We chat with Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story directors Gary Smart (Gary_Smart82) & Christopher Griffiths about their horror-tinged documentary and collaborating with an icon like RobertBEnglund:
Go behind the scenes and explore the life of one of the horror genre's most iconic figures in Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story. The documentary offers a detailed journey through the life of Englund, the actor best known for bringing Wes Craven's iconic slasher Freddy Krueger to life in A Nightmare on Elm Street, but has shown his talents in a variety of other genres both before and after the horror franchise.
Smart & Griffiths on Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story Screen Rant: I'm very excited to talk about this documentary. I'm a big horror genre fan, as is everybody else here. How did the project really come about to dive into the career of one of the greats in the genre? What was it like when you approached him with the idea of, "Hey, we want to chronicle your career, not just the horror genre, but also what you've done outside of it leading up to your iconic status?"
Christopher Griffiths: The stipulation was, as Gary said, with our producer Mikey, Nightmare on Elm Street's been done, Friday the 13th has been done, and with Robert, the sort of prerequisite was, if we're going to do another doc on Freddy, because I'm sure there's multiple ways you can look at that franchise and different angles and whatnot, then he would give us an interview.
So, he's unavoidable, but I guess that helped us build a bit of a narrative, because there's not much drama in Robert's life. He's had a — thank God — pretty straightforward life, it's not like Kane Hodder with his burn accident.
Gary Smart: Yeah, it's not taking anything from the remake, it really has some interesting elements to it. I just think it came at the wrong time, and I think if it was done today, it would be a very different spin on it. So no, for me, it was consciously not to talk about it. In a weird way, she protects him, she's the protector. We discussed his mother a little bit, which we didn't really include too much in the doc, about his mom when she was ill, and she became quite ill. Again, it's really hard on a doc's narrative, because you get certain beats, and suddenly, you can get some negative beats where it takes it away. Once you get into that, you've got to stay on that flow, you can't just brush over it, and that's the problem.
I'd heard it before, but it was only when I'd sort of used the analogy, because I only had my camera and a phone on me, I had to put my phone in his pocket and use that as his lav mic, and then put my camera on a coffee machine. Luckily, it was a 4K one. As I was doing it, I thought, "God, this looks so trampy what I'm doing, like, 'We'll just use that IKEA light there.
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