A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 supernatural slasher film about a group of teenagers who begin having terrifying dreams of a disfigured man with a glove of razor-sharp blades—Freddy Krueger. They soon realize that if Freddy kills them in their dreams, they die in real life. As the nightmare becomes deadly reality, one girl must uncover Freddy’s dark past and find a way to stop him. The film mixes horror and suspense, exploring fear, guilt, and the blurred line between dreams and reality.