10 Best High School Horror Movies
2. A Nightmare On Elm Street
One of several scaretastic masterpieces from horror maestro Wes Craven, this 1984 classic gave cinema one of its finest scumbags: Freddie Krueger.
We've all done it once or twice, nodded off in the midst of a boring class. What most of us have (hopefully) not done is wake up to the sight of a friend's bodybag-encased cadaver moving down the hallway. For Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp), this becomes a grisly fact of life.
In an era of silent, lumbering killers hunting unlikable teens, Freddie Krueger's war on the kids of those who (quite justifiably) executed him was a breath of fresh air. The witty, raspy-voiced Krueger's unique style of attack was a novel concept.
Everyone sleeps eventually but now your nightmares can all too easily kill you. Cue a sudden craving for stimulants across the board. Transforming what's meant to be among the safest places you can be into a land of supernatural homicide was inspired.
The high schoolers of Springwood are a curious bunch varying in sympathetic quality. Initially oblivious to the reasons behind Krueger's torment, their lives begin to blur the line between dreams and reality, offering an existential twist to proceedings. One of the first movies produced by New Line Cinema, the film (and its cascade of sequels) proved so popular that the studio was oft-nicknamed 'The House That Freddie Built'.