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A Nightmare on Elm Street 91 minutes, USA (1984), 18
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Wes Craven kicks off the long-running horror franchise with this imaginatively scary horror yarn about a dead killer who starts murdering teens in their dreams

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A Nightmare on Elm Street: After making such cult horror classics as 1972's Last House on the Left and 1977's The Hills Have Eyes, then turning his hand to comic-book movies with the unsatisfactorily cheapo Swamp Thing (1982), Wes Craven hit the big time with this seminal schlocker...
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