A Nightmare on Elm Street

• 1984
• 91 min
• Horror
• US
• GB

Directed by Wes Craven

Springwood: quiet streets, trimmed lawns, porch lights. Then the lights go out. Teenagers close their eyes and meet a burned man in a battered hat, blades fixed to his glove. One by one, they die in their sleep, and no one believes Nancy Thompson, the daughter of a local cop. She digs into the town's past and uncovers what the parents buried years ago. Sleep is no longer safe. To stop him, Nancy must pull the nightmare into the waking world.