I never understood the front cover.
Who is that supposed to be? And the hair makes it even more confusing.
shareIt's badass. That's all you need to know.
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MovieChat Forums > A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Discussion > I never understood the front cover.
I've always assumed that was Nancy. Looks like Nancy to me. I'm also guessing you've never had long hair and fanned it out over a pillow?
shareI assumed it was Nancy too, but when I look at the face, it looks nothing like her. I bring up the hair because the face looks like it could be the dude, but it's not Johnny Depp or the boyfriend who was hung in jail because they have short hair.
shareDream Warriors always bugged me. They must have drawn that one up before they even cast the movie.
shareIt doesn't look like Nancy, it looks like Mr. Bean
shareNever understood it? It's a figure of speech. Right? It's obviously a shocked Nancy being assaulted by a monster in her dreams.
I remember seeing this at the video rental, as a kid, and figuring it out instinctively (I got confirmation when viewing the movie, a couple of years later). I mean... to me, I don't know if it can be anything else.
And of course it's meant to be Nancy. It looks like her even though her face is slightly distorted. It's not like she's the first actor who's illustration doesn't fully deliver justice to. I guess we all see things differently. In my mind I never even thought it could be someone else.
I'm sure it's meant to be Nancy, but it looks nothing like her. And she's a high school student in the film and she is sleeping topless on the cover which never happens in the movie. It's just an odd illustration.
shareTo me it looks like it was done by someone who didn't see the movie. Like Wes Craven gave the concept to some artist, along with a random Heather Langenkamp photo and let him go from there. Wouldn't be the first time. The same kind of incongruities happen with book covers too.
shareI have to be honest. I don't like that original poster that moviechat has on the page. I prefer the later ones they used for the DVDs and blurays.
shareNah, I'll take the hand painted original poster any day over late 90's photoshop.
shareI always thought the original movie poster -- which was featured on the original VHS & DVD covers -- was weak. Looking at it from a distance, it clearly looks like a dude and not Nancy (although a closer inspection tells otherwise).
At the time, the producers probably didn't have the money for anything better and no one was aware that the movie would be such a success with the ensuing decades-running franchise.
Movies from the 40s and 50s often had poster that were drawn, but it really doesn't fit with this movie.
shareWe had this cover in Europe:
https://www.filmonpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ANightmareOnElmStreet_doublecrown_UK_GrahamHumphreys-1.jpg
Which is pretty decent.
Much better.
shareThat's a good poster!
shareI also like this one a lot better too.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/to0Vl8WeRt-n6f2meQHMhb40TMtjeTVXZeoGWEe9W27WjAXJl39zVjW-muBc6lwKG4puPUXVGxoZ0Lb5IedWYkQ6EErcOeRjzgc7Y8Cj1rnbku7hSEb2jnoT8dAvdN1piY-6kkn6BQ
Best one so far.
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