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Post by GL on Jun 17, 2006 12:58:28 GMT -5
Rate it on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being the worst, 5 being the best.
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Post by CK on Jun 17, 2006 14:30:19 GMT -5
Definetly one of the most original horror movies of all time. I give it a 5.
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Post by Conan on Jun 18, 2006 21:05:35 GMT -5
Oh this one will always get a 5 from me.
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Post by wolfspirit on Jun 19, 2006 8:57:07 GMT -5
5/5 iys a masterpeice and a classic
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Post by Punk18 on Jun 21, 2006 18:45:57 GMT -5
This one was a little better than the second so I had to give it a 4 out of 5.
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Post by CT on Jun 22, 2006 19:47:00 GMT -5
4/5. Classic slasher with a unique story and some great concepts. Not to mention the introduction of one of the most notorious horror villains in film history.
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Post by HNT on Jun 25, 2006 11:42:56 GMT -5
5 this is one of my all time favorite films
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Post by Jen on Jul 26, 2006 13:57:40 GMT -5
One of my favorite films as well. And also one of only two films that scared me so badly, I couldn't finish it the first time I tried to watch it. So it will always hold a special place in my heart. To me, just about as perfect as a horror movie gets....5/5.
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Post by HNT on Jul 26, 2006 14:23:44 GMT -5
This was the first horror film my parents took me to see in the theater. I was 8, and it scared the hell out of me
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Post by Jen on Jul 26, 2006 14:32:31 GMT -5
That is weird.....because my parents also took me to see it, we went to the drive in to see it. It had been out for awhile I know, but I can't remember exactly how old I was. I only lasted about 25 minutes and we had to leave....LOL...I think they were relieved actually.
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Post by Canetoad on Jul 26, 2006 17:51:48 GMT -5
That's hilarious jen! I remember as a young teenager cajoling dad to take me to Friday the 13th at a suburban cinema where they tended to overlook the R-18 rating. I thought the poor bugger was going to have a coronary! Fork time!
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Post by Conan on Jul 30, 2006 17:24:55 GMT -5
I tried to go see this one, but my mom did not think it would be a very good movie, boy was she wrong. She did end up buying it for me when it came out on tape.
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Post by GL on Aug 1, 2006 0:50:51 GMT -5
“A Nightmare on Elm Street” may be one of the greatest horror movies ever made.
**SPOILERS**
Teenager Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) is having a weird series of dreams. In her dreams, she is being assaulted by a strange man in a torn red and green sweater. She confides in her friend Tina (Amanda Wyss), who tells Nancy she is having the same dreams. Suffering from several sleepless nights, Nancy decides to have a sleepover with her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp), Tina and her boyfriend Rod (Jsu Garcia). Rod and Tina immediately have sex with each other, but after it's done, the strange man from their dreams returns and kills Tina before Rod's very eyes. At the police station, Nancy's policeman father (John Saxon) asks what happened, but nobody knows anything, not even Rod. Convinced she is suffering from amnesia, he orders her to go home and get some rest, but is still tormented in her dreams by the mystery man. She asks her mother (Ronee Blakley) what is going on, and she reveals that the mystery man is Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), who was a child molester that the parents in town killed after he was released from prison. She tells Nancy that he can invade the dreams of the children of the people who killed him, but never told Nancy because she didn't believe his threat to come back. Nancy must now deal with the fact that Freddy is coming after her and her friends, and that no one is safe from his terror.
The Good News: This is perhaps the most-well known horror movie in history, and it is also among the best. What makes the movie so good is that it takes the tired and routine slasher-film formula and injects new life into it by making Freddy have a little more personality than just about every other slasher, as well as making the kills so creative. This is due also to the creative idea of having Freddy go after everybody in their dreams, thereby allowing people to never by safe awake or asleep and giving Freddy the power to do anything in the dream world. He rules the dream world, so he can do anything to people in that world. The best example of this is the first time we meet Freddy, by outstretching his arms out at least six feet long and chasing after Tina. That is brilliant in its execution and design, as well as the idea to do a scene like that. I also would like to say that this film made me jump so much for a movie made at that time. I jumped at least five different times during the movie, which for an eighties movie is a lot. The highest one was the scene where Nancy is walking along this dark walkway and is mentioning hoe she isn't afraid of Freddy, who then pops out behind her and grabs her. The other big scene is towards the end, where Freddy is in our world, and Nancy has him in her room, but can't see him because her room is covered in pillow feathers. She exclaims that it must've been a dream, and then Freddy pops up next to her from underneath the bed. Classic, as well as so many other scenes. Who can't love the bed scene with Johnny Depp getting sucked in, and then one of horror's greatest gags shows. It is a memorable scene, and for those who haven't seen this, see it for that one scene, it is shocking. This also formed many great slasher rules that movies like 'Scream' poked so much fun at. 'Don't run up the staircase when the front door is a few feet away,' 'People of authority never believe the truth about the killer,' 'Parents are always hiding a very dark secret that comes back to haunt them,' 'It never really is the end, even when you think it is,' and tons more are highlighted here. It may not be the first to have them, but it had a ton of them showcased. I could talk for years about why this movie is so good, but I think you need to see it for yourself to know what I am talking about.
The Bad News: Other than maybe showing some more nudity, this film has no faults.
The Final Verdict: For the few who are interested in horror movies that still haven't seen this landmark movie needs to. It contains a lot of classic scenes that will take your breath away, and so much has been inspired from this movie that its greatness knows no bounds. Everyone needs to see this, I can't recommend it enough.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Language, and an off-camera sex scene
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Post by razors on Jun 7, 2007 17:36:50 GMT -5
4/5. A fantastic movie. A great start to a great series. It's the most scary of the series and it definatly is still scary today. The gore is really good and Robert Englund does a superb job as Freddy Krueger. It has some great death scenes, some errie and spooky moments and some humour too. BUT, I've read recently that if you look careffully, you can see stuntmen and cameramane in the movie. Apparantly you can see mats for when people fall down. I've never noticed these to be honest. Although I noticed that when the mum got pulled through the door at the end, it was a blow-up doll.
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Post by GL on Jun 8, 2007 10:22:51 GMT -5
Me neither, so thanks for ruining those. I like to find them myself.
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