ONE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN HORROR FILMS!

Rating: Null/10 (6 May 2003)

up-front, 10/10,, creepy, scary, at the age of 24 still have trouble watching it alone in the dark (like the original halloween)...
i don't know how anybody couldn't have some kind of understanding of the nightmare series, so i won't waste my time or yours, but this is the first, and it's brilliance is in the simplicity, what the later sequels lack and the only one to recapture is new nightmare (amazing wes craven did both, Hmmmm)... truly creepy, holds up against the test of time. IMO better special effects than 3-6... if you like scary movies see this and new nightmare, if you like freddy see 1-3 (a trilogy unto itself, and new nightmare