A Nightmare on Elm Street movie

In the dreams of his victims, a specteral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him.

Released on November 9, 1984 by New Line Cinema, the film stars Robert Englund as Fred Krueger (subsequently known as "Freddy Krueger"), Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson, Ronee Blakley as mother Marge Thompson, John Saxon as father Lt. Donald Thompson, Amanda Wyss as Tina Grey, Nick Corri as Rod Lane and Johnny Depp as Glen Lantz.Written by Craven, a former English teacher, the films premise is the question of where the line between dreams and reality lies. The villain, Freddy Krueger, thus exists in the "dream world" yet can kill in the "real world".

Sequels to the original would continue to blur the distinction between dream and reality before finally challenging the line between film and reality by showing Heather Langenkamp, playing a fictionalized version of herself, haunted by the villain of a series of films she has starred in.Craven produced the film on an estimated budget of just $1,800,000,John Kenneth Muir, "Career Overview" in Wes Craven: The Art of Horror (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 1998), p. 18, ISBN 0786419237. yet grossed $1,271,000 at the United States box office in its opening weekend.A Nightmare on Elm Street at Box Office Mojo; last accessed August 30, 2006. To date, its total domestic grossings has been calculated at $25,504,513. Numerous critics praised the films ability to rupture "the boundaries between the imaginary and real,"Ian Conrich, "Seducing the Subject: Freddy Krueger, Popular Culture and the Nightmare on Elm Street Films" in Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and its Audience, ed. Deborah Cartmell, I.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street Cast

• Amanda Wyss
• Charles Fleischer
• Ed Call
• Heather Langenkamp
• Jack Shea
• Joe Unger
• Johnny Depp hot
• Joseph Whipp
• Jsu Garcia
• Lin Shaye
• Mimi Craven
• Robert Englund
• Ronee Blakley
• Sandy Lipton