A classic.

Rating: 7/10 (18 August 2008)

Plot Synopsis: When her friend is killed while being asleep, Nancy Thompson discovers the killer is a shadowy figure who haunts his victims in their dreams. With her friends being picked off one by one, Nancy must confront the killer in his domain.
When "Halloween" came out in 1978, it spawned a very prolific genre known as the slasher film. In a slasher film, a group of characters, mostly teenagers, are stalked & killed by a shadowy bogeyman who usually has an axe to grind. By the time "Elm Street" came along, the well had been sucked dry by dozens of poor-quality films. Wes Craven gives us a film that is purely nightmarish (okay, bad pun) & very clever. While it is not the masterpiece that it's fans are claiming to be, it is nonetheless a classic, giving birth to a character that became a legend in the horror genre: Freddy Krueger, a child murderer who was killed by an angry mob & who gets his revenge by killing his victims in their dreams. The acting is all over the place, with the teenagers being the usual round of morons that we have seen in other films, but Robert Englund commands the screen as Krueger.