A classic of horror cinema

Rating: 9/10 (9 June 2012)

In 1984, Wes Creven was consecrated as reference works to launch terror scary A Nightmare on Elm Street that even with characteristics of B- movie called - as grotesque passages - and ended up revolutionizing the genre has become a benchmark for future works of the type . It is impossible to understand the importance of the saga Freddy Krueger without taking into account the year's production work and also the consequences for the market of its kind.
What A Nightmare on Elm Street loop to the status of classic terror is, above all, its creative story that, until the outcome surreal, can make a credible plot implausible. The script's own Wes Craven's original and well tied to the point of building in the first film in the saga a fascinating villain. The mysteries about Freddy Krueger and his motives for attacking the youth group of Elm Street are developed effectively. The sadistic killer strikes Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) and her group of friends during their dreams, but nightmares that could be seen simply as the greatest torments wounds occurred during sleep in young people leave marks in real life too.
The taste for torture that moves Krueger takes the viewer to witness real bloodshed. The special effects, if viewed from the perspective current is weak, and therefore, scenes that should increase in voltage as unfold eventually becomes comedy. However, for the time, the effects were effective and consistent with reality - especially budget - films B.
You can, for example, see the mattress placed on a ladder so that the interpreter Krueger actor Robert Englund, do not get hurt during the fall. However, the strength of A Nightmare on Elm Street is just in its history, and not on details of production, as the effects, which are primary. Still, Craven managed to insert chilling passages and mark all the long series, such as the unforgettable scenes in which girls dressed in white sing the song "Freddy's coming to get you."
The classic final scene, with the hood of the car in the colors of the blanket Krueger and Nancy's mother waving at her daughter with a smile on his face, show that the Nightmare on Elm Street brought remarkable sequences for the film. Fits this regard, the passages in which Nancy's phone rings even after the girl Tues pulled the wires of the device and when she, in a dream, follow your body's friend killed in the corridors of the college.
The soundtrack is outstanding and extremely efficient in function to create anxiety and tension and this aspect is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the entire series to contribute to the tone of this abnormality in the plots.
The final uncertain, and controversial, initially confuses the viewer. Was it all a nightmare widespread? If so, how to explain the final scene? Is, then, everything was the same as we imagined, a mix of nightmares and reality, and the final scene is more of a nightmare that still haunts the young Nancy? And so we await the sequel, knowing that reality and delusion mingle all the time and with enough subtlety. And that is why, also, that the screenplay is praiseworthy and the movie, after all, is more interesting than it seemed.
There is no doubt that Freddy Krueger is one of the most - if not the most - interesting characters in film history, and his saga, as bad as are the subsequent films, it is interesting to explore and keep alive the one who helped consecrate the terror as an important genre.