

A Nightmare on Elm Street
Welcome to your new nightmare.
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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5.5/10
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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
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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
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A Nightmare on Elm Street was released on 30 April 2010.
Audience reviews
5- R3/10
RottenPop
3/5/2017
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…
- W6/10
Wuchak
12/2/2018
***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…
- A7/10
Andre Gonzales
4/18/2023
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.
- T10/10
tmdb97554867
11/15/2025
**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…
- D7/10
Dean
8/1/2026
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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