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A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 American horror film...
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Robert Shaye. It is the first installment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and stars Heather Langenkamp , John Saxon , Ronee Blakley , Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and Johnny Depp in his film debut.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American supernatural slasher media franchise consisting of nine films, a television series, novels, comic books, and various other media. The franchise began with the film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), written and directed by Wes Craven.
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THIS SECTION IS BEING WORKED ON. A man is shown in a boiler roomwalking toward a worktable, picking a paper sack up off the floor on the way. Upon dumping the contents of the sack (which are several metal pieces) onto the worktable, which already has various items on it, he picks up one of the metal pieces with his right hand and then picked up a k...
John Saxon as Lt. Donald ThompsonRonee Blakley as Marge ThompsonHeather Langenkamp as Nancy ThompsonAmanda Wyss as Tina GrayA Nightmare on Elm Street premiered in the United States on a limited theatrical release on November 9, 1984, opening in 165 cinemas across the country. The film performed moderately well commercially with little advertising — relying mostly on commercial advertisements and word-of-mouth. Grossing US$1,271,000 during its opening weekend, the film w...
Since its initial release, critics have praised the film's ability to rupture "the boundaries between the imaginary and real," toying with audience perceptions. Some film historians interpreted this overriding theme as a social subtext, "the struggles of adolescents in American society". Variety said the film was "A highly imaginative horror film t...
The 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street's huge success also brought up several high quality sequels, and some of them even received higher reception than the original. In 1985, one year after the first film's release, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge was released, grossed over $29.9 million domestically and received very negative re...
The original cut was rated X, and the MPAA forced Wes Craven to remove 5 seconds from Tina's death and 8 seconds from Glen's death before giving the film an R rating. Glen's death was gradually restored to Craven's original version, with 6 seconds restored for the initial home video release and the remaining 2 seconds for the DVD release, but Tina'...
The scene where the blood shoots out of Glen's bed was actually filmed upside down.The confusing ending of the movie was due to producer Robert Shaye wanting a scary ending. Wes Craven intended the movie to have a happy ending that when Nancy wakes up after defeating Freddy, she...This movie was filmed from 11th June to 13th July 1984.THIS CONTENTS OF THIS SECTION NEED TO BE TRANSFERRED TO A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984 FILM)/GALLERY AND THEN THIS SECTION NEEDS TO BE DELETED.
Apr 30, 2010 · A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 American horror film reboot of the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise that was written by Eric Heiresser and directed by music video director Samuel Bayer. To date, it is a stand alone film and it reuses elements of all seven films of the A Nightmare on Elm...
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Nov 16, 1984 · A Nightmare on Elm Street: Directed by Wes Craven. With John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss. Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in ...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street: Directed by Samuel Bayer. With Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy. The spectre of a disfigured man haunts the children of the parents who murdered him, stalking and killing them in their dreams.
