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Summary: Disturbing
Review: This movie is extremely disturbing and horrifyingly scary. Freddy Kruger is a child molester who was burnt in the "town square" many years ago. Now, Nancy and her family move into the same house as Freddy. As Nancy soon discovers the horrifying truthes of Freddy and his ways of murdering people in their dreams Nancy is determined not to fall asleep, but everyone knows....you can't stay awake forever.
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Summary: 1,2 Freddy's Coming for You.
Review: A Nightmare on Elm Street is a superb film that I highly recommend. The story is great, acting is great, and it's just an all-around awesome show. Very scary and not too long either. Nightmare rocks!
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Summary: Elmstreet rocks
Review: 20 years on and Elm street is still one of the best horrors around. I still remember leaving the cinema at 11pm in 1985, driving a block, then pulling over to check the shadows on the back seat. The acting holds up against any other horror, the script is tight and the tension palpable... it's even well lit (die: Friday the 13th, die!!! Sorry ;-) )
Make place for this classic horror in your collection.
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Summary: The first, the best.
Review: We all have nightmares, right? Every once in a while, we have a nightmare and wake up. We then comfort ourselves by telling us that it's not real and that it cannot hurt us. But what if your nightmares could hurt you? That idea was the central idea for Wes Craven's 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. The reason that this scared so many people is because Wes Craven directs his idea into our dreams and it plays with your mind. Everybody has to sleep, right? Well, this plays with the idea that if you go to sleep and have a nightmare, you will not wake up.
What truly makes the movie, though, is the two main performances by Heather Langenkamp as Nancy (who is HOT by the way), and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. Robert Englund's screen time is so little that he really doesn't get much credit, but what time he has on screen really counts in the movie. He has almost no lines and is menacing, which really helps the fear of him. He is not always on screen, so you don't see him, but you hear him, so you know he is there.
Sorry to say, but the only reason I knew about Wes Craven before this was for Scream. But now, everyone who only knows him for Scream will have a new reason for knowing Wes Craving: for creating the masterpiece horror movie that was truly unique and broke the mold of regular horror movies.
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Summary: A CLASSIC, BEST NIGHTMARE FILM EVER.
Review: This movie is the best nightmare on elm street film out there. This movie has some really cool movie effects. This was Johnny Depp's first film that started his movie career. It is the scariest nightmare on elm street film I have seen. It is said this movie has reached top 5 horror movies. With freaky music and frighting nightmare moments it is a reall collecters movie.
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Summary: I'm your boyfriend now Nancy
Review: 1984 presented the world the most horrific, cruel, sadistic and imaginative killer in history. Freddy Krueger.
After young Tina (A little too young if you ask me, 15 and already getting it on with her boyfriend?) has a horrible nightmare, she asks her three best friends to stay at her house.
But while there, poor Tina gets cut open and dragged across the ceiling.
The cops blame her boyfriend, Rod, but Nancy hhas different ideas after she discovers that both she, Tina and Rod had been dreaming about the same guy in the red and green sweater with knives on his fingers.
So she investigates further, and discovers the parents of Elm Street's horrible secret.
A Nightmare On Elm Street is the best horror movie I've ever seen. It may not have been the scariest, but it was the most fun to watch. I loved it from opening credits, to the ending credits, except that one little bit with Ronee Blakly's skeleton, euugh.
Freddy is far scarier than Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees. Those guys would be easy to kill if someone just pulled out a rocket launcher or something, but would that really work in your dreams? I didn't think so...
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Summary: The Best One of the All!!
Review: Talk about the original Grand Daddy! This is it. This first movie contained the chilling Freddy Krueger, and not the clown which he became in later sequels. He is evil personified, and his presence within the dreams of the teenagers on Elm Street will want to make you lock your doors, as well as the doors of your mind. And you may not want to go to sleep.A very well made movie, and far superior to the rest of the pack!!
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Summary: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Review: This, the film that introduced the world to Freddy Krueger, one of the most, if not the most, famous characters in the history horror, is a very scary affair.
It starts off with a group of 4 youths, who all share a common nightmare. The nightmare involves a man in a dirty red and green sweater, who has razors on his right hand and who is horribly disfigured, trying to kill them. The only problem is that if they die in their dreams, their dead for real. Which is exactly what happens to three of them, leaving the heroine, Nancy, to fend off the maniac by herself.
Wes Craven does a great job at building subspence. He has that ability to take something that's not very scary, like having stones thrown at your window, and making you stain your pants.
What's great about this film is that you don't know what's real and what's a dream. That's why you can have a lot of fun with a film like this. You can try and make your own little theory's. Was the whole film a dream? Was the ending a dream? Did that really happen? You know, stuff like that.
The acting is pretty standard for a horror film. It mainly revolves around the teenagers, who all do quite a good job.
I also like the way that all the deaths in the 'dreamworld' are all quite surreal. The girl who is being cut to shreds and dragged across her ceiling by an invisible Freddy. The boy who is hung by his bed sheets, and the boy who is dragged 'in' his bed, only to have a foutain of blood springing forth. It all makes you look at violence in a diffent light.
Another thing that is brilliant about this film is that Freddy is actually very evil and dark here. Something you don't really see in any of the sequals (except 2 and 7). He's always in the shadows and he doesn't really say much. The performance by Robert Englund in this film is, in my opinion, one of the most scariest performances ever. His body language, his face. The way he's tall and lanky. Very creepy, indeed.
So, I'm not saying that this film will horrify you, but it will certainly scare you. Enjoy.
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Summary: Why A Nightmare on Elm Street is so great
Review: A Nightmare on Elm street is my favourite movie ever for many reasons.It's scary and perfectly done.It's got killer one liners like:"You either gotta cut your fingernails or you gotta stop that kind of dreaming,one or the other." Heather Langenkamp is great as the troubled young heroin,Nancy Thompson who suffers from the tramatic nightmares that would be enough to scar anyone for life.The sequels are excellent too but the first is even better because it's unerving and scary. The body count is unusaly low for a horror movie,but I think that's great because it adds more to the suspence.Sure there's gore,but it's perfectly timed and disterbing,(who could forget Tina's death sequence?).The acting is incredable,there's no under acting but no ham-ups.Wes Craven's directing is also great and the movies theme by Charles Bernstein is delightfuly creepy and the best music in any movie ever sence Friday the 13th's che,che,che,ha,ha,ha.The story is fabulous and expands on itself, building up until Marge Thompson finally tells Nancy the truth about Freddy Krueger and how she and the nebourhoods parents bernt the child killer to death in his boiler room,which is where he took the little children to kill them.The dream sequences are perfectly done and many of the victims are sufficiently likeable,which is rather rare in the horror feild.Some people say A Nightmare on Elm Street has an unsatisfactory ending,but the fact of the matter is they were leaving it open for a sequel.The glove worn by Freddy with the knives on the fingers is so original!The movie has the perfect ammounts of gore,wisecracks and emotional moments,plus plenty of scares.It may not be everyone's cup of tea but it was Johnny Depp's first role and that's got to count for something! And finnishing up at 91 minutes,the only bad thing about A Nightmare on Elm Street is that it isn't longer,but it makes up for it with the sheer fabulousness of every aspect of it. This was Deathgirl telling you why I think A Nightmare on Elm Street is so great.Thank you-and whatever you do,don't fall asleep...
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Summary: Genuinely original.
Review: By some distance the finest of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, Wes Craven's original vision of horror is a genuinely creepy tale that has been somewhat tarnished by the endless stream of inferior, popcorn-jerk sequels. Freddie Krueger is far more frightening when he occupies the shadows, which is why Craven leaves him there, scraping his knife-fingers along boiler-pipes and disappearing off screen seconds after the camera finds him. There are none of the Freddie one-liners that you will find in the sequels. He's a proper boogeyman here, not an anti-hero. This was, in 1984, one of the most original horror films in years - and it retains much of its scare-factor (Also interesting to note that Freddie's face is more horrible in the first movie. Apparently Robert Englund refused to go into make-up for so long on Elm Street 2, so they designed him a different mask.). There's an early appearance from Johnny Depp to look out for as well. Really, if they'd have left this alone and not developed a questionable franchise, it would have achieved the proper classic status it deserves. It's worth all the other outings for Freddie put together. So it's well worth a visit, or a revisit to see just how good it genuinely is.
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