A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

Been in a Wes Craven mood lately so I thought as with 'Last House On The Left' I'd dig out the classics and see how they bare up today. In the 80s this scared me to death, and again with so many films by Wes intelligently reinvented the genre for the decade. Serial child murderer Freddy Krueger sets upon haunting the children of Elm Street for the crimes of their parents. The only difference being he reaches them in their dreams, where they cant escape! Expertly played by Robert Englund and featuring a very young Johnny Depp amongst others the films still great... Maybe because it was just so original for its time, but it still has genuine scares and a nice pace that never drags. A genuine genre classic and always worth a watch.
8/10