Every week my boyfriend and I have a movie night where we watch a film together over Facetime. It’s our way of spending time together while we do long distance. This week he got to choose the movie and he surprised me with what he chose. What did he choose?
He decided we should watch “A Nightmare on Elm Street” together and I was thrilled. We’ve been talking about the series and it got me thinking on how I’ve only ever watched the first film in the series. I’m not sure why that is.
This movie has such an interesting creative concept that fascinates me. It centers around teenagers who all live on Elm Street dreaming of the same burned face man with knives for fingers. How multiple people can dream about the same thing is so interesting, and the fact that these dreams impact their physical well-being is crazy to me.
The man they are all dreaming about, well, his name is Freddy Krueger and he is known for being a killer — only he died in a fire years ago. Did he though? How can he visit these teenagers through their dreams? Those were just a few questions I was asking myself while we watched this film. And they didn’t exactly get answered.
But the fun part about this film is the imagination involved. In these dreams Freddy takes on different forms. In the beginning he has ridiculously long arms, then he cuts himself open to expose bugs in his insides. Ew. The fact is he does things that are in fact — unimaginable. The things people can only really comprehend in their dreams.
That is the fright of it all.
This movie excels in the nightmare realm and creating the character of Freddy himself. And the fact that they came up with this idea for a film based off a historical occurrence is pretty amazing. Yes, this movie is based off a real life event. Look into it.
I love the corniness of the film and the way they use sound effects in Freddy’s presence is pretty cool. It gives his actions more of an edge.
Not only that, the acting is great and the way the main character, Nancy, is portrayed in the film is genius. She takes on this character of being the final girl and her purity is emphasized throughout the film. Like when Freddy sticks his knife fingers up from the bath water between Nancy’s legs in the scene when she falls asleep in the tub? Yuck. This sure is cringy. But I like how they make her pure because it makes the audience cheer her on every step of the way to beat the villain.
Not to mention this was Johnny Depp’s first film? Wow. I love how famous actors and actresses careers’ take off from old time horror movies.
After watching this film again I have a whole new respect for the Freddy character and am definitely going to continue watching the rest of the movies in the franchise.
Have you watched “A Nightmare on Elm Street?” Are you a Freddy Kruger fan fanatic? How do you think the purity of Nancy’s character impacted the film? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!
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