Sleep Tight...

Rating: 9/10 (1 May 2020)

The best thing about A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is its originality. When it came out there was nothing else like it. Director, Wes Craven had fashioned a whole new type of slasher movie, w/ a supernatural twist. Like Don Coscarelli before him, Craven overlaps dream and reality to mind-bending effect! The nightmare sequences are actually terrifying, especially one involving Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) and her friend, Tina (Amanda Wyss) at school. Unlike the mindless murderers in other such films, Fred Krueger (Robert Englund) is a sly, haunting specter who stalks his prey in their sleep. He is terrifying, and nothing like the one-liner-spewing comedian he would become in the sequels. Nancy is not the usual female fodder either. She is smart and able to come up w/ ways to fight her nemesis. Co-stars a young Johnny Depp as Nancy's boyfriend, Glen. Easily one of Craven's best efforts...