A Nightmare On Elm Street

#61 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

This one is the creepiest and best of the series by far. I know a lot of people like to think that New Nightmare is really original because of how it broke formula, but the problem is that it broke a good formula and replaced it with a boring formula. All of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies are good for one reason or other (even Freddy's Dead. That's good for the 3-D part), but this one is trying to play it serious. Freddy is a legitimate threat here, not some ridiculous joker. For instance, does anybody remember in the later movies when Freddy is saying some shit about the power glove that this clown was a fucking child molester who got burned alive out of revenge by local parents? I guess you can't blame this actual good horror movie for that, though. Also, props to Johnny Depp's first movie role as a character named Glenn. Keeping it real for the rest of us, bud. By getting eaten by a bed.

RATING: 87%