Product Description

For two generations Freddy Krueger has scared the dickens out of movie goers. Now the most-dreamed-about name in horror history can be seen from beginning to end in this must-have collection.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
DVD ROM Features
Music Video
Theatrical Trailer

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #299 in DVD
• Brand: ENGLUND,ROBERT
• Released on: 1999-09-21
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 8
• Running time: 92 minutes

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

The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection
This has always been one of my favourite series of horror, the one I could actually watch as a child and not be too scared. Robert Englund does a wonderful job of bringing Freddy to life. Nightmare 6 is the only let down which does not do justice to the series. Joss used his great imagination to bring some of his childhood fears to the big screen.

Amazing Box Set, Shipping from Amazon was horrible
The box set itself is perfect. Anything and everything you could possibly want relating to the films. My complaint is with Amazon. It took forver to receive this. I ordered 3 things on the same day, the other two were here in less than a week *other items bought thru Amazon sellers* Then, when it finally gets here. It'd just been thrown in a box without any sort of padding! The corners were banged in! Plus, when I removed the plastic wrap part of the paint on the cover was pulled off as well! Really, I know this a great buy, but I wish Amazon would get its act together in regards of speedy shipping and taking care of their products.


Also, the picture they are showing must be the VHS box set, the DVD set it much smaller and has a different image of Freddy. He's standing with his back facing you on the DVD version.

The best gift ever
I got this collection as a gift to myself, and it is the best thing I've gotten all year!!! Wonderful gift for horror flick/ Freddy fans!!