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A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

Directed by Wes Craven · Cinematography by Jacques Haitkin

R91 min47 frames

Horror

If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all.

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What is A Nightmare On Elm Street about?

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, and produced by Robert Shaye. It is the first installment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, and Johnny Depp in his film debut. The film's plot concerns a group of teenagers who are targeted by Krueger, an undead child killer who murders teenagers through their dreams, as retribution against their parents who burned him alive. Craven loosely based the screenplay on a series of news stories about Hmong refugees dying in the middle of nightmares.

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Sampled across 47 frames, the coverage of A Nightmare On Elm Street leans on close-ups (45% of the sample) and medium shots (28%). Cinematographer Jacques Haitkin keeps 70% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 81% of the frames. Focus stays shallow in 70% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1980s.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) are #0e0a0d, #2f2b29, #11152c, #281510, #2a2f4a, #f7f6f4 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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