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Description of this A Nightmare on Elm Street Poster
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American horror film written and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Robert Shaye. It is the first installment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, and Johnny Depp in his feature film debut.
Craven shot A Nightmare on Elm Street on an estimated budget of $1.1 million. The film was released on November 9, 1984, and grossed $57 million worldwide. A Nightmare on Elm Street received critical acclaim and is considered one of the greatest horror films ever made, spawning a franchise that includes six sequels, a television series, a crossover with Friday the 13th, various other spin-offs, and a remake of the same name. Along with Cascades, Polyester, and Alone in the Dark, it was one of the first films produced by New Line Cinema, which, at the time, primarily distributed films, allowing the company to become a successful mini-major film studio and was even nicknamed “The House that Freddy Built.”
The film is credited with utilizing many of the tropes found in low-budget horror films of the 1970s and 1980s, which can be traced back to John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978). The film includes a morality play where promiscuous teenagers are killed. Critics and film historians claim that the premise of the film is the struggle to define the distinction between dreams and reality, manifested through the lives and dreams of the teenagers in the film. Later reviews praise the film’s ability to transgress “the boundaries between the imaginary and the real,” playing with audience perceptions. The film was followed by A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge.
In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress because it is “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
Teenage girl Tina Gray wakes from a terrifying nightmare in which a disfigured man wearing a blade-like glove attacks her in a boiler room. Her mother points out four mysterious gashes on her nightgown. The next morning, Tina’s best friend, Nancy Thompson, and Nancy’s boyfriend, Glen Lantz, console her by revealing that they too had a nightmare the night before. They stay at Tina’s house when her mother goes out of town and discover that Nancy also had a nightmare about the disfigured man. Tina’s boyfriend, Rod Lane, interrupts their sleepover. When Tina falls asleep, she dreams of the disfigured man chasing her. Rod is awakened by Tina’s twitching and sees her being dragged and fatally slashed by an unseen force, forcing him to run away while Nancy and Glen wake up to find Tina dead and bloody. The next day, Nancy’s police officer father, Don Thompson, arrests Rod despite his innocence. At school, Nancy falls asleep in class and dreams of the man chasing her to the boiler room where she is cornered. She then deliberately burns her arm on a pipe. The burn jolts her awake in class, and she notices a burn mark on her arm. Nancy visits Rod at the police station, who describes Tina’s death as well as his own recent nightmares about the same man stalking her in her dreams, leading Nancy to believe the man killed Tina. At home, Nancy falls asleep in the bathtub and is nearly drowned by the man. Nancy then relies on caffeine to stay awake and invites Glen to watch over her while she sleeps. In her dream, Nancy sees the man preparing to kill Rod in his cell, but he then turns his attention to her. Nancy runs away and wakes up when her alarm goes off. The man kills Rod by wrapping sheets around his neck, staging a suicide by hanging. At Rod’s funeral, Nancy’s parents become concerned when she describes her dreams. Her mother, Marge, takes her to a clinic specializing in sleep disorders where, in a dream, Nancy grabs the man’s hat, which has the name “Fred Krueger” written on it, and pulls him into the real world.
After barricading the house, Marge explains that Krueger was a crazed child murderer who killed 20 children but was released on a technicality, then burned alive by the victims’ parents who lived on their street in search of vigilante justice. Nancy realizes that Krueger, now a vengeful ghost, is killing her and her friends out of revenge and to satisfy his psychopathic needs.
Nancy tries to call Glen to warn him, but her father prevents her from speaking to him. Glen falls asleep and is killed by Krueger. Now alone, Nancy puts Marge to sleep and asks Don, who is across the street investigating Glen’s death, to break into the house in 20 minutes. Nancy sets traps around the house and brings Krueger out of the dream and into the real world. The traps affect Krueger enough that Nancy is able to set him on fire and lock him in the basement. Nancy rushes to the door for help. The police arrive to find that Krueger has escaped from the basement. Nancy and Don go upstairs to find a burning Krueger suffocating Marge in her bedroom. After Don puts out the fire, Krueger and Marge disappear into bed. When Don leaves the room, Krueger gets out of bed behind Nancy. Realizing that Krueger is fueled by his victim’s fear, she calmly turns her back on him. Krueger vanishes when he tries to lunge at her.
Nancy steps out into a clear, foggy morning where all her friends and her mother are still alive. Nancy is getting into Glen’s convertible to go to school when the green-and-red-striped top suddenly lowers, trapping them inside the car, which drives uncontrollably down the street. Three girls in white dresses are heard playing jump rope while singing Krueger’s nursery rhyme, while Marge is grabbed by Krueger through the front door window.