When a low budget creates great nightmares

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2016)

I might be a little subjective with this movie because it is because of Freddy that I fell in love with horror movies and with cinema in general. But the more movies I watch the more I appreciate this one.
Wes Craven took the elements from an already existent genre and rose them to a new level. With a little inspiration from real events and lots of imagination Wes and his team managed to create one of the more horrifying horror movies of the 80s and of cinema in general. Horror movies are not just about jump-scares or how you feel while watching them. True horror is about what is left with you after you watch them. Maybe we can argue that A nightmare on Elm St. looks dated, but still the final result is modern enough to be watched nowadays without that unintentional comical effect that movies like Friday the 13th have.
With several memorable scenes like the first one, the bath scene or Glen's death, the movie makes us fear daily objects or activities such as beds or taking showers. But it is Nacy's death the one that made everyone cringe and that passed to the history of cinema. Wes Craven knew how to create an intense atmosphere since the beginning of the movie and, more important, he knew how to keep it during the rest of the movie, keeping us in constant tension until the ending credits.
But the most important thing about this movie and, above all, Freddy, is that it will accompany you for your whole life in those moments before you fall asleep and will make you wonder if what you saw was just a movie.