Childhood nightmare til now...

Rating: 10/10 (9 April 2020)

I wanna start by saying I'm not really a horror fan and horror movies don't scare me easily. But as a kid who constantly had nightmares and night terrors (like literally), the idea of this guy who terrorizes people in their sleep really scared the living hell out of me. But I wanted to face my fears. So one night, me, my sister, and my cousins watched it. Boy was I not disappointed!!
It has everything a great horror film should have: terrifying idea & story (who wouldn't get scared to think that when you die in your dream, you die in real life? even Krueger's back story as a child molester is unthinkable), eerie atmosphere, and superb musical score.
It's so terrifying. In fact, the dream sequences felt so real and the transitions were so flawless it felt like I was the one having the nightmare. What's frightening about nightmares is that they feel real in the beginning, and when you finally realized, you get paralyzed and have a hard time waking up.
That was the feeling this movie was ever so brilliantly able to capture! Kudos to Wes Craven!
P.S.
Until now 20yrs later I still haven't mustered up the courage to re-watch it. Everytime I tried, I would stop 10mins into the movie. Damn that jump rope scene and that nursery rhyme!!