Still Awesome
Added 2/2/2010
Oh my gosh! This movie is a classic! Everyone knows the infamous Freddy Kruegar. This movie is, I imagine, way less scary today than when it came out, but it's still awesome!
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A VERY WATCHABLE HORROR MOVIE
Added 1/14/2010
This is a pretty nicely done low-budget horror film. Wes Craven came up with a delectably twisted villain in this little gem, and Robert Englund played Freddy Krueger with just the right amount of gleeful malevolence. This is not as good as HOLLOWEEN, but there are some marvelously creepy moments, despite the not-all-that-wonderful special effects. The acting wasn't too bad either, nor were the characters as cardboard-like, supremely brain-dead, or totally unlikeable as those in most slice-and-dice horror pics. Good for a couple of dreams...
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Good Horror Flick
Added 12/23/2009
This is a rather good small budget movie and would totally recommend it to any horror fan!
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Fantastic DVD
Added 11/5/2009
The Infinifilm Edition of A Nightmare on Elm Street is a great way to watch the film. With the branching infinifilm features, you can branch to cool little documentaries. There's also a new commentary track and a text commentary. I watched all three at once. Information overload! Now that it's a lot cheaper it's definitely worth picking up.
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A different type of slasher
Added 11/2/2009
If I was asked my opinion on the slasher branch of horror films my comments would be primarily negative. In general the concept of teenagers (or occasionally adults) being systematically killed for the sake of being killed does not appeal to me. There are movies like Halloween, and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre that are exceptions to this, but that has more to do with the directors than it did to do with the stories actually being gripping...that being said I find A Nightmare on Elm Street to be a solid horror film in every regard, and in my opinion, far better than other films of the genre released during the 1980s (that means YOU Friday the 13th).
What makes A Nightmare on Elm Street a special type of slasher film is simply the lead of Freddy Krueger (played by Robert Englund) and the supernatural script by horror master Wes Craven. Through the mixing of Wes Craven unique visions of horror, surreal imagery, and Englund's cunning performance help make this movie stand-out - well, that and the iconic knife glove, but that goes without saying. It is this mixture between a director's vision and an actor's menacing performance that breaths fresh life into this film; keeping it from becoming another trashy 80s attempt at copying Halloween.
Basically it does follow the formula of having about five teenagers who are one-by-one picked off by the antagonists without much reason other than he wants them dead, but here's where the difference between Friday the 13th and Nightmare differ: actual production values. On his low-budget Wes Craven did the best with what he got and created a film that looks a lot better than its budget would have implied. Freddy Krueger is also the most charismatic presence in the slasher sub-branch of horror films...but not too hard for him given that Jason, Michael Myers, and Leatherface aren't much for talking, but regardless, he still Englund has a great screen presence when in the role of Freddy; he has an attitude, shouts out threats, insults, as well as the occasional one-liner, and unlike the many-a-bad-sequel that was to come for Englund, this Freddy would actually be scary whenever he spoke.
So overall creativity, good production values, and a unique villain make A Nightmare on Elm Street on of the most lasting slashers of the 1980s, and is in my opinion, is #3 on my top slasher films (#1 of course being Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, #2 being Carpenter's Halloween).
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Still Awesome
Added 2/2/2010
Oh my gosh! This movie is a classic! Everyone knows the infamous Freddy Kruegar. This movie is, I imagine, way less scary today than when it came out, but it's still awesome!
3 out of 3 people found this helpful.
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A VERY WATCHABLE HORROR MOVIE
Added 1/14/2010
This is a pretty nicely done low-budget horror film. Wes Craven came up with a delectably twisted villain in this little gem, and Robert Englund played Freddy Krueger with just the right amount of gleeful malevolence. This is not as good as HOLLOWEEN, but there are some marvelously creepy moments, despite the not-all-that-wonderful special effects. The acting wasn't too bad either, nor were the characters as cardboard-like, supremely brain-dead, or totally unlikeable as those in most slice-and-dice horror pics. Good for a couple of dreams...
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Good Horror Flick
Added 12/23/2009
This is a rather good small budget movie and would totally recommend it to any horror fan!
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