A Nightmare on Elm Street

You are startled,and you do jump when Freddie Keuger (Haley) catches his victims and slashes them up. But that’s to be expected. You do hope to come to care for the friends whose nightmares he inhabits,who still venture out into the night unfailingly. But that’s not to be. You wish their parents,with a secret as guilty as that,would be quicker to notice what’s happening in their homes. But that’s not to be. Finally,all you wish is the end doesn’t promise a sequel. Even that’s not to be.

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