#Blogtober 17 - Trailer of the Week - An Elm Street Oddity

Todya we have a video dealer's promo, but one that goes in a different direction to, say, the now infamous Terminator 2 one.  Now a lot of the studios would send video shops more general trailer tapes too, some to be played on the screens in store, some would be there just to show the shop owners what was being released.  Well, for this April 1986 tape, which was bigging up the VHS release of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Warner Home Video decided to go the extra mile, and make a miniature Freddy movie for the tape, A Nightmare on Alperton Lane.  And yes, that's where quite a few video companies had their offices in the UK back in the day, Alperton in North West London, not that far from me.  It's quite well done for a little sketch that was only meant to be seen by video shop managers, with some real effort put into their Freddy make-up and such.  Nice selection of trailers too, including Friday the 13th (not the last time those two franchise would cross paths), a different Wes Craven film Swamp Thing, an all time favourite of mine Theatre of Blood, and the rather intriguing looking Hollywood Ghost Stories.  It says a lot though how much effort was put into this when it wasn't that long since the UK video scene was turned upside down by the Video Nasties business, to be putting that much effort into horror releases shows how much the whole matter had calmed down by then.  So, enjoy part 2 and a half of the Elm Street franchise, A Nightmare on Alperton Lane...