A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street

2010 · 95 min · EN · R · 5.5 (3,005 votes)
Dir. Samuel Bayer · Starring Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Jackie Earle Haley, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz · Music Steve Jablonsky

“Welcome to your new nightmare.”

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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.

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This film plunges you into a relentlessly bleak and paranoid nightmare, where the line between waking and dreaming blurs with terrifying consequences. It's a grim, unsettling experience, constantly building a sense of inescapable dread as characters grapple with a pervasive, shadowy threat that preys on their deepest fears and hidden pasts.

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