Nightmare On Elm Street, A (Theatrical & Uncut) (4K Ultra HD + Digital/ Steelbook) [4K UHD]

Simple but good movie

A movie from my childhood that our kids were actually interested in watching during Halloween. I give it two thumbs up and they were entertained by it. By today's standards it's old tech and outdated but it's still fun to watch.

Highly recommend this movie

This Wes Craven slasher is the one that started it all & sparked the Freddy Krueger phenomenon as well as Wes Craven's movie making career which was also inspired by directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, Stephen King, and Brian De Palma.A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET was set in the fictional Midwestern town of Springwood, Ohio revolves around several teenagers who are killed by the relentless Freddy Kruger(Robert Englund)in their dreams if they fall asleep, thus causing their death in reality with the teenagers Nancy Thompson(Heather Langenkamp), Tina Gray(Amanda Wyss), Glen Lantz(Johnny Depp), and Rod Lane(Nicholas Cori) all being unaware of the cause of this strange phenomenon since, but their furious vengeful parents hold a dark secret from long ago about Freddy being a convicted child murderer whom they hunted & burned to death and is now manipulating their children to exact his revenge on the neighbors who killed him from beyond the grave.A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET was released in the Fall of 1984 and was on an estimated budget of $1.8 million which was a sum this film earned back on its first week and was an instant success amassing a total of $25.5 million at the box office.Additionally, Wes Craven's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is credited on many troops found in low-budget horror flicks of the 1970's and 1980's, originating in John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN which had its theatrical release in the Fall of 1978 along with the fact that A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET was the scariest movie since HALLOWEEN back then as well, including the morality play that revolves around sexual promiscuity in teenagers resulting in their eventual death, leading to the term "slasher film" along with the fact that the creation of the Freddy Krueger character in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET was also inspired by the Michael Myers character in HALLOWEEN.Unfortunately, this horror flicks sequel A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET-PART II: FREDDY'S REVENGE didn't do nearly as well as the original since the sequel tanked at the box office during its theatrical release in the Fall of 1985 and was called "The Bummer of the Summer" back in 1986 since Wes Craven refused to be a part of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET-PART 2 since its director(Jack Sholder)changed the premise of its predecessor by having Freddy attack people in the waking world instead of murdering them in their dreams, plus Craven didn't like the idea of Freddy manipulating the protagonist into committing the murders either.In addition to why A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET I did so much better than A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART II; the reception from most critics was very negative since much of the criticism of "Freddy's Revenge" in the title of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET-PART 2 was aimed at the fact that the film while continuing the storyline of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET I taking on a completely different direction which made Wes Craven's situation with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET-PART II: FREDDY'S REVENGE very similar to John Carpenter's situation with HALLOWEEN 2 when it was released in theaters back in the Fall of 1981 since Carpenter declined to direct the sequel to his masterpiece HALLOWEEN that was released on Wednesday October 25, 1978 since Carpenter like Craven didn't even want or plan on making a sequel, which was why HALLOWEEN II didn't come out until 3 years later from its predecessor, despite the fact that HALLOWEEN 2 was an awesome successful flick and sequel that was almost as successful as HALLOWEEN I was, unlike A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET-PART 2, especially since they don't make sequels they way they used to either.Since John Carpenter refused to direct HALLOWEEN 2 during its theatrical release on Halloween weekend of 1981, the directors position to John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN was given to director Rick Rosenthal who did an awesome job with making HALLOWEEN II virtually identical to its predecessor by making HALLOWEEN 2 conclude from HALLOWEEN I on the same night which was supposedly Halloween night of 1978 proving to viewers that the nightmare & ordeal with Michael Myers wasn't over yet.Additionally; the success & popularity of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET eventually led to the inspiration of Wes Craven's future horror flicks like DEADLY FRIEND in the Fall of 1986, SHOCKER in the Fall of 1989, and SCREAM in the Fall of 1996 just like the creation of HALLOWEEN inspired John Carpenter with future flicks like THE FOG in the Winter of 1980, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK in the Summer of 1981, THE THING in the Summer of 1982, and CHRISTINE in the Fall of 1983.So now I'm anxious to see if Bayer's version of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET from the Spring of 2010 isn't as messed up as Zombie's version of HALLOWEEN that came out in the Summer of 2007 since remakes are never as good as the originals, including PSYCHO and CARRIE.

Famous horror director Wes Craven (Scream I,II,III) has created a horror movie masterpiece by drawing on one of everyone's biggest fears: the nightmare. Many years ago, a child murderer named Fred Krueger (Robert Englund) killed more than twenty children. He somehow managed to escape prosecution, but the townspeople carried out their own brand of vigilante justice by trapping Fred inside a building and burning it to the ground. Freddy was dead; or was he? Freddy has now come back to haunt a new generation of teenagers, this time in their dreams.The movie starts out with a dream sequence of Tina's (Amanda Wyss). She's being chased by a horribly-scarred man wearing knives for fingers. Fortunately for Tina, she wakes up before anything happens to her. When she arrives at school the next day, she finds out that her friends Nancy (Heather Langenkamp), Glenn (Johnny Depp), and Rod (Jsu Garcia) have each had the very same dream about the same person.Tina asks her friends to spend the night so she won't have the same dream again, but after a wild lovemaking session with Rod, Tina begins to dream. This time its different. Tina is thrashed around her room like a rag doll and large razor-like cuts appear on her chest. Rod, confused and upset, doesn't know what to do. Tina dies a violent death, but no one understands what happened. Rod is arrested for her murder. Nancy suspects that its Freddy and she sets out to prove it.Meanwhile, Glenn ends up suffering the same fate as Tina did, and now Nancy and Glenn must fight to stay awake in order to survive. Nancy devises a plan to draw Freddy out of her dream with Glenn's help, but unfortunately Glenn falls asleep. Nancy is now the only one left. Will she succeed in catching Freddy, or will she suffer the same fate as her friends?This movie has become a classic of the horror film genre, spawning several successful sequels while introducing us to one of the greatest horror movie villans of all-time: Freddy Krueger. Freddy rates right up with Jason Voorhies of Friday the 13th as perhaps the most menacing killer ever developed. The acting in the movie is very good. Ronee Blakley does an especially good job as Nancy's mother Marge Thompson. Struggling with alcohol addiction and the guilt of keeping her involvement in Freddy's death from her daughter, her performance is one of the highlights of the film. Johnny Depp also does a good job in his very first acting role. Of course, who could top Robert Englund as Freddy?The special effects are exciting to watch. Seeing Tina thrown about the room was very gruesome, and Freddy's make-up is genuinely scary. I give this movie my highest recommendation. This series has become a classic in the horror movie genre, and its just as scary now as when it was when this movie was released in 1984. Watch this movie and see the introduction of one of the greatest horror movie characters of all-time.