1, 2 Freddy is Coming For You!

Rating: 9/10 (11 October 2007)

Because of my mentality, I was the one who stood in line for hours, waiting for the movie doors to open and when the movie was done, my friends and I actually pulled an all-nighter, and since then I was always fond of this movie. The reason being it's a ghost story but it has a little twist. Essentially its about a kiddy killer/pedophile who was burned alive by a lynch mob and returns as a ghost and kills young girls in there dreams, however he chooses Nancy Thompson as his next victim, which proves to be a mistake. Here is a movie that revived and twisted the slasher genre, and gave it an infamous face and name.
Rather than, haunting in real life, why not haunt in somebody's dream. Some scenes were pretty frightening (i.e. the backyard scene, bedroom scene and the boiler room scenes.) and some were disturbing, but just the concept of a killer pedophile stalking a teenage girl in her dreams is disturbing enough. Way to go Craven.
The emotions played by Heather Langenkamp, and a first timer for Johnny Depp, not to mention Robert Englund were outstanding. The great thing about this movie is that unlike other killers, where you can shoot or decapitate, Freddy doesn't die, and how do avoid someone who kills when you are asleep. Nobody cannon not sleep forever. That's what gave me the chills, and it still does. I wish I could tell you how much I love this movie but I would like to keep this review as short and to the point as possible.
Freddy has become such an iconic character, as well as any street named Elm Street and in summation, this movie is a must for any horror movie watcher beginner, even though it is still light horror compared to movies nowadays, it still gets you no matter how many times you watch it. I LOVED IT!