A Nightmare On Elm Street
As classic as classic horror gets, Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the best teen slasher flicks ever made and proves that not all deranged killers have to be cheesy. The original Freddy Kruger, who would eventually lose effectiveness and go on to appear in eight more movies, was a horrific murderer, with knives for fingers and an inescapable site for business: your dreams.
Not to shame Halloween or Friday the 13th, but this film is so much different than the other headliners of the genre. It was able to stretch the confines of what a slasher picture could be, instantly planting itself into pop culture and our minds.
Because everybody knows Freddy Krueger and what he does, there’s no need to say what Nightmare is about. However, no matter how many movies this franchise spits out, the original never loses its spunk. With a cavalcade of memorable shots – from Freddy’s glove peeking out of the bath tub, to the geyser of blood (before Johnny Depp was Johnny Depp) – A Nightmare on Elm Street, 33 years later, proves that it’ll haunt our nightmares forever.