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Welcome to your new nightmare.

Overview

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Rooney Mara

    Nancy Holbrook

  2. Cast 1

    Kyle Gallner

    Quentin Smith

  3. Cast 1

    Jackie Earle Haley

    Freddy Krueger

  4. Cast 1

    Katie Cassidy

    Kris Fowles

  5. Cast 1

    Thomas Dekker

    Jesse Braun

  6. Cast 1

    Kellan Lutz

    Dean Russell

  7. Cast 1

    Clancy Brown

    Alan Smith

  8. Cast 1

    Connie Britton

    Dr. Gwen Holbrook

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    Lia D. Mortensen

    Nora Fowles

This is a pretty movie. Its apparent from the start, that this remake of the 1984 classic, has a pretty good sized budget to work with. In fact the budget for this incarnation was $35 Million according to Wikipedia. The budget for the Wes Craven original, $1.8 Million. You don't always get a better movie if your budget is huge, look at Avatar. You just get a really pretty movie that looks polished and has flawless special effects. Again, see Avatar. That movie was nothing but flash. The story is unoriginal and weak... and don't try coming at me with this whole "Shut up man! Avatar proved itsel...