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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Horror

A Nightmare on Elm Street

If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all.

7.3(5,813) 11/9/1984 1h 31m
Horror

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...

Part of the A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection
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Top Cast

Heather Langenkamp

Heather Langenkamp

Nancy Thompson

Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp

Glen Lantz

Robert Englund

Robert Englund

Fred Krueger

Amanda Wyss

Amanda Wyss

Tina Gray

Jsu Garcia

Jsu Garcia

Rod Lane

John Saxon

John Saxon

Lt. Donald Thompson

Ronee Blakley

Ronee Blakley

Marge Thompson

Charles Fleischer

Charles Fleischer

Dr. King

Directed by

Wes Craven

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Reviews

John Chard

9/10

5/3/2015

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 bogeyman into the open. Stupendous horror movie, one that not even the ream of sequels, spin- offs and cartoons could ever diminish. Wes Craven creates a film of utter terror, unleashing one of the genres most famous monsters on the unsuspecting film loving public, with Robert Englund as the hideous Fred Krueger having the time of his life slashing away and delivering oral venom. A number of scenes and sequences are staggeringly memorable, in the process shifting into horror movie folklor

John Critic

10/10

4/3/2022

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

8/10

4/17/2023

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

7/10

6/8/2023

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 children of parents who had been responsible for his gruesome death many years earlier. When a terrorised "Nancy" (Heather Langenkamp) begins to put two and two together she sets out with cute boyfriend "Glen" (a first outing for Johnny Depp ) to trap him in her world - and that means drinking enough coffee to sink the Titanic and staying awake! Ronee Blakely does a mean impersonation of Faye Dunaway - as the girl's almost permanently drunk mother (whose battles seem to get larger as the film progres

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