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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Movie-themed Recipes

October 18, 2021 | Updated: August 29, 2022 | Laura

Have a super scary movie night with these Nightmare on Elm Street recipes! Make a boozy iced pumpkin coffee cocktail to help you stay awake. I wouldn't want you to fall asleep and meet Freddy! Also, enjoy a couple of slices of a prosciutto and arugula pizza with spicy fig jam that resembles Freddy's iconic sweater! Perfect for a spooky Halloween date night!

A Nightmare on Elm Street Movie Night

One, two, Freddy's coming for you.

Freddy Krueger may be the horror movie villian that I fear the most because you can't just hide from him. He's always creeping in the shadows of your dreams, or more accurately, your nightmares. You can't escape sleep for long, and he'll just keep waiting. Absolutely terrifying.

Let's get to those recipes so we can at least get some good eating in before we go to bed..

31 Days of Halloween

These Nightmare on Elm Street recipes were created for my 31 Days of Halloween where every day in October I come up with Halloween snacks and drink recipe to pair with horror films, Halloween movies, or a Halloween activity. It's so much fun and a great way to celebrate the spooky holiday.

→ Check out the entire 31 Days of Halloween!

A Nightmare on Elm Street: Movie Fun Facts

Find these facts plus more over on Wikipedia's A Nightmare on Elm Street Page and on Mental Floss!

✽ Release Date: November 9, 1984

✽ A Nightmare on Elm Street was Johnny Depp's first film. He played Glen Lantz.

✽ It is said that the movie is based off real-life events. The director, Wes Craven, read in newspaper articles about a group of teenage Khmer immigrants who moved to the US and died in their sleep after having nightmares.

✽ The colors of Freddy's sweater are not random. It is said that the human eye has a difficult time recognizing those shades of red and green side-by-side. Just looking at the sweater can be unsettling.

✽ The entire film was shot in just 32 days!

✽ The stickiness that keeps Nancy from running up the stairs is made of oatmeal and pancake batter.

Looking for more Halloween recipes that pair with popular scary movies or Halloween movies?

→ Check out all of my recipes that pair with movies!

On to my Nightmare on Elm Street movie night menu!

Boozy Iced Pumpkin Coffee

A Nightmare on Elm Street Cocktail

Whatever you do, don't fall asleep. This coffee will help with that. Well maybe just a little because this iced coffee also has some booze in it..

I also wanted to make it "fall-like" so I added in a homemade pumpkin simple syrup (super delicious!). I then added in coffee liqueur and milk and topped with whipped cream and freshly grated nutmeg. It's the perfect movie cocktail and fall cocktail!

✽ GET RECIPE HERE! → Boozy Iced Pumpkin Coffee

Prosciutto & Arugula Pizza with Spicy Fig Jam

A Nightmare on Elm Street Pizza

I wanted to incorporate Freddy Krueger's iconic sweater stripes. I developed this simple pizza dough, prebaked it, and topped it with sauteed shallot and garlic, fresh mozzarella, and crumbled goat cheese.

It gets baked just until the cheese begins to melt. Then prosciutto is added on top as the red stripe and fresh arugula is added on top as the green stripe. Lastly, I splattered on a homemade spicy fig jam.

This pizza looks like Freddy's striped sweater, is so good, and all the flavors work so well with each other.

✽ GET RECIPE HERE! → Prosciutto & Arugula Pizza

Get your food ready, and get that movie started! Just please don't fall asleep during the movie..

Category: Movie-themed Recipes, Cocktails, Lunch & Dinner
Keywords: nightmare on elm street cocktail, nightmare on elm street pizza, freddy krueger pizza, a nightmare on elm street movie night, a nightmare on elm street recipes, prosciutto pizza recipe, iced pumpkin coffee recipe

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More Halloween Movie Inspired Recipes:

✽ Scream ('bloody' white strawberries with a 'blood-splattered' peanut butter whiskey sour)
✽ The Shining (snack on Danny's favorite food, french fries and ketchup, while sipping on a red rum cocktail)
✽ IT (peanut butter whiskey float because 'we all float down here' with all the best carnival foods)
→ Check out all of my movie-themed recipes!

Bon appétit!

October 18, 2021 by Laura Ehlers

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