A Nightmare on Elm Street

"A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984)

We're back with Wes Craven again, this time as he introduces the monstrous Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) into the dreams of the children of Springwood, Ohio. Freddy gets you when you sleep, and no one learns this lesson more grotesquely ... morethan Glen (a young Johnny Depp) who passes out on his bed and is pulled into it, only to be spat back out a moment later as a geyser of blood and pulped flesh. "Elm Street" gets bonus points for the end of poor Tina (Amanda Wyss), who's dragged up a wall and across a ceiling as invisible blades turn her into beef strips.

(Everett Collection)