What a classic horror film

Rating: Null/10 (20 September 1999)

"A Nightmare on Elm Street" was released in 1984 and introduced Fred Krueger in his darker times. Story focuses on Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) and her friends Tina (Amanda Wyss), Glen (Johnny Depp, in his first starring role) and Rod (Nick Corri), who are having nightmares about a burned man in a red and green sweater and dirty fedora who wears razors on his right hand. He was a child murderer freed on a technicality. The parents of the murdered kids got together, tracked him down and burned him to death. He returned in the dreams of their other kids to kill them, to make them pay for what they did to him. Each of the teens gets killed by Freddy until Nancy is left, in which she enters his world to carry him into the real world, so he can die. This film is very scary, disregard any of the other ones, focus on this one. The acting is great, especially by Langenkamp, she puts on a pretty crazy performance. Freddy is also SCARY, he isn't a comedian who throws out one liners like they are going out of style, and he is always lurking in the shadows too. Rent this one and Wes Craven's New Nightmare for a good night of horror.