My favorite of all horror movies. Wes Craven’s intelligent premise, combined with the horrifying Freddy Krueger make for one of the best movies ever. Say what you will about the sequels but the series holds a premise that can’t be matched today. We get horror movies today with quick edits and absurd sound effects that make us jump, but where is the damaging afterthought? Wes Craven claimed to have drawn inspiration for this movie from incidents involving young Cambodians, all of whom died while apparently in the throes of a horrific nightmare. The story goes that first these young, otherwise healthy people would have a horrible nightmare, then refuse to sleep for as long as possible; when they finally fell asleep from sheer exhaustion they awoke with screaming and writhing, then died from a heart attack.
He’s dead, honey, because Mommy killed him.
Synopsis: Nancy is having nightmares, violent nightmares about a mysterious badly burned man with a razor fingered glove on his right hand that calls himself Freddy. When she realizes that her friends are having the same nightmares and that one by one they are being brutally murdered in their sleep she turns to her father who does not believe her and thinks her to be crazy. After she finds out the horrible truth behind Freddy’s rampage she decides to take action and bring this dream murderer out of dreamland and into the real world where she can send him straight to where he belongs.
Country: USA
Genre: Horror
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp
Domestic Total Gross: $25,504,513
Favorite scene: Arguably the best death scene in all the Freddy movies.
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