A Nightmare on Elm Street

In the second of my choice of movies to see before you die comes a film that scared the crap out of me when i first watched it and when i see it now it still holds a special place in my heart as being one of the best horror movies ever made.

A Nightmare on Elm Street gave birth to one of the most scary and iconic characters of all time with everybody rembering who Freddy Kruger was even if you've never seen the film first.
It all started off when a sick person who enjoyed killing kids, was burnt alive by all of the residents of Elm Street, however this man was so evil that he came back to kill there kids the only way he knew and that was in there dreams.
With Wes Craven doing this with his character gave him even more menace because most horror characters before killed you when you were awake but now you had somebody even invading your dreams so you had no where to go.

After the first 15 minutes the movie goes into overdrive hitting you with a whole bucket of gore and scares, from the memorable scene where you see freedy chasing the girl down the ally and stretching his hands out so his blades could scrap against the wall to the first death scene where the young girl gets drag onto the celing and dropped down onto the bed splattering blood all over the place you knew that this was'nt going to be any kind of horror film you've ever seen.
As the title suggest you were drawn into a nightmare from the start with you wanting to stay awake after the first watch just incase freddy was real and he came after you and this made the film what it was.

As usual with all of these movies there were aload of sequels and while none had the feel of the original movie it was'nt until freddy had to battle against Jason did we see how nasty he can get.

If you want to see a movie that will scare the shit out of you then i can't recommend this film enough as i know somebody who is an even bigger fan of this film than i am (if it's possible).
Go out now and by the box set of all of the films as they won't cost you that much these days.