A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — So Many Scares Begins

The one that started it all — Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — and the first episode of our October So Many Scares series on the Nightmare franchise.

Garrett's Blockbuster-kid origin story with slashers, David's first-ever watch, a $1 million budget that turned into $57 million worldwide, Tulsa's own Heather Langenkamp as the final girl who fights back, the "old man writing what teenagers say" dialogue, David's modest proposal that Freddy get two claw hands, the ending nobody can agree was a dream, Letterboxd reviews, and a score game Josh wins by a tenth of a point.