Screening of Wes Craven's horror film 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at the Tampa Theatre.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is playing at the Tampa Theatre on Monday, October 19, as part of the venue's Halloween programming. It's Wes Craven's 1984 slasher, the one that introduced Freddy Krueger and his glove of razors, and it's being screened on the big screen rather than at home.
If you've seen it a dozen times, it's a different experience in a theater. The film works on a simple, unsettling premise: a group of teenagers are hunted in their sleep by a killer who can enter their dreams, so the only way to survive is to stay awake. It's the kind of movie that's built for a crowd—the tension builds in the quiet moments, and the jumps are meant to be shared with a room full of people. Seeing it on a theater screen brings back the original scale of Craven's dream sequences, which are far more effective when they fill your entire field of vision.
The screening is part of the theater's Halloween lineup, so it's one of several horror titles they're running leading up to the holiday. It's a good way to get into the spirit of the season a few weeks early, especially if you're into the classics of the genre. If you've never seen it, this is a chance to catch one of the most influential horror movies of the eighties in the setting it was made for.
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The screening starts at 7 PM at the Tampa Theatre, 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602.
