Brian Damage
06-18-2010, 10:43 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4FQhHeNTsg&feature=player_embedded
POTSDAM — A Massena man has launched a YouTube campaign to save the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street" house from the wrecking ball.
The former Theta Chi fraternity house at 18 Elm St. is where, in 1968, humanities professor Wes Craven helped a group of Clarkson University students produce a spoof on horror films. He went on to write and direct "A Nightmare on Elm Street" based in a town called Madstop — "Potsdam" spelled backward.
"This house could be preserved and made into a museum for Wes Craven's filming career," said John D. Michaud lll, the Massena-based video blogger. "It would bring new revenue dollars to Potsdam through tourism."
The town owns the building and plans to raze it to make way for a new municipal facility. But Mr. Michaud hopes to thwart those plans. He said he hopes his seven-minute video — titled "Nightmare On Elm Street House Destroyed!!" — goes viral.
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20100618/NEWS05/306189960
POTSDAM — A Massena man has launched a YouTube campaign to save the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street" house from the wrecking ball.
The former Theta Chi fraternity house at 18 Elm St. is where, in 1968, humanities professor Wes Craven helped a group of Clarkson University students produce a spoof on horror films. He went on to write and direct "A Nightmare on Elm Street" based in a town called Madstop — "Potsdam" spelled backward.
"This house could be preserved and made into a museum for Wes Craven's filming career," said John D. Michaud lll, the Massena-based video blogger. "It would bring new revenue dollars to Potsdam through tourism."
The town owns the building and plans to raze it to make way for a new municipal facility. But Mr. Michaud hopes to thwart those plans. He said he hopes his seven-minute video — titled "Nightmare On Elm Street House Destroyed!!" — goes viral.
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20100618/NEWS05/306189960