The Nightmare we all needed!

Rating: 7/10 (23 May 2020)

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a classic for a reason! At the time of the hype of the non stop 80's slasher craze, the genre needed some new flavour added into it... and who better to do this than the master of suspense himself Wes Craven.
Wes took that slasher phenomenon and turned it into a psychological nightmare that to this day makes it hard to fall asleep watching.
All the characters are all likeable and more so believable, especially Nancy and her family.
Nancy really goes through it all in this film and was probably the first notable final girl to go up against the villain in the way that she does.
The only real downfall for me is the ending of this movie, I understand that director Wes Craven and producer Robert Shaye had conflict with this it self but it just felt like we had two alternate endings back to back.
I personally like to think of the ending as after Freddy kills Nancy's mother, Nancy then does vanquish him by getting rid of her fear. It then immediately cuts to a dream Nancy is having where all of her friends are still alive and so is her mother until it's not a dream... it's a nightmare. Freddy is controlling the car the friends are driving in and he pulls Nancy's mother (aka the blow up doll) threw the door and this is just Nancy's subconscious unable to get past the ordeal she went through.
Overall an amazing movie 36 years later and will always remain a horror classic... but that ending still hurts my brain to this day.