One by one, the teenagers of Springwood, Ohio are dying in their sleep, and only a long-dead man named Fred Kreuger can be blamed. Together, the kids realize they can only face their worst nightmare by making it real. Perhaps the most influential horror film of the 1980s, Elm Street’s got everything a genre fiend could want: gory deaths, an iconic monster, surreal set design, plenty of camp value, and a surprisingly catchy nursery rhyme. Directed by the legend himself, Wes Craven.