The Elm Street kids are having the same bad dream in which a malicious bogeyman in a stripey jumper with a hideously scarred face is terrorising them with knive

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Extented Reviews from James Berardinelli. Approved as a critic by Rotten Tomatoes. Fantasy novelist.

It drenches itself in an atmosphere of unreality positioned somewhere between waking and slumbering states.

Nightmare is the modern tabula rasa of the teen slasher genre.