Quicksand Fans

A-020 had pointed out that last week it had been 30 years since the release of this movie.

When I was in 9th grade we didn't have cable or a vcr, but my mom's boyfriend had a device to descramble HBO. Every time this movie came on HBO in 1989 I had that shit timed out to a T. As soon as Kristen's mom gives her the sleeping pill I knew exactly when to catch that scene. Watching the exquisite Tuesday Knight fall into the beach quicksand trap and then Freddy pushing her the rest of the way down, her hand reaching up, and then just the last bits of her blonde hair going down. There's no other scene I've watched more times.

Although, there were always 2 things I hated about that scene...
1. Her hair! What the Fuck? She had gorgeous hair throughout the entire movie until this scene. Teased up bangs, a weird pulled back half bun/ponytail kind of thing, and the mullet-esque curly shit draping down in the back. It was just confusing to look at. She was beautiful right up until they turned her into looking like a B-squad cheerleader from the first Teen Wolf or something. Who's fucking idea was that?
2. And worst of all!!! She doesn't die here! They keep her alive for another 15 seconds just so Freddy can throw her into a furnace. Why?!??! So she could give Alice her powers? I can think of 5 dozen other ways that could've happened before she goes down in the quicksand. They could've gone from the sleeping pills to the furnace and never even bothered with this scene. It was the most irrelevant not-death scene in the entire franchise. I mean, you put Tuesday Knight (and probably a stunt double) through all that getting all sandy and shit, (although the way she struggled to get out when they showed her from behind was absolutely the best it could've been), making poor Robert stand on a beach in the sun in that heavy sweater and plastic make up, put the stage crew through all the trouble of digging a hole and figuring that shit out, all for a scene that didn't matter. They should've had her die in the quicksand!! I always turned the movie off right after her hair gets pulled under, Fuck the rest of it!!!

But anyhow, I couldn't get the sand to look right. The more I fucked with it the worse it got, so I gave up.

Well, seeing as this is supposed to be a nightmare, the inconsistent color of the quicksand fits well with the theme, IMHO.
I will NEVER watch a Freddy Kruger movie, though... I don’t want to have nightmares myself.

Gorgeous job on this Acid! It looks every bit as good as any part of the actual scene. The girl looks very much like Tuesday.
I always wished the scene itself lasted longer than it did. I agree, it was sort of an irrelevant scene. But, you know what? As far as I'm concerned, in the case of quicksand scenes in general, I say let Hollywood throw in as many irrelevant qs scenes in any movie they want. I won't complain.
I get your point though.
Maybe one of the producers of the series, writers, whatever is one of us. There seems to be quicksand-ish type scenes in several of the movies. Including the remake of the original. Who knows?
Beautiful work with this art though! Thank you!

This is another masterpiece, AT. I think the only other ‘Nightmare’ scene I rewatched an insane amount of times was the vore scene where snake-Freddy tried to gobble up a nighty-clad Patricia Arquette. Thanks for the trip down memory lane and thanks for not drawing her with that aweful bullshit mullet.

I dunno, but they may have been just "Covering all the bases" i.e. cheesy ways to kill holly-would sextraz...
as far as the quicksand scene and what I did with it:
1. I noticed that there were three different voice tracks in in the "Handbreak" program of her moaning-gasping-grunting.
2. It wasn't the sound of sinking in quicksand so much as trying to push a barbell down to the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket of sand (over and over) until they got the sounds they wanted...
3. I got lazy, used MS movie-maker to rip the sound track, and expanded by tiny clips the sinking scene to about 5 minutes in length (with freddy clipped out as much as possible) and added my own remix of the sound...

but, I also lost this re-mixclip long ago...

Looks fucking awesome AT!!!!!!!!!!!!