A Nightmare on Elm Street IS TERRIFYINGLY UNIQUE | First Time Watching Movie Reaction
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My first time watching A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Yes! This movie really defines the term nightmare. A truly original horror idea executed to near perfection. I hope you enjoyed my A Nightmare on Elm Street movie reaction & commentary
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Not really my type pf genre to watch but the reactions are fun.
Another "dream" based film you might enjoy is "Dreamscape" you don't have to do a reaction but I'd be interested to see what you thought if you did.
One of the best of the genre. Dying in your sleep is a fear many have.
Despite some dated elements, janky effects and questionable acting, the original Elm Street is still a classic for a reason. The real killers are your PARENTS!
One of the sequels--
"Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare"--
offers more information
on Freddy's backstory.
Langenkamp & a couple of others
who'd been in "...Nightmare..." movies
later became among the stars
of a sitcom, which made various
references to these movies
(fourteen minutes, 28 seconds)--
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Nancy is my favorite character because I love horror movie characters that fight back
This is certainly one of the most groundbreaking horror films ever made. The concept alone sets this apart from most horror films of the 20th century.
The 3rd movie, Dream Warriors was my favorite of the series. Like that Nancy didn't play the victim. She figured out what was happening and tried to go after him. Most just run screaming fall down and get killed.
This is one of favorites too.
The scene with the body being dragged down the hallway will forever be burned into my brain. 😁
Tina in the body bag is ABSOLUTELY the scariest image in the whole thing.
The teacher is horror legend Lin Shaye too…
Was excited to see you react to this. The original ending was Nancy taking back his power and beating him. But the studio made them add the car scene so they could continue the story.
What is interesting is how the horror franchises evolved. Nightmare on Elm Street movies became about the puns and weird kills while Friday the 13th became about finding unique ways to kill people with ordinary objects.
This has always been a favorite mine it's just pure classic and nostalgic. The fear of him killing you in your dreams and dying in real life is terrifying and if you don't sleep you'll end up dying anyway.
The parents really pissed me off. They knew all along and instead of helping her they try to convince her she is crazy.
What DID they know? That someone with the same name existed and is long dead by now. Of course they wouldn't assume that his ghost returned to kill teenagers in their sleep, they'd assume that Nancy must have read about him somewhere and subconsciously gave her nightmares a face. OF COURSE you'd think someone who insists that what happens to you in your nightmare happens to you in real life because of a demon is psychologically damaged.
As a kid I watched all the slasher movies when they came out on vhs and they did scare me but even as a kid I reasoned with myself that they (Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Leather Face) could all be escaped by getting on a plane and constantly running away, Freddy was the one concept that truly scared me because you eventually would need to sleep and then you're done.
Saw this in the theatre when I was 14…..scared the hell out of me but it started a lifelong love of horror films. My favorite series in horror. I really hope you watch Part 3 Dream Warriors, a true sequel directly from this (2 was a departure). Really fun watching your reaction, similar to my first time.
I actually wrote a paper in college about how Part 2 was an unintentionally extremely anti gay film. I was in an American Studies class called Modern Gay America. Got an A!
For such a low body count, Wes makes every kill memorable. Tina's wall crawling and Glenn's blood fountain are both great effects.
But Robert Englund steals every scene as Freddy, and he's the reason to continue the series. He has so much fun playing the character that it makes him a joy to watch, even in the lesser entries of the series.
Little Kevin from Home Alone ain't got nothing on Nancy. She set up all those elaborate traps, had a whole conversation with her mother, and managed to fall asleep and find Freddy in 20 minutes. I can't even brush my hair and teeth that quick. 😁
Haha well said!
Has anyone ever taken time to appreciate the amount of makeup effort that went on Freddy/Robert's "burnt" face?
A great villain backstory, with a complete mythos:
One, two, Freddy’s coming for you,
Three, Four, gonna lock the door,
Five, Six, grab your crucifix..
Freddy is the ultimate slasher villain. He was a monster in real life and he haunts your dreams in the afterlife. You can’t hide from him. You dream when you sleep and you have to sleep to live. There’s no escape!
Everybody realizes this is Johnny Depps intro but not enough ppl recognize Lin Shaye. An absolute icon.
Amazing movie. Nancy is a terrific final girl. You should watch NOES 3 Dream Warriors and New Nightmare. New Nightmare combines the real life stalking that Heather Langenkamp went through and the series.The ending is because the studio wanted a possible way to continue the series if it made them money.
Remarkable what Craven accomplished with a very small budget.
1,2, Freddy's coming for you
3,4, Better Lock Your Door
5,6, Get Your Crucifix
7,8, Stay Up Late
9,10, Never Sleep Again.
"It's only a dream!"
"Come to Freddy."
"Goddamn you!"
Fun Fact: Film debut of Johnny Depp. One of the main reasons Johnny Depp was chosen was because Wes Craven's daughter thought he was "dreamy" and threatened to run away from home if he wasn't cast in the movie.
Knife Gauntlet Fact: The idea behind the glove was a practical one on Wes Craven's part, as he wanted to give the character a unique weapon, but also something that could be made cheaply and wouldn't be difficult to use or transport. At the time he was studying primal fears embedded in the subconscious of people of all cultures, and discovered that one of those fears is attack by animal claws. Around the same time, he saw his cat unsheathe its claws, and the two concepts merged, although in the original script the blades were fishing knives, not steak knives, as in the finished film.
Sleepy Inspiration Fact: Wes Craven first came up with the basic idea for the movie from a series of articles in the Los Angeles Times over a three-year period, about a group of Southeast Asian refugees from the Hmong tribe, several of whom died in the throes of horrific nightmares. The group had come to the U.S. to escape the murderous reign of Pol Pot, and within a year of arriving, three men had died all in similar situations, the young, otherwise healthy man would have a nightmare, then refuse to sleep for as long as he could. When he finally fell asleep from exhaustion, he awoke screaming, then died. Autopsy results revealed that they had not died from heart failure, but had simply died. It was this inability to find a cause of death that intrigued Craven so much. Medical authorities have since called the phenomenon Asian Death Syndrome, a variant of Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome (SUDS), and Brugada Syndrome.
Fun fact: the guy at the sleep center who gives that creepy speech about dreams also played Roger Rabbit
You can avoid Jason by staying away from Chrystal Lake. You can lock yourself in on Halloween, and avoid Michael. But you can’t stay awake forever.
Too true.
For me, the two entries directed by Wes Craven (this one and New Nightmare (1994) are easily the best. One clear advantage the series has over other slasher franchises is the level of imagination. Even the worst films of the series use nightmares to present unique dreamscapes and imagery that could only make sense in a dream.
Part 3 is excellent, it expands the mythos and explains some things.
this is one of the most iconic horror films. I watched kt a handful of times and it's solid
It's been 11 or 12 years since I watched this movie and even now I get chills just thinking of Glenn's death, ugh!
Also, this movie is somewhat inspired by true events:
The basis of the film was inspired by several newspaper articles printed in the Los Angeles Times in the 1970s about Hmong refugees, who, after fleeing to the United States because of war and genocide in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, suffered disturbing nightmares and refused to sleep. Some of the men died in their sleep soon after. Medical authorities called the phenomenon Asian Death Syndrome. The condition afflicted men between the ages of 19 and 57 and was believed to be sudden unexplained death syndrome or Brugada syndrome or both.
I think the green blood represents rot, pus, and/or infection(of course they mean basically the same thing).
Nancy is my favorite character because I love horror movie characters that fight back
I was terrified of Freddy as a child in the 80s. The comic shop I used to visit got a cardboard standee of Freddy and I couldn’t go in without one of my parents I was so scared. Then I had a dream that I killed Freddy when I was 10 and was never afraid of him again, but I became a huge fan of his films.
I consider the original to be a true masterpiece of the horror genre (despite the ending). I put it up there with ALIEN and The Thing.
I always call this the last of the trifecta of slasher movies in this time. Halloween with Michael Meyers I believe was first and closely followed by Friday the 13th and Jason Voorhees second (very close together, I could be wrong about which was first), and finally nightmare on elm Street with Freddy a few years later. Both inspired countless sequels and remakes which I think Halloween being the longest running. Nightmare definitely had the most original plot, and Freddy was the smartest of all 3 villains. Michael and Jason were basically just killing machines without much thought and no dialogue at all. Nightmare and Friday the 13th does a crossover which was entertaining and Wes Cravens new Nightmare was great because it merged reality with fiction. Wes craven was a master...rip.
I love people's reactions to one of my favorite horror films. Everyone seams to mention Johnny Depp but no one realizes that the dream doctor is the same actor who does the voice of Roger Rabbit.
what makes nightmare great is there is only one special effect in the entire movie, the rest are all practical which makes it more disturbing, even the wall freddy pushes through is practical.
Great Reaction..
Freddy likes to take his time and play with his food..
LOL...
If I was Chris' neighbor and knew he was watching this, I'd pay the neighbor kids to sing the 1...2.... song outside his bedroom window at night. :)
You’re a good friend.
If you are seriously considering any of the sequels to watch, I strongly suggest Nightmare 3, and New Nightmare. All the other sequels weren't that great. But 3 continued with story lore, and New Nightmare brings a fantastic culmination of the whole franchise story.
I’m so glad you covered this awesome movie. I always look forward to your videos.❤
I worked in a theater as a usher/projectionist when this came out and I watched it after hours in a empty theatre alone the night before it premiered. To this day it was the most frightened I have ever been while watching a movie.😂
Haha such a fun experience!
I always thought an interesting reboot would have been freddy was innocent but it was the kids who we led to say he did it, they sort o nodded to it in the remake, but it would make more sense to kill the kids if their false testimony led to his death. but i like remakes when they add something to the lore, or gives us a different view
There is a deleted scene, in the basement, when Marge shows Nancy the glove, they cut out that Nancy had an older brother, and Freddy killed him. THAT is what the mom went through. I wish they had left that little bit in. Gave Marge more depth.
Yes, a crucial detail!
Loved this reaction review for this. I remember my parents watching this in probably 1985 and I was also watching it. It freaked me out but I was only 6. But by the time the 3 film came out I loved this series.
The teens that he goes after in 1, 3 and part of 4 are all the children of those who directly murdered him and he has returned to take his revenge on taking their children away from them. Originally Freddy was a child molester and murder but the removed the molester part from the script bit it is implied that he was.
Fun fact: Wes Craven got this idea from a traumatic creepy childhood moment and a series of newspaper articles about people who claimed they would die if they went to sleep.
side note, the technician doing the sleep monitoring is Charles Fleischer, aka the voice of Roger Rabbit.
I missed this movie in theaters, but I rented it as soon as it came out on VHS. My friend and I settled in to watch it late at night on a sleep over one weekend when my parents were gone. I got totally freaked out by Freddie pushing through the wall over where Nancy was sleeping and the whole sequence of Tina's death made it worse. By the time Tina showed up in the body bag I was done, and I turned it off before Nancy got to the corner following the blood trail. I spent the rest of that night in my parent's bed with the lights on, dozing off and waking up with a jerk to check the wall above the bed. I finally finished the movie the next day in the daytime so it was less scary. To this day it remains one of the best horror movies I've ever seen because of how unique and creative it is, especially compared to the shambling villains of Halloween and Friday the 13th.
If you like the idea of Freddie, I recommend the 3rd movie "Dream Warriors" and "A New Nightmare" but I wouldn't bother with any of the others; they get really campy and cheesy and are only worth a look if you want to see Freddie kill people in new, inventive ways. Well, maybe watch Freddie vs Jason to see them pitted against each other by some smart but still inevitably dead kids - but whatever you do... Don't Watch the Remake! It seriously sucks!
I like P. 2. Like you I missed the 1st one in theaters. I loved horror (still do of course) and rented it on VHS, then bought it I loved it so much.
I saw P. 2 in theaters (twice). I realize (now) it has issues but I enjoy most of it and what does work, works well.
Saw P. 3 in theaters SEVERAL times, it's my second favorite after the 1st.
I saw P. 4 a few times in theaters as well, but lately (to be clear, I still enjoy it) it feels like it hasn't aged well. Maybe I just enjoy "DREAM WARRIORS" too much and P. 4 will always be a step down.🤷. Other than maybe "New Nightmare" everything after P. 4 is GOD AWFUL (I DESPISE "FREDDY'S DEAD"😑😒🙄)
But, that's just my opinion.
Awesome! Going with the horror classics! Great reaction Chris!
This movie ranked at #17 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo
Word!
Hey Chris,
I agree, many Characters behave...weird, and the ending doesn't fit to the rest of the movie in my opinion (especially when it comes to part 2), but I still like the movies for their creativity when it comes to visualise nighmares (Freddie's glove in the bathtube, the boy got sucked into his bed, the girl sinking into the stairs...). On top, you never know if you're safe because as the story goes on, you can't tell what's dream and what's reality, which is the most scary thing on this franchise, not the shocking effects or the jump scares.
i love the saga, i grew up with freddy, and jason, michael too
I feel like ppl always point out that we get a funeral for rod and not Tina but Tina was murdered rod allegedly k worded himself so that’s why he gets one.. I’m assuming her body was still being examined
I won't get into it.. but yes.. You can be awake that long (and survive).. funny thing is.. she said coming up on the 7th day.. and the record was 11... I myself stayed awake 11 days straight... I survived of course.. but My mind was GONE!! I flipped out on the 11th day! I will just say this... say no to drugs!! (And I don't mean Marijuana)lol.. I think you know what drug!lol.. Been sober over 20 years.. but no joke.. I stayed up 11 days 0 sleep!! At 41.. I can't even stay awake 24 hours if I wanted to! lol
The ending is supposed to mean that even though she defeated him she will still always have nightmares about it
I saw this in the theater all those years ago. Such an amazing film.
I saw this at a movie party when I was15 in '85, It was a new release on VHS. I had trouble sleeping for nearly 2 weeks. Freaked me the f**k out!
Quite a few of your questions will be answered if you watch the rest of the movies. The SECOND film is really the only one in the series that really doesn't seem to fit the main story, but it's still fun to watch, and contains quite a bit of grotesque imagery.
The second movie isn't gay enough.
I watched this as a kid way too young it came on TV and I remember screaming and my mom running in from the kitchen and changing channel. and I remember being afraid to sleep for a week. plot twist, I ended up growing up loving and watching a lot of horror movies lol. and omg look at baby Johnny Depp hehehe
you should continue with the franchise there's some good bad and some ugly ones from 2 to 7 then there's Freddy Vs Jason and then the remake. The main reason the four sets parents killed Kruger was that they had kids who Kruger killed other parents were involved to.
The Elm Street series is one of my favorite things ever created in fiction! So creative and chilling. This was a really entertaining reaction because you looked deeply affected and invested. This franchise is also one of the rarities in film to have more than one sequel considered to be as good or even better than the original: Dream Warriors and New Nightmare, but imho you can't go wrong with any of them. They're all entertaining! I hope you continue with Freddy but if not, this was a lot of fun!
I have a question.
In the beginning we saw Freddy build the "claws". So is he really a ghost/demon or is he just a crazy mortal?
He started off as a human.
@@Thane36425 So that scene took place when he was still a insane human.
TY for clarifying.
I absolutely love your reactions! Always genuine and thought provoking. I love how engrosed you get.
I’m so glad you enjoy them, thanks!
I thought I saw a shadow too in the screech scene. It was actually Glenn's reflection. Took me years to realize it
Try not to overthink re: horror movies - just enjoy them ;d Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp & Wes Craven are icons (this is the best of the franchise - the remainder get jokier & hokier).
Freddy! My dream man!
My fav of the 80s monsters by far. I love him because he’s sassy. I got to meet Robert Englund (Freddy) and he was super sweet. Johnny Depp’s first movie!
HEY Chris!! My favorite horror series is Friday the 13th...Jason is the best! But for something really trippy try watching the movie Jacob's Ladder the OG of 1990. You'll recognize the star Tim Robbins from The Shawshank Redemption and a young Macaulay Culkin is in this as well. There might be a few other faces you recognize, but I don't wanna give up to much...except it's a psychological horror that will keep you guessing. 😁
Tootles!
~Dawne
When I saw this on TV as a child first time, that was the moment I got in to horror movies! And Robert Englund who plays Freddy, awesome dude! Met him, hugged him and he was fun, just like Freddy is.
I hope you see rest of the series, all are good movies, some better than the others ofc, but all good.
Thats why people hate the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street, they took away Freddys fun character, made him darker.
And the most Ive been awake is 5 days straight, last day I was white as a ghost and could barley stand, so 7 days!? unrelalistic! ;D
Nightmare On Elm Street is great because it is unique and the concept is very scary.
Hey mate you need to check out the long good Friday and Mona Lisa Bob Hoskins from Roger rabbit is excellent
Your questions about freddy becoming the way he is as a supernatural being gets explained in a future film. I don't want to spoil it if you choose to continue the series. Great review!
This was Johnny Depp's film debut.
It's gonna be a while till we see him on the big screen again following his win with the Amber Heard trial.
I'm so glad you enjoyed. What a classic!
I remember seeing the trailer for this at the video store when I was a kid and it terrified me. I had to see it! Haha. I saw parts 1-3 on video and then was old enough to see part 4 onward on the big screen. I do love the franchise but some entries don't age as well and the quality of some is definitely weaker. My personal watch list is 1, 3, 4, 7. (2 is sorta standalone and good in its own way).
Re: the final scenes...(my own opinion, not based on fact): I don't think the term is used until the remake but when the kids are that sleep deprived they start having micronaps! Slipping in and out of a dream while still being awake.
Nancy getting a phonecall from Freddy on the tongue-phone while she's awake is an example.
I do think she pulled him into the real world and kicked the crap outta him and the fire where he kills the mom happened, but I think that's the last we see of him. He disappears back into the the dream world in a very weakened state, not re-emerging until the sequel.
I think after Donald leaves her to go downstairs and Freddy comes back out of the bed - this part I don't think happened. I think this is a very exhausted Nancy finally asleep and dreaming that she's taking back his power and getting her friends back.
My pov is that her final nightmare is exactly that, just a result of all that hell she went through. A literal metaphor of Freddy driving her crazy.
(Or it could just be some sloppy revisions and a forced add-on ending because producer Bob Shaye demanded it). Whos to say?
Well.. If you like this one.. you must watch part 3! That's all I will say!
I watched this aged 10 when I crept downstairs after my parents went to sleep back in the 80’s. Regretted it, as I didn’t want to fall asleep for a long time! 👻
Haha not the regret! 😅
My favorite Robert Englund film isn't any of the Elm Street movies, but a lesser known adaptation called The Phantom of the Opera. I've seen this and its sequel, Freddie's Revenge, tho. Part one is definitely the better film, but I find part 2 to be more enjoyable.
Came across this video, gave it a watch. Couple of thoughts to share on the film: (trigger warning, I talk about some heavy topics)
You touched on the idea that just communicating would have changed the outcome a great deal, and this is in my opinion the whole point of the movie. It's about things left unsaid and the damage that can do. We are presented with Elm Street - a typical affluent suburban street in Reagan's America. Perfect, peaceful, quiet. But just underneath that there are all the things left unspoken, this mother is an alcoholic, that father is detached and distant, this kid has no parents and lives with his grandparents, etc, etc, etc. It's all there, but unsaid. Everyone just pretends it's all fine and carries on with their lives. I see Freddy in this film as a metaphor for repressed trauma. What's unsaid in the film (deliberately) is that Freddy was intended to be a sexual predator who killed his victims to silence them. When Nancy's mother tells her about Fred, she lies and calls him a child murderer, leaving the most horrible part unsaid. The strong implication is that Nancy, Glen, Tina, and Rod were all abused by Fred in real life, and their nightmares about Freddy are the side-effect of repressing that trauma. Not even their own parents can acknowledge it happened, which only drives the trauma deeper and deeper. In the end, only by acknowledging Freddy and then firmly turning her back on him can Nancy come to terms with her trauma and move on.
That last scene... yeah. It's not good. The producers had them add in the bit with Freddy snatching the mum. It was supposed to be a dream, and Nancy wakes up find none of it happened, but the producers complained that it made the film not scary. Ugh.
P.S. Part 3 carries on this theme of trauma really well, and is one of the very few depictions of mental health in horror where the bad guy *isn't* the one with a history of mental health problems, it's the victims. Makes an excellent follow-up to the first film, but ignore the rest of the series entirely. Wes Craven's New Nightmare is also a good film, a meta commentary in which the cast of the first film play themselves and explore the same themes again.
P.P.S The whole series is fun, tbh. I enjoy it. But only 1 and 3 have anything interesting to say.
Freddy can't kill Nancy. If he kills her it's all over. LOL it's all one big dream that Nancy was having. There was never a Freddy Krueger, it was a creation of Nancy's. Dreams are funny things
Seen many times...not quite old enough to have seen on original release-I was only 15-so much better than the sequels which became increasingly ott and turned him into a wisecracker🎩
One of my favorite horror movies ever
We only get a funeral for Rod so Nancy can have the convo with her parents 2 murders in. Tina is who fans remember. Could be because Rod was a creep of a boyfriend and friend.
I wish the movie had said whether Glen and Tina's parents had been in on the killing of the actual Fred Krueger and that's why he was targeting them.
It was a little unclear exactly who was involved back then. I think it’s likely they all were.
@@CasualNerdReactions it also literally just dawned on me that part of that is because two of them get taken out before we get a look at their home lives and Glen probably never brought it up seeing as how for some reason his parents didn't like Nancy
I love the first one the most, the third is also by Wes Craven and is also pretty good, Part Two is a wild ride and I'd love to see a reaction from you on that one, cos it has a lot to say. The franchise dips real hard after three. The 2010 remake is probably one of the worst of these recent reboots by a mile. You can skip that one for sure. Loved your reaction to this classic!
The #2 sequel to the movie was a legendary off-topic studio-concocted dumpster fire, and New Line thought they were going to wrap things up properly in the #3 sequel-
Only to give us “Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors”, which reinvented the series, and arguably one of the fan favorite horror films of the 80’s.
Good info! Thanks.
That the inspiration for this was a bunch of teenagers died in their sleep for no discernable reason is neat. What happened? Why did they die and that was it? It inspired the film.
Sleep well...
It probably won't start up again.
Probably...
Love the dream angle on this one, great story, great design, good acting. Cheesy music makes me dock it a point! Even in the 80s there was no forgiving cheesy 80s music (good 80s music was another story!) As far as Freddie Kruger going free, all I can say is this must have taken place in Florida! (Duoh! Just kidding! Just teasing!) I have NEVER watched a reaction for this movie, I enjoyed seeing it with you! Haven't seen it since the 80s!
🤣🤣
Just wait til you watch Part 3 The Dream Warriors :)
I'm one of the rare few who enjoyed P.2
IT'S FLAWED with some CRINGE moments, but I think it's a good sequel.
But if you decide to skip it, I'd suggest NOT SKIPPING P. 3: "DREAM WARRIORS"
You can skip P. 2 (though I'd love your thoughts on it ☺️) and watch P. 3 without missing anything! It really is pretty great!!!
Good reaction Chris! The movie was more gross than scary, but then again I’ve seen a zillion times, lol. But I like New Nightmare movie the best out of all them. R I P Wes Craven.
Gotta do Nightmare on elm street 3 dream warriors , better than the original
The third movie and the one called New Nightmare are worth watching
I'm the rare person who enjoys P. 2 (flawed as it is).
But the 3rd is great!!!
Forget part II, the rest of the sequels ignore it, and it's not exactly good, anyway - they still didn't know what to do with the mythology then. The franchise found its footing in part III and remained that way: not the least bit creepy, but rather funny and inventive. If that's your cup of tea, part III is a classic. Just don't expect horror from the mainline Freddy franchise after part I.
Freddy's New Nightmare from 1994 could be interesting, though. It's not numbered for a reason. It's actually quite hard to explain, but that film is a direct sequel to part I. Uhm, in a way. Depends on your perspective, I guess. It's also a reboot, only it isn't. Damn, it's REALLY hard to explain without giving away anything, but that movie is really, really interesting and actually quite clever. They tried going back to the roots there, get away from the one-liner quipping Freddy and back to a demonic monster. Not a classic, but IMHO a very intriguing entry nonetheless. If you liked this one, definitely give FNN a watch.
Dude! My sister and I _also_ put bugles on our fingers and said we were Freddy stabbing at each other (having never seen the Elm Street flicks.)
The ranch bugles, with their confetti spices. They're where it's at. 📯 🤚🎉🪓
Nancy lived, As for everyone else...
Ty for this Vid, Awesome Reaction. Awesome Movie saga..Nightmare on Elm Street movie Dream warriors is maybe the last of the good ones,(my opinion only), after that..pretty much a mess..and the cross over in one of the movies..there is a moment.. we all know what that is. ty again for this vid.
Hi Chris, thank you for reviewing one of the first horror movies, that I seen. It was terrifying for me in childhood. Would you watching more movies from this series?
Not sure yet. If I do it’ll be down the road. I need a good break from horror after this month.
@@CasualNerdReactions Would you help if I say, that from second part on it is pretty much horror comedy? But worth watching. Not as good as first one, but I enjoy it. It is often pretty dark humor. Just the way I like it.
Absolutely Freddy Krueger is scariest in the first film. I am not a big fan of the second they tried to take the franchise in a different direction. Not to say you shouldn't watch it, if you want to get your own take on it, then absolutely watch it. You may have a different opinion on it. Honestly 3 dream warriorsis my favorite. Great characters, 4 the dream master is okay. The rest are all money grabs
Ohh please do Hellraiser 1987!
The only sequel worth checking out is part 3. It's the true sequel. It finishes Nancy's story. The very meta "Wes Craven's New Nightmare " is also interesting as Heather Langenkamp (Nancy) and Wes Craven play themselves and Freddy has manifested in the real world.
Fun movie, fun reaction.
You would be so happy if you were to watch nightmare on elm Street 3, and my personal opinion is the best out of all of the movies dealing with Freddy
One day I’ll have to give it a go.
*watches the original 1984 film*
*puts 2003 Freddy in thumbnail*
If you watch nothing else from this franchise, watch Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
I was that 8yo watching this movie. Lol ruined bath time for me.
oh no! haha
Im more of a Jason fan than a Freddy fan
Nightmare 1, 3 and New Nightmare are really good tho, The rest... yhea not good at all
I'll have to watch his film one day!
You should just skip part 2 and watch part 3. Part 3 is pretty much a sequel to part 1 and the 2nd installment really isn't necessary nor is it that good. Part 3 is a lot of people's favorite of the series. The rest of the sequels just go down hill.