#the nightmare on elm street 1

[phantom-of-the-ruckus]

Phantom Krueger

It is finally done! Phantom Kruger is done! Without the lighting and shadows, I swear that the sketches gave me so much Phillip/Belos vibes XD

Trigger warning for blood and burns!!

Now, everyone will go "Phantom, if Freddy is the Phantom of the Opera, where is his mask?"

And my response is that you, lovely jellybeans, are seeing it. I am not sure if the sketch allows seeing it, but there are some stitches to his face. So, yes, the Phantom's mask is his face...or well...made out of flesh.

This is actually what I mentioned in the Christine! Nancy post about the sketches and how I got the idea:

So, yeah that is actually something that POTO 1989 does with their Erik. I thought it was gory and well fitting to this crossover so I kept it. My major difference is that Phantom Krueger uses it to hide his burns, but just as the Original version he is bald too, so the hair you see in the sketches is just a pretty tight (maybe glued) wig on his head.

I decided to add the stitches to convey he well...stitched them to his face as it is really hard to draw the amazing makeup effect the OG POTO 1989 has

There is some sense of discomfort, or that something is of when you see Erik's face, which adds to the later scene (which is on YouTube) where well he removes his mask as the backstory of his character play.

The hair color was not chosen by me, it is actually from the 1989 Erik as well as an inspired costume he has, which is basically the Red Death costume from the POTO, which was referenced in the mask Freddy's holding as a cute easter egg.

If you guys are wondering what POTO characters do Glenn, Tina, and Rod would be dressed as ?Here they are

Glenn, of course, would be the "Raoul" (or Richard which the POTO decided to name Raoul like) as he is cannonically Nancy's boyfriend in the first film, so I thought it would be fitting.

Tina would certainly be heavily inspired by Meg from both 1989 ver and some small inspo from the musical (just slightly.) as POTO 1989 Meg is still Christine's best friend, so I would be drawing a lot of inspo from there

Rod is a bit hard due to not much of a male character outside Raoul (or Richard...) in the POTO 1989 so far has been, but I'll probably based him around Piangi as he was an actor in the POTO which also ironically died a similar way to Rod-

I'll probably get Glen and the others costumes designs and maybe in a later post explain Nancy's dress.

And just for another reminder. This crossover will not have the Phantom be in love or attracted to Christine because his motivations are based around Freddy Krueger's + its a big no for me

[scre6m]

I vote for not going back to the murder hospital. TJ MIKELOGAN’s HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT day fourteen ↬ horror tropes

Halloween II (1981) A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) The Exorcist III (1990) Happy Death Day (2017) Cult of Chucky (2017) Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021) Scream (2022)

[avocadoraisin]

im now familiar with 1 more slasher :)

[applecat8]

It’s possible my hyperfixation has started to shift again, chucky might be the one in charge

Ignore the toilet

Also I found 0.5mm graphite this is a good thing because my lines won’t be as thick as most of these drawings have been

[metaforth]

Edit: Adding a note because I'm noticing the correction by @crypticsposting isn't being included in reposts, I'm aware Wes Craven wasn't a writer on the NOEM reboot. He was credited despite having no direct involvement in the film. It was written by Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer. It doesn't really effect my point so I'm not gonna go back and edit the entire post but I'm just noting here now, I know about the mistake.

BAD PEOPLE CAN BE CREEPS.

People on this hellsite seem to forget this very often when it comes to fictional characters but a villain being a creep doesn't mean the writer is pro-creeps. Infact, the fact they made the villain a creep implies quite the opposite.

Like back when that Nightmare in Elmstreet reboot that everyone hated (and that I think was actually pretty good) came out and turned the subtext of Freddy being a pedophile into domtext some people acted like that meant Wes Craven is a creepy weirdo? Because he decided that the horrible man who murdered kids is also a horrible man who touched kids? No one claimed that him making the original movies means he's pro-child murder. Why does him making Krüger, the exact same character, a pedo (or at least making it much more clear he's a pedo) mean Craven is a pedo?

The cognitive dissonance is so strange.

And to be clear, whether it makes Craven a creep and whether it's a good decision are separate issues. I personally don't mind the change but I understand why people find it unnecessary and a'little weird. It fits the darker and more serious tone of the film but that doesn't mean you have to like the decision. But, whether or not you do, I don't feel it reflects on Wes Craven as a person.

Now admittedly, the people saying that choice makes Craven creepy were a very small but vocal lot. I'm saying this because that sentiment is one I see a lot, especially on this site. That anytime a writer makes a character do a thing, that means the writer support whatever that thing is, even though obviously that's not generally true. I don't think George Lucas is pro-planet-explodination after all.

Just a very strange trend that makes me really hate the writing discourse this site sometimes.

[jasondeansgothwife]

horror movies + bathrooms

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[moviesiveseenandwanttoremember]

Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare On Elm Street” November 9, 1984.

[cvasquez]

Iconic characters recreated using an AI image generator.

[razbotz]

and like LLLLIGHTWORK i drop another harringsmith fic 🔥🔥

[duranduratulsa]

Comic Book 📖 of the day: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare #1 (1991) by Innovation Comics #Comics #comicbooks #anightmareonelmstreet #freddysdeadthefinalnightmare #freddysdeadthefinalnightmareno1 #freddysdeadthefinalnightmare1 #90s #Innovation #InnovationComics #Spooktober #halloween #october

[tragicc]

[red-black-aesthetic-bout]

Round 1: Match 51

Zagreus (Hades) vs. Freddy Kreuger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

Zagreus

- i have a spreadsheet with which i grade my favorite characters based on a set of criteria that they all tend to share, the first two categories being “Red” and “Black.” out of 50+ characters zagreus is #1 with a score of 940, which is clear of the runner up by over 150 points. i won’t claim to be some kind of arbiter of truth about red and black characters, but actually that’s exactly what i’m going to do. if shadow the hedgehog doesn’t win then zagreus will.

Freddy Kreuger

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mod notes: have I mentioned how obsessed I am with anon's character spreadsheet. I don't want to make any assumptions but I'm autistic and

[groundrunner100]

GET OVER HERE, AND VOTE!

[eleemosynecdoche]

"The monster always escapes" thing isn't actually true. Vampires aren't a monolithic representation of a particular cultural fear, and even looking at Dracula specifically, the novelistic Dracula and the three early filmed Draculas (Count Orlok and the English and Spanish films with Bela Lugosi as the Count) are similar but clearly distinct cultural terrors. The meaning of monsters as literary symbols is fluid and shifting, even within the boundaries of a series of movies.