An American supernatural slasher horror film written and directed by Wes Craven in 1984
The film was produced by Media Home Entertainment for a budget of $1.8 million
The film had a budget of $25,504,513
The film featured a few well known actors such as Robert Englund, John Saxon, Johnny Depp and Heather Langenkamp.
The plot is about a few teenagers who are stalked and later killed in through their dreams by Freddy Krueger.
The films plot was inspired Khmer refugees who fled to the United States from the results of American bombing in Cambodia, and then suffered disturbing nightmares which then lead to them refusing sleep and then later died in their sleep.
The main villain, Freddy Krueger was intended to be a child molester but decided to create him a child murderer to avoid the press since at that current time, many child molesting cases were occurring.
During production, 500 gallons of fake blood was used
Distribution:
The film was first introduced to the home video market by Media Home Entertainment in early 1985 and was eventually released on Laserdisc
The film was then released in DVD box sets in 1999 and a restored special edition in 2006 which included extra scenes surrounding Nancy and Freddy
In April, 2010 a blu-ray version of the film was made aswell as a remake staring Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger which attempted to recreate the franchise
The marketing of this film was not to big at the time but recently it has almost become a cult film and has developed a lot of merchandise from the years such as Freddy Kreuger action figures
An online game was also released in 2010 in which the user is required to keep a girl awake to keep her safe from Freddy
2 comments:
ok some good comments Josh. you need to add to the marketing campaign with your knowledge of the forms available to independent productions
I have done some more research into the marketing of the film and have added some points about it.
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