A Nightmare on Elm Street





I can't believe this film wasn't requested until now.

It's, like, one of the best horror movies ever. It's also the first movie I ever watched, and to this day, I love it. Created the best horror villian of all-time.

A+

Great movie, though. A-

Elm Street was the first movie you saw?!?!... ... uum OK!

anyways.... Great horror movie! one of my favorites!

A

ThefirstmovieIrememberwatchingwasAlien:Resurrection.

Andyeah,A-!Awesomemovie.

What can I say? Heh.

When I said that horror movies never scared me, I meant it.

A+

This, Black Christmas, and Dellamorte Dellamore are constantly battling for my top horror film of all time.

One of the few handful of films that is truly frightening to me. The first time I saw this film (seven or eight years old), I had recurring nightmares every single night for four years of my life. I was positively terrified of Freddy Kreuger. A hideously deformed child molester attacking you in your dreams with a hand made of razors is to this day the most disturbing creation any horror movie has ever produced, and in this film, Freddy is treated in a deadly serious fashion. No wise cracking, no slapstick, just evil. Wes Craven's surreal direction captures the environment of a dream perfectly. Craven uses weird camera angels and bizarre lighting to always keep us on our toes - we're never sure if we're in a dream or not. This sense of unease just oozes out of the film. Coupled with a fantastic score, an incredible, genre defining performance by Robert Englund, and some of the scariest sequences in horror history, A Nightmare On Elm Street is a classic film.

A

I love it to pieces, but I actually like New Nightmare a little bit better.

B

*hides*

It's good, and original, but as a movie it's ultimately not a masterpiece or anything. Other than the fact it's way cheesy, it also has quite a few story holes and problems.(like Rod being strangled by the sheet. When they find him, he's hung up by the real sheet around his neck. Because Freddy can't control the real world only dreams, he should've been hanging dead but without the sheet actually there.)

And I'm sorry, but the ending makes absolutely 0 sense. It screams being a twist ending only for the sake of a twist ending, which is precisely what it was as Craven never wanted it like that.

an excellent horror movie.

A

COME TO FREDDY!!!!




There really are, when you come to think of it, not that many films that are truly frightening. The kind of film that gets under your skin and eats away at you. The kind of film that stays with you days ( and nights ) after you see it. There certainly aren't any that come to mind from the 90's. But along with films like Aliens the first Halloween, The Exorcist, Angel Heart, Last House On The Left and the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the first Nightmare is terrifying. And that is owed all to Wes Craven. The sequels of this film are really trash and that is because Robert Shaye may be a good business man but he certainly does not know how to see to it that The Nightmare series stayed it's course and kept viewers on the edge of their seat. The sequels became more comedic than scary and even though Freddy had a personality in the first one, he was still more diabolical and evil than he was funny. More Lon Chaney than Jerry Lewis. But the first one has every element in it to keep you scared beyond belief.

This film is iconic in many ways. There are those that say it is dated. I beg to differ on that point. This is a film that transcends generations and expertly amalgamates gore and tension. When you think of all of the so called horror films that have come out in the last year or so, many of them try to enthrall us with buckets of blood and special effects, but they forget that with a horror film, you must have an element of fear with it. Nightmare on Elm Street captures that better than most, and is on a level with the all time greats.

Fred Krueger, as we all know, was a child molester who was hunted down by the local Elm Street parents after he beat a court systems on a technicality. They trapped him in his basement and lit his house on fire and then watched him burn. Somehow he comes back and haunts their children's dreams and murders them while they sleep. This sets up the premise of the film and it is stated on the SE DVD that Craven got the idea for this film while reading a story in an Asian newspaper about kids dying in their sleep and telling their parents that they knew something bad was going to happen to them in their dreams. It is an interesting concept and because it is done to perfection here, it has now become one of the cornerstones of American horror.

Wes Craven has been revitalized as a master of modern horror with his very commerically successful Scream series, and as much as I love Scream, it is horror lite when comparing it to his efforts like NOES, LHOTL and The Hills Have Eyes. Those films, and Nightmare in particular, revolutionized ther horror genre. Nightmare on Elm Street is his best film and if you forget how truly scary the film is after viewing all of the inferior comedic sequels (with the exception of the last) view this one. Freddy is a horror icon and he has achieved that status because he is the true definition of fear.

10/10 One of the 10 best horror films ever!

Come to Freddy!!

This will be making an appearance on my top 5 list in the horror poll....ssssshhhhh....don't tell anyone.

Going back to my 1985 thought process. This is when I saw it. This movie was scary when first released. Kind of a shame what time and sequels have done to it.

A all the way.

Not the first movie I ever saw. lol.

But, it was the first R-rated horror film I ever saw.

A


Wes Craven is my all-time favorite director of horror movies because he reinvented the horror genre for me with Scream and started my love for horror movies with Nightmare on the Elm Street. The entire concept of Nightmare on the Elm Street is ingenious. What can be more frightening than a killer who kills you while you sleep? In most horror movies, you can do a lot to avoid the killer, you can easily defend yourself, you can stay in a safe environment...But in this one, there is no escape. Everyone has got to sleep, sooner or later and once you are asleep, Freddy Krueger is there to get you. If that is not a great concept, then I don't know what is. Making the killer so deformed, giving him supernatural powers and making him a child moleser makes it all even moreso creepy. Robert Englund is in the role here that has defined his career and he really pulls it off. Krueger will always be the most iconic figure of horror to me, above Ash, above Michael Myers and above Jason. Krueger is not a jokester here that he was turned into later on. He is a menace, inevitable and deadly. This is the onoly NOES movie that I actually found effectively scary. The very ending (the final 20 seconds or so) were cheesy and unneeded, but I can look over that easily. I know how it is always between F13, Halloween and NOES for being the great horror movie to have started off a huge franchise...but to me, NOES easily beats Halloween and F13. This should set standards for horror movies to come for years. Easily in my all-time Top 10 of horror.

The first horror movie i remember seeing,i was about 5 and it scarred me.Freddy in the original is a real menace,the greatest horror villain of alltime.

A++++

****/****

This is God!

This movie was Great when I was in High School, but looking at it now, it's big time dated like the Friday the 13th movie's are.. If I'm grading this from when I was in High School many moons ago, I'd give it a "B", but now, in the Present, I'd give it an "F"..

Wow, shame on you!

BKB's right to grade horror films should be taken away immediately.

When your my age Zing, go back and revisit some of the horror movie's you gave "A"s to and see how much your taste changes.. It was a fine horror movie back then, but has not stood the test of time.. It happens..

BKB, you give this a worse grade than Maniac Cop? C'mon!

What could have possibly made the grade drop to an F, though?

And yet you give The Omen high marks...

Shame on you BKB...shame on you!!!!

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Damn right I give The OMEN high marks and well deserving of it to, which is why the remake won't amount to a hill of cra*..

The reason it dropped is simple: I've grown more cynical since the movie's release and the more I view it, the more I find much of it to be completely ridiculous, pretty much like most horror movie's I see now..

I'm sure if I watch MANIAC COP as much as I've seen Elm Street, the grade would drop to an "F" to, but I've only seen it once as well as the cheesy Sequel that followed.. Only 1 horror movie,(if you can really consider this horror as opposed to Adventure) is JAWS that still maintains the highest grade possible of an "A+" to this day..