A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET- THE FIRST NAME IN HORROR FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 28, 1999 FREDDY KRUEGER IS BACK WITH THE RELEASE OF A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET BOX SET FROM NEW LINE HOME VIDEO Arriving On September 7, The Remastered And Repackaged A Nightmare On Elm Street Series Features Director Interviews And The Original Theatrical Trailer, Available Individually Or As A Box Set Other Available Titles In Time For Halloween, Include New To Sell-Through Campfire Tales, Embrace Of The Vampire, The Mangler, Leatherface And jason Goes To Hell For $19.98 And Less LOS ANGELES, CA --Just in time for Halloween, the most famous horror franchise started by Wes Craven (Scream, Scream 2) is back with a vengeance with New Line Home Video's A Nightmare On Elm Street series, including A Nightmare On Elm Street box set, arriving on September 7. Available for $89.98, A Nightmare On Elm Street box set contains all of the classic remastered and repackaged Nightmare films in a keepsake box Additionally, all seven Nightmare titles will be sold separately for just $14.98 each. Featuring interviews with all of the films ' directors and original theatrical trailers, the series includes early performances from Johnny Depp, Patricia Arquette and Laurence Fishburne. A Nightmare On Elm Street is also available in widescreen when sold separately and as a Platinum Series DVD box set. Other videos available in time for Halloween include Campfire Tales and the unrated Leatherface for $19.98. Additionally, Embrace Of The Vampire , jason Goes To Hell, Leatherface and The Mangler are priced at $14.98 each . NEW LINE HmtE VIDEO Page 1 of6 © 1999 NEW LINE HOME VIDEO,• INC. ALL RIG HTS RESERVED . Courtesy of www.nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com A Nightmare On Elm Street Sell-Through A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET BOX SET A Nightmare On Elm Street Box Set contains all seven Nightmare titles for the first time ever. Each film is remastered and repackaged and features the original theatrical trailer. In addition, interviews with filmmakers such as horror master Wes Craven (A Nightmare On Elm Street); Jack Sholder (A Nightmare On Elm Street 2 Freddy's Revenge); Chuck Russell (A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors); Renny Harlin (A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 The Dream Master); Stephen Hopkins (A Nightmare On Elm Street 5 The Dream Child) and Rachel Talalay (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare) are included in the collection. FILM SYNOPSES Following is a brief synopsis of the titles featured in this promotion. A Nightmare On Elm Street Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) is having grisly nightmares. Something monstrous wants to kill her. Meanwhile, her high-school friends, who are having the very same dream, are being slaughtered in their sleep by the hideous fiend of their shared nightmare. When the police ignore her explanation, she herself must confront the killer in his shadowy realm. A Nightmare On Elm Street 2 Freddy's Revenge Jason hasn't been himself lately. Every night, he's been haunted by dark, overpowering visions of an evil presence trying to possess his body. And it isn't just a case of bad dreams. It's a nightmare come true. For Jesse has just moved to Elm Street- into the house where Freddy Krueger "lives." A monstrous, local child-murderer. But his evil is still very much alive in Jesse's house. And Freddy is very much alive in Jesse. And once Freddy's hell-spawned soul takes complete possession of.Jesse's body, he can return from the dead to do what he so desperately longs to do. He can kill again. And again. And again. A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors The last of the Elm Street kids are now at a psychiatric ward where Freddy haunts their dreams with unspeakable horrors. Their only hope is dream researcher and fellow survivor Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp of the original Nightmare), who helps them battle the supernatural psycho on his own hellish turf. A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 also stars Patricia Arquette and Academy Award®-Nominee Laurence Fishburne. Page2of6 Courtesy of www.nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com A Nightmare On Elm Street Sell-Through A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 The Dream Master Proving there's no rest for the wicked, the unspeakably evil Freddy Krueger is again resurrected from the grave to wreak havoc upon those who dare to dream. But this time, he faces a powerful new adversary! As her friends succumb one by one to Freddy's wrath, telepathically gifted Kristen embarks on a desperate mission to destroy the satanic dream stalker and release the tortured souls of his victims once and for all. A Nightmare On Elm Street 5 The Dream Child Freddy Krueger returns to deliver a whole new breed of terror in his most fiendishly perverse frightfest yet! Unable to overpower the Dream Master who vanquished him in A Nightmare On Elm Street 4, Freddy haunts the innocent dreams of her unborn child and preys upon her friends with sheer horror. Will the child be saved from becoming Freddy's newest weapon or will the maniac again resurrect his legacy of evil? Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare Just when you thought is was safe to go to sleep, Freddy Krueger is back to haunt your dreams and freeze your blood! lisa Zane is a child psychologist tormented by recurring nightmares. But not until she meets a new patient with the same horrific dreams does her quest for answers lead to a certain house on Elm Street - where an evil that defies the grave is about to be unleashed upon the world. Wes Craven's New Nightmare Winner of a Golden Scroll of Outstanding Achievement from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror, this spine-tingling tale reunites original Nightmare stars Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp and John Saxon as "reel" Freddy invades the real world with deadly results. Campfire Tales Returning home from a concert and driving recklessly, .four teenagers crash their car on a.deserted road. To ward off the cold, they build a fire and wait for help. But the hair-raising stories they tell around the fire put a deeper chill into the night. Each tale is more lurid, more horrifying, more shocking than anything they've heard before. Yet for these unlucky teens in the woods, the biggest shock is still to come. Embrace Of The Vampire In the tradition of Poison Ivy, Alyssa Milano plays Charlotte, a sensuous but innocent college freshman who is being seduced by the most obsessive lovers. A lover (Martin Kemp) who comes to her only in her dreams -a dark, handsome vampire who touches her in forbidden places and will stop at nothing to arouse her passion. Embrace Of The Vampire also features Charlotte Lewis and Jennifer Tilly. Page3 of6 Courtesy of www.nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com A Nightmare On Elm Street Sell-Through jason Goes To Hell Jason Voorhees, the living, breathing essence of evil, is back for one fierce, final fling. Tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, everyone now assumes that he's finally dead. But everyone assumes wrong. Jason has been reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches. The terrifying truth is he could be anywhere. Or anybody. In this shocking, blood-soaked finale to Jason's carnage-ridden reign of terror, the horrible secret of his unstoppable killing instinct is finally revealed. Leatherface A pair of college students driving coast to coast are lured off the main highway and on to a deserted Texas road. Here they are stalked by the menacing Leatherface and his demented family ... a bizarre cannibalistic clan with blood on their hands and a feast on their minds. Their only chance for escape is a survivalist with enough firepower to blast Leatherface and the rest of the grizzly predators to hell. 1beMangler After a series of grisly accidents, an officer (Ted Levine) comes to believe that the steam ironer in the Blue Ribbon Laundry is possessed by a bloodthirsty demon. With time running out and a young girl's life hanging in the balance, he races to destroy the beast before it's too late. New Line Home Video distributes all of New Line Cinema and Fine Line Features theatrical films on video and select titles on DVD. The company also distributes feature films and non-theatrical programs acquired or produced by New Line Home Video and New Line Television. New Line Cinema is the leading independent producer and distributor of theatrical films. New Line also licenses its films to ancillary markets including cable and broadcast television as well as in all international markets. · ### For screening cassettes or artwork, please mail your request to Kim Elmouchi, New Line Home Video 116 N. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 or fax your request to (310) 854-0602 Page4 of6 Courtesy of www.nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com A Nightmare On Elm Street Sell-Through CONTACT: BENDERniELPERIMPACT NEW LINE HOME VIDEO (310) 473-4147 (310) 967-6579 ShawnaLynch, ext. 276 Matt Lasorsa shawna [email protected] [email protected] Leslie Furuta, ext. 257 (310) 967-6637 leslie [email protected] KimElmouchi kim_ [email protected] A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET BOX SET A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Price: $89.98 Price: $14.98 Street Date: 9!7/99 $24.98 (DVD) Pre-book Date: 8/10/99 Street Date: 9!7/99 CatalogNumber: N479SV Pre-Book Date: 8/10/99 Running Time: XX: minutes CatalogNumber: N4777V (VHS English) MPAA Rating: R N4782V (Widescreen) ClosecK:aption N4664 (DVD) Running Time: 92minutes MPAA Rating: R ClosecK:aption A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 FREDDY'S REVENGE DREAM WARRIORS Price: $14.98 Price: $14.98 Street Date: 9!7/99 Street Date: 9!7/99 .