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This movie is easily the most frightening horror movie I have ever seen! When I saw it for the first time I was about 12 years old and I forced myself to stay awake the entire first night after watching it. It was hard for me to sleep at all for weeks.
I have seen it many times since and it still has its eerie feeling to it. Freddie's character in both look and demeanor were played perfectly by Robert Englund!
If by chance you havent seen it. Check it out! All the sequels are garbage so dont waste your time!
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Wes Craven's 1984 horror film is a better movie than it is generally credited for being. Forget the tawdry sequels; this highly original, almost surrealist work stars Robert Englund as a mutilated monster who kills teenagers during their dreams. Craven, who only directed one Elm Street sequel (Wes Craven's New Nightmare), takes the Hitchcockian step of layering in psychological explanations for the terror and then proving them all irrelevant in the face of mindless evil. The horror in the film is emotionally raw, in contrast to the overimaginative set pieces of most of the sequels that followed; and the final scene is as deeply unsettling as anything Luis Buñuel ever committed to film. --Tom Keogh
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Really? Most frightening? It's one of the better slasher flicks out there (that doesn't say much), but I know of several movies that are more frightening--especially The Exorcist, and even Craven's earlier work The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes.
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Originally posted by Chaplin Really? Most frightening? It's one of the better slasher flicks out there (that doesn't say much), but I know of several movies that are more frightening--especially The Exorcist, and even Craven's earlier work The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes.
C'mon Chap = he did clarify that the first time he saw it he was 12.
Very good, creative horror flick.
Personal admission...I liked 3 as well...Dream Warriors.
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Great choice, Shane. I liked this one quite a bit. It has stood up very well over time, and of course made Johnny Depp famous.
As a slasher film this one and the entire series had more imagination than the basic run of the mill variety. The entire mythos and backstory is very well done and built upon nicely as the series progresses.
I don't see how anyone who likes this movie can not appreciate Nightmare on Elm St. pt 3: The Dream Warriors. I'm especially fond of The New Nightmare as well.
Call me blasphemous, but I thought Freddy was at his best in Freddy vs. Jason. Say what you will about the movie itself, but they actually made Freddy an evil, sadistic monster in that one, as opposed to a malevolent but amusing villain.
I met Robert Englund a few weeks back at a signing and he said that he and Wes Craven are still talking about doing a prequel to the series. Would be cool if it happened and was done properly.
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Call me blasphemous, but I thought Freddy was at his best in Freddy vs. Jason. Say what you will about the movie itself, but they actually made Freddy an evil, sadistic monster in that one, as opposed to a malevolent but amusing villain.
I met Robert Englund a few weeks back at a signing and he said that he and Wes Craven are still talking about doing a prequel to the series. Would be cool if it happened and was done properly.
I thought Freddy was his evilest in New Nightmare--there was no humor at all in that movie.
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Originally posted by Chaplin I thought Freddy was his evilest in New Nightmare--there was no humor at all in that movie.
Great point. Especially after Freddy's over-the-top one-liners in Freddy's Dead
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Originally posted by Chaplin Really? Most frightening? It's one of the better slasher flicks out there (that doesn't say much), but I know of several movies that are more frightening--especially The Exorcist, and even Craven's earlier work The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes.
Brian is exactly right Chap.
While I agree that the other movies you mentioned are actually scarier especially due to the fact that movies like the exorcist have a sense of realism to them.
None of them had the profound affect on me that this movie did at the age that I saw it. This one left me shaken and scared to sleep for a long time. It has left that impression with me ever since.
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Originally posted by Shane H None of them had the profound affect on me that this movie did at the age that I saw it. This one left me shaken and scared to sleep for a long time. It has left that impression with me ever since.
This reminds me of my cousin when he saw Jaws. He was living in San Diego at the time and was very young. Not only was the ocean very close, but they had a pool in the backyard. After seeing the movie, he wouldn't go near either for quite some time.
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Originally posted by Shane H Brian is exactly right Chap.
While I agree that the other movies you mentioned are actually scarier especially due to the fact that movies like the exorcist have a sense of realism to them.
None of them had the profound affect on me that this movie did at the age that I saw it. This one left me shaken and scared to sleep for a long time. It has left that impression with me ever since.
I saw Jaws 2--Jaws 2!!--when I was like 10 years old and that frightened the heck out of me--enough that I never saw another horror movie until maybe Halloween like 10 years later. Doesn't make it the most frightening movie ever though.
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Nightmare is a good film due to the low budget but great "horror acting" Also, Freddy is only shown in shadows which is spooky. Last House on the Left isn't really spooky, but just disturbing. Plus the bluegrass soundtrack makes it semi-humorous.
I liked all the sequels, but Freddy's Dead was kinda campy. Every series has a bad film, sorta like Jason Takes Manhattan, or Halloween 3.
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