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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

R11/09/1984Horror1h 31m
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If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming she won't wake up at all.

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, 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...

Top Billed Cast

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    Heather Langenkamp

    Nancy Thompson

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    Robert Englund

    Freddy Krueger

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    Johnny Depp

    Glen Lantz

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    John Saxon

    Lieutenant Thompson

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    Ronee Blakley

    Marge Thompson

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    Amanda Wyss

    Tina Gray

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    Jsu Garcia

    Rod Lane

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    Charles Fleischer

    Dr. King

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    Joseph Whipp

    Sergeant Parker

This is the ultimate in slasher-horror that thrives on the basis that it is, at times, genuinely quite scary, and it doesn't take itself too seriously. Robert Englund is super as the legendary "Freddie Krueger" who, complete with his razor sharp right hand, takes over the dreams of the teenage children of parents who had been responsible for his gruesome death many years earlier. When a terrorised "Nancy" (Heather Langenkamp) begins to put two and two together she sets out with cute boyfriend "Glen" (a first outing for Johnny Depp ) to trap him in her world - and that means drinking enough cof...