Better than your average horror movie

Rating: Null/10 (1 September 2003)

Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984) John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, Robert England, Charles Fleischer, Lin Shaye, D: Wes Craven.
In the slumber of his victims, a facially burned killer, Fred Krueger, with finger knives plagues and kills the children of the adults who set him ablaze into hell. It's up to teenage insomniac Nancy (Langenkamp), the only survivor on Elm Street, to lure Krueger into her dream machinations!

Low budgeted, engrossing horror-thriller from the afterward master makes known a new horror-genre S.O.B. (beside Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees). Imaginatively written, with some great scares, but routinely executed. You'll have nightmares for days! Followed by four sequels.
Running Time: 92 minutes and rated R for brief simulated sex, gore/violence, and some language.
RATING: *** (out of ****)