

A Nightmare On Elm Street
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- Common Sense Age 17+
- Critics Consensus 95%
- HD
- CC
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- Horror
- 1 Hour 31 Minutes
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4.6 • 523 Ratings
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Can your nightmares be fatal? In this classic of the horror film genre that launched a movie franchise, a hideously scarred pedophile who was murdered by a lynch mob returns years later in the terrifying nightmares of his killers' teenage children -- and the dreaming teenagers are starting to die in their sleep. Starring Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Johnny Depp ("Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," "Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy"), Golden Globe-winner John Saxon ("Enter the Dragon," "The Appaloosa"), Heather Langenkamp (TV's "Just the Ten of Us") and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger ("Urban Legend," "The Mangler").
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- Rent $3.99
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Can your nightmares be fatal? In this classic of the horror film genre that launched a movie franchise, a hideously scarred pedophile who was murdered by a lynch mob returns years later in the terrifying nightmares of his killers' teenage children -- and the dreaming teenagers are starting to die in their sleep. Starring Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Johnny Depp ("Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," "Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy"), Golden Globe-winner John Saxon ("Enter the Dragon," "The Appaloosa"), Heather Langenkamp (TV's "Just the Ten of Us") and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger ("Urban Legend," "The Mangler").
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- Rent $3.99
- Buy $9.99
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Ratings and Reviews
Critics Consensus: Wes Craven's intelligent premise, combined with the horrifying visual appearance of Freddy Krueger, still causes nightmares to this day.
First feature for knife-handed horror idol Freddy.
Cast & Crew
- Cast
- Amanda Wyss
- Blakely Ronee
- Charles Fleischer
- Heather Langenkamp
- John Saxon
- Johnny Depp
- Jsu Garcia
- Nick Corri
- Robert Englund
- Director
- Wes Craven
- Producers
- Robert Shaye
Information
- Studio
- New Line
- Genre
- Horror
- Released
- Copyright
- © 1984 New Line Productions, Inc.
Languages
- Primary
- English (Dolby 5.1, Stereo, CC)
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French (Stereo, Subtitles), Japanese (Subtitles)
Accessibility
- CC
- Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.