A Nightmare on Elm Street | English | Horror
1984 ‧ Mystery/Slasher ‧ 1h 41m
5.2/10
IMDb
15%
Rotten Tomatoes
76%
Metacritic
90% liked this film
Google users
DescriptionA young girl realises that she has to stay awake at any cost to avoid the psychotic killer who is butchering her friends one by one in their dreams.
Initial release: 9 November 1984 (USA)
Director: Wes Craven
Film series: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Box office: 2.55 crores USD (US)
Budget: 18 lakhs USD, 3.5 crores USD
Critic reviews
Part of this film's success was that writer-director Wes Craven made it at a time when banal, bloody copies of Friday the 13th (starring hockey-masked Jason) commonly filled theaters
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