“目を覚ませナンシー！眠ると奴がやってくる！”
『スクリーム』シリーズで知られるウェス・クレイヴンが、ホラー映画監督としてその名を轟かせた８０年代を代表する傑作ホラーシリーズの第１弾。 女子高生ナンシーは、鋼鉄のかぎ爪を着けた殺人鬼の悪夢に悩まされていた。同じ夢を見るという親友ティナが惨殺され、さらに夢の中で殺人鬼に襲われた傷跡が現実でも身体に残っているなど、不可解な事件の連続に、ナンシーは心身共に衰弱してゆく。やがて母から過去にフレディという児童連続殺人犯を街の大人たちが処刑した事実を知らされ、殺人鬼の存在を確信。彼女はフレディと対決するため、自ら夢の中へ潜り込んでゆく。
製作費: $1,800,000 (3億円)
興行収入: $57,004,513 (86億円)
推定収支: $55,204,513 (83億円)
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監督: ウェス・クレイヴン
脚本: ウェス・クレイヴン
制作: Robert Shaye / John Burrows / Stanley Dudelson
撮影監督: Jacques Haitkin
制作会社: New Line Cinema / Smart Egg Pictures / Media Home Entertainment / Cinema 84 / The Elm Street Venture
Dream Attack. The kids of Elm Street appear to be having the same bad dream, one in which a scarred faced bogeyman in a stripy jumper hunts them with knives attached to his fingers. When the dream becomes a reality for one of the kids, and the worst happens, Nancy Thompson risks all to bring the bogeyman into the open. Stupendous horror movie, one that not even the ream of sequels, spin- offs and cartoons could ever diminish. Wes Craven creates a film of utter terror, unleashing one of the genres most famous monsters on the unsuspecting film loving public, with Robert Englund as the hideous Fred Krueger having the time of his life slashing away and delivering oral venom. A number of scenes and sequences are staggeringly memorable, in the process shifting into horror movie folklore. The youthful cast are sensibly written (Craven's screenplay that took inspiration from a true story he read about Cambodian refugees literally dying of nightmares!), they are not dumb these kids, just vulnerable, but led by Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) there may be hope of some survivors? The blurry line between dreams and reality gets a bloody make-over here, creating biblical snoots in the process. In short, essential horror movie for those inclined. 9/10
5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My personal favorite slasher horror film that goes well with my Halloween costume, which itself is an accessory to this horror treasure of the 1980s decade!!!
The nightmare that started it all. Made us all scared to go to to sleep. My favorite horror series next to Friday the 13th. Love this movie.
This is the ultimate in slasher-horror that thrives on the basis that it is, at times, genuinely quite scary, and it doesn't take itself too seriously. Robert Englund is super as the legendary "Freddie Krueger" who, complete with his razor sharp right hand, takes over the dreams of the teenage children of parents who had been responsible for his gruesome death many years earlier. When a terrorised "Nancy" (Heather Langenkamp) begins to put two and two together she sets out with cute boyfriend "Glen" (a first outing for Johnny Depp ) to trap him in her world - and that means drinking enough coffee to sink the Titanic and staying awake! Ronee Blakely does a mean impersonation of Faye Dunaway - as the girl's almost permanently drunk mother (whose battles seem to get larger as the film progresses) too. It doesn't hang about - Wes Craven keeps the pace almost frantic, and there is plenty of humour to keep it's tongue in it's cheek. The effects are limited, but fun, and the whole thing raises more smiles than goosebumps but it's still an entertaining watch 35 year later.
