One, two, Freddy’s coming for you. Three, four, better lock your door... Or better join our special Halloween-themed spooky Movie Night!
On Thursday, October 28th we’ll be back in the America House Kyiv space and watching the American horror classic “A Nightmare on Elm Street”. We invited Heather Langenkamp, a real horror movie queen, who played the iconic role of Nancy Thompson in the movie, to join us virtually, share her experience and give you a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the horror genre!
Heather’s role in the Elm Street franchise, where she battled with dream stalker Freddy Krueger, was cited as "one of the most progressive female representations in the teen horror genre." Join our offline Movie Night filled with the greatest, hair-raising scenes of American horror cinema on October 28th at America House Kyiv. Watch the trailer here.
Register here to be spooked by Wednesday, October 27, 10 AM Kyiv time. Remember to bring your passport or driver's license to enter America House.
If you’d like to learn more about Heather Langenkamp and how her career changed after she played the role of Nancy, register here to join the screening of her documentary “I am Nancy” and Q&A with the actress herself on October 29 at America House.
Please bring your passport or driver’s licence to enter America House. All persons, age 18 and older must also present one of the following in any format: Certificate of full vaccination from COVID-19; a negative PCR-test; a negative express test; a certificate of recovery from COVID-19 from no longer than 6 months prior.)
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.