This is an ingenious and unnerving film.

Rating: Null/10 (12 November 2003)

Freddy Kreuger (Robert Englund) is burned alive as a child killer. Years later, he returns to Elm Street to haunt the dreams of the children of the people who put him to death. But when the dreams start to come true, the nightmare begins. This is an ingenious and unnerving film. Wes Craven keeps the action tense by blurring the line between imagination and reality. As a result, the viewer can never really be sure if whether a character is dreaming or awake. With his scarred face red and green striped pullover and gloves with knives in the fingertips, Freddy Kreuger is one of horror's most terrifying figures.
My rating: 7/10