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A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984 · 91 min

Horror

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 a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

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Appeals to viewers who enjoy inventive supernatural slasher horror where ordinary teenage life gives way to escalating dream logic and visceral suspense.

Tone
dread, eerie, surreal
Payoff
scares, catharsis
Pacing
steady
Intensity
intense
Structure
linear
Themes
survival, parental guilt, adolescence, revenge, reality versus dreams
Setting
contemporary, suburban homes and surreal dreamscapes

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