The Making of Elm Street 4!

Here’s The Making of A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, a pretty famous behind-the-scenes doc from 1988. While it was eventually released on video, I’m pretty sure that it actually aired on television, too. (Wasn’t it MTV, come to think of it?)

The much longer and much more recent Never Sleep Again documentary is still the standard, but if I’m not mistaken, it actually borrowed some footage from this earlier special.

You don’t need to be an Elm Street nut to appreciate this one. Seeing how inventive they had to be to pull off such ridiculous stunts is just too cool, and it’ll make you yearn for the golden era of practical effects that much more.

I’m mostly tossing this up because it’s the perfect thing to watch late at night on a quiet weekday, but I think we can add a few survey questions, too:

1) Early impressions of Freddy Krueger? Were you a fan… or were you too scared to be one?

2) What’s your favorite Elm Street flick, and why?

3) Outside of Freddy, who is your favorite character from any Elm Street movie?

Oh, and here are some older Dino Drac articles with a Freddy Krueger focus, in case you’re rather read stuff than watch stuff!

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