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A Nightmare on Elm Street [VHS]

	A Nightmare on Elm Street [VHS]
	by Video Tr/Anchor Bay Sales Rank: 12747 Price: $9.99

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 *Viewer Reviews* Really, when you think of shoddy effects and horrible 80's dialogue, one would cringe at the thought of such a movie getting such high ratings. However, the effects and dialogue somehow fit nicely into this movie, and allowed for viewers to have an occasional laugh in an otherwise frightening tale. But don't let the effects and dialogue fool you, this is a true classic at heart, a reimaging of the slasher genre, and to this day I have not seen very many scenes more disturbing than the one in which Nancy dreams of Tina in her body bag. The only reason I give this 4 stars instead of 5, is due to its confusing ending in which Nancy pulls Freddy out of her dreams. It doesn't work here, but somehow works in number 6, for whatever reasons that are never quite explained. I don't hold that against the original, though, because Wes Craven wasn't involved in number 6, and from what I've read Wes Craven had all along wanted this to be a stand alone movie. Okay, so Nancy pulls him out, fights with him, and then she finds him upstairs over her mother's bed, and says it's all a dream and that she wants her friends back (so was this a dream within a dream?). Next we see Nancy riding off with her friends in a Freddy'ish car and her mother sucked through the window by Freddy, so it would appear she's still dreaming, but if so it doesn't explain why her friends are suddenly there and alive again, nor why Freddy went after Nancy's mom instead of Nancy. In the other movies her boyfriend is still talked about as having been murdered, her mother died in her sleep, and her father is now a drunk with a lot on his mind from the events of the original movie, so it's obvious it was not all just a dream as we were led to believe. As I stated previously, I believe Wes intended this to be a single movie, with a happy ending in which Nancy wakes up realizing it was all just a dream, and everything would return to normal. But somewhere along the way the translation got lost and somebody decided to change the ending without fixing the plotholes that became present in this movie and the rest of the films as a result. Back To Top
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