- Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley
- Directors: Wes Craven
- Writers: Wes Craven
- Producers: John Burrows, Joseph Wolf, Robert Shaye, Sara Risher, Stanley Dudelson
- Format: NTSC
- Studio: Alliance (Universal)
- Release Date: Sep 26 2006
- Run Time: 91 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (213 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000GW8OB4
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#27,579 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #9 in DVD > Horror > Series & Sequels > Nightmare on Elm Street
- #27 in DVD > Horror > Horror Masters > Wes Craven
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Dans le grand succès de Wes Craven, Scream, un des personnages, une passionnée de cinéma, déclare que le premier film de la série des Freddy était génial, mais que les autres étaient vraiment nuls. Et elle avait complètement raison. Les Griffes de la nuit est un chef-d'oeuvre de l'horreur, un monument du genre, qui serait reconnu comme tel s'il n'y avait eu toutes ses suites affligeantes (dont Wes Craven n'a réalisé que la troisième et dernière). Les Griffes de la nuit est certainement le film le plus effrayant des années quatre- vingt (seulement Shining de Stanley Kubrick et peut-être certaines conférences de presse de Ronald Reagan atteignent son niveau). Ce film est également un des voyages les plus profonds du cinéma grand public américain dans le monde illogique du rêve. C'est également un grand film sur les peurs de l'adolescence : lorsque la jeune Nancy (Heather Langencamp) se met à faire des cauchemars dans lesquels elle voit un homme défiguré dont les mains ont des lames à la place des doigts, les gens commencent à mourir dans son entourage. C'est comme si le tueur de ses rêves était devenu réalité, sorti de son subconscient. Et c'est bien évidemment ce qui se passe... Les Griffes de la nuit doit autant à Répulsion de Roman Polanski qu'au premier Halloween de John Carpenter. C'est un film aussi intelligent que terrifiant, où les personnages (et le public) sont traités avec respect, à la différence de beaucoup de ses rejetons, moqués par la suite dans les Scream. Vous remarquerez Johnny Depp dans le rôle d'un copain de Nancy, qui subit une fin particulièrement atroce. --Jim Emerson
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Wes Craven's 1984 horror film is a better movie than it is generally credited for being. Forget the tawdry sequels; this highly original, almost surrealist work stars Robert Englund as a mutilated monster who kills teenagers during their dreams. Craven, who only directed one Elm Street sequel (Wes Craven's New Nightmare), takes the Hitchcockian step of layering in psychological explanations for the terror and then proving them all irrelevant in the face of mindless evil. The horror in the film is emotionally raw, in contrast to the overimaginative set pieces of most of the sequels that followed; and the final scene is as deeply unsettling as anything Luis Buñuel ever committed to film. --Tom Keogh
DVD Features:
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 6.1 EX), English (DTS 6.1 ES)
Newly remastered picture and sound restored from the original film negative
Commentary by director Wes Craven, stars Heather Langenkamp and John Saxon, and director of photography Jacques Haitkin
Alternate ending(s)
"Never Sleep Again: The Making of A Nightmare on Elm Street" featurette
"The House That Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror" featurette
"Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven's Nightmares" featurette
Pop-up Prompts
Nightmare Fact Track
Video Clips
Exclusive "Infinifilm" ROM content
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Alliance Atlantis keeps on impressing!!,
By C. Denison (Hamilton, Ont.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nightmare on Elm Street [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
A Nightmare on Elm Street hits blu-ray in terrific form.The video quality is fantastic. The image is completely cleaned up. No scratches, no dirt, etc. No noticeable edge enhancement to the image as well. The daytime scenes look great; a nice amount of depth and detail in them and the image really pops out at you at times which is a really nice surprise. There were night-time and dream sequence parts which looked a bit on the softer side, but still doesn't look that bad at all, especially when you consider that the film is almost 25 years old. 4 outta 5 Two audio tracks: English Dolby 5.1 and English Dolby TrueHD 5.1. Just like the video, the audio never ceases to amaze me. Surround sound use is fantastic. Bass is good. Dialogue is crisp and clear. I didn't really find anything wrong with this track. 4.5 outta 5 Only downfall to this package is no special features. No commentaries, no featurettes, not even a trailer. For what it's worth though, this blu-ray release is well worth the money. A terrific high definition transfer. Keep it up Alliance!!! A couple more disc stats: 1080p Subtitled in both english and in french (both SDH)
5.0 out of 5 stars
one of the TOP 5 horror flicks of all time,
By Tha_Shape (Grand Rapids, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nightmare on Elm Street (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
"nightmare on elm street" is an instant classic. itis simply one of the best horror movies there is. it was dark, scary, somewhat believable with totally original concept and came from the master of horor himself, wes craven. this was the film which launched wes' career sky high. this wasn't like most other films which rely on big budget and special FX to carry the film. "nightmare" certainly didn't have the biggest budget ($1.2 million) but it had wes' creativity and imaginativeness to carry it. that's what makes the film so good. i compare this one to "halloween." a very dark and scary horror movie that also had a small sense of believability. and instead of relying on big budget special FX it relying mostly on the creativeness of the director. of course, not all the credit can be given to director wes craven here, but also the excellent performances given by relative newcomers heather langenkamp, amanda wyss, nick corri, the then newcomer johnny depp and last but not least robert englund (who is wonderful as freddy), john saxon, and ronnee blakely. "nightmare on elm street" is one of the top five horror movies of all time, ranking right up there with "halloween", "hellraiser", and a few others. it's just too bad how the producers played this out with too many sequels. just having parts 1, 3, 7 would've been good enough.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A film you shouldn't watch before bed,
By Frances L. Arsenault "lover of literature" (Nanaimo, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: A Nightmare on Elm Street (Two-Disc Infinifilm Special Edition) (1984) (DVD)
I had never heard or seen this film before; except for The Simpsons' spoof of it, and I find information on the film and finally watched on YouTube and I couldn't take my eyes off it. I did get a little scare, but I know it is only a movie (I am not stupid!), and to you Johnny Depp fans like I am, this is his first film.The film (as you all know) starts with 15-year-old Nancy Thompson (I think) suffering from violent nightmares about a badly burned man wearing a glove with knives on each finger. She quickly learns that this man -- a child murderer named Freddy Krueger is also terrorizing the dreams of her friend Tina, her boyfriend Rod and her (Nancy's) boyfriend, Glen. As they begin to die one by one in their sleep, Nancy learns from her mother, that years ago, the parents of Elm Street burned Krueger alive, by leaving a trial of gasoline to the his bolier room; and also splashing the gas around the place. And now Freddy's ghost is back to claim their children's lives as revenge! As the teenagers of Elm Street fight to stay awake, Nancy must save their lives and her own by bringing Freddy out of their dreams and back into the real world to destroy him forever. The was film was horror film success, that four sequels were maded; but because of the negative reviews...I am not going to watch them. So my last word is that this film a excellent scare-fest, and I would advise you of naive nature like me NOT to watch it before bed (*evil laughter*).
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