Better Hope She wakes up, for this may be Nancy's last dream....

Rating: 10/10 (6 December 2010)

Its the early 1980's and Nancy Thompson and a group of her friends are being tormented by a clawed killer. How is he tormenting them? He is tormenting them in their nightmares. This man is named Freddy Krueger and he is also known as the Springwood Slasher. One night while living on Elm street, Nancy begins to have these horrible nightmares about a man with knives for fingers. She begins to talk to her friends about these nightmares, and she quickly learns that they are all having the same nightmares. Nancy then decides that she must first find out who this man that is tormenting herself and her friends is. In the meantime, Nancy is also trying to figure out how to get these nightmares to stop. One by one she watches her friends get slaughtered by this Freddy character. After awhile she then figures out that her mother knows something about just who Freddy is and why he is doing what he is doing. Nancy talks to her mother and finds out that Freddy was once a gardener at the school where she and her friends went to school at when they were little. She also finds out that he took them into a boiler room and molested them. Nancy listens in horror to her mother as her mother tells her this gruesome tale about Freddy and his demise. Finally, her mother tells her that she and all the other parents of the children end up trapping him inside the boiler room and burning him to death. It is then that Nancy's mother reveals to Nancy the gloved hand of Freddy with the knives attached to the fingers. Nancy stares in horror and then tells her mother that Freddy is after her in her dreams and she must put a stop to him once and for all before she ends up dead. Nancy then forms a plan with her boyfriend that she is going to go to sleep and inside her dream she is going to stop Freddy. She then begs that if her boyfriend hears her screaming or sees her thrashing about in the bed to wake her up. Well, her boyfriend ends up falling asleep and Nancy is left to fend for herself. Nancy eventually ends up face to face with Freddy and tells him that she is not afraid anymore. This stops Freddy in his tracks and he then leaves. The theme for this movie is definitely Human Mortality. The major actors in this movie are Robert Englund (Freddy), Heather Langenkamp( Nancy Thompson), and Johnny Depp (Glen Lantz)