A Nightmare on Elm Street vs Black Phone 2
Black Phone 2 has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 5.5/10 for A Nightmare on Elm Street). A Nightmare on Elm Street is the shorter watch at 1h 35m compared with 1h 54m. A Nightmare on Elm Street is the older of the two (2010 against 2025). Both are horror, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Black Phone 2| A Nightmare on Elm Street | Black Phone 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.5/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2010 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 35m | 1h 54m |
| Genres | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Samuel Bayer | Scott Derrickson |
| Main cast | Clancy Brown, Katie Cassidy, Connie Britton, Christian Stolte, Thomas Dekker | Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies, Anna Lore, Demián Bichir, Mason Thames |
Synopsis
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.
Black Phone 2
Four years after escaping The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with his life after captivity. When his sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.
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