A Nightmare on Elm Street - at least Freddy has a good time
The movie starts like no other before it, with a menacing figure in the dimly lit workshop putting on the signature glove on, topped with steely knives. Each time I watch this scene, I am somehow always surprised with how unsettling the scene is. The screen is minimised significantly, which makes me feel like I'm voyeuristically watching Freddy (Robert Englund) carry out his gathering in his man cave through a small window. Within the first few minutes, I feel like I am not welcome into this world because of the cinematography, from this I can only expect the movie to surprise me at every turn. This opening scene is accompanied by heavily creepy organ music, very similar to a church hymn. (The Church of Freddie and Fedora's perhaps?) Jarringly, the goofy graphics that next appear on screen makes me feel strangely nostalgic, and I wasn't even alive in the 80's. I really wish horror movies these days embraced goofiness more in horror movies, it's always more...