A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Summary

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…

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• GENRES
  SlasherSupernatural
• SUBGENRES
  Cult ClassicRevengeSuburbsSupernatural Serial killerTeens
• STYLE
  Creative KillsHollywood
• STREAMING
  HuluShudder
• PEOPLE
  Wes Craven

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) is part 1 of 9 in the Nightmare on Elm Street series

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

New Nightmare (1994)

Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)