A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Welcome to your new nightmare.

Rating

3.0 (1)

Release Date

4/30/2010

Runtime

95 mins

Overview

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighbourhood 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 terrorises them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realise that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$35,000,000

Revenue

$115,664,037

Homepage

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How It Feels

Read from this film's synopsis, keywords and credits, and used to work out what it sits beside.

A relentlessly dark slasher that exploits the terrors of sleep itself, collapsing the boundary between nightmare and waking violence. Freddy Krueger emerges as a genuinely menacing figure driven by twisted justification rather than pure malice.

Mood

Dread-soakedParanoidUnsettlingClaustrophobic

Themes

GriefRevengeMemory

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Propulsive

Look

High-contrastStylized genrePractical effects

Structure

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Graphic violenceChild endangermentSexual violence

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