A Nightmare on Elm Street - Region 1

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Directed by :

Wes Craven

Starring :

John Saxon

Robert Englund

Heather Langenkamp

Amanda Wyss

Johnny Depp

Ronee Blakley

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Description: Wes Craven's 1984 horror film is a better movie than it is generally credited for being. Forget the tawdry sequels; this highly original, almost surrealist work stars Robert Englund as a mutilated monster who kills teenagers during their dreams. Craven, who only directed one Elm Street sequel (Wes Craven's New Nightmare), takes the Hitchcockian step of layering in psychological explanations for the terror and then proving them all irrelevant in the face of mindless evil. The horror in the film is emotionally raw, in contrast to the overimaginative set pieces of most of the sequels that followed; and the final scene is as deeply ... (more)

Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Release date: 7 September 1999
Number of discs: 1

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