When it comes to the sheer spark of its central idea, few horror films match up to the A Nightmare On Elm Street series. That’s because Freddy Krueger – the scarred, charred, knife-gloved serial killer – comes for his victims in their dreams, meaning that if you sleep, you die, often in gloriously outlandish ways owing to the malleable rules of the dreamworld. While it all began in Wes Craven’s 1984 all-time-classic – pitting Heather Langenkamp’s final girl Nancy Thompson against Freddy’s razor claw – over the course of a decade, seven Nightmare instalments cemented the series as a slasher saga fuelled by boundless imagination. Now, for the first time ever, all seven films are remastered in 4K Ultra-HD – the ultimate excuse to revisit them this Halloween.

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