It's a classic but...

Rating: Null/10 (20 October 2001)

A Nightmare on Elm St. was something that I just happened to pick up at my local video store one day and said "aahh!! What the heck, I might as well". When I got home and actually watched it what I saw was both enthrawling and dissapointing. I loved some of the cinematography, esspecially the body bag scene, but the hand held jumyness of some of the other fright scenes was disstracting and annoying. I loved the charecter development between the charecters, I just wish that the actors had been a bit more seasoned for the roles they were playing. I think the movie would have had more plot if they had focused more on the fathers distance from their family and less on the mothers alcoholism. This was by far, in my opinion a good a tasteful movie. It had a plot that developed at just the right places and gave you just enough gore to set you up, and then tare you back into your seat. If anything I think this movie is a great teaching tool for film students becuse if anyone saw this movie and thought that there was nothing that they would change, is just unimaginative.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Z.