A Nightmare on Elm Street

Movie Details

Title

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Original Title

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Genres

Horror

Tagline

If Nancy Doesn't Wake Up Screaming, She Won't Wake Up At All!

Release Date

14 November 1984

Overview

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 (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), 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 (Johnny Depp), must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

Director

Wes Craven

Actors

John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, Leslie Hoffman, Joe Unger, Charles Fleischer, Joseph Whipp, Lin Shaye, Mimi Craven, David Andrews, Jack Shea, Ed Call, Sandy Lipton, Jeff Levine, Donna Woodrum, Paul Grenier, Ash Adams, Don Hannah, Shashawnee Hall, Brian Reise, Carol Pritikin, Kathi Gibbs, John R. Peterson, Chris Tashima, Antonia Yannouli

Writer

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Author

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Producer

Robert Shaye, John Burrows, Sara Risher

Director of Photography

Jacques Haitkin

Original Music Composer

Charles Bernstein

Country

 United States of America

Languages

English

Runtime

1 h 31 min

Production

New Line Cinema, Smart Egg Pictures

Budget

$1,800,000

Certification

R

Revenue

$25,504,513

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