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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Welcome to your new nightmare.

5.5(3,015)20101h 35m15

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

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Status
Released
Budget
$35M
Box office
$115.7M
Language
English
  • child abuse
  • dreams
  • supernatural
  • halloween
  • elementary school
  • remake
  • revenge
  • slasher
  • child molester
  • boiler room
  • burn victim
  • reboot

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Samuel Bayer

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR30 Apr 2010
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical187 May 2010
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalMA 15+20 May 2010
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical30 Apr 2010
    • Physical5 Oct 2010
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical21 May 2010
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical167 May 2010
  • BulgariaBG

    • TheatricalD21 May 2010
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Theatrical18+9 Jun 2010
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical1515 Jul 2010
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-1518 Jun 2010
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1212 May 2010
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1620 May 2010

Frequently asked questions

A Nightmare on Elm Street was released on 30 April 2010.

Audience reviews

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  • R

    RottenPop

    3/5/2017

    3/10

    This is a pretty movie. Its apparent from the start, that this remake of the 1984 classic, has a pretty good sized budget to work with. In fact the budget for this incarnation was $35 Million according to Wikipedia. The budget for the Wes Craven original, $1.8 Million. You don't always get a better movie if your budget is huge, look at Avatar. You just get a really pretty movie that looks polished and has flawless sp…

  • W

    Wuchak

    12/2/2018

    6/10

    ***A more realistic and morose version of the original film & franchise*** The specter of a dead pedophile fatally haunts the dreams of the children of his self-appointed executioners who burned him to death years earlier. Released in 2010, this is a reboot of the original 1984 movie, freely throwing in elements from other flicks in the franchise. I think Jackie Earle Haley works well as creepy Freddy Krueger a…

  • A

    Andre Gonzales

    4/18/2023

    7/10

    I really liked this new nightmare. I wish there was more action in it but still pretty good. I hope this is the start of a new Freddy movie series.

  • T

    tmdb97554867

    11/15/2025

    10/10

    **Unfairly Misunderstood Masterpiece.** I cannot express how unfairly judged and misunderstood this remake is. Instead of being another Elm Street sequel with the sole purpose of creative kills, jokes, unnecessary characters, and lazy revelations. The filmmakers decided to take a risky creative decision by reinterpreting Wes Craven's original ideas and retelling the story with a much more realistic tone. The dr…

  • D

    Dean

    8/1/2026

    7/10

    A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) earns a solid **7/10**. While it inevitably lives in the shadow of Wes Craven's 1984 original, this reboot succeeds by leaning into a much darker, meaner tone that respects the grim nature of its premise. Jackie Earle Haley steps into the role of Freddy Krueger with a menacing, gravelly intensity, shedding the campy wisecracks of the later sequels in favor of a genuinely unsettling ch…

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