A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise) released in 2010, and a second remake is planned. The original film, written and directed by Wes Craven and titled "A Nightmare on Elm Street", was released in 1984. The story focuses on Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) attacking Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) and her friends in their dreams, successfully killing all but Nancy, in fictional Springwood, Ohio. Krueger's back-story is revealed by Nancy's mother, Marge, who explains he was a child murderer. The parents of Springwood killed Krueger after he was acquitted on a technicality. Nancy defeats Freddy by pulling him from the dream world and stripping him of his
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film) Street" is second in opening-weekend gross behind "Friday the 13th" with $40,570,365. The film sits ahead of the other Platinum Dunes remakes, which includes "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" ($28,094,014), "The Amityville Horror" ($23,507,007), and "The Hitcher" ($7,818,239). As of 2018, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is number nineteen on the list of top opening weekends for the month of April. In 2018, the remake is ninth in slasher films and eighth in horror remakes for all-time-highest-grossing films (unadjusted dollars). When comparing its opening weekends to other slasher films and horror remakes, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" sits in fifth spots