Nightmare on Elm Street/Jason X [2 Discs] DVD

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A decade of wisecracking sequels have not diminished the power of this striking horror film from the director of Scream. Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. The teenaged leads are sympathetic and intelligent, unlike the dumb victims presented in most films of the period, and they are ably backed up by veterans like John Saxon and Ronee Blakley. Director Wes Craven creates moments of real dread by examining the line between nightmares and reality, as well as the "sins of the parents" theme, and although the film is quite gory, it never resorts to cheap bloodletting for its effect. A unique and disturbing experience, this film is highly recommended for horror buffs. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Jason X
Popular bogeymen Jason Voorhees terrorizes a group of nubile astronauts five centuries into the future in this sci-fi update of the Friday the 13th franchise. Early in the 21st century, Jason (actor/stunt man Kane Hoddar, filling the role for a fourth time) is experimented upon by army technocrats who hope to turn his supernatural invulnerability into a military application. Most of them meet a swift and bloody end -- except Rowan (Lexa Doig), a beautiful functionary, who traps the killer in a cryogenic stasis chamber. Unfortunately, she takes a machete blow in the process, gets frozen herself, and wakes up on a spaceship in the year 2455. The earth has long since been rendered uninhabitable, but the survivors include a group of archaeological students headed by Professor Lowe (Jonathan Potts), who hopes to make a quick buck by selling the corpse of the historical serial killer. The kids re-animate Rowan with the help of nanotechnology. Little do they know that a mere thaw job is enough to resuscitate Jason and reawaken his bloodthirst. Soon, the comely students and their space-marine protectors are being dispatched one by one. Help arrives in the form of a holographic chamber and an android named Kay-Em 14 (Lisa Ryder). Soon, though, Jason himself gets an upgrade -- just as the spaceship is getting ready to self-destruct. The tenth installment in the long-running horror series, Jason X was the first new entry to appear in almost a decade. In fact, the previous film, 1993's Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, was one of two installments whose titles erroneously contained the word "final." ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Cast John Saxon as Lt. Thompson Ronee Blakely as Marge Thompson Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson Amanda Wyss as Tina Gray Nick Corri as Rod Lane Johnny Depp as Glen Lantz Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger Charles Fleischer as Dr. King Joe Whipp as Sgt. Parker Lin Shaye as Teacher Kane Hodder as Jason Lexa Doig as Rowan Lisa Ryder as KAY-EM 14 Chuck Campbell as Tsunaron Jonathan Potts as Professor Lowe Peter Mensah as Sgt. Brodski Melyssa Ade as Janessa Melodie Johnson as Kinsa Dov Tiefenbach as Azrael Derwin Jordan as Waylander Kristi Angus as Adrienne Yani Gellman as Stoney David Cronenberg as Dr. Wimmer

Crew James Oswald - Art Director Marilyn Stonehouse - Associate Producer Markus Wade - Boom Operator Robin D. Cook - Casting Kim Miscia - Casting Julie Rae Engelsman - Costume Designer Natalie Pope - Costume Designer Maxyne Baker - Costume Designer Walter Gasparovic - First Assistant Director James Isaac - Director Natalie Pope - Editor David Handman - Editor Whitney Brooke Wheeler - Editor Sean S. Cunningham - Executive Producer Harry Manfredini - Composer (Music Score) Tony Guerin - Camera Operator John Dondertman - Production Designer Derrick Underschultz - Cinematographer Marilyn Stonehouse - Production Manager Noel John Cunningham - Producer James Isaac - Producer Elis Lam - Set Designer Jennifer Vey - Stunts Jamie Taylor - Stunts Steve Lacescu - Stunts Coordinator Jason Board - Special Effects Supervisor Bob Hall - Special Effects Supervisor Todd Farmer - Screenwriter Jerry Andrews - Additional Cinematography Kelly Lepkowsky - Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Berardi - Visual Effects Supervisor Troy Rundle - Model Effects Command Post Toybox - Digital Effects Craig Perrin - First Assistant Camera Michael Carella - First Assistant Camera Michael Purdon - First Assistant Camera Stephan Dupuis - Makeup Supervisor Nadina Dislioglu - Post Production Coordinator Vair Macphee - Production Coordinator Arthur Langevin - Pyrotechnic Special Effects Michael Baskerville - Re-Recording Mixer Renee Bravener - Costume/Wardrobe Greg Beale - Assistant Art Director Lindsay Jacobs - Assistant Costumer Designer Kimberlee Morley - Assistant Production Coordinator Clive Thomasson - Set Decorator Bruce Carwardine - Production Sound Mixer Ron Mason - Visual Consultant James Oswald - Art Director Marilyn Stonehouse - Associate Producer Markus Wade - Boom Operator Robin D. Cook - Casting Kim Miscia - Casting Julie Rae Engelsman - Costume Designer Natalie Pope - Costume Designer Maxyne Baker - Costume Designer Walter Gasparovic - First Assistant Director James Isaac - Director Natalie Pope - Editor David Handman - Editor Whitney Brooke Wheeler - Editor Sean S. Cunningham - Executive Producer Harry Manfredini - Composer (Music Score) Tony Guerin - Camera Operator John Dondertman - Production Designer Derrick Underschultz - Cinematographer Marilyn Stonehouse - Production Manager Noel John Cunningham - Producer James Isaac - Producer Elis Lam - Set Designer Jennifer Vey - Stunts Jamie Taylor - Stunts Steve Lacescu - Stunts Coordinator Jason Board - Special Effects Supervisor Bob Hall - Special Effects Supervisor Todd Farmer - Screenwriter Jerry Andrews - Additional Cinematography Kelly Lepkowsky - Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Berardi - Visual Effects Supervisor Troy Rundle - Model Effects Command Post Toybox - Digital Effects Craig Perrin - First Assistant Camera Michael Carella - First Assistant Camera Michael Purdon - First Assistant Camera Stephan Dupuis - Makeup Supervisor Nadina Dislioglu - Post Production Coordinator Vair Macphee - Production Coordinator Arthur Langevin - Pyrotechnic Special Effects Michael Baskerville - Re-Recording Mixer Renee Bravener - Costume/Wardrobe Greg Beale - Assistant Art Director Lindsay Jacobs - Assistant Costumer Designer Kimberlee Morley - Assistant Production Coordinator Clive Thomasson - Set Decorator Bruce Carwardine - Production Sound Mixer Ron Mason - Visual Consultant

A Nightmare on Elm Street
Behold the horror epic that started the Krueger craze and the Elm Street franchise. This low-budget effort not only put frightmaster Wes Craven on the map, but it slashed new life into the dying horror genre. Nightmare on Elm Street is a surreal and artistic experiment in dark and bloody filmmaking, levitating above the senseless gorefests seen in Friday the 13th. Built upon a brilliant premise, Elm Street became known as a near-masterpiece of post-'70s terror that skillfully blurred the line between reality and fantasy. The character of Freddy Kreuger instantly joined the ranks of infamous modern horror villains. While Jason Vorhees and Michael Myers were steadfast and robotic, Freddy was a humorous sadist who refused to hide behind a mask. The dreamscape and surreal atmosphere that Craven creates is a key reason why A Nightmare on Elm Street remains so haunting to this day. Cinematographer Jacques Haitkin knows how to use shadow and light to his advantage, most notably in the trippy and eerie basement scenes and the moment in which a character is dragged across the ceiling. For a movie with a budget just over $1 million, Elm Street possesses a surprisingly stylish look; even the low-grade special effects manage to be effective. The film is tailor-made for those who like their gore coupled with smart and inventive ideas, a rarity in the horror genre. ~ Adam Goldberg, All Movie Guide
 

Jason X
Like any business, a B-grade horror franchise needs occasional investment in its infrastructure in order to stem the tide of ever-lessening returns. And so, following the success of Halloween: H20, the Friday the 13th series gets its own renovation. With a splashy-enough concept and ad campaign to lure big audiences the week before Spider-Man took summer 2002 by storm, Jason X is certainly a far cry better than most of the pitiable late-'80s installments in the series. But in its willingness to poke fun at both itself and the other movies from which it cribs, the flick isn't a whole lot different from 1993's Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. The best sequences are therefore the jokiest, and also, coincidentally, the most indebted to Star Trek. In the first, a female Mr. Spock/Data hybrid suddenly sprouts bondage gear and Charlie's Angels attitude. In the second, Jason, trapped on an imitation Holodeck, gets to party like it's 1980 at the expense of retro-bimbo phantasms. Elsewhere, it's all bland een sex-comedy rejects in sub-Lost in Space costumes getting sliced and diced with ruthless efficiency. Despite the presence of a character named Dallas, the film never achieves a single moment of actual Alien-style terror. As for enjoyable gore, there are some inventive assassinations, such as the use of liquid nitrogen to render a human head into a blood Popsicle. Aside from the intentional laughs, there are some accidental ones, including an android beheading too cheap to make use of even a single digital FX shot to make it look convincing. It's as if, having blown their entire budget on post-Seven opening credits and Resident Evil character concepts, the producers had to scrimp when it came to the actual movie. Still, a thoroughly slick Friday the 13th just wouldn't gel with the rest of the series; it's enough to know that someone somewhere was willing to put enough time and money into a Jason flick to infuse it with even a modicum of cool. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: English Sound Processing: DD1: Dolby Digital Mono DD2: Dolby Digital Stereo DD5.1: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel DTS: Digital Theater Systems (akin to 5.1) Additional Features: cc Nightmare on Elm Street: Widescreen and fullscreen versions of the film-Digitally remastered Feature length commentary with Wes Craven, actors Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon and the director of photography "Jump to a Nightmare" scene navigation Original theatrical trailer Original animated menus DVD-ROM users!* Read the screenplay while you watch the film! New Dream World trivia game-test your nightmare knowledge! Up-to-the-minute cast, crew and trivia information and more! Jason X: Widescreen version of the film Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound DTS surround sound Stereo surround sound English subtitles and closed captions Filmmaker commentary - with director Jim Isaac, writer Todd Farmer and producer Noel Cunningham Original documentary: The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees - documentary on the history of Jason Original documentary: By Any Means Necessary: The Making of Jason X- making of/production documentary Jump to a Death Theatrical trailer DVD-ROM content:* Script-to-screen Link to original website Hot spot DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1: Pre-1954 Standard 1.85:1: Theatre Wide-Screen MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 2 DVD Sides: 2 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 185 min Part of Series: New Line Platinum Series   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- Nightmare on Elm Street 1. Opening Titles/Meet the Glove [1:12] 2. You Gotta Stop That Kind of Dreaming [2:28] 3. "I'm So Glad You Guys Could Come Over Tonight." [:01] 4. "There's Something Out There." [2:13] 5. The Call of the Wild [2:18] 6. A Bloody Mess [2:33] 7. "She Didn't Want to Sleep Alone" [1:49] 8. Captured [2:14] 9. Hamlet Hijack [3:11] 10. Rod Sings [:27] 11. Splash [2:00] 12. Guarding Nancy [2:45] 13. Feather Bed [:43] 14. Hung Up [4:44] 15. The Hat Comes Back [:44] 16. You're Dead [2:07] 17. "Mommy Killed Him" [:05] 18. "Midnight, Baseball Bats, and Boogey Men." [2:41] 19. No Way Out [:01] 20. It's a Gusher [2:40] 21. Survivalist [5:05] 22. Finding Freddy [1:03] 23. Fight Fire With Fire [:06] 24. "You're Shit" [2:20] 25. End Credits [1:49] Side #2 -- Jason X 1. Main Title/Evil Eye [3:04] 2. A Calculated Flight Risk [2:49] 3. "Cryogenic Breach" [1:03] 4. "Museum-Quality Finds" [:12] 5. Bodies in Space [2:28] 6. Resuscitation [4:21] 7. "It's Old News" [3:33] 8. Real-Unreal: Dead-Undead [5:49] 9. Jason's Awakening [2:34] 10. All About Money [3:57] 11. Game Virtually Over [:10] 12. Special Forces [:40] 13. And Then There Was One [:23] 14. Crashing Through Solaris [3:38] 15. Run for the Shuttle [:13] 16. Rown's Rescue Mission [:18] 17. The Shuttle Disaster [2:17] 18. The Monster and the Android [1:13] 19. Thirty Minutes to Implosion [:01] 20. New and Improved Menace [2:24] 21. "This Sucks on So Many Levels" [2:48] 22. Emergency Space Walk [:16] 23. The Virtual 80's [:27] 24. Last One Through the Hatch [:33] 25. Wish Upon a Death Star [1:23] 26. End Credits [2:18]