A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · directed by Wes Craven
- Rating
- 78/100
- Hit
- no
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...
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), directed by Wes Craven, rates 78/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Heather Langenkamp
- Robert Englund
- Johnny Depp
- Amanda Wyss
- Jsu Garcia
- John Saxon
- Ronee Blakley
- Charles Fleischer
- Joseph Whipp
- Lin Shaye
Crew
- Jacques Haitkin — Director of Photography
- Patrick McMahon — Editor
- Rick Shaine — Editor
- Charles Bernstein — Original Music Composer
- Wes Craven — Writer
More from Wes Craven
- Scream (1996) — 73/100
- Paris Je T'aime (2006) — 72/100
- Red Eye (2005) — 69/100
- Scream 2 (1997) — 67/100
- Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) — 67/100
- The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) — 64/100
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