<Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $1.8 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $25.5 million (US) </Td> </Tr> <P> A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, and the first film of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise . The film stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Robert Englund, and Johnny Depp in his feature film debut . The plot revolves around four teenagers who are stalked and killed in their dreams (and thus killed in reality) by Freddy Krueger . The teenagers are unaware of the cause of this strange phenomenon, but their parents hold a dark secret from long ago . </P>

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