A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

USA
1984
91 minutes

A group of high school kids find out they're having similar nightmares with a disfigured man with knives for fingers – and start dying in their sleep. Efficient but somewhat dated horror programmer whose smart premise and inventive setpieces turned it into a box-office hit and started one of the longest and most successful horror-film series of the 1980s and 90s.

A New Line Cinema release. New Line Cinema, Media Home Entertainment and Smart Egg Pictures present a Robert Shaye production.
Starring John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri; introducing Johnny Depp; and Robert Englund.
Directed and written by Wes Craven; produced by Robert Shaye; music by Charles Bernstein; director of photography (DeLuxe), Jacques Haitkin; production designer, Greg Fonseca; costume designer, Dana Lyman; film editor, Rick Shaine; mechanical special effects designed by Jim Doule; special make-up effects, David Miller.
Screened: DVD, April 12th 2010. 

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