you can not deny that wes craven original nightmare on elm street be horror of great significance and and although dreadfully overrate and it be a pretty clever and spooky film that introduce the legendary icon of freddy krueger . it be obvious right from the start that none of the several sequel would ever live up to the original and this first attempt immediately confirm so . despite a dazzling intro and show a school bus race through a nightmarish wasteland with freddy at the wheel and this be a very tame and soft teenage horror flick and completely lacking coherence and logic . the story supposedly take place 5 year after the initial elm street event and the house where nancy live have be sell to the walsh family . the adolescent son jesse begin to suffer from nightmare in which freddy krueger order him to kill in his shape . the screenplay be a series of stupidity and continuity error but the whole thing basically be an excuse to show fairly impressive visual effect and so who care about the story anyways . jesse transformation into freddy krueger be well stag and the murder he commit be decently gore . several sequence and scenery do not make the slight bit of sense ( explode parakeet and guard dog with child face ) and the suspense element of the original have vanish entirely . the acting be considerably good and even though the hero scream like a little girl and the heroine look like meryl streep young sister . at least in this first sequel and robert englund doesn not constantly fire off unfunny and embarrass one liner .