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starring: Robert Englund
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780627031
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording remastered, NTSC
ISBN: 0780627032
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 7
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Release Date: September 07, 1999
Running Time: 764 minutes
Sales Rank: 12564
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 11, 1989
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
In the trinity of modern horror films, there's the father (Michael Myers of Halloween), the son (Jason of Friday the 13th fame, a knockoff), and the unholy spirit, Freddy Krueger of the Nightmare on Elm Street films. The spectral man who haunted the nightmares of unsuspecting teenagers with deadly consequences, Freddy (as played by Robert Englund) was a truly frightening bogeyman and icon for the '80s. Unlike the hockey-masked Jason, who dispatched horny teenagers with mechanical and monotonous ease (he never talked, never took off his mask), Freddy was a truly creative and diabolical villain, with a sadistic and blackly funny personality. The hallmarks of the Nightmare on Elm Street series were imaginatively gruesome suspense pieces, set in the overactive imaginations of the teen victims. The first film of the series, Wes Craven's truly intelligent and scary film, was so hugely successful it begat not one, not two, but six more sequels, each pretty much diluting the originality and horror of its predecesor. (Horror fans will fondly remember Drew Barrymore's assertion in Scream that the first Nightmare film was great but all the rest sucked.) Still, there's fun to be had in the remaining films in the series, seeing as a number of aspiring filmmakers cut their teeth on the continuing saga of Freddy. Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) and Chuck Russell (The Mask) worked on the third installment, Dream Warriors (starring a young Patricia Arquette), and Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2) came to prominence with the ingeniously macabre fourth film, The Dream Master, coscripted by Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential). Craven and original star Heather Langenkamp did return for the last film, New Nightmare, which presaged the tongue-in-cheek postmodernism of the Scream films and resharpened Freddy's ability to scare. --Mark Englehart
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Happy Hour
Well worth the $$$ a great DVD collection,and also the bonus of the TV series all for half the price you would pay to buy them separately. Also a really cool package
Rating: - goten6585
The DVD'S were brand new and it shows just as clear if not clearer than the original's when they first came out. And it was also cheaper to by from amazon.
Rating:  - No Greatest Hits
If you are a Freddy fan, this is a great deal.
But, do not expect to have the Freddy's Greatest Hits in with it.
I was very disappointed. I even did an exchange and still no Greatest Hits.
If this does not matter, then it is a great deal..
Rating: - Horror Classic
I have yet to watch any of them...why you ask? Cause my fiance is petrified of Freddy! WE are adults now and she still has any image burned in her head of that melted grousum face! She really thinks that he will come for her in her dreams...when we get married first thing will be to watch all of them straight!
Rating: - Good
The product was deliver in great shape and the movies are good they bring back a lot of memories
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