* * out of 4.

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2002)

Several teenagers are plagued by seriously scary nightmares with the same burned face figure appearing in each dream, Fred Kueger (Robert Englund). However, when you die in these dreams, you die in real life.
Terrific premise, terrifying performance by Englund, and great scare scenes, BUT (BUT) the film never takes full advantage of its great premise, the characters are typical cliched 80's teenagers, and the rest of the preformances are adequate to bad.
One scene that was edited out had Nancy's mom explaining how she wasn't an only child and how Fred killed her sibling. If they had left this scene in, it would have given the film a deeper meaning and made the film better too. What a shame too.....
Rated R; Graphic Violence, Profanity, and Brief Nudity.