A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

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Wikidata Q329434, film, IMDb tt0087800, TMDB 377: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by made by Wes Craven, whose The Last House on the Left the episode also talks about (‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan); 1 more episode agrees.

The shows' “A Nightmare on Elm Street” is more than one work, told apart episode by episode: this one in 6 episodes; A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) in 1 episode.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

The Rewatchables

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Friday the 13th: 3 lines contrast ×1 craft ×1 programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Friday the 13th → A Nightmare on Elm Street. Double-feature pick: Nightmare on Elm Street 2, called a nice bookend for this one.
    “I went Nightmare on Elm Street too, which is an underrated nightmare on Elm Street.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:40:21 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Will Smith: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Will Smith → A Nightmare on Elm Street. Will Smith made a Freddy rap song that tied the Nightmare franchise to his records; the speakers recall it as bad but thrilling at the time.
    “Will Smith did a Freddy song.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:10:50 · unidentified host (Rewatchables panel) (0.30 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Will Smith → A Nightmare on Elm Street. Will Smith made a Freddy rap song that tied the Nightmare franchise to his records; the speakers recall it as bad but thrilling at the time.
    “Will Smith did a Freddy song.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:10:50 · unidentified host (Rewatchables panel) (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Friday the 13th → A Nightmare on Elm Street. Compares killer motives: Friday's vengeance is for a drowned kid, Halloween's Myers is pure evil, Freddy is the hardest to empathize with.
    “So I would argue Freddie, probably the worst of the 3 to empathize with as the killer.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:28:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Friday the 13th → A Nightmare on Elm Street. The final scare is the gimmick that every later franchise ending copies, the sting that tells you the killer is not dead.
    “Hey, just let you know, Freddy's not fucking dead.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:44:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Friday the 13th → A Nightmare on Elm Street. Double-feature pick: Nightmare on Elm Street 2, called a nice bookend for this one.
    “I went Nightmare on Elm Street too, which is an underrated nightmare on Elm Street.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:40:21 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

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Who the speakers said made it

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