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Alice Johnson (A Nightmare On Elm Street)
Alice Johnson is a fictional character in the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' franchise. She first appears in '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master'' (1988) as a teenager that inherits dream superpowers from the victims of enigmatic serial killer Freddy Krueger. In this film, she was portrayed by Lisa Wilcox—who reprises the role in '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child'' (1989). Writers William Kotzwinkle and Brian Helgeland conceptualized Alice. Alice is notable for her developed character arc—which features her evolving from an introverted girl to a proactive heroine. This emphasis on developing her character has led to Alice receiving a positive reception. Being an archenemy of Freddy, Alice is a primary protagonist. Alice returns in the novelizations and the canon comic book continuations. Appearances Film In '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master'', Alice Johnson was the best friend of Kristen Parker. Their friendship was further s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Nightmare On Elm Street (franchise)
''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' is an American supernatural slasher media franchise consisting of nine films, a television series, novels, comic books, and various other media. The franchise began with the film '' A Nightmare on Elm Street'' (1984), written and directed by Wes Craven. The overall plot of the franchise centers around the fictional character Freddy Krueger, the apparition of a former child killer who was burned alive by the vengeful parents of his victims, who returns from the grave to terrorize and kill the teenage residents of the fictional Springwood, Ohio in their dreams. Craven returned to the franchise to co-script the second sequel, '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'' (1987), and to write and direct '' Wes Craven's New Nightmare'' (1994). The films collectively grossed $472 million at the box office worldwide. The original film was released in 1984. A series of sequels produced by the independent film company New Line Cinema followed. New Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Final Nightmare
''Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare'' (also known as ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 6: The Final Nightmare'') is a 1991 American slasher film and the sixth film in the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' franchise. It is a sequel to '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child'' and was originally intended to be the final installment of the series; ''Wes Craven's New Nightmare'' was released three years later but takes place outside the series canon. A canonical crossover/sequel, ''Freddy vs. Jason'', was released in 2003. This was New Line Cinema's first 3D film release. Directed by Rachel Talalay (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Michael De Luca, the film stars Lisa Zane, Yaphet Kotto, Breckin Meyer, Shon Greenblatt, Ricky Dean Logan, Lezlie Deane, Tobe Sexton, and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. Additionally, several well-known actors make cameo appearances, including: Johnny Depp (whose screen debut was in the original film), Roseanne Barr, Tom Arno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perchance To Dream
"To be, or not to be" is a speech given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play ''Hamlet'' (Act 3, Scene 1). The speech is named for the opening phrase, itself among the most widely known and quoted lines in modern English literature, and has been referenced in many works of theatre, literature and music. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, weighing the pain and unfairness of life against the alternative, which might be worse. It is not clear that Hamlet is thinking of his own situation since the speech is entirely in an abstract, somewhat academic register that accords with Hamlet's status as a (recent) student at Wittenberg University. Furthermore, Hamlet is not alone as he speaks because Ophelia is on stage waiting for him to see her, and Claudius and Polonius have concealed themselves to hear him. Even so, Hamlet seems to consider himself alone and there is no definite indication that the others hear him before he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the most populous city in North Central Florida, with a population of 145,212 in 2022. It is the principal city of the Gainesville metropolitan area, Florida, Gainesville metropolitan area with a population of 350,903 in 2022. Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, the List of largest United States university campuses by enrollment, third-largest public university campus by enrollment in the United States as of the 2023–2024 academic year. The university is represented by the Florida Gators sports teams in National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA competitions. History There is archeological evidence, from about 12,000 years ago, of the presence of Paleo-Indians in the Gainesville area, although it is not known if there were any permanent settlements. A Deptford culture campsite existed in Gainesville and was estimated to have been used between 500 BCE and 100 CE. The Deptford peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WildStorm
Wildstorm Productions (stylized as WildStorm) is an American comic book imprint. Originally founded as an independent company established by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi to publish through Image Comics, Wildstorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1998. Until it was shut down in 2010, the Wildstorm imprint remained editorially separate from DC Comics, with its main studio located in California. The imprint took its name from a portmanteau of the titles of the Jim Lee comic series ''Wildcats (comics), WildC.A.T.S.'' and ''Stormwatch (comics), Stormwatch''. Its main fictional universe, the Wildstorm Universe, featured superhero, costumed heroes. Wildstorm maintained a number of its core titles from its early period, and continued to publish material expanding its core universe. Its main titles included ''WildC.A.T.S'', ''Stormwatch'', ''Gen¹³, Gen13'', ''Wetworks (comics), Wetworks'', and ''The Authority (comics), The Authority.'' Wildstorm also published creator-owned mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Craig
Jason Craig (born June 26, 1974) is an American comic book artist Career Jason Craig was born at Eglin Air Force Base in Niceville, Florida. He started his career in Chicago, in 1991, working on and off for various publishers before moving away to pursue a full-time career in advertising. Following a near-fatal automobile accident in 2002, Craig was placed into a coma briefly and spent the following year in physical rehab, after which he returned to Chicago to continue his career in comics. Craig's most notable work in the comics' industry has been for Wildstorm Comics, drawing ''Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash'' and its sequel. Craig drew the reboot issues of the comic series ''Evil Ernie Evil Ernie, an undead psychotic killer, is a fictional supervillain created by writer Brian Pulido and artist Steven Hughes in 1991 and originally published by Eternity Comics. The imprint shifted hands in 1993 to Chaos! Comics and then Devil's ...'', written by Jesse Blaze Snider. The first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Katz
Jeff Katz is an American film producer and comic book author, best known for genre movies such as ''The Pope's Exorcist'', '' Snakes On A Plane'' and ''Freddy vs. Jason''. Early life Katz is from Franklin, Michigan. He started a pen-pal relationship with New Line Cinema founder and future boss Bob Shaye after meeting Shaye's father at a dinner party as an eight year old boy. As a teenager, Katz achieved some measure of local fame, including a feature on NBC's The Today Show, as the host of an AM talk radio show on WDFN, which at the time was a sports talk radio station. His radio guests included Jeff Bagwell, Bob Arum, Marv Albert, Mr. T and, notably, several professional wrestlers including Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Jimmy Hart and Sherri Martel. It was in this role that he would first catch the eye of World Championship Wrestling executives Eric Bischoff and Zane Bresloff, who would eventually hire Katz for WCW. Katz briefly attended Michigan State before dropping out after acce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nightmare Warriors
''Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors'' is a six-issue limited series comic book written by Jeff Katz and James Kuhoric, with drawings by Jason Craig. The series was published by Dynamite Entertainment and DC Comics, with imprint by Wildstorm, beginning in August 2009 and concluding in December 2009. ''The Nightmare Warriors'' is a sequel to ''Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash'', which was published in 2007 and was itself a sequel to the 2003 film ''Freddy vs. Jason''. The series is a crossover between the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'', ''Friday the 13th'', and ''Evil Dead'' horror film franchises. ''The Nightmare Warriors'' sees Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees resurrected by the United States government, who wish to exploit their supernatural powers; however, the government is unable to control them, and the killers attempt to take over the world using the ''Necronomicon Ex-Mortis''. Meanwhile, Ash Williams joins forces with the Nightmare Warriors, a support group for peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Mangels
Andy Mangels (born December 2, 1966) is an American science fiction author who has written novels, comic books, and magazine articles, and produced DVD collections, mostly focusing on media in popular culture. As an openly gay man,subject's online bio, to confirm self-identification for WP:BLP he has been a longtime advocate for greater visibility of gay and lesbian characters in various media, especially comics,"Six Gay Geeks who've improved the pop culture landscape", Lyle Masaki, ''AfterElton'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Thompson (A Nightmare On Elm Street)
Nancy Thompson is a fictional character in the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' franchise. She first appears in ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' (1984) as a teenager hunted in her dreams by enigmatic serial killer Freddy Krueger. In this film, she was portrayed by Heather Langenkamp—who reprises the role in the sequel, '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'' (1987). Langenkamp later portrayed a fictional version of herself who embodies the role of Nancy in '' Wes Craven's New Nightmare'' (1994). A reimagined version of the character, Nancy Holbrook, is portrayed by Rooney Mara in the 2010 remake. Wes Craven conceptualized Nancy after a conversation with his daughter, Jessica. She questioned him over his clumsy-depiction of the heroine in ''Swamp Thing'' (1982)—particularly over the scene in which the heroine stereotypically trips and falls over nothing. He wanted Nancy to be a start to depicting a positive portrayal of women in his films. Being Freddy's archenemy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightmares On Elm Street
Nightmares on Elm Street is a six-issue comic book limited series set within the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' franchise, set chronologically between '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child'' (1989) and '' Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare'' (1991). It was written by comic book writer Andy Mangels and published bimonthly throughout 1991 and 1992 by Innovation Publishing. The first two issues mainly revolve around Nancy Thompson's fate following her murder by Freddy Krueger in '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'', while issue three through six deals primarily with the return of Alice Johnson and her son Jacob to Springwood. The comics are considered to be canonical to the franchise. Plot Set in 1990, Cybil Houch has nightmares about Freddy Krueger in which she recognizes 1428 Elm Street, the old house of her former college roommate Nancy Thompson. She is a "ripperologist", and as such Freddy poses as Jack the Ripper in her nightmares. Freddy also invades th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innovation Publishing
Innovation Publishing (also known as Innovation Books and the Innovative Corporation) was an American comic book company based in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was co-founded by David Campiti in 1988 after writing a business proposal and raising US$400,000 to finance its launch. Innovation became number four in market share, below Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Dark Horse Comics. Overview The company published many adaptations and tie-in series of existing media properties, such as Anne Rice's novels ''Interview with the Vampire'', ''The Vampire Lestat'', and '' Queen of the Damned''. It also published adaptations of novels such as Terry Pratchett's ''The Colour of Magic'' and '' The Light Fantastic'', Piers Anthony's '' On a Pale Horse'', Don Pendleton's '' The Executioner'', Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's '' Lucifer's Hammer'', and Gene Wolfe's '' The Shadow of the Torturer''; the TV series ''Dark Shadows'', ''Quantum Leap'', ''Beauty and the Beast'' and ''Lost In Space''; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
