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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Plot Summary

Dean Russell falls asleep at a diner and is attacked by Freddy Krueger, a burned man wearing a bladed gardener’s glove on his right hand. In the dream, the burned man cuts Dean’s throat; in reality, Dean cuts his own throat as his friends Kris Fowles and Nancy Holbrook, who works in the same diner, look on in horror. At Dean’s funeral, Kris sees a photograph of herself and Dean as children but cannot recall knowing Dean before high school. She begins to have nightmares about the burned man and refuses to go to sleep for fear that she will die like Dean. Accompanied by her ex-boyfriend Jesse Braun, Kris falls asleep and is brutally murdered by the burned man.

Covered in Kris’s blood, Jesse runs to Nancy’s house and learns that Nancy has been having nightmares about Freddy Krueger. Jesse is arrested under suspicion of murdering Kris and is killed by Krueger in his jail cell. As her friends die, Nancy questions everyone’s connection to each other, given that none of them can remember each other before their teenage years. Nancy and her friend Quentin Smith discover that they attended the same preschool. Nancy’s mother, Gwen, reluctantly tells them about Krueger, the preschool’s groundskeeper, who was accused of molesting the children, including Nancy, who was his favorite.

Gwen alerted the other parents, including Quentin’s father, Alan, but Krueger escaped. Believing there is more to the story, Nancy attempts to track down the remaining kids from the school but discovers that all of them have been killed; only she and Quentin are left. Meanwhile, Quentin falls asleep and sees a flashback of the parents, led by Alan, hunting Krueger down and burning him alive. As a result of their insomnia, Nancy and Quentin experience sporadic microsleeps and become hypnagogic, causing them to hallucinate.

Meet the Cast

A Nightmare on Elm Street
Rooney Mara
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Kyle Gallner
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Jackie Earle Haley
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Katie Cassidy
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Thomas Dekker
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Kellan Lutz
Clancy Brown
Connie Britton
Lia D. Mortensen
Christian Stolte
Kurt Naebig
Andrew Fiscella

Info & Stats

Director:

Samuel Bayer

Writers:

Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer, Wes Craven

Stars:

Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner

Categories:

Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Budget:

$35,000,000.00

Revenue:

$115,665,418.00

Age: R   |   Duration: 1h 35m

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