The best of the bunch.

Rating: 7/10 (11 October 1999)

Watching A Nightmare On Elm Street, you almost forget the rest
of the series. In this one, Freddy Krueger isn't a vicious
jokester, he's pure evil. He tortures his victims for the pure
enjoyment of it, and Wes Craven takes us along for the ride.
Just as dreams in real life tend to blur the line between
fantasy and reality, Craven fuses his film with images that
border on a dream state. He gives them a quality that is hard
to shake, and the result is a film that rattles your nerves.
It's too bad that the series was diluted by inferior sequels
that never measured up to the originals intensity.