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A Nightmare on Elm Street

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

2010 · R · 1h 35m

Curator Score5.5/ 10
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In theaters
April 30, 2010
Home release
May 7, 2010

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5.5

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Fear4.0
Gore6.0
Atmosphere7.0
Intensity6.0
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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.

Plot summary via TMDB

Genres

mysteryhorrorfantasythriller

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Setting

Content Warnings

Child endangermentSexual violenceSelf harm
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Directed by

Samuel Bayer

Cinematography

Jeff Cutter

Starring

Rooney Mara as Nancy Holbrook · Kyle Gallner as Quentin Smith · Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger · Katie Cassidy as Kris Fowles · Thomas Dekker as Jesse Braun · Kellan Lutz as Dean Russell · Clancy Brown as Alan Smith · Connie Britton as Dr. Gwen Holbrook

Production

New Line Cinema, Platinum Dunes

Budget

$35M

Box office

$115.7M

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