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Nightmare on Elm Street, A
     
Nightmare on Elm Street, A
(1984) a US horror film (=a film that is intended to make you feel frightened) about a frightening character called Freddy Krueger who has knives instead of fingernails, and who appears in people's dreams and tries to kill them
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