A Nightmare on Elm Street (DVD)

Well another horror film review, im kinda getting kicks about writing about some of my favourite horror films, so why not stick with it for a while. My next review is on the 1984 smash hit "A Nightmare on Elm Street", directed and written by Wes Craven and starring Robert Barton Englund as Freddy Krueger. Ive actually watched this film some 20 odd times, but the first ten really don't count as I was always too scared too watch all of it and would somehow turn away half way through. I remember I watched this film for the first time when I was about 8, my brother had forced me into watching it, as a result I had nightmares for about two weeks, found it hard to ...  Read the complete review

I first watched these when i was about 6, me and my brother sneaked in to the front room to watch them and needless to say I didnt sleep for ages, I brought the boxset last year as they was on offer, and I love horror films, I thought they may have aged terribly but I was quite suprised to see that they hadnt, If I hadnt have seen them when i was younger I would've thought they was recent, The first one is definately the better off all of them and are a film that you can watch again and again, although they do still scare me, But thats what horror films are supposed to do, not leave you ...  Read the complete review

A review of just the film, A Nightmare on Elm Street was originally released in 1984. The region 2 DVD can be found online for around £4. Terrifying nightmares plague teenager Nancy Thompson. In her dreams, a horrific, disfigured character in a red and green sweater stalks her through the darkness, chuckling maniacally and brandishing a fearsome set of sharpened blades attached to a single glove. Only when she wakes does Nancy find any respite, but when she discovers that her three best friends are experiencing similar visions she begins to think there may be more to this than a simply case of night terrors. Her suspicions quickly turn to tragedy when one of ...  Read the complete review

One of the more interesting concepts to make it to the big screen came in the form of this surprise hit in 1984. Written and directed by Wes Craven, he struggled to get a company to back him despite already having success with Last House On The Left and The Hills Have Eyes. To everybody's surprise A Nightmare On Elm Street was the start of a hugely successful pop corn franchise that spawned 7 sequels and a tv series. Resourceful teen Nancy Thomson discovers that she shares a nightmare dilusion with her 3 best friends. The nightmare is about a horribly disfigured phantom with knives on his right hand and a battered old fedora on his head who wants to kill ...  Read the complete review

On one of my just paid whims, I went out and purchased the Nightmare on Elm Street DVD box set the other day. After being intitially p****d off that the Region 2 version comes sans Wes Craven's New Nightmare and the Nightmare Encyclopedia supplements disc, I decided to get round to watching all of the movies, some of which I had not seen for years, some I had just not seen. One of horror cinema's most recognisable icons, and one of the only modern ones able to even claim to fame that comes close to the legends like Dracula and Frankenstein, Freddy Krueger was the creation of Wes Craven, also responisble for legendary video nasties like Last House on the Left and The ...  Read the complete review