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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Starring: Heather Langenkamp & Robert Englund Director: Wes Craven  Rated: Restricted
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Item Number: NEWL 10419D
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DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Special Edition
  • Widescreen - 1.85
  • Audio:

 Dolby Digital 5.1-EX Surround
 DTS-ES 6.1 Surround Sound
  • Additional Release Material:

 Alternate Ending
 Audio Commentary: Wes Craven; Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Jacques Haitkin.
 Featurette:
     1. "Never Sleep Again: The making of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET"
     2. "The House That Freddy Built: The Legacy of New Line Horror"
     3. "Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven's Nightmares"
  • Interactive Features:

 infiniFilm Interactive Features
 Pop-up Prompts
 Video Clips
  • DVD-ROM Features:

 Exclusive infiniFilm content

Entertainment Reviews:

Variety - 11/07/1984

"...A highly imaginative horror film that provides the requisite shocks to keep fans of the genre happy....Wes Craven tantalizingly merges dreams with the ensuing wakeup reality..."

Premiere - 04/01/2004

"Freddy became a mythic figure."

Ultimate DVD - 10/01/2006

5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is one of the few truly nightmarish horror movies ever made."

Entertainment Weekly - 10/27/2006

"[S]ome of the effects remain nicely repulsive; Freddy himself comes across as a genuinely nasty piece of work..." -- Grade: B-

Product Description:

A hellish, razor-fingered monster enters the dreams of the teenage residents of a bucolic town and systematically slaughters them in their sleep--until one courageous young woman does battle with the predatory fiend. An excellent, surprisingly surrealistic genre entry from the master, Wes Craven.

Plot Synopsis:

A replusive, decaying figure with razor-sharp appendages (and an even sharper sense of humor!) suddenly appears in the dreams of four Los Angeles teenagers. It is the ghost of Freddy Krueger, a suspected child murderer killed long ago by the neighborhood parents. Now he's able to exact his bloody vengeance by killing the teens off, one by one, as they sleep.
Finally just one girl remains. Desperately, she tries to stay awake by every means possible, but even pills and massive amounts of coffee wear off sometime -- and when they do, she'll have to battle Freddy for her very life.
It's her worst nightmare ... and it's coming true.

Plot Keywords:

Dreams | Essential Cinema | Killers | Monsters | Recommended | Revenge | Slasher | Supernatural | Suspense | Teenagers | Theatrical Release | Thriller

Production Notes:

  • Both Elite Laserdiscs (EE3734 & EE3733) are limited to editions of 5,000 units.
  • Color by DeLuxe.
  • Budget estimate $1.8 million.
  • Released in USA October 31, 1984.
  • The film's original running time was listed at 150 minutes, it is now listed at 91 minutes.
  • Feature film debut for actor Johnny Depp.
  • Although he directed only the first film, director/writer Wes Craven's "Nightmare on Elm Street" continued to fascinate horror movie buffs. Subsequently, four more films were made, all of them featuring Robert Englund as the infamous Freddy Krueger.
    The movie also led to a television series called "Freddy's Nightmares."
  • Rated BBFC 18 by the British Board of Film Censors.

Cast and Crew:

Starring Heather Langenkamp & Robert Englund
Directed by Wes Craven
Composition by Charles Bernstein
Director of Photography Jacques Haitkin
Performer John Saxon, Ronee Blakley & Johnny Depp
Special Makeup Effects by David B. Miller

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DVD Details:

  • Format: DVD
  • Genre: Horror
  • Label: New Line Home Video
  • Originally Released in: 1984
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Restricted
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Region: Region 1 encoding; USA & Canada.
  • Release Date: September 26, 2006
  • OLDIES.com Sales Rank: 31,396
  • Item Number: NEWL 10419D
  • UPC: 794043104190
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx); Counts as 2 items for International Shipping.

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