Metrograph

“One, two, Freddy’s comin’ for you…” The movie that made bedtime a source of anguish and anxiety for a generation of kids who were probably too young to be watching it, Craven’s Nightmare introduced the world to Robert Englund’s disfigured, knife glove-wielding, wisecrack-slinging Freddy Krueger, the guilty conscience of a sunny California suburb who, burned to death in the boiler room of its high school by the outraged parents of Elm Street as punishment for his many transgressions, has returned to pick off their teenaged children, one by one, by visiting them in deadly dreams. Briskly cut by editors Patrick McMahon, ACE, and Rick Shaine, ACE, Nightmare keeps the jump scares coming right up to a terrifying finale that’s the very epitome of a rude awakening.

Distributor: Park Circus