A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Director: Wes Craven Run Time: 91 min. Release Year: 1984
Starring: Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, Ronee Blakley
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…
“With his peeling face, striped jersey and hideous killer mitt, Freddy has taken his rightful place alongside Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s Leatherface and the hockey-masked Jason Voorhees in cinema’s celebrated chamber of horrors.” ~ Simon Braund, Empire
Screening 10/11 + 10/23