Event Summary:

American Cinema Editors (ACE) has a special event planned for Halloween season! We're pleased to welcome editors Rick Shaine, ACE, and Patrick McMahon, ACE, following a screening of Wes Craven’s horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street! Nick Taylor, host of the horror film podcast The Nick Taylor Horror Show, will be moderating. The first installment in a long-running franchise, the film stars Robert Englund as the iconic Freddy Krueger along with John Saxon, Ronee Blakley and Johnny Depp in his film debut. Krueger, a monstrous figure returned from the dead, murders teenagers through their dreams, as retribution against their parents who burned him alive. The film received great critical acclaim upon its release, and has since been considered to be one of the greatest horror films ever made, In 2021, A Nightmare on Elm Street was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”