Film
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Fri, Jul 24, 2015
- 4:30PM
- 9:30PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 91min
RATED: R
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $14
MEMBERS: $7 (free for Level 4 and above)
SENIORS/STUDENTS/VETERANS: $10 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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July 2015
Friday July 24, 2015
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2015
series Indie 80s
Directed by Wes Craven | 1984
With Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, John Saxon
"Wes Craven tantalizingly merges dreams with the ensuing wakeup reality."
—Variety
The rake-handed Freddy Krueger clawed his way into our collective nightmares with this low-budget horror milestone, which solidified New Line Cinema’s reputation as an intrepid indie film studio. On suburban Elm Street, teens are being terrorized in their sleep by a boogeyman who kills them in their dreams—a device that allows Craven to unleash a phantasmagoria of disturbingly surreal imagery. Look for a baby-faced Johnny Depp in his first major role. Funded by the then-fledgling New Line Cinema, the movie’s runaway success stabilized the company—later known as “the house that Freddy built.”
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