Saturday Drive-In: A Nightmare on Elm Street
When I was a kid I was obsessed with Freddy Kruger. A Nightmare on Elm Street was released I was only 5 years old so although I knew who Freddy Kruger was I never got the chance to see him until now.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a story of a group of teenagers who are chased by a psycho who is killing them in their dreams. As the deaths start killing off her friends, Nancy becomes increasingly anxious and stays awake for days on end to avoid dreaming. Finally she develops a plan to take Freddy out of the dream world so that he can be captured.
This movie plays with the idea of how nightmares can feel so real and employs various techniques to make the viewer feel like they are in a dream world where things don’t always make sense. At times this works and it is scary, but other times in the movie it just comes across as corny. I didn’t find it terribly frightening but Erin said it was one of the scariest movies she’s ever seen. However I rarely remember my dreams whereas she frequently experiences nightmares. Your own experience may also determine how scary this movie is.
Overall I felt it was an OK movie, but if I was younger I think it might have had more of an impact on me. Erin loved the journey it took her on and how it played into the nightmares she already experienced.
Comments(3)
Ah, that was so sweet that you watched it together like that. Erin’s perspective really added to the review, in my opinion. Maybe that’s the way to do reviews – to have more than one persons opinion?
Maybe you guys could have more regular double review, where you offer up two perspectives in one and the same review?
We’re doing that every Saturday this month – Halloween was also a double-review but we pretty much agreed on everything.
those double reviews are pretty cool and i think u should do them with all your dvd reviews it adds another perspective that was not their before by the way, FREDDY ROCKS!!!!!