A Nightmare on Elm Street

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Summary: One of the best horror films I have ever seen
Review: Until recently, I had never seen a Nightmare On Elm St. film. I rented this the other day and came to the conclusion that this is one of the best horror films I have ever seen. I've always been a fan of the Friday The 13th film series and so this movie brings something that I'm not acustomed to. A good plot and storyline. This is one of the first films that I have seen that has a real element of horror. This is the kind of thing you fear as a child, and here it is coming true. This is truely a one of a kind, classic. This movie was good from the start, and it also has one of the best endings I have seen in a while.

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Summary: Excellent addition to any movie collection
Review: The special effects in SOME of this movie can still get me to ask, "How did they do that?" unfortunately, those moments are more than outweighed by the scenes that I could probably have filmed myself. The movie is actually fairly creepy in some parts (mostly the dream sequences), the end is very TYPICAL of horror movies of the time, but it doesn't really spoil the experience of watching this movie. It's an excellent horror movie, I highly reccomend it.

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Summary: total nightmare
Review: scary as hell funny as hell and one hell of a movie better than the rest

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Summary: An absolute classic!
Review: I watched this movie for the first time in '97 or '98 and I just recently bought it. This movie grabs me every time. Robert Englund is the ultimate antagonist in any movie. This one is also the scariest in the entire series. The second one [wasn't to hot] and the others were all pretty cool, but this is a true masterpiece. I think it's 100% goretabulous! The theatrical trailer in the special features is pretty cool, too.

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Summary: Nightmare On Elm Street 1...
Review: The Elm Street series, I think flopped. The first one was a true classic horror film and they tried to use that to continue on doing horrors.
In the first one it shows you how Freddy Krueger who lives in the boiler room in secondary school but is only there in teenagers dreams.
When one of the girls tells her friends about her weird and terrifying dreams, they realise they were having the same dream. That night, the girl who confessed first was killed in her sleep and her boyfriend who was sleeping in the room with her was blamed.
When Nancy realises that Freddy is really there, she has to try and stay awake, but she cant forever...
If you like blood, gore and jumpy bits, this film is for you!

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Summary: it was better than all of them
Review: ok,i aint a big fan of freddy's movies,but id say this is the best one and scariest,i liked part 3 alot too,check this movie out.

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Summary: good
Review: this is a great classic movie there maybe some people out there who would make fun of movies like this or something on thouse levels but we all have diffrents tastes

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Summary: A modern myth
Review: Freddy Krueger is a metaphysical figure: he transcends the empirical world but still manages to have an effect on it; he is both everywhere (in the dreams) and nowhere (once people wake up). The world he makes his own is a sort of underworld (metaphorically represented by the boiler room he seems to inhabit) which is both identical with and different from the one people live in. Predictably, those who pretend to see this strange figure are greeted with incomprehension, almost with contempt. The only way out for the heroine - if it's really a way out - is to merge both worlds, and in trying to do so she swaps roles with Freddy, the stalker becoming stalked and vice-versa. In part inspired by ancient mythology, Craven has created a sort of modern myth with this movie: through age-old themes (good versus evil, natural versus supernatural, etc.) which are reconfigured with a fair amount of originality, he captured something deep that subordinates conventional 'story elements' to more universal themes. This mythic quality was mostly ignored in the sequels, until Craven reflected on it in his 'New Nightmare', ten years later. The only aspect that prevents 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' from achieving more than it does is its reliance on generic youth-films clichés, especially in the first half; these moments feel like afterthoughts and seem in contradiction with Craven's overall vision. This DVD offers a clear image and soundtrack, and it is the best way to experience the film.

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Summary: Forget what you think you know, this is a classic
Review: Before quite a number of people only knew him for the Scream trilogy, Wes Craven crafted this horror masterpiece that nearly put any film labeled with the words Halloween or Friday the 13th to shame. Wes Craven's original Nightmare on Elm Street introduced Freddy Kruger (played by Robert Englund), a menacing boogeyman (even more boogeyman-esque than Michael Myers) that would become one of the genre's most beloved and well known icons. Heather Langenkamp stars as Nancy; a young teen who begins having horrific nightmares involving a mutilated man with some sharp claws on one of his hands. The same happens to Nancy's friends, with some more fatal results, and Nancy soon realizes that this boogeyman is something more than a dream. While many of the following sequels were horribly inept to the original (except for New Nightmare: the only sequel that Craven would direct), the original is much more horrifying and suspenseful than it is credited for. The rest of the cast includes B-movie god John Saxon as Nancy's father, and a very young Johnny Depp in his screen debut as Nancy's boyfriend, whose death is one of the best in the genre.

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Summary: Freddy begins
Review: This was the very first Nightmare On elm st. movie. It very well may be the best one! Certainly a classic and should be in everyone's horror collection! See how it all began with Nightmare on elm st.