :)), but one of these extra shots has Freddy (on the ceiling) showing his glove (soaked in blood) to Tina and blowing her a kiss.
However, when he spread out his fingers, some of the blood formed a slight film between two of the blades (much like the rod/wand thing in those little pots of bubbles does), so when Freddy blows the kiss (facing the camera, beause it's Tina's POV remember), a little blood bubble flew off the glove and landed right on the camera lens.
According to Englund this looked "beautiful" and he wishes it wasn't cut, but it seems it was never submitted to the MPAA after all. And the Tina scene WAS cut, albeit by a split second (we don't see Tina hitting the bed when she falls... you do in the UK version).
I have always wanted to see what this looked like and have scoured the internet for photos (because Englund claims he saw someone taking photos during that scene, and that Japanese books tend to have photos he's never seen before), but to no avail.
But how fucking sweet would that scene have been?