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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$25,504,513
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$1,800,000
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
If Nancy Doesn't Wake Up Screaming, She Won't Wake Up At All!
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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Wes Craven is a giant in the world of horror movies and he knows how to check all the boxes to make a good movie. He can go with straight slasher movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Last House on the Left or twist the genre a little with Scream and add some dark humor to it, easily one of my favorite genres right now. Though the acting is a little stiff, A Nightmare on Elm Street firmly plants its flag along side Halloween and Friday the 13th as horror franchises go.
As the movie went on I kept thinking about how Wes Craven might do if given a genuinely well-written horror script to adapt to a movie. His attention to even the smallest detail would seem to make him a great director for just about any kind of movie though.