A Nightmare on Elm Street is a motion picture.
A Nightmare on Elm Street . A Nightmare on Elm Street was met with rave critical reviews and went on to make a very significant impact on the horror genre , spawning a franchise consisting of a line of sequels , a television series , a crossover with Friday the 13th , beyond various other works of imitation ; a remake of the same name was released in 2010 . Slasher films are a subgenre of horror films , typically involving a violent psychopath stalking and murdering several people , usually with bladed tools .