A Nightmare on Elm Street

Name: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Director: Wes Craven
Genre: Horror
Released: 1984-11-09
Rating: 7.35

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

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Director: Wes Craven
Language: English
Released: 1984-11-09
Runtime: 1h 31m

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7.35,835 votes on TMDB

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The story

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...