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For all its flaws though, old-school horror fans should get a kick out of Craven's employment of classic slasher tropes in an unusual setting, not to mention a genuinely spooky James Horner score.

A deliberately cruel and vicious experience.

A Nightmare On Elm Street remains an atmospheric and genuinely unsettling film with a chilling, universally relatable central motif: sleep gets everyone in the end.

It is like nibbling for nearly two hours in the kitchens of the best chefs. At the end we are exhausted and hungry.

A thumpingly good knuckle-biter.

Put simply, this supposedly new direction for the franchise will very soon grow old, as a franchise once famed for its innovations is reduced to becoming a deeply conservative product.

Director Wes Craven... brings just the right atmosphere of tongue in cheek and plain old fear to the proceedings.

When murder-most-foul becomes murder-most-samey, goose bumps flatten.

The humour is never allowed to knock the fear.

A thoroughly intelligent and provocative post-modern horror that eclipses the whole Elm Street series with its foreboding atmosphere and chilling implications.