Scream or Nightmare on Elm Street?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Wes Craven
Batman_of_Casterly_Rock — 10 years ago(August 31, 2015 08:51 AM)
Both are considered to be his best work and most iconic. As much as everyone loves the Elm Street movies, I give the edge to Scream. I always preferred the Halloween series to the Elm Street ones.
But man, Scream is just so much fun! It's scary but it's almost a parody of Horror films
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SillyGayBoy — 10 years ago(August 31, 2015 12:01 PM)
Halloween 1,2 and 7 are worth watching (close your eyes at one part).
Maybe 4 as a what if.
Have not bothered with 3 yet.
5 was okay at best. 6 and Resurrection were abominations.
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Fawkes_Rocks — 10 years ago(August 31, 2015 04:45 PM)
Nightmare definitely! Scream is good too, but nothing beats Freddy. Even the crappy ones Freddy is still more interesting than Michael Myers. But I do like Halloween as well. The first anyway.
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dopeyguy89 — 10 years ago(August 31, 2015 07:17 PM)
I grew up watching A Nightmare on Elm Street as a kid, and by the time Scream was released I was a teenager and could enjoy it more having just devoured every 80's slasher flick there was. And the best of them was the Nightmare series. It was imaginative, it was fun, yes at times a little silly but the first film was creepy, had characters we cared about and a villain we could truly be frightened of.
Scream was just fun in my opinion, it was more of Craven's talent behind the camera being he didn't write the screenplay. Nightmare is my vote because Craven was the genius behind it. And Wes Craven's New Nightmare should get an honorable mention as well. -
Littlebitsofgaming — 10 years ago(September 01, 2015 02:02 AM)
Scream was great at the time, but it has not aged well and the film is pretty bland now.
Nightmare is timeless and changed horror forever. It gave us a unique take on a horror icon, genuine original horror scenes.
Plus Wes only directed Scream, where as he wrote and directed Nightmare, and you can really tell the drop in quality with the writing in Scream.
And so, God came forth and proclaimed widescreen is the best.
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tedsar — 10 years ago(September 22, 2015 01:22 AM)
I personally prefer Scream to Nightmare, but you cannot deny the cultural impact Nightmare on Elm Street had on the horror-genre.
Like, it was so iconic that nobody could imitate it. There were heaps of Scream rip-offs, but when it comes to 'Dream-stalker' movies, Freddy owns that beep