A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Don't fall asleep! Freddy Krueger returns to everyone's nightmares in this contemporary re-imagining of the Wes Craven horror classic from Michael Bay (Transformers films) and horror-script maestro Wesley Strick (Cape Fear). Watchmen's Jackie Earle Haley plays the razor-fingered iconic killer who haunts the dreams of teenagers and kills them in their sleep. Smallville's Kyle Gallner, Supernatural's Katie Cassidy, Terminator's Thomas Dekker, Twilight's Kellan Lutz and more try to ward off the nocturnal attacks. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another ... but once they fall asleep, there is no escape. Delving deeper and darker into the nightmare world and tortured past of the killer Krueger, this new incarnation revisits Elm Street and one of New Line's most lucrative franchises.

• horror
• thriller