A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Best Avoided

USA/UK

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Wes Craven

Cinematographer: Jacques Haitkin

Composer: Charles Bernstein

Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Ronee Blakley, John Saxon, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri

Filled with crummy dialogue, hammy performances, and dodgy effects work, Craven’s admittedly stylish tale of a murdered serial killer enacting vengeance upon the children of his killers through their dreams provides, in some parts at least, good, camp, unintentionally funny, post-pub entertainment – in other parts, though, it is merely embarrassing. Iain.Stott