If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.
Robert EnglundEverybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream. Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.
Robert Englund