{"id":6326,"date":"2012-09-22T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2012-10-20T02:09:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T02:09:07","slug":"joss-whedon-names-dreams-warriors-character-among-his-top-5-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/joss-whedon-names-dreams-warriors-character-among-his-top-5-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Joss Whedon Names Dreams Warriors&#8217; Character among His Top 5 Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\u201ddisplay:block;float:right;\">\n<div style=\"padding-left: 16px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-0772942500851985\";\n\/* 250 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3976876457\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Joss Whedon<\/strong>, of <em>Buffy: The Vampire Slayer<\/em>, <em>Firefly<\/em>, and <em>The Avengers<\/em> fame, talked to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/\" title=\"EW\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/em> (#1226) about his top five favorite horror characters. Surprisingly, <strong>Jennifer Rubin<\/strong> made his list with her portrayal as Taryn White in <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors<\/em>. He also went on to give props to the third NOES film. Here is what he had to say: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was so badass. [<em>Dream Warriors<\/em>] changed the dynamic of the horror movie in a way that I appreciate\u2014the idea that the people facing horror could be empowered by it and confront what they were fighting. It&#8217;s very Ur-Buffy as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other characters that made Whedon&#8217;s list include Ian Holm as the android Ash (<em>Alien<\/em>), Shawnee Smith as Meg Penny (<em>The Blob<\/em>), Donald Pleasence as The Priest (<em>Prince of Darkness<\/em>), and Chimp with a Razor Blade (<em>Phenomena<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Whedon&#8217;s latest project, <em>The Cabin in the Woods<\/em>, is now available on DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joss Whedon\u2014<em>Buffy<\/em>, <em>Firefly<\/em>, and <em>The Avengers<\/em>\u2014talked to <em>EW<\/em> about his top five favorite horror characters. <a href=\"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/joss-whedon-names-dreams-warriors-character-among-his-top-5-favorites\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[15,90,378],"class_list":["post-6326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-latest-news","tag-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-3-dream-warriors","tag-entertainment-weekly","tag-joss-whedon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6386,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions\/6386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}