"Don't... fall... asleep!"

Rating: Null/10 (11 October 2001)

Wow, I had forgotten how good this movie is. A Nightmare on Elm Street is truly genre re-defining. It broke the rules of the usual slasher flick and put the dream stipulation into place. And it's unpredictable for its time. It's crazy to me that Wes Craven could have conjured up the concept of this movie and it's characters considering his strict, no movies allowed, Christian background. But maybe that is why it is so good. Freddy is really scary and the teenager as well as the adult characters feel very real. Craven outdone himself on this film. In fact, I don't think he has or ever will again upstage A Nightmare on Elm Street. I love The People Under the Stairs and Shocker, and Scream was good (although it was not good for the genre. I hate the fact that it destroyed horror for the rest of the 90's) but Fred Krueger is infamous, unforgettable, unbeatable.