A Nightmare on Elm Street |  | Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  390 reviews
Sales Rank: 23365
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0780622626
UPC: 794043466427
EAN: 9780780622623
ASIN: B00000JQTT
Theatrical Release Date: November 16, 1984
Release Date: August 21, 2001
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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
Description
Digitally remastered, this is the original Nightmare film that started it all. Written and directed by Wes Craven and starring Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm Street remains an innovative and shocking horror-fantasy.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 390
 Still Awesome February 2, 2010
Ann Hoffman (Concord, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Oh my gosh! This movie is a classic! Everyone knows the infamous Freddy Kruegar. This movie is, I imagine, way less scary today than when it came out, but it's still awesome!
 A VERY WATCHABLE HORROR MOVIE January 14, 2010
Geary A., Jones
This is a pretty nicely done low-budget horror film. Wes Craven came up with a delectably twisted villain in this little gem, and Robert Englund played Freddy Krueger with just the right amount of gleeful malevolence. This is not as good as HOLLOWEEN, but there are some marvelously creepy moments, despite the not-all-that-wonderful special effects. The acting wasn't too bad either, nor were the characters as cardboard-like, supremely brain-dead, or totally unlikeable as those in most slice-and-dice horror pics. Good for a couple of dreams...
Good Horror Flick December 23, 2009
gothica0904
This is a rather good small budget movie and would totally recommend it to any horror fan!
Fantastic DVD November 5, 2009
David Henry (St. Louis)
The Infinifilm Edition of A Nightmare on Elm Street is a great way to watch the film. With the branching infinifilm features, you can branch to cool little documentaries. There's also a new commentary track and a text commentary. I watched all three at once. Information overload! Now that it's a lot cheaper it's definitely worth picking up.
A different type of slasher November 2, 2009
Reef Shark (Houston, Texas)
If I was asked my opinion on the slasher branch of horror films my comments would be primarily negative. In general the concept of teenagers (or occasionally adults) being systematically killed for the sake of being killed does not appeal to me. There are movies like Halloween, and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre that are exceptions to this, but that has more to do with the directors than it did to do with the stories actually being gripping...that being said I find A Nightmare on Elm Street to be a solid horror film in every regard, and in my opinion, far better than other films of the genre released during the 1980s (that means YOU Friday the 13th).
What makes A Nightmare on Elm Street a special type of slasher film is simply the lead of Freddy Krueger (played by Robert Englund) and the supernatural script by horror master Wes Craven. Through the mixing of Wes Craven unique visions of horror, surreal imagery, and Englund's cunning performance help make this movie stand-out - well, that and the iconic knife glove, but that goes without saying. It is this mixture between a director's vision and an actor's menacing performance that breaths fresh life into this film; keeping it from becoming another trashy 80s attempt at copying Halloween.
Basically it does follow the formula of having about five teenagers who are one-by-one picked off by the antagonists without much reason other than he wants them dead, but here's where the difference between Friday the 13th and Nightmare differ: actual production values. On his low-budget Wes Craven did the best with what he got and created a film that looks a lot better than its budget would have implied. Freddy Krueger is also the most charismatic presence in the slasher sub-branch of horror films...but not too hard for him given that Jason, Michael Myers, and Leatherface aren't much for talking, but regardless, he still Englund has a great screen presence when in the role of Freddy; he has an attitude, shouts out threats, insults, as well as the occasional one-liner, and unlike the many-a-bad-sequel that was to come for Englund, this Freddy would actually be scary whenever he spoke.
So overall creativity, good production values, and a unique villain make A Nightmare on Elm Street on of the most lasting slashers of the 1980s, and is in my opinion, is #3 on my top slasher films (#1 of course being Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, #2 being Carpenter's Halloween).
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