A film you shouldn't watch before bed

Rating: 10/10 (30 October 2009)

I had never heard or seen this film before, except for The Simpsons' spoof of it. Then I find information on the film, and I finally watched on YouTube; I couldn't take my eyes off it. Of course I did get a little scare, but I know it is only a movie. Also to you Johnny Depp fans like I am, this is his first film.
The film (as you all know) starts with 15-year-old Nancy Thompson who is suffering from violent nightmares about a badly burned man wearing a glove with knives on each finger. She quickly learns that this man is the demonic ghost of a child murderer named Freddy Krueger is also terrorizing the dreams of her friend Tina, her boyfriend Rod and her boyfriend, Glen. As they begin to die one by one in their sleep, Nancy learns from her mother that years ago the parents of Elm Street burned Krueger alive by leaving a trial of gasoline to the his boiler room; and splashing the gas around the place. Now Freddy's ghost is back to claim their children's lives as revenge! So Nancy must save herself by bringing Freddy out of her dreams and back into the real world to destroy him forever.
The was film was a horror film success, that four sequels were made. But because of the negative reviews I had seen, I am not going to watch them. So my last word is that this film an excellent scare-fest, and I would recommend you of naïve nature like me NOT to watch it before bed (*evil laughter*).