A cool, creative, psychological,slasher film that's part of the big three in modern horror movies especially the slasher films

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2015)

This completed the slasher genre with the making of this psychological slasher classic. Wes Craven is a brilliant filmmaker that gave a whole new creativity to the slasher genre. Robert Englund created one of pop culture icons of horror of all time with his brilliant performance as Freddy Kreuger who got his revenge on the parents that burned him alive by going after their prize possessions being that's their children. Charles Bernstein created a classic horror score with that dreamy, sad and creepy theme that fit the film beautifully. I remember seeing this film when I was younger and I felt it had two of the coolest, creative and scariest scenes that you ever seen in a horror film. One is at the beginning when Tina's character rises up from the bed and gets shredded in mid air while also being dragged up the walls and ceiling that was unbelievable and scary as hell then the second scene where Johnny Depp gets sucked in a bed and gets mauled while in the bed with blood everywhere that was pretty wild and creative. Heather Langenkamp I thought played a great heroine and was perfect for this franchise. I loved that scene when she and Johnny Depp was in her bedroom getting ready to pull out Freddy Kreuger and he was to wake her up when the alarm went off but he falls asleep and she is upset with him as she slaps him and says you fell asleep you little sh** was funny as hell. John Saxon was great in this film playing Lt. Thompson the complexity of playing a loving dad trying to help his daughter through a very hard and scary time and trying to find a real perpetrator to arrest for these horrible crimes that were committed. This and Dream Warriors were the best in this franchise along with Freddy vs Jason. I love this film a must see.