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A Nightmare on Elm Street
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1088
- IMDb #1219
- Google retired #1783
- Rotten Tomatoes #707
- Metacritic #626
- Letterboxd #1401
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #673
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1184
- Metacritic Critics #985
- Metacritic Audience #319
- Criticker #1426
- AlloCiné #1763
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 52, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 93.
See the most agreed on films →The teenagers on Elm Street are haunted by the same terrifying nightmare: a disfigured man with a glove of razors. They soon discover that if you die in the dream, you die in reality. The friends must find a way to stay awake and uncover the dark secret that connects them to this dream demon, Freddy Krueger, before he picks them off one by one.
Details
- Director
- Wes Craven
- Writer
- Wes Craven
- Released
- 9 November 1984
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.8M
- Box office
- $57.0M
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Cast
Full cast (26) →
Awards
7 wins & 8 nominations total
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