A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection DVD

Region 1 DVDs

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“Don’t fall asleep” – words to live by for Elm Street teens. Not a problem for fans wide awake with fear (and glee) as they experience these first 8 Nightmare movies released from 1984 to 2003.

Each features Robert Englund’s mas­terfully macabre incarnation of slouch-hatted, razor-fingered Freddy Krueger, who mixes wicked wit with even wickeder mayhem as he haunts teens when they’re asleep and most vulnerable.

A newspaper article about children who died after having fearsome nightmares provided the real-life springboard for filmmaker Wes Craven’s break­through series. Perhaps that underlying reality helps make these shockers so unnerving. Or maybe it’s just that we all like a good scare…and that this series consistently, imaginatively delivers some of the best.