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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 horror film directed by Wes Craven. It scores 7.4 on IMDb, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, 76 on Metacritic, 7.4 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 2 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 11 of 77 films from 1984 in our catalog and number 80 of 1,143 horror films.

Billed cast: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Johnny Depp, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, John Saxon.

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