A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Released on
- Runtime
- 91 mins
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...
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...
Cast
- Heather Langenkamp
- Robert Englund
- Johnny Depp
- John Saxon
- Ronee Blakley
- Amanda Wyss
- Jsu Garcia
- Charles Fleischer
- Joseph Whipp
- Ed Call
- Sandy Lipton
- Lin Shaye
- Joe Unger
- Mimi Craven
- Jack Shea
- David Andrews
- Jeff Levine
- Donna Woodrum
- Shashawnee Hall
- Carol Pritikin
- Brian Reise
- Ash Adams
- Don Hannah
- Leslie Hoffman
- Paul Grenier
- Kathi Gibbs
- Chris Tashima
- John Richard Petersen
- Robert Shaye
Director
- Wes Craven
Producers
- Robert Shaye
- John Burrows
- Sara Risher