1 A. Background of the Study
Brutal is an extremely ruthless or cruel. Brutality is the quality of being brutal, cruelty, and savagery. Brutality is one of the factors that are used to increase the terror; the other terror factors are violence, sadism, and graphic blood. Brutality is the part of cruelty. Cruelty is one of the danger signals of personality sickness. A “sick” personality is one in which there is a breakdown
in the personality structure which results in poor personal and social adjustment, just as in physical illness, the person does not behave as he normally does (Hurlock, 1979: 389-403). Brutality in A Nightmare on Elm Street Movie is reflected by the main characters, namely Krueger. He kills many teenagers through their dreams, it is called “A Nightmare” and this
phenomenon happens on Elm Street. So, it is the reason why this film is entitled “A Nightmare on Elm Street”.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 American slasher film directed by
hour 42 minutes. The film stars Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker and Kellan Lutz. It is a remake of Wes Craven's 1984 film of the same name and the ninth Nightmare film in total, it is designed to reboot the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. It is the first in a series of films centered around teenagers being murdered by a dream-controlling monster known as Freddy Krueger. A contemporary re-imagining of the seminal horror classic, starring Academy Award® nominee Jackie Earle Haley ("Little Children," "Watchmen") as Freddy Krueger. The film is directed by award-winning music video and commercial director Samuel Bayer (Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"), marking his feature film directorial debut. A talented ensemble of young actors play the teenagers now taking on Freddy Krueger, led by Rooney Mara ("Urban Legend: Bloody Mary") as Nancy, Kyle Gallner ("The Haunting in Connecticut") as Quentin, Katie Cassidy ("Taken," TV's "Supernatural" & "Melrose Place") as Kris, Thomas Dekker ("Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles") as Jesse, and Kellan Lutz ("Twilight," "The Twilight Saga: New Moon") as Dean. Bayer directed "A Nightmare on Elm Street" from a screenplay by Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer, story by Strick. That film went on to become one of the horror genre's longest-running, most successful and innovative film series.
Chainsaw Massacre," and "The Amityville Horror." The executive producers are Mike Drake, Robert Shaye, Michael Lynne, Richard Brener, Walter Hamada and Dave Neustadter, with John Rickard serving as co-producer. The behind-the-scenes team includes director of photography Jeff Cutter ("Orphan"), production designer Patrick Lumb ("Valkyrie," "The Omen"), editor Glen Scantlebury ("Transformers," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"), costume designer Mari-An Ceo ("Friday the 13th," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning"), visual effects supervisor Sean Faden ("The Amityville Horror"), special makeup effects artist Andrew Clement ("Star Trek," "Cloverfield"), and special effects coordinator John Milinac ("Friday the 13th," "The Amityville Horror"). The music is by Steve Jablonsky (the "Transformers" movies, "Friday the 13th).”A Nightmare on Elm Street" is
being distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. The film has been rated R by the MPAA for strong bloody horror violence, disturbing images, terror and language.
A Nightmare on Elm Street was officially released on April 30, 2010 in
the U.S, North America, New Zealand and May 13th in Australia and Europe in cinemas, later released in foreign markets on May 8, 2010. Regardless, A Nightmare on Elm Street broke the record for midnight openings for a horror
writers taking what they thought were the best elements from each of the films and creating a single storyline with them. Eventually, they decided to use Craven's original storyline, and try to create a scarier film. That being, they decided to remove the one-line quipping Freddy, who had become less scary and more comical over the years, and bring him back to a darker nature; this included developing the character as a true child molester, something that Craven wanted to do originally in 1984 but changed to a child killer instead. The decision was also made to bring Freddy's physical appearance closer to that of an actual burn victim, and the use of computer-generated imagery was used in certain sections of Haley's face to further assist in that vision.
spin on the character and story. Instead, the 2010 film is more of a reimagining. Fuller and Form also explained that A Nightmare on Elm Street would have a different tone than the Friday the 13th remake. Form states, "I think a Friday the 13th movie like we made was really fun. You know, sex, drugs, rock and roll, and I think a Nightmare movie is not that. When asked why New Line was rebooting the Nightmare on Elm Street film series, Emmerich explained, "The Nightmare films are profoundly disturbing on a deep, human level because they're about our dreams. It's why we thought that we could reach an especially broad audience with a new film, since the feeling of having your dreams being invaded was something that would translate to any country and any culture. Overall, Bayer wanted to create a darker Nightmare on Elm Street, one he felt would fit into what he describes as "a
darker world". Bayer said there is subtext within the film, which is designed to get the audience to ask, "What makes a monster?" Bayer wants the audience to think about whether a monster is something that exists purely from a physical appearance—someone with a scarred face and a clawed glove on their hand— or can a monster be something that is deeper, and within the man himself without a scarred face and bladed glove.
Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 2005, he received the Kodak Lifetime Achievement Award for his work and cinematography in music videos. Bayer was honored in 2006 by the Music Video Producers Association with his second Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also won multiple MTV Moon Men for music videos over the years. Bayer made his feature film directorial debut in 2010 with the remake,A Nightmare on Elm Street.
The main character “Freddy Krueger” is a fictional character from the
Nightmare on Elm Street series of horror films. He first appears in Wes
Nancy can‟t. Krueger‟s back-story is revealed by Nancy‟s mother, who
explains he was a child murderer whom the parents of Springwood killed after Krueger was acquitted of police charges on a technicality (he was discovered torturing a child by a police officer who entered his house after hearing the child's screams, but since the officer didn't have a valid warrant to enter the house all evidence was inadmissible in court). Nancy defeats Krueger by pulling him from the dream world into the real world, and setting up a series of booby traps, finally stripping him of his powers when she stops being afraid of him.
Dean before high school. Kris begins to dream about the burned man herself and refuses to go to sleep for fear that she will die in her dreams. Jesse Braun (Thomas Dekker), Kris's ex-boyfriend, shows up at her house to keep her company while she sleeps, but Kris meets the burned man in her dreams and is murdered. Covered in blood, Jesse runs to Nancy's house to try to explain what happened and he learns that Nancy has been having dreams about the same man; that man's name is Freddy (Jackie Earle Haley).
Quentin sees everyone's parents hunt down Krueger, and then burn him alive. Quentin and Nancy confront Quentin's father, Alan Smith (Clancy Brown), about the reality they murdered Krueger with no actual evidence that he had committed any crime. Nancy and Quentin, who both begin sporadically dreaming while they are awake as a result of insomnia, decide to go to the preschool and learn what they can about Krueger. On the way, Nancy falls asleep and is attacked by Freddy, but when Quentin wakes her up they discover she has pulled a piece of Freddy's sweater out of the dream world and into reality.
the secret room, with Krueger's body left inside, while she and Quentin leave. Nancy and her mother return home from the hospital, with Nancy being told she should get some sleep. Krueger suddenly appears in a mirror's reflection and kills Nancy's mother before pulling her body through the mirror while Nancy screams.
A Night Mare on Elm Street is the interesting movie; there are four aspects that make this movie really interesting. The first is from the uncommon story of a night mare that happens on Elm Street. Nancy, Kris, Quentin, Jesse, and Dean all live on Elm Street. At night they're all having the same dream -- of the same man, wearing a tattered red and green striped sweater, a beaten fedora half-concealing a disfigured face, and a gardener's glove with knives for fingers. And they're all hearing the same frightening voice. One by one he terrorizes them within the curved walls of their dreams, where the rules are his and the only way out is to wake up. But when one of their numbers dies a violent death, they soon realize that what happens in their dreams happens for real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. Turning to each other, the four surviving friends try to uncover how they became part of this dark fairy tale, hunted by this dark man. Functioning on little to no sleep, they struggle to understand why them, why now, and what their parents aren't telling them.
kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality. Firstly, Dean Russell (Kellan Lutz) falls asleep at the table and meets a man covered in burn scars, wearing a red and green sweater and a clawed glove on his hand that is Freddy Krueger. Krueger cuts Dean's throat in the dream, but in reality it appears that Dean is cutting his own throat. Then, Kris meets the burned man in her dreams too. She is murdered and covered in blood. Jesse is apprehended by the police under suspicion of murdering Kris, and is killed by Freddy when he falls asleep in his jail cell. Freddy also tries to kills Nancy and Quentin in their dreams but he failed.
The third aspect is from history that happens in Preschool Badham which becomes the early of the nightmare phenomena. Preschool Badham is the school where Dean, Kris, Nancy, Jesse, Quentin have studied on there. Freddy Krueger is a gardener at the preschool. Nancy was his favorite, and came home one day telling her mom about Freddy's "magic cave" and the things that happened down there. Fred Krueger hurts Nancy and the rest of the kids. But, Quentin falls asleep during swim practice and witnesses what really happened to Krueger. Finally, Quentin sees everyone's parents hunt down Krueger, and then burn him alive. Quentin uncovers Krueger's "magic cave" and the evidence that proves Krueger was physically and sexually abusing all of the children.
Elm Street was primarily filmed in Illinois because of the positive experience
the producers of Platinum Dunes had when filming other films in the same area, Friday the 13th, with the writers taking what they thought were the best elements from each of the films and creating a single storyline with them.
Based on phenomena above, the writer is interested to choose A Nightmare on Elm Street movie as the object of study. Considering the thing
above, the researcher wants to conduct a further research entitled THE BRUTALITY OF KRUEGER IN SAMUEL BAYER’S A NIGHTMARE
ON ELM STREET MOVIE (2010): A PSYCHOANALYTIC
PERSPECTIVE.
B. Literature Review
In this research, the writer does not find any research using psychoanalytic or the other approach in A Nightmare on Elm Street movie. In the contrary the writer finds two sources those are movie review.
horror industry and to the audience. Freddy Krueger took the center stage and with him a new era of horror films began. This horribly scarred man who wore a ragged slouch hat, dirty red-and-green striped sweater, and a glove outfitted with knives at the fingers reinvented the stalker genre like no other film had. Fred Krueger breathed new life into the dying horror genre of the early 1980"s.
These films play with society‟s fears, its nightmare‟s and vulnerability, the
terror of the unknown, the fear of death, the loss of identity, and the fear of sexuality. These teen slasher/stalker films take the horror genre film characteristics into account, however they add more to the formula. More violence, sadism, brutality, and graphic blood and gore are used to increase the terror factor. This series of films adds a new dimension to the typical teen slasher/stalker film, depth of character and story. The characters are not there only to be killed, but rather they have distinct personalities, they are independent and intelligent, particularly the female lead characters. The killer, Freddy Krueger, as well is not only there to murder his victims. He displays a great amount of wit, sarcasm and intelligence. The audience comes away with knowledge of each of the characters individual personalities. The storyline takes on a greater depth as well.
his character better than anyone else. It‟s obvious he was an excellent actor from the start. The movie begins in the dream of a teenager named Tina (Amanda Wyss); she is being chased through a boiler room by a man. Although she is not killed in her dream, her clothing gets sliced by the man. When she wakes up, she realizes her nightgown is slashed in the same way it was cut in her dreams. She is haunted by the memory of the scary, fedora- wearing man, clad in a red and green stripped sweater, with a razorblade fingered glove. We learn later that this man is Freddy Krueger. Throughout the movie, we learn of Freddy‟s background. It is then clear why these teens are
being targeted. It is then up to Nancy to stop Freddy, by bringing him into the real world and killing him once and for all.
Based on the two movie reviews above, there is a difference on analyzing this movie. If the first movie review influenced by Expressionism and emphasized on the distinctive presence of Freddy Krueger to the horror industry and to the audience, then the second review emphasized on the Freddy‟s background, so in this research more emphasized on the brutality of
Freddy Krueger as the main character that make this film become the horror film. The writer analyzes the phenomena of brutality that happen to Freddy Krueger in Samuel Bayer‟s A Nightmare on Elm Street movie (2010) by using
Psychoanalytic perspective.
C. Problem Statement
Samuel Bayer‟s A Nightmare on Elm Street?”
D. Limitation of the Study
To carry out the study, the researcher needs to limit the study. The researcher is going to analyze Freddy Krueger as one of the major character in A Nightmare on Elm Street movie based on psychoanalytic perspective.
E. Objective of the Study
The objectives of the study are:
1. To analyze Samuel Bayer‟s A Nightmare on Elm Street movie based on its structural elements.
2. To analyze Samuel Bayer‟s A Nightmare on Elm Street movie based on Psychoanalytic Perspective.
F. Benefit of the Study
By analyzing Samuel Bayer‟s A Nightmare on Elm Street, there are two
benefits of this study; they are theoretical and practical benefit. 1. Theoretical Benefit
It gives contribution to the whole of knowledge, particularly literary study in Samuel Bayer‟s A Nightmare on Elm Street. This research
2. Practical Benefit
The writer hopes that this research will give the detail understanding about the content of the movie especially on the major character (Freddy Krueger) in A Nightmare on Elm Street movie.
G. Research Method
The research method of this paper is divide into five aspects, they are: 1. Object of the Study
The object of the study is the main character (Freddy Krueger) in A Nightmare on Elm Street movie
2. Type of the Study
In analyzing Samuel Bayer‟s A Nightmare on Elm Street, the
researcher will use the descriptive qualitative research in the form of literary work, since it is a type of the research which result the descriptive data in the form of written or oral words from the observed object.
3. Type of the Data and the Data Source
a. Type of the Data
Type of the Data in this research is text and images of this movie, which consist of words, phrases, sentences and pictures.
b. The Data Source
1) Primary Data Source
Primary Data Source is the movie itself, A Nightmare on Elm Street by Samuel Bayer.
2) Secondary Data Sources
Secondary Data Sources are the biography of the author, the websites in the internet about the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street, literary books and other resources that support to analyze.
4. Technique of the Data Collection
The methods that will be used by the researcher for collecting the data are note taking and image capturing. There will be some techniques of data collection as follows:
a. Watching and understanding the story of the movie
b. Taking notes of the influence information in both primary and secondary data.
c. Searching the website about the movie to get a deep understanding. d. Arranging the data into several parts based on its classification.
e. Analyzing the data of the research based on Sigmund Freud theory of Psychoanalysis.
f. Drawing conclusion based on the analysis data. 5. Technique of the Data Analysis
