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A Nightmare on Elm St. Staring the grotesque and memorable Freddy Krueger, A nightmare on Elm St. is one of those films that is totally creepy, yet quite funny too. The 70's and 80's had plenty of creapy-funny movies, this one manages to pull this off quite well, but it did leave me asking, "is this a parody or just plain strange?" I won't spoil the plot for anyone who hasn't watched it yet, but a quick summary is; Nancy(Heather Langenkamp) and her friends are having nightmares about Freddy, since he is dead he can only appear in their dreams. Then the things happening in her dreams start to overlap in to reality. When Nancy and her friend Glen(Johnny Depp) try to fight Freddy in their dreams he starts to become more real. Throughout the many dream sequences Freddy kills more people and eventually it's hard to tell weather or not the characters are dreaming or not. This is an intentional effect to emphasize the dreams becoming reality and vice versa. Overall the film has a decidedly creepy plot, but the actual way it's portrayed makes it some what comic! + It's a well acted film which could keep you entertained for a while, a good one to rent for a film night with friends since it's lightly humorous horror. - Generally there's little wrong with A Nightmare on Elm St. if you like this genre, perhaps some of it was too silly or funny to be genuinely scary though. Links: The Nightmare on Elm St. web ring - they have over 80 links! |
