A Nightmare on Elm Street

Rating: 8/10 (13 April 2020)

"A Nightmare on Elm Street" was written and directed by Wes Craven. The story revolves around several teenagers who are stalked and killed in their dreams by Freddy Krueger. In the early 1980's a psycho named Freddy Krueger murdered several children with a glove outfitted with razor sharp knives. When a witless decision passed by a judge sets him free Freddy Krueger was burned alive in the boiler room where he used to work, by an angry mob of parents whose children he terrorized and murdered. Few years after his death he took revenge with the children whose parents were involved in his murder by stalking them in their dreams and killing them cruelly. The children started experiencing terrifying nightmares of a burned man. Nancy the female lead character realizes she must find ways to stop Freddy Krueger when his spirit kills her best friend Tina viciously in her sleep. She managed to find a way to bring Freddy Krueger from her dreams into reality and sets him up to be killed and defeated the evil spirit. The movie adds to the "Horror genre" and sub genre "Slasher films" by bringing into light the psychological aspect of horror. The Slasher films center around a killer mercilessly picking and killing victims in brutal manner as Freddy Krueger was killing Nancy Thompson's friends. This genre traditionally include a male antagonist which we have in this film as Freddy Krueger. Slasher Films generally have the last standing character being a female who usually goes on to defeat the killer and in the case of the movie "The Nightmare on Elm Street" the lead character is a female who goes by the name "Nancy Thompson". The above mentioned points make "A Nightmare on Elm" Street as one of the best example of Slasher movie.