Released
A Nightmare on Elm Street
October 31 1984 (about 40 years ago)Rating
73
Based on
5134 reviews
If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming she won't wake up at all.
- Director: Wes Craven
- Genre: Horror
- Runtime: 1 h 31 m
- Budget: $1,800,000
- Box office: $57,004,513
- Countries: United States of America, United Kingdom
- Companies: New Line Cinema, Smart Egg Pictures, Media Home Entertainment, Cinema 84, The Elm Street Venture
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...
