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A Nightmare on Elm Street
If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all.
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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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Wes Craven
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John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Johnny Depp, Charles Fleischer, Joseph Whipp, Robert Englund, Lin Shaye
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all.
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7.3/10
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94%
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84%
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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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