A Nightmare on Elm Street
Welcome to your new nightmare.
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.
- Worldwide
- $116M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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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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Box Office & Release
A Nightmare on Elm Street returned 3.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $35M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $116M
- Release date
- Apr 30, 2010
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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