NightMans Horror Movie Blog

One, Two, Freddys coming for you, three, four, better lock your door, five, six, grab your crucifix.  Hey wait, I thought those things only worked on vampires?

     Now on the day before Halloween we come to my favourite slasher, the man of your dreams, Freddy Krueger and the classic horror movie, A Nightmare On Elm Street.  Lots has been written about the series itself over the years, and now with the rumour that it will be remade, much like Halloween, and now Friday the 13, I cringe at the thought of how somebody else will try and make this movie better, and who besides Robert Englund could possibly play Freddy?  But thats something to write about later, for now lets focus on the first Nightmare movie.  I remember watching it for the first time and being surprised at how original it was compared to most slasher movies, but I was also a tad confused at times.  Naturally when dealing with dreams, confusion is a bit of a given since nothing seems to make sense in a dream.  Well, not in mine anyway.  But lets move on to the plot for a bit.

     We focus on Nancy Thompson, and some of her friends on Elm street.  Life was good, until she started having nightmares.  In these nightmares she is being stalked by a horribly burned man with a glove that has razors attached to the fingers.  Soon she discovers that her friends are having the same dreams.  Then of course, the friends start to die.  Nancy of course goes in search of answers, and eventually finds out the secret of who Freddy is, and why he has come back to kill the children of Elm Street.  She comes up with a plan to lure him into the real world, where she can finish him off herself. 

     Of course with undead, supernatural killers like Freddy, you are never really gone.  As you can tell by the endless sequels that came out later.  As for those sequels, they are mostly hit or miss.  In my opinion, number 2 is good, and 3 is great, but after that they begin to slide, as Freddy becomes more of a jokester, killing off his victims with horrible one liners.  The salvation of the series would be Wes Cravens New Nightmare, which is set in the real world.  And Freddy vs Jason certainly had its moments, capturing the feel of the older Nighmare movies, and meshing it nicely with the Friday the 13 vibe.

Pleasant Dreams.