A Nightmare on Elm Street

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    A Nightmare on Elm Street
    1984

    Synopsis

    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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    Cast

    • Heather LangenkampNancy Thompson
    • John SaxonLieutenant Donald Thompson
    • Ronee BlakleyMarge Thompson
    • Amanda WyssTina Gray
    • Jsu GarciaRod Lane
    • Johnny DeppGlen Lantz
    • Robert EnglundFred Krueger
    • Charles FleischerDr. King
    • Joseph WhippSgt. Parker
    • Lin ShayeTeacher

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Empire

      What makes Freddy truly terrifying, and an inspired invention on Craven's part, is that he exists not in the real world but in the shadowy realm of dreams.
    • 90

      Washington Post

      For such a low-budget movie, Nightmare on Elm Street is extraordinarily polished. The script is consistently witty, the camera work (by cinematographer Jacques Haitkin) crisp and expressive.
    • 88

      ReelViews

      A Nightmare on Elm Street is tailor made for those who like their gore leavened with thought-provoking ideas - something that is a rarity in this genre.
    • 83

      Entertainment Weekly

      Some of the effects remain nicely repulsive; Freddy himself comes across as a genuinely nasty piece of work, far removed from his later incarnation.
    • 80

      Empire

      Turning slumberland into a twisted murderer's den is a masterstroke by Craven, who has brought new blood to a genre that seemed as if it might choke on it's own excesses.
    • 80

      Variety

      A Nightmare on Elm Street is a highly imaginative horror film that provides the requisite shocks to keep fans of the genre happy.
    • 80

      Chicago Reader

      Here the idea of sleep as the ultimate threat is still fresh and marvelously insidious, and Craven vitalizes the nightmare sequences with assorted surrealist novelties.
    • 80

      Time Out

      There are some genuinely frightening dream sequences - and some throwaway black humour...it's all good scary fun."

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