A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American horror film directed and written by Wes Craven, and the first film in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film features John Saxon,Heather Langenkamp, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Robert Englund and Johnny Depp in his feature film debut. Set in the fictional Midwestern town of Springwood, Ohio, the plot revolves around several teenagers being terrorized in their nightmares by the ghost of a serial child murderer named Freddy Krueger.