Review of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) by Alexander D — 10 Nov 2012
Rarely ever do I so haplessly fall victim to a horror movie. A Nightmare on Elm Street is a truly terrifying experience. The presentation of fright works in a fantastical atmosphere, but as the plot presents a dynamically convincing tie between dreams and conscious happenings, there is a realistically ominous, densely macabre sensation of terror escalating by each passing second.
This is the tale of a group of teenagers, haunted by the same nightmare in which a deformed child killer (Robert Englund) in a hat, a striped shirt, and knives for fingernails, is stalking them. Upon waking up, they discover that whatever has happened to them in the dream (i.
E. scars, contusions, burns, etc.) is real. Yet outside the dreams, the man himself is only the hidden spirit of a child killer named Freddy Krueger. He is using dreams as his "afterlife" to grotesquely murder the sons and daughters of the lynch mob that killed him.
This review of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) was written by Alexander D on 10 Nov 2012.
A Nightmare on Elm Street has generally received very positive reviews.
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