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A Nightmare on Elm Street
UNITED STATES · 1984

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Wes Craven
supernatural revenge dream logic parental guilt teenage vulnerability
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Synopsis

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise

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