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The initiation of Freddy

When people think of icons for horror movies someone is bound to always include freddy on the list. After watching Friday The Thirteenth Part 1 and finding out jasons mother was the killer, i was totally peeved. However 2 weeks ago TV2 in N.Z screened this bad boy. This movie is a classic and is as another reviewer said genre defining. It created a slew of sequels and the awesome freddy vs jason movie. This movie is actually really good for its time and even today its better than most of the horros being released. The first half i found to be quite suspenseful and the mere fact that freddy comes back at the end to kill Nancys mother was brilliant, also loved the way the car was being controlled by freddy at the end. If you like movies where the monster is in your head then watch this, its great, its pretty tame compared to freddy vs jason but is still throughly enjoyable. I could go on about how gr8 this is but ill stop and just say: If your into horror thats good watch this, If not watch something else.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

IF NANCY DOSEN'T WAKE UP SCREAMING SHE WON'T WAKE UP AT ALL.

I love this MOVIE. I THINK FREDDY IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THAT BRAINLESS JASON. I DIDN'T THINK THIS ONE WAS SCARY AT ALL. BUT MY FAVORITE DEATH IN THAT MOVIE HAS TO BE WHEN JOHNNY DEPP DIES. HE GOES IN THE BED THEN BLOOD COMES OUT. THAT IS SUCH A MEMORABLE SCENE FOR ME. TO BAD THE DVD ONLY HAVE ONE THING IN IT. AND THATS THAT THEATRICAL TRAILER. IT ALSO HAS A CAST AND CREW THING BUT I DON'T LIKE TO LOOK AT THAT. IT ALSO HAS JUMP TO A DEATH MENU. SO IF YOU ARE A FREDDY FAN OR A HORROR FAN (LIKE ME) YOU MUST I REPEAT YOU MUST SEE THIS FILM RIGHT AWAY. IT IS GREAT.

THERE IS OVER 1 MINUTE OF SPECIAL FEATURES ON THIS DVD!

Classic

This is a classic movie that goes down in Horror movie history. Great Acting, creepy make-up on Freddy, good suspense, and perfect plot and story. If you haven't seen this movie I highly recommend you do soon.I give it 10 out of 10Fans of horror movies like this should Check out Puppet Master, Skinned Alive, Sleep Away Camp, Slumber Party Massacre, and other Full Moon Pictures flicks. For other recommendations, check out the other comments I have sent in by clicking on my name above this comment section.

PLEEEASE wes craven

PLEASE GIVE IT UP.

You cannot write nor direct a good movie. You took what could have been a very good, and scary, character and basically screwed him up. Very poor acting; very poor story line...The sequels as well.

After these nightmare movies and the scream movies, and recently the Craven produced 'Dracula 2000' .... Ed Wood isn't the worst anymore...!

THE BEST(...)

nightmare on elm street is truly scary a true thriller brobly the scariest movie i ever seen me and my friends wated it one day and got scared and grostout.this is a must see tinas death is scary see is getting sliced by freedy in her dream but spinning around with blood coming out of her chest in real life.and the part where nancy is draged under water by freddy was so freaky.this deserves more than 5 stars(...)no more than 10(...).see this a must see for horror buffs i dare you to wath it in the dark.!!!!!!!

Nightmare Indeed!

This was the movie in which Freddy Krueger was ACTUALLY scary (to most)

A Nightmare on Elm Street is the first (no duh) and the best in the series (no duh)

It's eeire and has a great villain.

It also has good performances, great make-up effects, and imaginative dream sequences.

I'd definitely recommend this to all horror fans!

Scary stuff...

There's only one thing that sums up NOES for me; It's the only horror movie that's come close to scaring me.Wes Craven manages to show up all the horror wannabes (Especially the Nightmare sequels) for the cheap and nasty cash-ins and rip offs that they are.This is the only film in the series where Freddy Kreuger is really evil. There's no cheesy one liners or comedy torturing here, it's 100% scare all the way...Take my advice: Check out Parts 1,3 and New Nightmare and forget the rest. Or watch them all just to see what a mess they made of a good thing.

A sheep in wolf's clothing

I grew up with "A Nightmare on Elm Street." It was one of the defining themes of my childhood; Freddy Kreuger's iconic face and finger knives were part of the cultural fabric of the eighties. Freddy was like a demon in the media, haunting our collective consciousness just like he is supposed to have done in the film. I was terrified of him; I probably would not have been if I had ever actually seen the movie. You see, my mother had seen it; and, while she considered it a good film she declared it simply too scary for me to watch and so, for many years, I sat on the sidelines as all of my friends came back with their survival stories (This was Britain, where an 18 rating MEANS 18, so unless you had permissive parents who didn't care what you watched on video, you didn't see horror films under age)and I concocted Francis-Baconesque visions of the film in my mind; gothic dreams that came from the darkest depths of my soul.Well, illusion can trump reality at the best of times, but never was it more so than with this film. It was not scary in the slightest; it had a completely ludicrous plot (If Freddy is supposed to be killing children in their dreams, than how is he moving ropes or turning beds into blenders in the real world?), and a suprisingly incompetent villain (a supposedly omnipotent nightmare-master who does little more with his power than jump out behind trees and yell "Boo!"). I know that later sequels did more with better special effects, and created more realistic death scenarios, but this film remains a severe dissapointment. Perhaps the only Freddy-inspired creation I saw that dealt with the concept sucessfully was, oddly, the "Simpsons" parody

The best horror-movie ever?

When I first saw this movie I was totally sold on it the first second I started watching it and couldn't keep my eyes on something else than the TV. This is a really, really good horror movie, not just one cheesy Friday The 13th-copy, but this one has a totally own idea and imagination. What I like most in this movie is the deep, dark and frightening atmosphere. And the main story for the film is so cool but scary... an old child-molester/murderer with a burned face and a glove with blades attached to it who only shows up in teenagers dreams can actually kill them in their dreams. It is a very good movie and I recommend it to people who have seen Hellraiser, Halloween, Candyman or The Shining and liked one of them at least. So if you haven't seen this one, the next time you're renting a movie, rent this one... or buy it!

Best in Horror

This is the greatest horror movie of all time. It has the ever-terrifying presence of the great Fred "Freddy" Krueger (one of the only killers in horror to actually have a personality), incredible effects for the surprisingly low-budget (about 1 million if i'm not mistaken) and a great cast that shows horrors don't ALWAYS have bad actors. Although the sequels sucked, i'll always remeber the fear i felt when i firs tsaw A Nightmare on Elm Street at 6 years old. It actually made me afraid to sleep (an ocurrence only insomniacs can avoid). It's still the only true movie to have a lasting impression on me (i mean come on, when ever i see chicks jumproping i think of that sinister rhyme).

Freddy Krueger is my all time favorite villian, and this is one of the only movies where i root for the bad guy all the way through. The ending bothers me immensely because all it does is allow for a sequel (all of which were crappy) but the movie is a classic in my mind nonetheless. Wes Craven's best work; the horror genre (and cinema in general) has never been the same since...

A Classic that was nearly not made

I had the pleasure of looking after Mr Craven back in 1984 for a week long UK PR campain on this movie. Amoungst the many anecdotes that he told to journalists....was how the film took a long time to get financed. As usual Hollywood failed to recognise a good idea when they saw it....and of course the rest is history. I believe the opening scene has been planned to take place in an old theatre with lots of flapping drapes. Lots of very ingenious special effects were achieved on a low budget (including the shooting of the Nancy bathtub scene, which includes a POV shot, realised in somoene's swimming pool on the last day of the shoot) When Craven was in the UK for this publicity trip he was working on the script for his next film which was to be called AI (The journalist with me, quiped that in the UK that stood for "Artificial Insemination" which could have prompted the title change to "Deadly Friend". To my mind "Nightmare" is still one of Craven's best films, because it is dead serious and played straight (Without the knowingness of the later "Scream") This was a time when American films took their horror seriously (As Japanese cinema does now)

The first and best of the Freddy series

Wes Caven who unleash his first two films THE HILLS HAVE EYES and LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT give us his third film taken a twist on fantasy terror and give us a horror icon.In the town Springwood Nancy and her friends had been having a hard time sleeping they say that they keep on having nightmares so to keep one of their scared friends some company they stayed with her for the night but as she had a nightmare which first shows Freddy kills her in her dream and to find her dead for real now because of her friend death Nancy is trying hard not to fall asleep that she is now being stalk in her dreams by Freddy it's up to her to stop the nightmares from happening if she doesn't it will never be safe to fall asleep.This is the big break of the NIGHTMARE series and one of the first films to started Johnny Depp even though the first movie was a small budget to make but it still work.This is like the only one in the series I could like, the rest of them I can't stop laughing at them.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (TWO-DISC SPECIAL EDITION)

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is a very influential film about Freddy Krueger, the child murderer who violently kills teenagers in their dreams. The acting in the film, and the special effects, aren't perfection, but the film is still an enjoyable experience. Anyway, below are my ideas for a two-disc special edition of the film:

DISC ONE: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

*1:85:1 anamorphic widescreen
*New digital transfer
*Dolby Digital 5.1
*DTS 5.1
*Brand new audio commentary by Wes Craven
*Complete uncut version!

DISC TWO: BONUS FEATURES

*'Revisiting Elm Street' documentary
*'Over 20 Years of Freddy' documentary
*'Welcome to Prime Time' documentary
*'Wes Craven's World of Nightmares' documentary
*'Making the Glove' featurette
*'The Revolving Room' featurette
*Deleted scenes
*Alternate endings
*TV spots
*Theatrical trailer

How Freddy Got Started

At this late in the game it is hard to believe that anyone is not familiar with the concept in this film.

A high-school girl starts to have nightmares. In them there is a horribly burned man wearing a striped shirt, old hat and a glove with knives on the fingers. She soon discovers that some of her friends are having similar nightmares.

Tension escalates as she learns that the dreams are almost real. Getting hurt in the dream results in real injury. People begin to die. No one believes her ideas that there is a menace in the dreams. But then she learns his name: Freddy Krueger. It is then that some of the history starts to come out. Who Freddy was and what happened to him and what role her mother had in all of it.

Finally she gets an idea of how to stop Freddy and stop the dying. But before battling one's dreams, one needs to know where the dream begins. A chilling ending.

This disk allows for wide-screen and full-screen viewing.

Good Ol' Classics!

This movie is what horror movies are all about for Christ's sake! This movie is everything that horror flicks nowadays are not! It takes old humor, one-liners, a little nudity, and that old-fashioned gore that brings you into the movie, but doesn't sicken you or bore you. A Nightmare On Elm Street is at a semi-classic as of horror movies besides movies like Psycho, and was a great start for others to learn about the issues of being scared.
8 out of 10!

truly the top "horrifier" of all the scary movies ive seen

"a nightmare on elm street" is the definitive twisted horror shocker (although halloween is the greatest movie ever).What i think brings the biggest scares in this movie is the way how Wes Craven (before he started to make [junk] like Scream) creates images that are so strangly terrifing,that you really will have a nightmare, probably more. He also uses strange mind tricks and such, and you dont know whether your watching a "scream dream" or a regular day on Elm Street. I warn you though, this movie is V-E-R-Y scary and is not for newcomers to the Horror Genre!!!!

Extremely Creepy

So, as most of you know, I am a huge fan of horror and Freddy and I have to say that this movie has to be one of the best horror out there! ( Besides the Exorcist and Psycho and movies like that! ) Anyways-I saw this over at a friends house when I was 12 and it really freaked me out! Just the feel of a badly burned psychopathic mad man with knives for fingers made me quiver a bit. Now, being 15, it's not a scary but still quite good! The acting in it was good, except for some lines that Heather Langenkamp gave, she put too much emotion in them. But it was one of those movies filled with comic relief and terror. I only have 2 arguments with it...Why didn't Freddy kill more people, and why only the people in Elm Street? And the continous sequels! They all sucked except for New Nightmare and Freddy Vs. Jason! I don't know why critics shun horror movies? But this was one that they should have given more credit to. The plot was well formed ( Child murderer gets off free and the parents burn him to death then he wants to seek revenge forever and always on the teens who still live there. ) and the acting and score was really good. Definitaly better than the Friday series in which the star didn't show up until the 2nd and even then he wasn't the icon he is now! But this is a review for Nightmare on Elm Street, so I'll stay close to home on this one! To finish it up, it was a great horror movie classic and I highly recommend it to almost any other movie out her! Take my advice, I know my movies!!

One of the most uniquely terrifying horror films of all time

Wes Craven is a genius. Usually after watching a scary movie, some find comfort, going to sleep and forgetting about what you have just watched at the theater. Not anymore. This film makes you want to never fall asleep and not even dream. The bad guy is the morbid and terrifying burned to a crisp murderer Freddy Cruegar. The first of the series is a masterpiece, even though the rest suck. The movie is inventive and clever, and it isn't bland or cheesy. I highly reccomend this film. It will take you into terror like never before.

A Classic.

The problem with horror movies is that they are always followed by horrible sequels. In most cases, the original movie starts out with such a great concept and story that the movie itself can be appreciated for more than just a horror flick. But once the villain gains fame in the real world, the series becomes a money-making machine for the company who owns the movie. The original writers and directors are usually not involved with the rest of the series, and as a result, the original concept of the movie has little or nothing to do with what happens throughout the rest of the series.And thus, in every movie a hero emerges and finds a way to "kill" the villain. This cycle continues and each movie offers a brand new explanation for why the villain has come back to life, and what they must do to end his reign of terror.Finally, after countless sequels, the series comes to an end. And we as fans are left to enjoy the movie for what is was...not what is has become.

'This is God!'

In 1984 i was only 8 years old. Wes Craven was already a seasoned horror filmmaker and making waves like John Carpenter before him whether positive or negative.
When I am asked what the greatest horror movie of all time is I will always answer ' The Exorcist' but am quick to rebuff 'Now ask me what my favourite horror movie is...' where i will be heard to reply 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'!Why is this so...simple,because it is awesome!
More deserving of a DVD release than any of its sequels put together this is simply one of the most well crafted, atmospheric and imaginative films in the horror genre. The idea that if you die in your dreams then you die in the real world is a belief stemming back through religion and psychology for some time. How afraid are you when you wake up before hitting the ground? You are panting, terrified and it is only amplified by the adrenaline running through your system.'A Nightmare On Elm Street' captures this essence of fear and brings an unwholesome visual embodiment to it in the form of Freddy Krueger(Robert Englund).
Although this movie like all horror movies will not win any awards for acting it never lets itself become as cheesy as its sequels. Sure Jsu Garcia hams it up in a stereotypical fashion as bad boy Rod Lane but he is never in danger of becoming a parody nor is Ronee Blakley as Marge Thompson our hero Nancy's(Heather Langenkamp) alcoholic mum.
Robert Englund brings a bravado to this role that most theatre actors would bring to Richard III if given the chance and it is this performance that drives this fim above all else. Freddy truly has an essence of pure evil about him just like Michael Myers before him. Robert Englund adds dimension to Freddy making him believable no matter the unbelievable premise.Run Nancy run.
Wes Craven shows gusto in his film making unlike later over the top efforts such as Scream 2 & 3.His is a haunting vision of suburban terror that only affects the youth of Elm Street. The scene when they are arriving at the high school and the ghostly children can be seen on the knowle skipping rope and singing the nursery rhyme is one of my all time favourite scenes in any horror movie.
I will not bore you with plot details as other reviews you have read will already devulge that information. I only wished to express to you the long lasting efect that this film has had on me...as freddy himself puts in an alley chase with Tina(Amanda Wyss)'This Is GOD!'