A Nightmare on Elm Street movie poster

A Nightmare on Elm Street

5.5/10

Rating

95 min

Runtime

2010

Release Year

Samuel Bayer

Director

Cast

Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Jackie Earle Haley, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker

Quick Synopsis

In a suburban neighborhood, a group of teenage friends—Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse, and Dean—begin experiencing the same disturbing dream about a severely disfigured man wearing a worn sweater and a glove fitted with knives. This figure attacks them within their dreams, and they can only avoid harm by waking up. However, as the friends start dying in violent ways that mirror the dream attacks, they come to understand that the dangers in their dreams have real consequences. To survive, they must find a way to stay awake and confront the threat that blurs the line between sleep and reality.

Detailed Synopsis of A Nightmare on Elm Street

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.

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