- Released
- November 16, 1984
- R, 1 hr 31 min
- Horror
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that A Nightmare on Elm Street is a slasher flick with a lot of over-the-top gore and violence, with the qualifier that it's often "nightmare," surreal violence. Nightmare visions include a face being torn off to reveal a staring skull, a geyser of blood pouring out of a victim's bed and pooling in defiance of gravity on the ceiling, and so forth. It's dream-like, but fatalities still result. The young people at the center of the film, though very highly evolved for horror-movie teens circa 1984, are still sexually active and at odds with their parents.
- VIOLENCE
- SEX
- LANGUAGE
- CONSUMERISM
- DRINKING & DRUGS