For years horror fans have been talking about how awesome it would be to see a movie featuring all our favorite genre icons, Freddy, Jason, Michael, ect… Max Landis, son of the legendary An American in Werewolf filmmaker John Landis, has dreamed up a mind-blowing film and recently shared his idea, which has been brewing for the past 6 years, with the Nerdist’s Writers Panel podcast.
The basic idea is that a 17-year-old kid in the foster system gets placed with a family living on Elm Street, the family of Glen Lantz (Johnny Depp’s character in the original Nightmare on Elm Street movie. On his first night, he is drugged at dinner and encounters Freddy Krueger.
Freddy stalks the kid…pops out…claws to the face…dead instantly. Except he’s not and Freddy can’t get his claws out of the kid’s face. All of a sudden, chains, like the movie Hellraiser, go all around Freddy…pull him up and lock him…like he’s a scarecrow.”
The teenager has a psychic vision of what really happened the night Freddy was killed.
The parents of Elm Street were like a cult,” Landis explains. “And they sacrificed an innocent man, Fred Krueger to summon the demon, Freddy Krueger, and then have been sacrificing their children every 30 years to this demon to become famous and powerful and wealthy. Now, they have finally gotten to the point where they are going to sacrifice the demon itself [to Pinhead].
Freddy and the teen dream travel to Crystal Lake, where the pickup Jason Voorhees before heading to the Good Guy doll factory where they the grab Chucky. The group then makes their way to Hell where they face Pinhead and the cenobites. During this time the other kids from the foster home fight to save the unconscious kid from the Elm Street cult.
Those are the guys we came to see. Why not let them be heroes? They’re the characters you love…in a new context.”
What do you think? Would you like to see a movie like this?
