{"id":15679,"date":"2015-10-06T00:15:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T04:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=15679"},"modified":"2015-10-06T00:08:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T04:08:31","slug":"i-am-nancy-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/i-am-nancy-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Nancy (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/I-Am-Nancy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/I-Am-Nancy.jpg\" alt=\"I-Am-Nancy\" width=\"538\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/I-Am-Nancy.jpg 538w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/I-Am-Nancy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/I-Am-Nancy-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surely, \u201cI Am Nancy\u201d isn\u2019t one of the best documentaries ever made, but it will definitely go down as one of the most unique. How often do documentaries focus on the final girls of horror movies? \u201cI Am Nancy\u201d is that documentary about Heather Langenkamp who ended up playing one of the best final girls: Nancy Thompson. But unlike people like Jamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell, actress Heather Langenkamp\u2019s fate as a performer was much different. Rather than become a big star, Langenkamp slowly slid in to obscurity as the film\u2019s villain Robert Englund became an icon of pop culture and film history.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While Langenkamp has no sour grapes about how both careers ended up, Langenkamp does find the phenomenon of psychos being more popular than the heroines very fascinating. \u201cI Am Nancy\u201d is Langenkamp\u2019s attempts to figure out why Nancy Thompson isn\u2019t as popular as Freddy Krueger, and the importance she held in horror history. And the results are pretty mediocre sadly. It is fun watching Langenkamp greet her fans and speak with them, but Langenkamp stretches her boundaries trying to find meaning behind a lot of the devices in Nancy\u2019s character. This makes for a pretty paltry segment involving Wes Craven. She tries to find out the symbolism behind Nancy\u2019s rose covered pajamas, and even her name, and Craven mostly just shrugs and never offers much insight.<\/p>\n<p>That said, \u201cI Am Nancy\u201d isn\u2019t terrible, it\u2019s really fun, it just tries way too hard to stretch its subject at times, thus feeling like Langenkamp really doesn\u2019t know when to quit while she\u2019s ahead. And that\u2019s kind of a habit she has during the documentary. People praise her performance, and she asks them why they don\u2019t have Nancy tattoos, and they can only really answer with awkward silence most times. Langenkamp is a perfectly well mannered and sweet individual who loves her fan base, and it\u2019s remarkable how little she seems to have aged since the eighties, it\u2019s just \u201cI Am Nancy\u201d can never focus on its subject material, and doesn\u2019t take advantage of better segments involving convention goers, and horror stars that have rose to fame or faded in to obscurity. \u201cI Am Nancy&#8221; is a perfectly okay way to fill time for the respective horror buff, I\u2019d just suggest it strictly for \u201cA Nightmare on Elm Street\u201d completists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surely, \u201cI Am Nancy\u201d isn\u2019t one of the best documentaries ever made, but it will definitely go down as one of the most unique. How often do documentaries focus on the final girls of horror movies? \u201cI Am Nancy\u201d is that documentary about Heather Langenkamp who ended up playing one of the best final girls: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[219,292,377,477,491,501,1184],"class_list":["post-15679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-documentary","tag-freddy-krueger","tag-horror","tag-i","tag-indie-film","tag-wes-craven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15682,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679\/revisions\/15682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}