You won't be able to sleep!

I have had absolutely no desire to see this film all my life but seeing as I was getting into classic horror films, I decided to watch it and thought to myself "I cannot miss this!" My expectations were pretty high because it is the same director as Scream and I absolutely loved that! When I did see Nightmare On Elm Street, it wasn't as good as Scream but it was an absolutely terrifying, suspenseful and gruesome masterpiece!! What I really do love about this film is that it is one of those films that just play mind games with you. When you watch this film, you will be afraid to go to sleep incase Freddy attacks you in your dreams. That is like Psycho (not wanting to go into a shower in a hotel) and Jaws (not wanting to swim in the sea). The classic horror films are a lot better than the modern day ones because most of them new horrors use way too much violence with very little story. There is a remake of the film coming out in 2010 and I am sort of interested in seeing it.


A Nightmare On Elm Street is set in a suburban street called Elm Street where it falls prey to an old foe. A dead child-molester and killer, Freddy Krueger returns to haunt the dreams of the teenage offspring of those that burned him to death years before. So, Freddy is set out on a deadly revenge. Heather Langenkamp was awesome as Nancy Thompson. She is the main character in the film and she is the main victim of the nightmares and Freddy's mind games. Her character was like Sidney Prescott from Scream and I think that Langenkamp and Neve Campbell who plays Sidney Prescott look a bit like each other. Nancy Thompson is the main victim of the nightmares from Freddy. Freddy Krueger is a disfigured dream stalker who uses a glove armed with razors to kill children and teenagers in their dreams, which ultimately leads to their deaths in the real world in the film. He is now definitely one of my favourite film characters. Johnny Depp is another main reason why I needed to watch this film. It was his feature film debut and he is quite famous for this film. His performance as Glen Lantz was really awesome so it was a great debut. To be honest, I think it is one of his best films. Glen is a classmate of Nancy's as well as her boyfriend.


Wes Craven is starting to become one of my favourite directors! First he created a masterpiece that blew me away completely: Scream. And now he has done it again! To be honest, I find his suspense almost as good as Hitchcock. Every single second was gripping where you are clued to the film all the way through! It is definitely a terrifying horror film but I have seen scarier horrors but hardly any better horrors than this.


Overall, A Nightmare On Elm Street is a fantastic, terrifying and intense classic that totally deserves to be one of the best horrors and thrillers of all time. Krueger sealed his place as one of the biggest film villains of all time too.

9/10