A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
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The children of Elm Street have been having nightmares,
terrible ones, and all of them involve the same man, terribly burned and seemingly capable
of anything while they're dreaming. But it's just a dream, though, isn't it? Too afraid to sleep alone, Tina invites her best friend Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) over for a slumber party, which ends a bloody disaster. Her boyfriend can only watch as Tina is ripped apart by 'invisible' claws and tossed about the room like a doll. |
| Terrified of being considered responsible for the gruesome act, Tina's boyfriend Rob flees the scene of the crime, leaving Nancy and her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp's first role in a feature film) to find Tina's room (and body) a bloody mess. The police (including Nancy's father) quickly dismiss Nancy's remark that Tina had been frightened that someone would kill her in her sleep. Perhaps Nancy didn't even pay much attention herself until the next morning. Forcing herself to go to school despite her friend's death, Nancy falls asleep in class and is startled to see her dead friend. Blood-soaked and zipped into a body bag, Tina beckons Nancy, calling out to her. Nancy follows. |
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Nancy is led into the bowels of her high school, the boiler room to be exact, and is confronted with the same man she's been seeing in her dreams. She soon learns that this is no ordinary dream, but in fact an encounter that could result in her ending up like Tina...Dead. With this new knowledge, Nancy does everything in her power to stay awake, including recruiting her boyfriend as her 'guard', to watch her while she slept. The way Nancy sees it, if she can grab hold of this dream-stalker just as she's waking up, he can be conquered while he's out of his element. |
| Quite possibly one of Wes Craven's most spectacular (and frightening) films to date, Nightmare on Elm Street is so terrifying because all of us have experienced the phenomena of dreams, and moreover, nightmares. To think that to battle in a dream and ultimately die is an idea that is, although farfetched, harrowing to the bone. This movie almost makes me forget some of the not-so-worthy films included in Craven's repetoire. |
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