A Nightmare on Elm Street
47% overall puts A Nightmare on Elm Street near the middle of the pack. The round data tells a sharper story: strong in semis, a different film in finals. Freddy Krueger is horror's great showman — charismatic where other slasher villains are silent, funny where they're mechanical. That personality makes this an unusually persuasive pick in a bracket full of more "serious" horror, because fun is a legitimate reason to choose a film.
Synopsis
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...
60% in the semis, 15% in finals. A Nightmare on Elm Street doesn't just struggle in the final — it barely registers. The round that should crown a champion exposes a film that isn't one.
Halloween at 51% is as close to a dead heat as the platform produces. Every vote matters in this one. The extremes tell a clear story — 100% against Tin Soldier at one end, 5% against The Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the other.
Featured in All Time Horror Classics.
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