A Nightmare on Elm Street returning to the series in a cameo role. A Nightmare on Elm Street A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, and produced by Robert Shaye. It stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Robert Englund, and Johnny Depp in his film debut. The plot focuses on four teenagers, living on one street in a fictitious town of Ohio, whose dreams are invaded by a burnt killer with a bladed glove. In the dreams, the teenagers are killed, but they also die in reality. The teenagers do
A Nightmare on Elm Street (comics) Nightmares", exclusively in the United Kingdom. The series contained no original material, instead opting to reprint Innovation's "Freddy's Dead" adaptation, the first two issues of Innovation's "Nightmares On Elm Street" and the first issue of Marvel's "Freddy Krueger's: A Nightmare on Elm Street". Despite the title of the series, it has no direct connection, other than the depiction of the Freddy Krueger character, to the "Freddy's Nightmares" television series which aired in 1988. In May 2005, Freddy Krueger returned to comic books, for the first time in thirteen years, with the "A Nightmare On Elm Street Special" written by former