A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, and produced by Robert Shaye.
It is the first installment in the" A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series and stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, and Johnny Depp in his film debut.
The plot concerns four teenagers living on one street in the fictitious town of Springwood, Ohio, who are invaded and killed in their dreams, and thus killed in reality, by a burnt killer with a bladed leather glove.
Craven filmed" A Nightmare on Elm Street" on an estimated budget of$ 1.8 million, a sum the film earned back during its first week.
The film was released on November 9, 1984, where it went on to gross over$ 25 million at the United States box office.
" A Nightmare on Elm Street" was met with rave critical reviews and is considered to be one of the greatest horror films ever made, spawning a franchise consisting of six sequels, a television series, a crossover with" Friday the 13th", and various other merchandise.
A remake of the same name was released in 2010.
The film is credited with using many of the tropes found in the low- budget horror films of the 1970s and 1980s that originated with John Carpenter's" Halloween"( 1978) and led this subgenre to be called the slasher film.
The film includes a morality play where sexually promiscuous teenagers are killed.
Critics and film historians state that the film's premise is the struggle to define the distinction between dreams and reality, manifested by the lives and dreams of the teens in the film.
Critics today praise the film's ability to transgress" the boundaries between the imaginary and real", toying with audience perceptions.
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Richard Rosson( April 4, 1893 – May 31, 1953) was an American film director and actor.
As an actor, he was known for the nearly 100 films he was in during the silent era.
As a director, he was a co-director of the 1932 film" Scarface".
Blonde or Brunette is a surviving 1927 silent film comedy directed by Richard Rosson, produced by Famous Players- Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures.
It starred Adolphe Menjou, Greta Nissen and Arlette Marchal.
Copy held at Library of Congress.
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
A Wet Dream on Elm Street is a 2011 pornographic horror film written and directed by Lee Roy Myers and starring Sophie Dee, Gracie Glam, Giselle Leon, Tommy Pistol, Jennifer White, Chris Johnson, Charley Chase, and Anthony Rosano.
It is a parody of the 1984 horror film classic" A Nightmare on Elm Street".
Niki Marvin is a film producer active since the 1980s.
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Samuel David Bayer( born February 17, 1962) is an American visual artist, cinematographer, and commercial, music video and film director.
Bayer was born in Syracuse, New York.
He graduated from New York City's School of Visual Arts in 1987 with a degree in Fine Arts.
He relocated to Los Angeles in 1991, where he continues to live and work.
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 American slasher film directed by Samuel Bayer, and written by Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer.
The film stars Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, and Kellan Lutz.
It is a remake of Wes Craven's 1984 film of the same name.
Produced by Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes, the film was designed to reboot the" Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise and is the ninth installment in the series.
The film is set in a fictitious town of Ohio and centers around a group of teenagers living on one street who are stalked and murdered in their dreams by a disfigured man named Freddy Krueger.
The teenagers discover that they all share a common link from their childhood that makes them targets for Krueger.
In January 2008, Variety reported that Bay and his Platinum Dunes production company would be rebooting the" Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise with a remake of the original 1984 film.
" A Nightmare on Elm Street" was originally to follow the same design as Platinum Dunes' other remake," Friday the 13th", where the writers took the best elements from each of the films in the original series and created a single storyline with them.
Eventually, they decided to use Craven's original storyline but tried to create a scarier film.
To that end, they decided to remove the one- line quipping Freddy, who had become less scary and more comical over the years, and bring back his darker nature.
The writers developed the character to be a child molester, something that Craven wanted to do originally in 1984 but changed to a child killer instead.
Freddy's physical appearance was changed with the use of computer- generated imagery to be closer to that of a burn victim.
Because of the positive experiences Platinum Dunes' producers had in the area," A Nightmare on Elm Street" was filmed primarily in Illinois.
Craven expressed his displeasure when he was not consulted on the project.
Robert Englund, who portrayed Freddy in the previous eight films, voiced his support of the remake and the casting of Haley in the role of Freddy.
" A Nightmare on Elm Street" was produced by New Line Cinema and had its world premiere at Hollywood on April 27, 2010, and was theatrically released in North America on April 30, 2010, by Warner Bros.
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The film received generally negative reviews from critics, who criticized the teenage characters and story while offering some praise for Bayer's direction and Haley's performance.
Regardless," A Nightmare on Elm Street" broke the record for midnight openings for a horror film and grossed more in its opening weekend than the total gross of four other" Nightmare on Elm Street" films.
The film earned over$ 63 million at the domestic box office and over$ 115 million worldwide.
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.

Question: Do director of film Blonde or Brunette and director of film A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film) share the same nationality?
Answer: yes