this movie is practically real for the viewer...

Rating: 9/10 (8 August 2006)

Since A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2; Freddy's Revenge was the first horror movie I had ever seen at the tender age of seven, I must point out first that I had nightmares myself about Freddy Krueger for years after I was first exposed to this. This also had to do with the fact that when I was young, my brothers and I suffered from a somewhat rare affliction known as Night Terrors. Since I am an identical triplet, and often all three of us would wake up screaming at the same time, my mother's hair turned Gray by the time I was five years old. When I saw the sequel to this movie, nightmares were already a prevalent theme in my life... they were almost more real than what I was experiencing when I was awake... And for years after, the antagonist in my dreams took on the form of Freddy Krueger. Unlike the characters in Dream Warriors, however, I could bend the reality of my dreams in many, many ways rather than having only one dream power. Because of this, Freddy never got the better of me in my dreams, I always would viciously slay him. And for a child who had only seen images of violence outside my dreams in this single film, it was just as scary to see myself do these things. I became obsessed later in life with the films and when I saw the sequel that had first introduced me to the series I found it tame in comparison... the one element that still stood out in my mind though, was the talented screamer who played Jesse. TRULY terrifying screams. Of all of the movies the original still stands out as the scariest for me, because No one really knows whats going on, there is never a survivor from the last film to explain what was happening, or to lend a shred of hope that one person might perhaps make it to the next film. The fact that everyone seems to believe Nancy is crazy at best lends to the fear that she will soon die. In doing research on the film to trace Wes's original inspiration, I found it documented that he said a series of articles he read in Los Angeles started the idea going. HOWEVER, I also found out that Wes went to Wheaton College for a time, which I lived near... and had friends on the somewhat close by Elm Street... as I still do... I believe that this is actually where the name of the film came from, and possibly some of the story. I guess only Wes knows the truth. *screeeeeeee*