The Nightmare returns

> *"Do you ever believe, nightmares never become real? Well they do become real in this town, there is one thing that will come true again, you cannot stop what is to come" -evil larry*
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### Based on

Arhold gets grounded, Stan and friends, Henry and liam the teen dogs,

### Release date(s)

November 11th 2020, October 31st 2022 (Halloween marathon)

## Info

The nightmare returns is A horror-action Film Created by carrotkiller101, it is also the First film that carrotkiller101 created. the story focuses on evil larry who gives people nightmares and is planning to unleash the nightmare of darkness across the globe, it's up to Stan, arhold and henry and the gang to stop his plan and save the world from his evilness.

## Production of the film

In 2013 carrotkiller101 always wanted to make a movie and tried several times, he decided the movie would be based around him and other goanimate users stopping evil larry once and for all, however the film was eventually scrapped and cancelled due to the fact that carrotkiller wanted to focus on other things, however after getting banned in november 2013, the film was cancelled, however upon returning to the goanimate community years later, and during the production of a bunch of new videos in august 2020, carrotkiller101 finally had an idea to make a movie for halloween, and this being about evil larry and his return to giving people nightmares, this film would not only focus on arhold, but as well as stan and henry and a bunch of the new characters as well, the film would be a mix of dark, horror and action, and will also include blender scenes to fit in with the story, the film would also reveal the twist about tony's character and who he really is, the film was being worked on from september to october, the film was supposed to come out in halloween 2020, but was delayed to November 11th instead, as it premiered apparently youtube had a glitch while the film was premiering, but the film was a success never the less,

## Post-Production

After the film was done, it was also the end of arhold's story, and thus more stan and freinds and henry and liam episodes were made, eventually 2 new series came out in 2021 these being jasper the cool teen and the clark family, which makes these 4 the most focused series in the channel, dora gets grounded also ended a month before the clark family's premiere, the nightmare returns would later get a sequel which is an arc called The spooky mysteries which focuses on each of the series main characters going on haunted adventures until the final episode where they all team up to face against a resurrected evil larry, after the spooky mysteries ended, the series continued on and then eventually a new arc began which was called the junl0r arc, which was inspired by the revelations arc by SMG4, the junl0r arc also gets a sequel called the overload arc, and these were when the series started to focus on new villains and more original plots. it was announced that there will be Another carrotkiller movie that is the sequel to the Nightmare returns film but it focuses on something else and not counting anything with evil larry,

## Trivia

* This is the first long hour carrotkiller video due to the fact that it's a film
* The movie counts as the series finale of arhold gets grounded, however arhold still had roles in the following dora gets grounded videos, after this film stan took the role of the main character of the carrotkiller channel,
* This is the Final appearance of Tony harrison, and his adopted father as they are both killed off in this film.
* This is the only film where ian, Millie and Patsy have their original designs, however Patsy doesn't have any lines in the film.
* Logan's mission jacket would somewhat be worn again in The end of queen wright.
* Arhold was originally going to be killed off in the film and stan would've been the one to kill evil larry, however this was changed due to the fact arhold had kids in the future and the fact that evil larry killed arhold's mother and thus meaning arhold had to be the one to kill evil larry for the first time, however evil larry does get killed again by stan in the spooky mysteries finale which is a sequel to the film
* This film has a mix of Blender and wrapper offline scenes, which was mainly used in some of the junl0r arc episodes
* this was the only film that was not animated with sony vegas. this was because carrotkiller101 didn't had sony vegas at the time, sony vegas may be used for the next film
* Dora doesn't appear in the film in person but rather in the dream sequence, This marks the only film where dora is seen
* The battle with Arhold and evil larry was mentioned in lucifer's last stand
* the film apparently has only 9,489 views. which is actually disappointing, this was due to the fact that a bunch of patsy and dora videos got more views then the actual movie, the film soon got 10,000 views in 2023 and now has ads
* jasper and rachael and the other characters don't appear in the film due to the fact that they weren't introduced until their series came out
* the movie takes place on june 2015, during the last day of school and the begining of summer break which lasted for many episodes up until Wesley tries to get stan in trouble which began the next school year
* the scene where stan has his nightmare was the first scene that was made, it was originally going to be a stan episode before the film's production but was scrapped until the movie idea came up, and the scene was put into the film
* joey's eye is cut off by tony in the film, and he would later be seen wearing a eyepatch and soon grew a beard, the scene was one of the most brutal moments in the film
* the film was Going to release on october 31st 2020 but was delayed due to delays and production issues, the film was complete 2 weeks later and was re-released on the Vyond cinema channel in 2021, and was premiered again in the spooky marathon during halloween 2022 and 2023
* although its not a sequel to the storyline, a sequel film called the wrath of Johnson was confirmed to release on spring 2024