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At least, of the "Nightmare" series.
If I may digress, overall, I & II were the best. III was ... ok.
The "New Nightmare" was strange.
But, the opening dream sequence in II, with Freddy driving the school bus, is really terrifying.
After that scene, Freddy is a only a subtle presence until almost a third of the way through the movie - probably the least campy performance by Robert Englund of all of his "Freddy" portrayals.
And, you can tell this series started in the eighties - FK was originally a child molester, who became a child murderer after #1 (he was never called a molester again).
Guess it's hard to sell posters and t-shirts and whatnot to kids when there's a molester on the front, but a murderer, that's ok...
