 |
|
|
|
| | | |
| MatchFlick Member Reviews |
All Movie Info
Starring:
John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Johnny Depp, Charles Fleischer, Robert Englund, Lin Shaye, Joe Unger, Mimi Craven, Jack Shea, Ed Call, David Andrews, Jeff Levine, Joseph Whipp, Shashawnee Hall, John Richard Petersen, Sandy Lipton, Donna Woodrum, Carol Pritikin, Brian Reise, Ash Adams, Don Hannah, Leslie Hoffman, Paul Grenier, John Richard Petersen, Antonia Yannouli
Directed By:
Wes Craven
Written By:
Wes Craven
|
|
|
| |
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
 email this review to a friend
Movie Review by Jarrod 
August 10th, 2007
|  |
'Nightmare on Elm Street' is such a clever and inventive horror movie, I find its mostly abysmal sequels to be especially sad and pathetic, as they try to imitate the original, with more gore and perhaps more impressive special effects, and a Freddy Krueger who becomes less of a monster and more of a comedian, though the fact that he enjoys killing people is something that has been consistently portrayed in all movies. Robert Englund is Freddy Krueger, an icon of the genre, having few other roles of significance, except in Urban Legend or The Mangler, his career has been defined by his performance as Freddy, a character no one else can play. Freddy, as we learn, was a child murderer, who was burned alive by the angry parents of his victims. His revenge entails appearing in the dreams of their children and killing them, which means they die in real life.
Freddy was scary in this film, his scarred face, his red and black sweater, his hat, and his most infamous feature, the knife gloves, which he wears on both hands. Freddy first appears as an ominous shadow, we hear his voice before we see him, as he taunts Tina, who is his first victim, gruesomely murdered after having sex with her boyfriend Rod, who becomes the primary suspect. Nancy (Langenkamp) is Tina's best friend, who also starts to see Freddy, but is not easy prey. She begins to drink caffeine and stay up at night, defying her often drunk mother, and trying to warn her own beau Glen (Johnny Depp), who lives across the street about the dangers of going to sleep.
My favorite scene in the movie is where Freddy comes out of Glen's waterbed and drags him under, and a fountain of blood erupts from the center of the bed for Glen's mother to discover. Wes Craven directs with style and imagination, and Freddy is a stupendous creation, a marvel of fiendish make-up design and the delightfully devilish performance of Englund (who actually looks creepier without all the make-up). Langenkamp is a tough heroine who proves more than a match for Freddy, much to his surprise. Don't judge the original by the quality of its successors.
email this review to a friend
Comment on this Review:
Sorry, you must be a member to add comments to reviews.
Join or Login. |
 Subscribe to MatchFlick Movie Reviews through RSS
|
