“A Nightmare on Elm Street,” if you’ve seen it, what are your thoughts on it?

It is unlikely that you will be able to judge how scary a film is completely objectively. If you watch Freddy Krueger on TV through an old cathode-ray tube, where there are advertisements at every turn, the sound quality is terrible, and, as a rule, the TV is not turned up as loud as you would like, then you are guaranteed a viewing experience with a few exciting, but generally not very frightening moments. However, if you take a more or less modern film (like the aforementioned "The Ring"), sit in front of a huge plasma TV on a sofa, surrounded by a $10,000 home theater system, turned up loud enough to make the neighbors' chandeliers shake (although you can turn it down a bit :)), then I can guarantee that watching it will give you more pleasure than watching the same film in a regular movie theater. Of course, the first case is too bleak, and the second is utopian, but you need to understand that the viewing conditions can play a cruel trick on a truly scary film, turning it into just a beautiful production.