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Summary: Scariest film of the 80's
Review: "A Nightmare On Elm Street" introduced us to that finger-knived maniac we have come to love...Fred Krueger. Four teens from Springwood, Ohio, are having nightmares about a guy in a red and green sweater with a razor bladed glove stalking them. One of the teens, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) finds out who he is, and after she sees all of her friends killed by Freddy, she enters his dreamworld and pulls him out of it and into reality, where she can kill him. This movie is definitely the best out of the series. In this one, Freddy is hardly seen, he is always in the shadows, waiting to kill. He isn't the practical jokester that he became in the other sequels. The best sequence, in my opinion, is the first and last chase scene involving Nancy. Loved when he crashed through the mirror to get her. Also starring Johnny Depp in his first starring role, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Ronee Blakely, and John Saxon. Rent or buy it!
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Summary: A great movie and the best of the Nightmare series.
Review: 80's movies don't tend to be my favorites but I believe the Nightmare series has stood the test of time quite well enough.Especially the original.Wes Craven came up with a concept that sounded stupid on paper but it gave us this wonderful masterpiece.Forget Jason Voorhees,Michael Myers or whoever because the dream child murderer Freddy Krueger is as great as you can get.He has a personnality and he talks.Which is yes very impressive for a horror movie icon from the 80's.Anyway,Fred is kinda dead after the parents of the children he killed got their revenge.A few years later he comes back to haunt the children from Elm Street in their dreams.Of course,if mr.Fred kills them there,they're never going to wake up.Nancy,the movie's heroine will manage to get rid of Freddy in the end but he'll come back for a sequel anyway.The reason why this movie is the best in the entire series is because it's actually scary.Freddy sticks to the shadows and only has a few lines to say during the movie.That makes him very intimidating and scary.The soundtrack is beautiful,of course and the special effects are very inventive.This movie looks like it was made on a higher budget but actually New Line wasn't that rich back then.In fact,you could argue Freddy saved them from bankrupt.I believe the acting is good.Except for Robert Englund as Freddy.He's amazing.Looking back at the first,it's amazing how much the series has changed.The original is scary and it has a great story.Which is a far cry from the barely okay part 6.Anyway,while none of the sequels have stood up to this movie,some of them are still great.But seriously,assuming you can only get one in the series,get this one.Oh and this movie does not feel outdated at all.It's still great even today and it has lost none of its charm unlike the first Friday the 13th.Not that I don't like Friday,I do but this movie can even entertain or scare people who are not into horror.In my book,it's the ONE in the series that deserves a perfect rating.Freddy Krueger rules.
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Summary: Nightmare on Elm Street
Review: This movie is a very good buy. If you get the remastered version
of this movie, you'll have trouble hearing it. I know I did.
You almost have to blast it in order to hear it. I drove my mom
nuts with all the loud screams in this movie. It is a good movie
nontheless. Go out and get it. As I have said before in all my
other reviews, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: How Freddy Got Started
Review: At this late in the game it is hard to believe that anyone is not familiar with the concept in this film.A high-school girl starts to have nightmares. In them there is a horribly burned man wearing a striped shirt, old hat and a glove with knives on the fingers. She soon discovers that some of her friends are having similar nightmares. Tension escalates as she learns that the dreams are almost real. Getting hurt in the dream results in real injury. People begin to die. No one believes her ideas that there is a menace in the dreams. But then she learns his name: Freddy Krueger. It is then that some of the history starts to come out. Who Freddy was and what happened to him and what role her mother had in all of it. Finally she gets an idea of how to stop Freddy and stop the dying. But before battling one's dreams, one needs to know where the dream begins. A chilling ending. This disk allows for wide-screen and full-screen viewing.
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Summary: NIGHTMARISH!!!!
Review: From the demented nightmares of Wes Craven (Wishmaster, Scream) comes Freddy Krueger. As a human Krueger (Robert Englund) was burned alive by his neighbors. Freddy gets his revenge by slaughtering teenagers in their worst nightmares imaginable. Heather Langenkamp plays Nancy Thompson. Nancy begins having these nightmares about a charcoaled demon with a set of knives for fingers. She tells many people of these dreams including her parents but nobody believes her. Johnney Depp stars in his first role as Nancy's boyfriend Glen Latz. They come up with a devine plan on how to capture Freddy and send him back to the depths of hell. However, when this plan fails it is to Nancy to save her friends and future prey for Freddy. Nightmare on Elm street is creepy and comical with just enough blood and gore for all slasher fans but not too bloody for the weak at heart. Unlike the demons before him Freddy is not a silent stalker but a witty , intelligent and absolutely horrifying creature. A must see but whatever you do DON'T FALL ASLEEP!!!!
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Summary: This is actually a good movie!
Review: A film by Wes Craven It's only a dream. Isn't that what we tell ourselves when we have a nightmare? It's only a dream and dreams can't hurt you. But what if they can? What if it is when you fall asleep that you are the most at risk? This is the idea that Wes Craven plays with in the horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and I was surprised by just how good this movie is. Forget about all of the sequels and forget about the joke that the "teenaged slasher flick" genre has become. This movie is genuinely creepy and even twenty years later remains a good movie (although some of the special effects are now on the cheesy side). The story begins with Tina (Amanda Wyss) having a nightmare. In it, she is chased by a man with a deformed face who wears a red and green striped sweater and has claws on one of his hands. Tina is freaked out by it and tells her friend Nancy (Heather Langenkamp), who, it turns out, had a similar dream. So did their boyfriends, Glen (Johnny Depp, in his first movie role) and Rod (Jsu Garcia). When Tina's parents are out of town, all four of them spend the night at Tina's house. Tina has another nightmare, but this time she doesn't wake up. In her dream she is being attacked by Freddy Kreuger (Robert Englund), but in real life Rod can see the rake of Freddy's claws across Tina's chest, and he can see Tina being flung about in the air and she gets cut again and again. As far as Rod can see, there is nobody else in the room but he believes there has to be because what he is seeing isn't possible. This is the set up for "A Nightmare on Elm Street". As Freddy begins to pick off Nancy's friends she knows that she has to find a way to stop Freddy, but also to get someone to believe her. She tells her parents, but they keep telling her it is only a dream (even when she brings cuts and burns back from her dreams), and when she describes Freddy and says his name, her parents say that it is still only a dream...except that it is obvious that they know something. For a film that helped spawn the slasher-flick genre, I was surprised by how psychological this movie was and how genuinely creepy it could be. I haven't seen any of the sequels that this movie inspired, but if you take this movie and take it on its own merits you have a rather good movie here. Forget about genre, this is a good flick.
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Summary: One of the most uniquely terrifying horror films of all time
Review: Wes Craven is a genius. Usually after watching a scary movie, some find comfort, going to sleep and forgetting about what you have just watched at the theater. Not anymore. This film makes you want to never fall asleep and not even dream. The bad guy is the morbid and terrifying burned to a crisp murderer Freddy Cruegar. The first of the series is a masterpiece, even though the rest suck. The movie is inventive and clever, and it isn't bland or cheesy. I highly reccomend this film. It will take you into terror like never before.
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Summary: sweet dreams
Review: there are normal ,high school kids. with normal lives and normal boy friend/girl friend and parent problems. but soon meet a problem that doesnt quit fit in with their lives. now some of us at this age are known for haveing wet dreams , but KILLER dreams. easy concept ,really, ya dream ya die. these kids are all being stalked and killed off by a violent man named freddy krueger in their dreams. this man lives through the world of the human dreams. if he kills you in dreams , you die for real. this is an INSTANT CLASSIC if i may say so. freddy uses your fears and pains and weaknesses against you. he showed nancy her dead friend tina regurgitating a centipede. COOL. very cool stuff. and when freddy kills , glen, it is a volcanic eruption of blood coming out of his bed. this is an AWESOME horror movie. many people can relate to this film cuz all people and teens have problems and people do dream about their problems that leads to stress but what happens when your dreams actually kill you? well ya die..lol..lol...anyway a nightmare on elm street was 1 ofthe best horror movies of all time.freddy is such an evil character, it really hard not to like him. this is one of my favorite movie origionals as well as friday the 13th, halloween, evil dead, psycho , and many more. look...buy this movie and take it home and enjoy it. you would be crazy to pass this one up.
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Summary: Scariest film of the 80's
Review: "A Nightmare On Elm Street" introduced us to that finger-knived maniac we have come to love...Fred Krueger. Four teens from Springwood, Ohio, are having nightmares about a guy in a red and green sweater with a razor bladed glove stalking them. One of the teens, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) finds out who he is, and after she sees all of her friends killed by Freddy, she enters his dreamworld and pulls him out of it and into reality, where she can kill him. This movie is definitely the best out of the series. In this one, Freddy is hardly seen, he is always in the shadows, waiting to kill. He isn't the practical jokester that he became in the other sequels. The best sequence, in my opinion, is the first and last chase scene involving Nancy. Loved when he crashed through the mirror to get her. Also starring Johnny Depp in his first starring role, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Ronee Blakely, and John Saxon. Rent or buy it!
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Summary: Genuine Scares
Review: One of the most frustrating parts of any horror movie is the main character that puts themselves in harms way, but how do you escape your dreams? That is the terrifying premise of this movie --- if you don't dream you go crazy or die, if you dream Freddy can get you. The first film is by far the best. Freddy isn't seen too much here and he has the strange "dream like" attributes (such as large arms) that make the movie so scary. The first time I saw this I was disappointed in the faux ending.. but thrilled by the final scene. In the end, it is left to you to figure out what happened and in someways, that is scarier than any horror movie I have ever seen before.
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