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Why Heather Langenkamp is the Scream Queen of Your Dreams
The beautiful brunette Heather Langenkamp star of A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare has demonstrated in the Elm Street franchise that she has both brains and beauty, this is what makes her an ultimate Scream Queen! While other actresses of the genre may precede her on your list of female horror warriors, here are five reasons why Heather Langenkamp should clearly surpass them and move to the number one spot of horror legend, wearing the coveted bloody tiara of Scream Queen once and for all.
1, Nancy Thompson: Junior Investigator
Nancy Thompson isn’t your average teenager in a horror film written into the script to add to the pile of bodies. She may have started off as a sweet and innocent high school student, but she didn’t stay naive for long. After the gruesome death of her best friend Tina she began to put the pieces together. She saw a pattern as more of her friends began to die and she wouldn’t let her boyfriend or herself be next. She investigated who this man with the claws for fingers was as she pried at her mother until she broke, telling her the story behind Fred Krueger.
2. She’s Into Survival
When faced with the very real threat of Krueger killing her in her sleep, Nancy realized she could not defeat Krueger by avoiding sleep. No matter how much coffee she drank or how many ‘no doze’ pills she swallowed she would have to sleep eventually, and that is when Krueger would slip in to attack. She had to formulate a plan to bring Krueger into her world so she could fight him on her own turf, on her own terms, and to her own advantage. In preparation for the big showdown she rigged booby traps all over her house so once she did bring Krueger into the real world she would be able to fight him and win.
3. Helps Others
Even though Nancy defeated Krueger by taking away his power through no longer fearing him, a whole new generation of Elm Street children opened the door she thought she had closed forever. Dedicating her life to psychology and sleep studies Nancy returned to Springwood to help these misguided youths who were being treated by doctors by conventional means that were not going to help them survive their dream demon. She taught each of the remaining Elm Street children they all have a power inside of them to release in their dreams to help defeat the man with a burned face and a gloved hand with razor blades for fingers.
4. Selfless
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Nancy Thompson is a very selfless character. She is willing to risk her own life to save their lives of others in all three films. Her main motivation was not just to beat Krueger to save her own skin, but also those who she cared about around her. She knew if Krueger was gone he could not hurt the ones she loved.
5. She makes fighting Freddy look good!
Let’s face it, whether it’s Nightmare 1, 3, or New Nightmare, Heather Langenkamp looks cool, composed, and attractive while fighting Freddy. Whether it’s in her bedroom in her pajamas or in his hellish domain covered in dirty water and being choked by Freddy’s tongue, Langenkamp is quite the hottie!
If none of these facts makes Heather Langenkamp the Scream Queen of your dreams, just remember she was Johnny Depp’s first on screen kiss! Lucky girl!
Interested in reading more about Heather Langenkamp? Watch her journey back to the Elm Street house with co-star Robert Englund in this video tour!
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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