A Nightmare On Elm Street (Special Edition) (DVD)

...even though the film is a certificate 18. From what I could gather back then, from the way that kids were trying to scare the hell out of each other while re-telling bits of the movie,Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) was a very bad and scary character from a horror movie which it seemed only the 'cool' kids of the class were either allowed to have seen or were brave enough to watch sneekily behind their parents backs. I however, being the sort of ...
...back just incase it had a bad word or mild violence etc ... was not ever gonna get near a movie like this , and to be honest, all the other kids talking about _'A Nightmare on Elm Street'_ probably scared me enough into not wanting to see it back then at age 10. I spotted this Brand New 2 disc special edition on eBay for £2.99, so of course I snapped it up. So finally at age 29 I was able to see this movie for the first time. For some reason I had ...

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Review of A Nightmare On Elm Street (Special Edition) (DVD)

♥ iNTRODUCTIOn ♥ A nightmare on elm street was originally released in 1984 and after the same 6 years (since Halloween in 1978) of the same masked-psycho-stalks-then-kills boring, uninentive and unscary formula this was a refreshing, imaginative and terrifying treat for horror movie goers world-wide. It has become a classic and rightly so...It launched New Line Cinema and the career of Director Wes Craven. Now, it's time to relive ...
...having terrible nightmares in which a man with ''a burned face, dirty red and green sweater and knives for fingers'' is stalking her. She doesn't know who he is or why he's after her. Terrified of sleeping alone whilst her mother is away for the weekend she invites her friends, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp), Glen (Johnny Depp) and her boyfriend Rod (Nick Corri) over to stay for the night to keep her company. Whilst discussing Tina's dreams they realise ...

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Review of A Nightmare On Elm Street (Special Edition) (DVD)

Getting another upgrade, A Nightmare On Elm Street gets a 2 disc treatment this year featuring all new special features and some interesting takes on the original film. Telling the story of four teenagers who discover they have dreamed about the same horribly disfigured man, they find themselves being stalked in their sleep. Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) is the resourceful teenager who realizes that she can bring things out of her dream if she clutches ...
...Englund) and how he was a child murderer who they burned to death when he was freed from prison on a technicality. In turn, Nancy is let down by all the people in her life (her mother is a drunk, her father is neglectful and untrusting, and her boyfriend goes to sleep against her request and is systematically slaughtered in his bed). She accepts that if she is to survive, the only person she can trust is herself. Setting up devices of self defense, ...

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Review of A Nightmare On Elm Street (Special Edition) (DVD)