Submitted by Any-Satisfaction-770 t3_yhi66r in movies
Crave had A Nightmare on Elm Street on the streaming service so I decided to give it a watch since I hadn't seen it in a few years. The film has an eerie tone and is paced very well. I like basically everything about the film until the ending. The "it was all a dream" trope was tired back then and throwing this clusterfuck conclusion kind of hurt what was already a genuinely good movie.
Regardless it's a horror classic and watching it this close to Halloween just felt right. Most horror films are left to the dustbin of history from that era, but this one stands out.
Happy Halloween. Sleep tight.
MovieMike007 t1_iudvmsd wrote
Wes Craven hated this ending, in which Nancy's mother is pulled back into the house and he has always maintained that the film should have had the happy ending he originally wrote.