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A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984 · 1h 31m · Horror

IMDb 7.4 Metacritic 76 RT 94%

Watch it tonight—this is the horror classic that defined an era and created one of cinema's most iconic villains. Wes Craven's inventive direction and Johnny Depp's early star turn make this genuinely scary and endlessly rewatchable, even if you've seen it before.

Plot

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...

Director: Wes Craven

Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia

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