- Title: A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Original Title: A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Release Date: 09/11/1984
- Tagline: If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming she won't wake up at all.
- Budget: $1,800,000.00
- Duration:91 Min / 01:31
- Country:USGB
- Genre:Horror
About Film
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...
Movie Rating: 7.3
Total Votes: 5284
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John Chard
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 bogeyman into the open.
Stupendous horror...
kdumers
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!!!
SoSmooth1982
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.
Geronimo1967
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 children of parents who had been responsible for his...
