Let's all face it, without director Wes Craven and Freddy Kruger(Robert Englund) this movie would have been nothing more than an average B-Movie horror film. The sub par acting and script could make anyone laugh from beginning to end. The mother doesn't exist in the universe of reality. I found her to be 'the real' target of Freddy's terror and not Nancy as she is the one being terrorized and kept alive by Kruger for revenge. Wes Craven's directing of this movie took the cliched slasher genre to a whole new level. He mixes foreshadowment and tone to make the viewer get on the edge of their seat. Robert Englund makes Freddy creepy behind the dark by staying still so that it makes him not look scared of his prey. You will notice this happens many times in the movie. Overall, Craven and Englund combined to make a great horror movie that could have just been like any other without them.
