NIGHTMARE 1

Rating: 8/10 (6 December 1998)

"A Nightmare on Elm Street" is the first installment in the ever-so-popular series that continues even today. The plot centers around an unlikely heroine named Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) who must save herself and her friends (Johnny Depp is one of them) from the bearly-glimpsed-through-the-shadows embodiment of evil known as Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund).
There's no slowing down with this story and, in this context, that's a good thing. The unsettling horror the film pulses with strikes every human nerve possible. Sometimes you feel like you're there fighting this monster right along side Nancy! The darkness of the movie is engulfing and eerie. Freddy has never seemed more menacing than he does in this first chapter. Great job, guys.