“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.
Directed by Samuel Bayer
Written by Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer, Wes Craven
Produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller
Box OfficeBudget: $35.0MRevenue: $115.7M
Themes & Keywords
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About A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a horror, mystery, thriller film released in 2010 exploring themes of child abuse, dreams, supernatural, elementary school, remake, revenge. Directed by Samuel Bayer, it stars Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Jackie Earle Haley. 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.