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"Did you know that after the heart stops beating, the brain keeps working for well over seven minutes? We still have six more minutes to play."
Freddy Krueger
A Nightmare on Elm Street
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Credits
Title: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Director: Samuel Bayer
Writers: Wesley Strick; Eric Heisserer
Producers: Michael Bay; Andrew Form; Brad Fuller; Richard Brener; Mike Drake; Michael Lynne; Dave Neustadter; Robert Shaye; John Rickard; Erik Holmberg
Composer: Steve Jablonsky
Cinematography: Jeff Cutter
Editors: Glen Scantlebury
Production
Distributed by: New Line Cinema; Platinum Dunes; Warner Bros.
Released: April 30th, 2010
Rating: R
Running time: 102 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Budget: $27,000,000 [1]
Gross: $115,660,453 [2]
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A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 slasher film directed by Samuel Bayer and produced by New Line Cinema and Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes. The film is a "re-imagining" of Wes Craven's 1984 horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, which went on to spawn six sequels and a crossover film with contemporary slasher Jason Voorhees. The movie stars Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen, Human Target) as Freddy Krueger, a hideously burned demonic figure who stalks his victims in their nightmares.

Plot[]

Official synopsis
"Nancy, Kris, Quentin, Jesse, and Dean all live on Elm Street. At night they're all having the same dream -- of the same man, wearing a tattered red and green striped sweater, a beaten fedora half-concealing a disfigured face, and a gardener's glove with knives for fingers. And they're all hearing the same frightening voice...

One by one he terrorizes them within the curved walls of their dreams, where the rules are his and the only way out is to wake up.

But when one of their number dies a violent death, they soon realize that what happens in their dreams happens for real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. Turning to each other, the four surviving friends try to uncover how they became part of this dark fairy tale, hunted by this dark man. Functioning on little to no sleep, they struggle to understand why them, why now, and what their parents aren't telling them.

Buried in their past is a debt that has just come due, and to save themselves, they will have to plunge themselves into the mind of the most twisted nightmare of all... Freddy Krueger." [3]

Cast[]

Actor Role
Jackie Earle Haley Freddy Krueger
Kyle Gallner Quentin Smith
Rooney Mara Nancy Holbrook
Katie Cassidy Kris Fowles
Thomas Dekker Jesse Braun
Kellan Lutz Dean Russell
Clancy Brown Alan Smith
Connie Britton Gwen Holbrook
Lia D. Mortensen Nora Fowles
Julianna Damm Little Kris
Christian Stolte Jesse's father
Katie Schooping Knight Creepy little girl #1
Hailey Schooping Knight Creepy little girl #2
Leah Uteg Creepy little girl #3
Don Robert Cass History teacher
Kurt Naebig Dean's father
Kyra Krumins Little Nancy
Brayden Coyer Little Jesse
Max Holt Little Dean
Andrew Fiscella Inmate
Bob Kizer Swim coach
Pete Kelly Officer
Jason Brandstetter County jail cop
Rob Riley Minister
Scott Lindvall Paramedic
Dominick Coviello Pharmacist
Parker Bagley Paxton
Jennifer Robers Dean's mom
Tania Randall Nurse
Logan Stalzer Little Logan
Christopher Woods Little Christopher

Notes[]

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street closed out of theaters on July 15th, 2010. It was screened for eleven weeks, totaling 77 days. [4]
  • This is the first professional film work for actor Max Holt.

Fun Facts[]

  • This movie marks the directorial film debut for Samuel Bayer. Bayer previously directed music videos for artists such as Green Day and Blink 182.
  • Jackie Earle Haley actually auditioned for the part of Glen Lantz in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, which went to actor Johnny Depp who went along with him to the audition. [5]
  • How wacky is it that there is actually an actor in this film whose name is Tim Krueger. In this film he plays a parental mob member. It is safe to assume however that he is not related to everybody's wisecracking dream demon, Freddy Krueger.

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