A Nightmare on Elm Street vs Cure
Cure has the higher audience score (7.6/10 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 52m. Cure is the older of the two (1997 against 2010). Both are horror, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Cure| A Nightmare on Elm Street | Cure | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.5/10 | ★ 7.6/10 |
| Year | 2010 | 1997 |
| Length | 1h 35m | 1h 52m |
| Genres | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | Japan |
| Director | Samuel Bayer | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Main cast | Clancy Brown, Katie Cassidy, Connie Britton, Christian Stolte, Thomas Dekker | Ren Osugi, Denden, Yoriko Doguchi, Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara |
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.
Cure
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
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