Opening to a Horror film

                                                                Horror – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Certificate: 18
Director: Wes Craven

The opening scene is off a girl in abandoned warehouse. The music sets the tone which makes you feel tense. A Horror movie cliché is that you get scared while not seeing the killer at all. You see the main enemy (Freddy Krueger) only a couple of times. The only time you see him fully is at the end of the scene, where you are most likely to jump. The text is quite weird to show that the film is quite strange. The text is off the actors in the film and afterwards goes to the people with the smaller roles (casting and production designer). It goes to the bigger people in the film like the editor and the executive producer. You have to wait until the end to see who the director and in this case writer is, who is Wes Craven. If you were familiar to Craven’s work you would know that he had done Last House on the Left (1972) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), two of the most iconic horror movies of the 1970’s. Craven had created an iconic horror film character in Freddy Krueger as iconic as Jason in the Friday the 13th (1980-2001), with the two characters having a whole franchise, a new remake and also a film with them both in together, Freddy vs. Jason (2003).