
Gwen alerted the other parents, including Quentin's father Alan, but she tells the teenagers that Krueger escaped before he was arrested.
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Gwen explains that Nancy was his favorite and that she came home one day and told her mother about the things Krueger did to her in a secret location. Nancy's mother Gwen reluctantly tells Nancy and Quentin about Krueger, the preschool's groundskeeper who was accused of molesting the children, including Nancy. Nancy and her boyfriend Quentin Smith discover that they attended the same preschool.

As her friends die, Nancy questions everyone's connection to each other, given that none of them can remember each other before their teenage years. Jesse is arrested by the police under suspicion of murdering Kris and is killed by Krueger when he falls asleep in his jail cell. Covered in Kris' blood, Jesse runs to Nancy's house and learns that Nancy has been having nightmares about the same man - Freddy Krueger. Jesse Braun, Kris' ex-boyfriend, shows up to keep her company while she sleeps, but Kris meets the burned man in her dreams and is murdered. Kris begins to have nightmares about the burned man and then refuses to go to sleep for fear that she will die like Dean. At Dean's funeral, Kris sees a photograph of her and Dean as children but cannot recall knowing Dean before high school. In the dream, the burned man cuts Dean’s throat in reality Dean cuts his own throat as his friends Kris Fowles and Nancy Holbrook look on. While at the Springwood Diner, Dean Russell falls asleep at the table and meets a severely burned man in seared clothes wearing a bladed gardener's glove on his right hand. Despite mostly negative reviews, it grossed over $63 million at the domestic box office and over $115 million worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film in the franchise, behind Freddy vs. 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.Ī Nightmare on Elm Street had its world premiere at Hollywood on April 27, 2010, and was theatrically released in North America on April 30, 2010, by Warner Bros. Craven expressed his displeasure when he was not consulted on the project. Freddy's physical appearance was changed with the use of computer-generated imagery to be closer to that of a burn victim.īecause of the positive experiences Platinum Dunes' producers had in the area, A Nightmare on Elm Street was filmed primarily in Illinois. 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. 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. Eventually, they decided to use Craven's original storyline but tried to create a scarier film.
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The teenagers discover that they all share a common link from their childhood that makes them targets for Krueger.Ī 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. 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. Produced by Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes, it is a remake of Wes Craven's 1984 film of the same name and the reboot of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film stars Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, and Kellan Lutz. A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 American slasher film directed by Samuel Bayer, and written by Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer.
