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A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, and produced by Robert Shaye.[5] It stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Robert Englund, and Johnny Depp in his film debut. The plot concerns four teenagers living on one street in a fictitious town of Ohio, who are invaded and killed in their dreams, which results in being killed in reality, by a burnt killer with a bladed glove.
Wes Craven is a fictionalized version of the real 'Wes Craven' responsible for creating the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" movies. It is referred in film by Heather that Craven has moved on from making horror films, enjoying a series of successful films of other genres, until he is having nightmares which compelled him to make another entry of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series. He provides information and support to Heather when she began to experience strange events relating to the "Nightmare" films. Having nightmarish precognitive dreams every night, Craven hypothesizes that he has captured a demon in his story of Freddy Krueger when he created the films series; now that the films are no longer being made, the demon is trying to escape by going through Nancy, the original person to defeat Freddy. At the end of the film, Wes has left a script of the entire movie for Heather along with a Thank You message inside the cover, for defeating Freddy for good.
When comparing "A Nightmare on Elm Street" with the other top-grossing horror series—"Child's Play", "Friday the 13th", "Halloween", the Hannibal Lecter series, "Psycho", "Saw", "Scream", and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"—and adjusting for the 2010 inflation, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is the third highest grossing horror series, in the United States, at approximately $583.4 million. The series is topped by "Friday the 13th" at $671.5 million. Closely following "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is the Hannibal Lecter series with $579.4 million, then "Halloween" with $547.8 million, "Saw" with $404.5 million, "Scream" with $398.3 million, "Psycho" with $370.3 million, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with $314.6 million, and the "Child's Play" film series rounding out the list with approximately $199.7 million.
In 2008, Mezco Toyz Cinema of Fear Series 2 released a Nancy Thompson action figure—which recreates the famous bathtub scene in the original film. Within the same year, the Mezco Toyz Cinema of Fear Series 2 also released the diorama Screen Grabs: A Nightmare on Elm Street. The diorama recreates the bedroom scene in which Freddy creeps along the wall above a sleeping Nancy. McFarlane Pop Culture Masterworks released an "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3-D" poster, with Nancy featured prominently as the central figure. In 2002, NECA released an A Nightmare on Elm Street Snowglobe. The female within the globe resembles Nancy, with a stalking Freddy Krueger forming the globe's outside base. However, the product information never confirms if it is actually the character. In 2004, NECA also released a lunchbox and thermos set with the poster image from A Nightmare on Elm Street.
A Nightmare on Elm Street refers to installments in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series, an American horror franchise beginning with the 1984 film, "A Nightmare on Elm Street", and based on the fictional character Freddy Krueger, who stalks teenagers in their dreams and kills them. Most media within the franchise include the phrase, "A Nightmare on Elm Street", as part of their title.
His story arc in the remake is similar to that of Rod Lane's from the original 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'.
A Nightmare on Elm Street premiered in the United States with a limited theatrical release on November 9, 1984, opening in 165 cinemas across the country.[4] Grossing $1,271,000 during its opening weekend, the film was considered an instant commercial success. The film eventually earned a total of $25,504,513 at the American box office.[4] A Nightmare on Elm Street was released in Europe, Canada, and Australia.[40]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors is a 1987 American slasher film directed by Chuck Russell. The story was developed by Wes Craven and Bruce Wagner. It is the third installment in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series and stars Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Larry Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, and Robert Englund. The plot centers around the antagonist, Freddy Krueger, who seeks to murder the remaining children of the parents who burned him to death. The kids are committed to a mental hospital where Nancy Thompson, whose parents helped to kill Krueger, works. Freddy does not know that Nancy is training the kids to control their dreams in order to fight him. The film was followed by another sequel, "", a year later.
Following the critical failure of "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge", New Line Cinema was unsure if they would continue with the series. Wes Craven, who wrote and directed the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street", did not participate in the first sequel. He had not wanted the original to evolve into a franchise but co-wrote the screenplay for the third installment with the intention that it would end the series. The success of "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" prompted a continuation of the series.
Nancy Thompson is the only character featured in several "A Nightmare on Elm Street" merchandise. Kristen Parker is only featured in Screen Grabs: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (a diorama released by Mezco Toys in 2007). Debbie, in mid-transformation as a cockroach, is featured as a Cinema of Fear 4 action figure (released by Mezco Toys in 2009).
The 2010 remake's opening weekend put it ahead of the box office grosses for "" ($29,999,213), "A Nightmare on Elm Street" ($25,504,513), "" ($22,168,359), and "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" ($18,090,181). When breaking the inflation-adjusted grosses down by per theater capita, the 1984 film averaged $16,585 per cinema compared to the remake's $9,874. Comparing the film to other Platinum Dunes remakes, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is second in opening-weekend gross behind "Friday the 13th" with $40,570,365. The film sits ahead of the other Platinum Dunes remakes, which includes "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" ($28,094,014), "The Amityville Horror" ($23,507,007), and "The Hitcher" ($7,818,239). As of 2018, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is number nineteen on the list of top opening weekends for the month of April.
On May 22, 2009, the "Nightmare on Elm Street" film crew went on location to the city of Gary, Indiana to film scenes at a Methodist church. The studio had negotiated with the city for months before finally settling on a deal. According to Ben Clement, the executive director of the Gary Office of Film and Television, the studio was looking for "an architectural style that would fit the story line of the film". The film crew returned to the streets of Gary first in June to film a dream sequence that takes place on Elm Street and later in December to shoot some scenes in a diner.
To some extent Nancy reappears in "Wes Craven's New Nightmare". The story, which is set in the "real world", focuses on actress Heather Langenkamp being stalked by a malevolent entity. Over the course of the film, Heather learns from Wes Craven that the entity was locked in Freddy Krueger's character throughout the "Nightmare on Elm Street" film series. With the film series being ended after "" the entity has been set free, and wants to cross over into the real world in the form of Freddy Krueger. It views Heather as an enemy, seeing her as Nancy, who originally defeated him. In times, like Nancy, Heather's hair also went prematurely grey under the stress by Krueger's attacks. In order to battle the entity, who has kidnapped Heather's son Dylan Porter, Heather enters the dream world, where she traps him in a furnace and seemingly destroys him. However, it is referred by Krueger's creator that the entity is imprisoned to the film franchise's make-believe world once more. 
The popularity of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series has led to several comic book series published by Marvel Comics, Innovation Publishing, Trident Comics, Avatar Press and WildStorm Productions. After the success of "Freddy vs. Jason" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" remake film in 2003, New Line Cinema created their "House of Horror" licensing division which licensed the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise to Avatar Press for use in new comic book stories, the first of which was published in 2005. In 2006, Avatar Press lost the license to DC Comics imprint, WildStorm Productions who has since published several new stories based on the franchise.
Freddy's Favorites: Best of A Nightmare on Elm Street is a soundtrack album for the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series. It features "the best" of the soundtracks from the first six "Elm Street" films.
Craven filmed A Nightmare on Elm Street on an estimated budget of $1.8 million,[3] a sum the film earned back during its first week.[4] The film was released on November 9, 1984, where it went on to gross over $25 million at the United States box office.[4] A Nightmare on Elm Street was met with rave critical reviews and is considered to be one of the greatest horror films ever made, spawning a franchise consisting of a line of sequels, a television series, a crossover with Friday the 13th, and various other works of imitation. A remake of the same name was released in 2010.[6][7]
The basis for the original "Nightmare on Elm Street" has been said to have been inspired by several newspaper articles printed in the "LA Times" in the 1970s on a group of Khmer refugees, who, after fleeing to America from the Khmer Rouge Genocide in Cambodia, were suffering disturbing nightmares after which they refused to sleep. Some of the men died in their sleep soon after. Medical authorities called the phenomenon "Asian Death Syndrome". The condition itself afflicted only men between the ages of 19-57 and is believed to be sudden unexplained death syndrome and/or Brugada syndrome. The 1970s pop song "Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright sealed the story for Craven, giving him not only an artistic setting to "jump off" from, but a synthesizer riff from the "Elm Street" soundtrack as well. It has also been stated that he drew some inspiration after studying eastern religions.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a video game released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in October 1989 and 1990, loosely based on the "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise. It was developed by Rare and published by LJN. It should not be confused with an unrelated game with the same title for the Commodore 64 and IBM PC released in 1989.
Nancy's spirit appears in the story "Asleep at the Wheel" from the 1991 short stories collection "The Nightmares on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's Seven Sweetest Dreams", appearing in the dreams of the character Ian to warn him that Freddy is real and not just an urban legend or the result of mass hysteria.
As interest in the Golden Age slasher waned, Wes Craven's "A Nightmare on Elm Street" revitalized the genre by mixing fantasy and horror in a cost-effective way. Craven had toyed with slasher films before in "Deadly Blessing" (1981), though he was frustrated the genre he had helped create with "The Last House on the Left" (1972) and "The Hills Have Eyes" (1977) had not benefited him financially. Developing "A Nightmare on Elm Street" since 1981, Craven recognized time running out due to declining revenues from theatrical slasher film releases. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and especially its villain Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) became cultural phenomenons. On a budget of just $1.8 million the film sold over 7 million tickets in North America and launched one of the most successful film franchises in history. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" provided the success that New Line Cinema needed to become major Hollywood company; to this day, New Line is referred to as "The House That Freddy Built." The final slasher film released during the Golden Age, "The Initiation," was greatly overshadowed by "A Nightmare on Elm Street", (though both films feature dreams as plot points and a horribly burned "nightmare man"). The success of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" welcomed in a new wave of horror films that relied on special effects, almost completely silencing the smaller low-budget Golden Age features.
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" was released on April 30, 2010, to 3,332 theaters and approximately 4,700 screens, making it the twelfth-widest opening for an R-rated film in the United States. Comparatively, the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street" was only released to 165 theaters at its opening on November 9, 1984 and by the end of its box office run its widest release was 380 theaters. The 2010 remake holds the record for widest "A Nightmare on Elm Street" release, beating out "Freddy vs. Jason" by 318 theaters. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 5, 2010. The DVD's only feature is a featurette, "Freddy Krueger Reborn". The Blu-ray special features include the DVD's featurette along with a deleted scene, an alternate opening and ending, and the Maniacle Movie Mode.
Alice Johnson is a fictional character and a protagonist in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise, portrayed by Lisa Wilcox. She was created by William Kotzwinkle and Brian Helgeland. She appears as a main character in two of the nine "A Nightmare on Elm Street" films, first appearing in Renny Harlin's "" (1988). In 1989, Alice returned in Stephen Hopkins' "" before going on to appear in the comic book adaptions, novels, and "Freddy vs. Jason" (2003) through archive footage. In "", Alice has the ability to gain the "dream powers" of Freddy Krueger's victims. In "", Freddy begins to use Alice's unborn son Jacob as a way to return. In the original script for "" (1991), Alice was set to return but this idea was eventually scrapped.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 American slasher film directed by Samuel Bayer, and written by Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer. The film stars Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, and Kellan Lutz. It is a remake of Wes Craven's 1984 film of the same name. Produced by Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes, the film was designed to reboot the "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise and is the ninth film in the series. The film is set in a fictitious town of Ohio and centers around a group of teenagers living on one street who are stalked and murdered in their dreams by a disfigured man named Freddy Krueger. The teenagers discover that they all share a common link from their childhood that makes them targets for Krueger.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge is a 1985 American slasher film directed by Jack Sholder and the second installment in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series. David Chaskin wrote the screenplay. It stars Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. Patton plays Jesse Walsh, a teenager who, after moving into the home of Nancy Thompson, begins to have recurring nightmares about Freddy Krueger who is out to possess him in order to kill in the real world. It is the sequel to "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984) and is followed by "" (1987). The film grossed $30 million at the North American box office.
Each week "Freddy's Nightmares" told a different story of a dark rooted and/or grim nature that took place in the fictitious town of Springwood, Ohio, and in particular, on Elm Street; the same setting as the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" films. Though the Freddy Krueger character would occasionally play a part in the plot, most of the stories did not involve him (it was, however, often hinted that Krueger indirectly influenced the desolate nature of the plotlines).