A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street

7.3/ 10

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1984

Release Year

91 min

Runtime

Horror

Overview

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...

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Keywords

dreams

nightmare

psychopath

sleep

child murder

supernatural

ohio

murder

slasher

trapped

alcoholic

boiler room

booby trap

disfigurement

medical test

nightmare becomes reality

caffeine

shocking

vexed

frantic

grim

desperate

anxious

supernatural horror

suspenseful

frightened

b-horror

suburban gothic

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Cast

John Saxon

John Saxon

Lt. Donald Thompson

Ronee Blakley

Ronee Blakley

Marge Thompson

Heather Langenkamp

Heather Langenkamp

Nancy Thompson

Amanda Wyss

Amanda Wyss

Tina Gray

Jsu Garcia

Jsu Garcia

Rod Lane

Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp

Glen Lantz

Charles Fleischer

Charles Fleischer

Dr. King

Joseph Whipp

Joseph Whipp

Sergeant Parker

Robert Englund

Robert Englund

Fred Krueger

Lin Shaye

Lin Shaye

Teacher

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Reviews(4)

8.5avg rating

John Chard

John Chard

May 3, 2015

9

9/10

Dream Attack. The kids of Elm Street appear to be having the same bad dream, one in which a scarred faced bogeyman in a stripy jumper hunts them with knives attached to his fingers. When the dream becomes a reality for one of the kids, and the worst happens, Nancy Thompson risks all to bring the …

John Critic

John Critic

@kdumers

April 3, 2022

10

10/10

5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My personal favorite slasher horror film that goes well with my Halloween costume, which itself is an accessory to this horror treasure of the 1980s decade!!!

Andre Gonzales

Andre Gonzales

@SoSmooth1982

April 17, 2023

8

8/10

The nightmare that started it all. Made us all scared to go to to sleep. My favorite horror series next to Friday the 13th. Love this movie.

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 8, 2023

7

7/10

This is the ultimate in slasher-horror that thrives on the basis that it is, at times, genuinely quite scary, and it doesn't take itself too seriously. Robert Englund is super as the legendary "Freddie Krueger" who, complete with his razor sharp right hand, takes over the dreams of the teenage child…

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