Top cast:Kyle MacLachlan,Virginia Madsen,Francesca Annis
Director:Frank McGlynn Sr.&Edwin S. Porter
Genre:Game-Show
Region:Poland
Year:2014
Storyline:As he peered out into the windy air, he heard he cackling laugh of caped witch Freddy Krueger riding on a broomstick (similar to the Wicked Witch of the West inThe Wizard of Oz (1939)): "I""ll get you my pretty, and your little soul, too!" The house crash-landed at 1427 Elm Street where he was thrown out of he window, as the credits began to play.Kent""s Many Challenges in Putting on ""Prologues"":In Gould""s office, his annoying and excitable wife Mrs.]The film is also noted for being one of the earliest political spoofs of Stalin""s Communist Russia (with its absolute control, power of censorship, and drab life of deprivation for average citizens), especially remarkable because the film was released during war in Europe (a month after Hitler""s Nazi Germany invaded Poland).Plot SynopsisThe film opens with an upward-scrolling preface or itle-card disclaimer - to waylay expected fears that the film (considered unsuitable for the big-screen) would cause resentment (and possibly cause it to be banned for its offensive nature) because of its caricatured portrayal of a degenerate revivalist religious figure:"We believe that certain aspects of Revivalism can bear examination -- that the conduct of some revivalists makes a mockery of the traditional beliefs and practices of organized Christianity! We believe that everyone has a right to worship according o his conscience, but --Freedom of Religion is not license to abuse the faith of the people! However, due to the highly controversial nature of this film, we strongly urge you to prevent impressionable children from seeing it!"After the opening credits with a stark and stylized image of a tilted cross (and then a more traditional wooden cross casting a long dark shadow), a close-up of the first textual page of Sinclair Lewis"" novel is then portrayed, beginning with the first paragraph: "Chapter 1 - Elmer Gantry was drunk.