Watch Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy Online Free 2010

May 18, 2010

“Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy is a 2010 American four-hour direct-to-DVD documentary film that chronicles the entire Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and the rise of New Line Cinema. Written and produced by Thommy Hutson, the film is co-directed by Daniel Farrands and Andrew Kasch. Heather Langenkamp, who portrayed Nancy Thompson in three of the Nightmare films, came on board as the project’s executive producer and narrator.

Farrands, Hutson, and Kasch first worked together on the documentary film His Name Was Jason. Farrands and Kasch were subsequently reunited by Paramount Pictures to create bonus features for Friday the 13th DVD deluxe editions, and they later worked together on bonus features for Farrands’ The Haunting in Connecticut. According to Farrands, when Hutson joined in that project, they jointly decided it was time to tell the backstories how the various Elm Street films were created, but without interference from studio executives; they decided to fund the entire project independently. In referencing the difficulties faced during the shooting of His Name Was Jason, plans were created to do the shoot with a smaller core group of people who were artists and editors and more dedicated to quality in the final film. The interviewees were asked to provide any rare footage, or behind the scenes photos, that had not been seen before. By way of example, Farrands reported that David Schow brought in a tape from his own work on Freddy’s Nightmares that included ten minutes of Robert Englund footage that had never been aired. He also shared that during the shooting of the Elm Street-related projects, cast and family members of cast would take photos, and so they will be including images and video from personal collections. At the time of their interview with FEARnet, production had shot the trailer, some on-location spots and B-roll, and they anticipated principle photography to require a 20 to 25 day shoot. In referencing the writing, Farrands made note that Hutson spent hours creating outlines and structural pieces for production to follow and wrote both the naration and “tens of thousands of questions for the interviewees”.”