A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all.

91 min★ 7.4 · 296,245 votes

• Horror

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...

Release date

November 9, 1984

Country of origin

United States

Music

Charles Bernstein

Budget

$1,800,000

Box office

$57,004,513