Freddy Enters Your Dreams.

Rating: 8/10 (13 January 2016)

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984): Dir: Wes Craven / Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss: An original horror film idea that regards facing one's fears. Freddy Krueger is introduced as the child killer burned alive by protesting parents and whose hellish burned image haunts the dreams the their children to the point of death via his razor blade glove. Director Wes Craven achieved success in the genre with Last House On the Left and The Hills Have Eyes but this is his masterwork giving us a visually scary nightmare of effects. Heather Langenkamp plays Nancy who not only must cope with the death of her friends, but also fend off and outsmart Krueger. Johnny Depp plays her ill fated boyfriend who attempts to help her but fails to heed the warning regarding falling to sleep. They were both present during their friend Tina's shocking murder that had her boyfriend as a wanted suspect. John Saxon plays Nancy's father who is Lieutenant of police, and Ronee Blakley plays her alcoholic mother who tries to get her daughter help before revealing the true nature of Krueger's past. Amanda Wyss plays the original victim whose famous murder has her spiraling aimlessly about her room. Craven's film examines the nature of dreams and nightmares while delivering groundbreaking special effects and a villain whose very name is the stuff of bad dreams. Score: 8 / 10