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unusual facts about Wes Craven's New Nightmare


Cannibal Apocalypse

John Saxon, known best in the horror genre as Nancy's dad in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street and its sequels A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, was cast due to his initial interest in the unusual story twist.


Crazy Nights

The song was also recorded by German heavy metal band Bonfire for a Wes Craven movie Shocker.

Cyberdreams

Titles announced by Cyberdreams but never completed include Hunters of Ralk, a role-playing video game designed by Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax, and Wes Craven's Principles of Fear, based on a concept by film director Wes Craven.

Joanna Cassidy

She also appeared opposite James Garner, playing his ex-wife, in the 1994 television movie The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. Her other screen credits from this era include Barbarians at the Gate (1993), the 1993 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's The Tommyknockers, and Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn (1995).

Nightmare Cafe

Creator Wes Craven's original concept for the series involved standalone episodes akin to The Twilight Zone or Amazing Stories, but with regular characters bookending the tales ("like Twilight Zone meets Cheers", as Craven often said in interviews).

Potsdam, New York

Wes Craven Film director, educator and creator of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Scream" series.

Richard W. Haines

A testament to the cult popularity of Splatter University is the reference by the character Randy Meeks (played by Jamie Kennedy) in a phone conversation in Wes Craven's Scream 2 (1997).

The Hills Have Eyes Part II

The Hills Have Eyes Part II is a 1985 American horror film directed by Wes Craven.

The House on the Edge of the Park

It stars David Hess from Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left (playing a similar character), and Giovanni Lombardo Radice.

Twisted Terror Collection

Horror fans praised the line for its inclusion of rare horror films, some by famous directors such as John Carpenter ("Someone's Watching Me"), Wes Craven ("Deadly Friend") and Oliver Stone ("The Hand") but the line was criticized for lack of special features and for the fact that the films were all drastically different in tone.


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