A Horror Great!

Rating: 10/10 (30 December 2006)

The quality of Nightmare on Elm St. has dropped in recent years, FvsJ you know what you did, so it is understandable that audiences today would have forgotten about what made Freddy well.. Freddy.
Let's travel back to the early eighties shall we. This was a time when many well known horror franchises were still in their infancy many of the greats started here. One day a horror film writer by the name of Wes Craven decided to pen a tale of revenge from beyond the grave. It was in this stroke of genius that Freddy Krueger was born.
The tale told the story of Fred "Freddy" Krueger who, for years, molested and murdered the local children with a glove that had blades fixed to the fingers. This went on for a number of years, that is until he was arrested. Having somehow gotten away with it, the parents of the neighborhood decided to take matters into their own hands and then one night found him where he took his victims and burned him alive. Flash forward a few years the children are now teenagers and living normal lives. The nightmare that was Freddy is only a vague memory in the town's past. That is until young Nancy starts having bad dreams and her peers start dying in their sleep. Freddy has returned to his old stomping grounds to continue his work. Now with the body count rising how will Nancy and her friends stop this maniac? One thing's for sure until they find a way they better not fall asleep.
A Nightmare on Elm St. was original in the fact that while most horror monsters and villains could be fought on the physical plain and were often confined to one area Freddy's range of attack was wide spread. Not only that but he was not confined to the limitations of the real world. He claimed dominion over the dream world and for the most part there was no way you could stand toe to toe with him even in your own dreams. You couldn't shoot him, you couldn't escape him, and you couldn't stop him. Another added factor to the creepiness was the fact that he could even appear in your own nightmares after the movie was over. This guy gave me nightmares for years and even now I get the occasional midnight fright. Plus the ending really got you to thinking as to whether they really got him in the first place.
If you want to see Freddy before his fight with Jason Voorhees check this film out it's a classic and you won't regret it. Plus there are no stupid CG effects around to screw up the experience.