Past Release: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Rating: 10/10 (17 March 2010)

With the inevitable remake of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" arriving faster than many would like, I felt that it would be the perfect time to revisit the classic movie (and its sequels) that sparked a cinematic phenomenon and influenced the genre we all know and love to an enormous extent. But, what can possibly be said about Wes Craven's masterpiece that hasn't been said countless times before? Ugh, Freddy's sweater is sooooo 1980's? To be honest, you have probably all seen this movie before and many of you have seen it more times than you could count on both hands and feet together. I'm not really talking to you; to see "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is to understand its brilliance and, therefore, you don't need me telling you how great it is. You know already. I'm talking to the rest of you...that one guy who has been living under a rock since 1976 and that other girl who was raised by wolves. I'm talking to you because it is high time that you experience the movie that made Wes Craven a household name, that sparked numerous sequels, and that put Freddy Krueger's charred face on lunchboxes everywhere. To be sure, pop culture has been unfairly unkind to Mr. Krueger, depicting him more like Ronald McDonald with knives than the brutal child murderer that Wes Craven created here. That is a cinematic travesty, my friends.
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