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The poster features a woman with pale skin and dark hair, her expression intense as she gazes forward. She is surrounded by menacing, metallic creatures with glowing red eyes and sharp claws. The background is dark with hints of blue and red lighting, creating a suspenseful and eerie atmosphere. ...

A Nightmare on Elm Street

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

1984 · Movie · 91 minAges 15+· Updated Apr 2026
⭐7.3
🍅94%
🍿84%
76
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🌐English
Budget:$2MBox Office:$57MRated:R

Also see:

A Nightmare on Elm Street(2010)Remake

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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...

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a film that explores themes of dreams, nightmare, psychopath. It also touches on sleep and child murder and supernatural.

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Director

Wes Craven

Cast

John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Johnny Depp, Charles Fleischer, Joseph Whipp, Robert Englund, Lin Shaye

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In a contemporary review, Kim Newman wrote in the Monthly Film Bulletin that A Nightmare on Elm Street was closer to a Stephen King adaptation with its small-town setting, and "invented monster...

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The poster features a woman with pale skin and dark hair, her expression intense as she gazes forward. She is surrounded by menacing, metallic creatures with glowing red eyes and sharp claws. The background is dark with hints of blue and red lighting, creating a suspenseful and eerie atmosphere. ...

A Nightmare on Elm Street

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

1984•⭐ 7.3•91 min•Ages 15+•Updated Apr 2026
🌐English
Budget:$2MBox Office:$57MRated:R
⭐

IMDb

7.3/10

🍅

RT Critics

94%

Certified

🍿

RT Audience

84%

76

Metacritic

Also see:

A Nightmare on Elm Street(2010)Remake

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...

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a film that explores themes of dreams, nightmare, psychopath. It also touches on sleep and child murder and supernatural.

Director

Wes Craven

Cast

John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Johnny Depp, Charles Fleischer, Joseph Whipp, Robert Englund, Lin Shaye

What Critics Say

In a contemporary review, Kim Newman wrote in the Monthly Film Bulletin that A Nightmare on Elm Street was closer to a Stephen King adaptation with its small-town setting, and "invented monster...

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