Mediocre Heather Langenkamp + mediocre Wes Craven > Awful Heather Langengamp + awful Nick Corri + embarrassing Ronee Blakeley

I suspect you'd be the first person to admit that acting in these things is irrelevant.

Furthermore, I cannot imagine anyone could be less believable as "Heather Langenkamp" as "Heather Langenkamp" was.

Not that I didn't love her on "Just The Ten of Us."

I can overlook acting, but I still appreciate when it's decent. And there are moments in Nightmare 1 (and 3) so bad that they rip me out of the movie.