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4 Dir. by Sean S. Cunningham, Paramount Pictures et al., (1980)
5 Dir. by Wes Craven, New Line Cinema (1994)
6 Dir. by Ronny Yu, New Line Cinema et al. (2003)
7 Dir. by Samuel Bayer, New Line Cinema et al. (2010)
8 Isabel Cristina Pinedo, ‘Postmodern Elements of the Contemporary Horror Film,’ in: The Horror Film, ed.
by Stephen Prince (New Brunswick: Rutgers, 2004), 85–117 (pp. 90-91).
9 Especially striking is the circumstance that from A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 – The Dream Master (dir.
by Renny Harlin, New Line Cinema, 1988) on, Freddy Krueger turns into a blabbing, tough-talking
trickster.
10 In Gestörter Film. Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (Darmstadt: Büchner, 2012).
11 The Elm Street references the great US trauma of the 60s: President John F. Kennedy being assassinated
on Elm Street in Dallas, Texas on November 22nd 1963.
12 The Final Girl, a concept elaborated by Carol J. Clover, is the last survivor in the slasher genre, usually a
sexually inactive, somewhat masculinized girl who fights the killer with resourceful wit, not being afraid
to use violence against him. See for instance Carol J. Clover,’ Her Body Himself. Gender in the Slasher
Film,’ Representations 20 (1987), 187–228.
13 Original title: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, dir. by F. W. Murnau, Jofa-Atelier Berlin-
Johannisthal and Prana-Film GmbH (1922)
14 Robin Wood, ‘An Introduction to the American Horror Film,’ in: Planks of Reason. Essays on the Horror
Film, ed. by. Barry Keith Grant and Christopher Sharrett (Lanham et al.: Scarecrow Press, 2004), 107-
141 (p. 117).
15 Dir. by Tobe Hooper, MGM et al. (1982)
16 Dir. by Chuck Russell, New Line Cinema (1987)
17 Noël Carroll, ‘Nightmare and the Horror Film: The Symbolic Biology of Fantastic Beings,’ in: Film
Quarterly 34/3 (1981), 16-25, p. 24.
18 Joseph Maddrey, Nightmares in Red, White and Blue. The Evolution of the American Horror Film.
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2005), p. 85.
19 Dir. by Renny Harlin, New Line Cinema (1988)
20 Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (London: Penguin, 1994), p. 12.
21 Original title: Něco z Alenky, dir. by Jan Švankmajer, Channel Four Films et al. (1988)
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