A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

★ 5.5 1h 35m 2,887 votes IMDb
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Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

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Cast

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara as Nancy Holbrook Age 41 · Bedford, New York, USA Patricia Rooney Mara (born April 17, 1985) is an American film and television actress. Mara made her acting debut in 2005 and has gone on to star in films including A Nightmare on Elm Street, the rema...
Kyle Gallner
Kyle Gallner as Quentin Smith Age 39 · West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Kyle Gallner (born October 22, 1986) is an American actor. He is best known for his work in the horror genre, starring in films such as Jennifer’s Body (2009), Smile (2022). Scream (also 2022), and St...
Jackie Earle Haley
Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger Age 64 · Northridge, California, USA Jackie Earle Haley (born Jack E. Haley; July 14, 1961) is an American film actor. Establishing himself from child actor to adult Academy Award-nominee, he is perhaps best known for his roles as Mooche...
Katie Cassidy
Katie Cassidy as Kris Fowles Age 39 · Los Angeles, California, USA Katherine Evelyn Anita "Katie" Cassidy (born November 25, 1986) is an American actress who has performed in The CW TV series Melrose Place, Supernatural, and Gossip Girl, and is considered to be a mod...
Thomas Dekker
Thomas Dekker as Jesse Braun Age 38 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Thomas Alexander Dekker (born December 28, 1987) is an American film and television actor and a musician. He is also a singer and has written and produced two albums. He is best known for his roles as...
Kellan Lutz
Kellan Lutz as Dean Russell Age 41 · Dickinson, North Dakota, USA Kellan Christopher Lutz (born March 15, 1985) is an American fashion model, and film and television actor, who is best known for playing Emmett Cullen in the Twilight series. He made his film debut i...

Audience Reviews

RottenPop 3/10 Mar 05, 2017
This is a pretty movie. Its apparent from the start, that this remake of the 1984 classic, has a pretty good sized budget to work with. In fact the budget for this incarnation was $35 Million according to Wikipedia. The budget for the Wes Craven original, $1.8 Million. You don't always get a better movie if your budget is huge, look at Avatar. You just get a really pretty movie that looks polished and has flawless special effects. Again, see Avatar. That movie was nothing but flash. The story is unoriginal and weak... and don't try coming at me with this whole "Shut up man! Avatar proved itself!" shut up! The larger budget in this case makes the movie look too polished to be takes seriously. Why the hell are we caring about watching clones of the Twilight teens being chased by Freddy Kruger? Were not. This movie didn't need a budget of $35 Million. It feels wasted. Some of the appeal of the original came from watching the director be a director and figure scenes out. This movie didn't do that. It felt trite and forced.

Freddy Kruger is less of a movie villain in the horror industry and more of an icon. Everyone I knew growing up all had Freddy Kruger nightmares when they were a kid. Perhaps this new version of Freddy will serve to scare the shit out of kids these days. I would hope so. Maybe when they remake this movie again in twenty years they will bitch about it then as well. Who knows.
Wuchak 6/10 Dec 02, 2018
***A more realistic and morose version of the original film & franchise***

The specter of a dead pedophile fatally haunts the dreams of the children of his self-appointed executioners who burned him to death years earlier.

Released in 2010, this is a reboot of the original 1984 movie, freely throwing in elements from other flicks in the franchise. I think Jackie Earle Haley works well as creepy Freddy Krueger and I like the more realistic tone, which some say makes movie bland and boring. Rooney Mara (Nancy) and Kyle Gallner (Quentin) are decent as the main protagonists and I think the bedroom scene is superior to the same attack scene in the original; it’s more shocking. The prison scene’s great too.

Unfortunately, the concept of Freddy is a bit of a mess. For instance, his bladed-glove is never explained. And what was the point of the boiler room since he was just a gardener at a small preschool? The filmmakers just threw in these elements because it's Freddy, figuring people knew the character. But how do these components fit into THIS movie? And what about viewers who never saw the original flicks?

The film runs 1 hours, 35 minutes and was shot in northern Illinois and nearby Gary, Indiana, with reshoots done in Los Angeles.

GRADE: B-/C+
Andre Gonzales 7/10 Apr 18, 2023
I really liked this new nightmare. I wish there was more action in it but still pretty good. I hope this is the start of a new Freddy movie series.
tmdb97554867 10/10 Nov 15, 2025
**Unfairly Misunderstood Masterpiece.**

I cannot express how unfairly judged and misunderstood this remake is. Instead of being another Elm Street sequel with the sole purpose of creative kills, jokes, unnecessary characters, and lazy revelations. The filmmakers decided to take a risky creative decision by reinterpreting Wes Craven's original ideas and retelling the story with a much more realistic tone.

The dream sequences are more symbolic and atmospheric. The story explores real-life portrayals of teens dealing with childhood trauma that has been repressed into adulthood. You get to witness their confusion, coping mechanisms, and strained relationships with their parents. The kills are more grounded and eerily reminiscent of suicides or tragic accidents. Freddy himself is given a proper origin, motive, and personality that isn't just a bunch of plastered-on sequel lore. You witness Freddy's transformation from a pathetic loser with a dark fantasy to the dream demon that has no restrictions.

I love the original and even gave it a 5/5, but this remake even surpasses that. I think many people might enjoy it far more if they truly gave it a chance.

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