A Nightmare on Elm Street

Simply awesome concept... for that alone, I give it a score of 90.

Craven delivers the chills via several scary set pieces while introducing shockingly popular dream demon Freddy Krueger. Unfortunately, Craven is far less adept here at crafting credible dialogue or coaxing convincing perfs from some of his cast members. Still, this indisputably remains one of the genre's most influential and genuinely jolt-driven affairs.

Still one of the great horror films of all time. I love how it's also the simplest. Four friends are having nightmares about the same person and don't know why. One is really killed and another is charged with the murder. It's up to the other two to figure outt who or what is trying tio kill them. Still can scare like few movies can.

Disturbing, creepy, shocking, scary, and it stays with you--in your dreams, of course--long after you've seen it. Great horror movie.

A Classic with some great scenes and a very memorable Freddy! Shame about the sequels and future remake.

Craven's best is an imaginative variation on the early '80s teen slasher formula. The best of its popular series, this gets a lot of mileage out of a limited budget, showcasing Craven's raw, muscular direction at its best. Only the silly "Setting things up for the sequel" ending mars an otherwise perfect tale.

A supernatural twist on the slasher genre by not letting on what is reality and what is dreaming. Top-notch acting from Robert Englund who makes the role iconic and embodies something much more real. Besides the poorly chosen music and fuzzy sound quality, it is given a surprising authenticity that holds to its roots despite the first glance depiction of goofiness.

Yes

first one is an absolute classic!!!!!! loved it. After V robert deserved this shot. Still scares me a bit, specially seeing mr deep acting like a dumb kid!

I loved these movie 25 years ago. Many horror movies tried to explot similar idea but non of them is not even close to Freddy and co.

I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy!

one of the old school bad boys. this scared me senseless when it came out. novel concept.

good...

Its the favourite horror film of my childhood

Just watched this the other day and it still has some of the best dream sequences I can think of. There are some fun sequels and all, but this really set the template and I don't think it was ever met again.

Very well done and interesting to watch when you're a child..

a masterpiece. one of the best horror films of the 1980s.

The one that started it all.

My favorite horror movie is this one. Scary and gory film with the iconic Freddy Krueger! He is so amazing! A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the best films of its genre!

I don't know what I like better, our introduction to the icon made famous by Robert Englund (another seriously underappreciated actor) or the gruesome fate of a very YOUNG Johnny Depp.

one of the greatest horror films, and one of my all time favourite films, true classic

A great horror movie

One of the greatest slashers of all time! Rather than have a robotic killer come and hack up kids, Nightmare uses a creative plot and a killer thats not afraid to show his face.

A great performance for Johnny Depp, especially since it was one of his first.

Imaginative story and thought out plot. Overall good entertainment for how old it is. I also like that they don't over do the gore and effects over having a plot.

I like his hands

80's schlock. Somebody who loves horror tell me why people car about this film?

An iconic 80's slasher in the flesh. With little more than casting and an idea, Nightmare on Elm Street has become one of the most important horrors films in history, and Robert Englund has become Freddy Krueger. Craven's ability to take sleeping and find the ultimate horror hiding there is, frankly, brilliant. Depp's debut was uneventful, and leads me to be surprised that his career has gone so far. But, he is Johnny Depp. An average film that become a classic.

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Not very frightening. Lots of the girl running from the killer. Very unsatisfying, confused ending.

Brilliant slasher. On premise alone, it's more frightening than really any other slasher premise I know of, but the film is sold by its solid performances and its incredible lunge for the surreal toward its close. It's an eerie, yet campy success.

rewatch. that bit early on when Amanda Wyss runs out into the street and Freddy's following her and his arms stretch out really wide was my favorite horror sequence ever when I was a kid.

Great concept, lacking movie

Of it's time, aged terribly.

Quintessential teen horror flick. See the first chapter. Watch the second if you dare. Skip the rest unless Freddie meets another supernatural killer.

Really creative and cool concept for a movie. It's just a shame the main lead actress' acting is so poor.

As a kid the only thing i could remember about this film was how disgusting the villain was. Watched again these days and i couldn't stop laughing, and since i consider that this wasn't the supposed reaction a should have, i decided that the movie wasn't good enough at scaring.

A very scary film that's fascinating in terms of production. However, I found the ending to be rather...disappointing.

As close to a good Wes Craven movie as I have yet seen. Depp does pretty much explode in a geyser of blood though.

An interesting premise about the power of fear might have become a dream of a horror movie, but flounders in the director's hands. While the film often approximates the terrifying pull of a nightmare, the director plays it safe. Rather than truly disturb or haunt us, he's only concerned with visualizing this concept in terms of a conventional slasher film.

I didn't see this until I was an adult, so this one's not getting any nostalgia points from me.

While the concept is very very interesting, the movie just feels like one of those classics whose appeal now is solely nostalgia. Some excellent scenes in the middle, but a rushed ending. The boiler room feels like an innovative scary setting, but doesn't translate as well as it could. Plus you get the whole fun of watching insane hyper-Christian propaganda get pushed to the forefront of the plot. I'd love to see a Lynchesque surreal take to make this feel more like a true nightmare.

one fourth of a perfect movie!

I love this film, but only because it's so terrible it begins to be good. Very cheesy, awful (yet hilarious) special effects. It never fails to give me a good laugh, which isn't really its original purpose.