I LOVED this movie!, except...

Rating: Null/10 (10 October 1999)

...for the last five minutes. You know how you watch a really great movie, but it's sort of ruined when the end of the movie doesn't live up to the rest of it?
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" is one of the true classics of the horror genre. It's one of the original slice 'em and dice 'em comedies, although not as funny as later additions to the series. Freddy is a little nastier and a little darker in this film, but it's essentially like the rest. The acting tends to be so bad you can't help but turn Freddy into the hero of the flick, because it's obvious he's had many more acting lessons.
Heather Langenkamp is impressive in this one, but it's easy to see how much she has learned by watching the third and seventh in the series. Ronee Blakely isn't even mildly amusing as the drunk mother. The other three teens are tolerable, but John Saxon really steals the scenes as Nancy's policeman father.
Six out of ten! (The lousy ending dropped it two points.)