Film pick: Nightmare on Elm Street

Nearly everyone panned Wes Craven's new My Soul To Take, so if you want to restore your faith in the director, or you just want to get the crap scared out of you, take another look at Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). This is what real dreaming is like, not the glossy set designs of Inception. Doomed to be battered to inanity by recurrent sequels, the original remains a horror classic, and you can see it at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline | October 22-23 @ midnight | $9 | 617.734.2500 or coolidge.org.