After 25 years, parts of it hold up, parts of it don't.

Rating: 8/10 (1 December 2012)

I still really want to say good things about this movie.
In some ways, this movie doesn't hold up. The special effects are cheap and the synthesizer music is kind of corny. Unlike other films in the franchise, this one had a cheap budget.
The key weakness is Heather Langenkamp. She's a better makeup artist than an actress, which is why her career as an actress was limited after this.
The other problem is Freddy himself. Now, we all know Freddy from the later movies as the wise-cracking, find inventive ways to kill teenagers character we saw in the sequels. Here, he's just a straight up monster, no witty comments or clever gags. He just straight up murders people.
Speaking of Murder, we have only four murders in this entire movie. That's it. Freddy is kind of a slacker compared to Michael Myers or Jason Vorhees.
The film does have some great moments from Wes Craven, who does know how to frame a shot to make it scary.