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Wes Craven created Freddy Krueger and when he did the world of Horror welcomed a great new character to its screens (or should that be its Screams).Freddy, a child murderer in life, now hunts the children of the men and women that killed him, while they sleep.Very gory, tense and full of over the top deaths scenes A Nightmare on Elm Street brought something new to the Horror Genre, and will go down in history in recognition of this.The rarity of the film, is the character of Freddy, because he actually has character without distracting from the terror (in this outing at least) Thanks Wes 9/10

Well, this was the beginning of "Freddy Kreuger," who certainly became famous in the horror movie genre. Of those horror films that spawned numerous sequels (this one, Halloween, etc.) this was the best of the "opening" shows. It definitely is frightening.It has the usual crude teenagers, some gratuitous sex and wild Krueger scenes and is probably best-noted for showing Johnny Depp's film debut. Boy, does he look young! He looks about 16 years old, as does Heather Langenkamp, who went on to play in several more of these Nightmare stories. This was the only movie in which she was foul-mouthed. Nice to see Rony Blackley, too.Wes Craven certainly started this series off with a bang.

OK, Ronee Blakely's acting is more like something out of an Ed Wood movie, but "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is truly a horror classic. Specifically, it's more creative than most of them, due to the fact that Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) has to go inside peoples' dreams to kill them. His blade-fingers are like a character in and of themselves. This is one movie that no horror-fetishist can afford to miss. One day, I think that we're all going to look back on these horror classics like we nowadays look back on the sci-fi/horror flicks of the '50s and early '60s. Just try and go to sleep after watching this movie.