A good movie

I remember it very well, this flick was in fact the first movie I saw involving Freddy Krueger. At the time, I have was just about 14 years old, I was really curious about this franchise and I went to see this flick in the movie theater, with my sister if I recall it correctly. Honestly, I was actually quite impressed at the time. I mean, it's not that it was really scary but I thought that the whole meta concept was really far out and there was definitely something spellbinding about it. Eventually, I have re-watched the damned thing almost 20 years later and, to be honest, it didn’t grow old very well, I'm afraid. Indeed, it is pretty obvious that Wes Craven still didn’t have a huge budget so the whole thing looked rather cheap and cheesy and they could have done more with this very interesting concept (which was in fact something common to all the installments involving Freddy Krueger as a matter of fact) but I still thoroughly enjoyed it and it is by far one of the best installments in this franchise which had become pretty pathetic at the time. Eventually, even though I’m not a huge fan of this franchise, I really have a weak spot for this movie and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10