A Nightmare on Elm Street

Theatrical - Wide 2010-04-30

Cast Rooney Mara Kyle Gallner Katie Cassidy Thomas Dekker Kellan Lutz
Directed by Samuel Bayer
Written by Eric Heisserer Wesley Strick

Box Office Gross: $115,665,418

Running Time: 95 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Platinum Dunes, New Line Cinema

Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller

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3/10

Synopsis

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... See more 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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