❗️UPD: Unfortunately, we have to cancel our offline documentary screening, but we will still be talking to Heather online! Do join our virtual talk on Facebook tonight at 8:15 PM.
Halloween is just around the corner, and that means it's time to pull down the blinds and cook up some popcorn — it's horror movie season. “A Nightmare on Elm Street” might be one of the first films that comes to your mind, but if Freddy Krueger ever haunted your dreams, was Nancy there?
Join our Documentary Film Screening, where you’ll not only virtually meet Heather Langenkamp, American actress, Hollywood veteran and star of the Elm Street franchise but also watch her 2009 documentary "I am Nancy". As Nancy Thompson in Wes Craven’s 1984’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” Heather made horror history as an iconic final girl, but why does Freddy get all the love?
"I am Nancy" is an award-winning documentary, which dives into the world of horror conventions, toy marketing, and fandom, and asks the question, “Why Freddymania and not Nancymania?” During this special film screening with live Q&A with Heather, we’ll be talking all about her memories of playing the iconic, unforgettable role of Nancy, what it’s like to turn a documentary angle on her own experience and get a glimpse into the realities of working behind the scenes of Hollywood’s most iconic horror masterpieces.
And if you’re looking for last-minute Halloween costume ideas, maybe you can ask Heather, because today she works with her husband, two-time Academy Award winning Special Effects Make-Up artist David Leroy Anderson, as partner and Vice President of their award-winning Makeup FX lab, AFX Studio. Over the past 20 years, AFX Studio has created zombies, monsters, and award-winning character make-ups for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness, Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens, The Assassination of Gianni Versace, Ratched and six seasons of American Horror Story.
We’ll be also streaming the Q&A with Heather Langenkamp on October 29th at 8:15 PM in English to our Facebook and YouTube pages. Join us online!
Learn more about Heather Langenkamp:
Heather Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and lived there through junior high. She received her first professional roles in two Francis Ford Coppola movies, The Outsiders and Rumble Fish in 1982. As a student at Stanford University, Heather continued to pursue her acting career with frequent trips to Los Angeles and landed her first leading role in the independent film Nickel Mountain. Roles in television pilots, commercials, and television movies followed until 1984 when Heather was cast by director Wes Craven to play iconic teenager Nancy Thompson in what was to become the classic horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street. Her character, Nancy Thompson, would return two times to the franchise—in 1987’s A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors and in 1994’s Wes Craven’s New Nightmare.
Heather has produced two documentary films. The first, a 4-hour retrospective of the Elm Street franchise entitled Never Sleep Again, which won the Saturn Award for best DVD in 2010. Her interest in the feminist interpretation of "the final girl" in film, spurred her to make a second, more personal documentary entitled I Am Nancy that she produced and co-directed.
A Nightmare on Elm Street:
In the early 1980's, a psychopath named Fred Krueger - known as the Springwood Slasher - murdered children with a glove outfitted with razor sharp knives as fingernails. When a foolish decision by a judge sets Krueger free, an angry mob of parents, whose children he terrorized and murdered, burn Krueger alive in the boiler room where he worked.
Years after his death, the living children of the parents responsible for Krueger's death (including Nancy Thompson, daughter of the police officer who arrested Krueger) are stalked by Freddy Krueger in a series of terrifying nightmares.
When Nancy's best friend Tina dies violently in her sleep during a dream confrontation with Krueger, Nancy realizes she must find a way to stop the evil psychopath's reign of terror - or never sleep again.