One of the things that made the originals so memorable was how surreal the horror was. I mean, Freddy is an eldritch abomination that can manipulate dreamscapes ffs. That's pretty tits. Turning into a giant snake and devouring people, gorging a girl on rotten food until she's distended and chokes on her own vomit, and using a kid's tendons and ligaments to make marionette strings so he can control him like a puppet just to name a few of Freddy's famous hallucinogenic murders.
If you take the movies at face value then you may not like them. Plenty of new wave synths and outdated special fx to go around, and by about the third one they had completely jumped the shark and made Freddy a cartoonish pun factory. Your mileage may vary, but I haven't met a single person who's seen them and didn't like them to some extent.
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