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{{About|the soundtrack to the 2010 film|the soundtrack to the 1984 film|A Nightmare on Elm Street#Music{{!}}''A Nightmare on Elm Street''#Music}}
{{Infobox album
| name         = A Nightmare on Elm Street (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
| type         = film
| cover        = A Nightmare on Elm Street (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).jpg
| alt          = 
| artist       = [[Steve Jablonsky]]
| released     = April 27, 2010
| recorded     = 2009–2010
| genre        = [[Film score]]
| length       = 49:55
| label        = [[WaterTower Music]]
| producer     = [[Steve Jablonsky]]
| misc         = {{Extra chronology
 | artist     = [[Steve Jablonsky]]
 | type       = film
 | prev_title = [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – The Score|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]
 | prev_year  = 2009
 | title      = A Nightmare on Elm Street
 | year       = 2010
 | next_title = [[Your Highness]]
 | next_year  = 2011
}}
}}
'''''A Nightmare on Elm Street (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)''''' is the [[soundtrack]] to the 2010 film [[A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film)|''A Nightmare on Elm Street'']]; a [[remake]] of [[Wes Craven]]'s [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|1984 film]], as well as the ninth overall installment of the [[A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise)|''Nightmare on Elm Street'' franchise]]. The film's original score is composed by [[Steve Jablonsky]] and released through [[WaterTower Music]] on April 27, 2010, three days before the film's release.

== Development ==
Steve Jablonsky composed the film's original music who integrated and re-interpreted elements from [[Charles Bernstein (composer)|Charles Bernstein]]'s score for the original film; although he opined on not including the original film's theme.<ref name="scoring">{{cite news |last=Goldwasser |first=Dan |date=March 26, 2010 |title=Steve Jablonsky scores ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' |url=http://www.scoringsessions.com/news/216/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117103706/http://scoringsessions.com/news/216/ |archive-date=November 17, 2011 |access-date=March 26, 2010 |publisher=ScoringSessions.com}}</ref> According to the producer, [[Brad Fuller (producer)|Brad Fuller]], the score was reminiscent of the 1980s with the use of synthesizers and instruments from that era.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weintraub |first=Steven |date=2010-02-22 |title=Producers Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller On Set Interview A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET |url=https://collider.com/producers-andrew-form-and-bradley-fuller-on-set-interview-a-nightmare-on-elm-street/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140804221100/https://collider.com/producers-andrew-form-and-bradley-fuller-on-set-interview-a-nightmare-on-elm-street/ |archive-date=2014-08-04 |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=Collider |language=en}}</ref> Jablonsky and Y. Suzette Moriarty orchestrated a 60-piece string orchestra from the [[Hollywood Studio Symphony]], conducted by [[Nick Glennie-Smith]], with the film's director [[Samuel Bayer]] watched the orchestral sessions.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Giroux |first=Jack |date=2010-04-29 |title=Interview: Director Samuel Bayer Talks 'Nightmare on Elm Street' |url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/interview-director-samuel-bayer-talks-nightmare-on-elm-street-f22bb27ff901/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240225050248/https://filmschoolrejects.com/interview-director-samuel-bayer-talks-nightmare-on-elm-street-f22bb27ff901/ |archive-date=2024-02-25 |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=Film School Rejects |language=en-US}}</ref> Besides the orchestra, a 15-person children's choir also employed to perform the main theme.<ref name="scoring" /> Although, 65 minutes of music had been recorded for the film, only around 50 minutes of music had been included in the soundtrack.<ref name="WaterTower">{{cite news |date=April 22, 2010 |title=WaterTower Music to Release "A Nightmare on Elm Street" Feature Film Soundtrack on April 27, 2010 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2010/04/22/idUS225641+22-Apr-2010+BW20100422 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714140240/http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/04/22/idUS225641+22-Apr-2010+BW20100422 |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |access-date=June 24, 2014 |work=Reuters |publisher=Business Wire |location=Burbank, California |quote="A Nightmare on Elm Street" is being distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.}}</ref>

== Reception ==
Hugh Hart of ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' wrote "by the sixth or seventh variation on the "Oh my God, it’s Freddy!" theme, the novelty wears off, despite daggerlike orchestrations from composer Steve Jablonsky".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Hart |first=Hugh |date=2010-04-30 |title=Review: Scary Freddy Haunts Nightmare on Elm Street's Sleepy Victims |url=https://www.wired.com/2010/04/review-nightmare-on-elm-street/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222065841/https://www.wired.com/2010/04/review-nightmare-on-elm-street/ |archive-date=2016-12-22 |access-date=2024-06-14 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}</ref> [[A. O. Scott]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' described it as "creepy",<ref>{{Cite news |last=Scott |first=A. O. |date=2010-04-29 |title=Freddy Krueger Is Back, With Sharp Claws and a Long Memory |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/movies/30nightmare.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505151718/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/movies/30nightmare.html |archive-date=2010-05-05 |access-date=2024-06-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and Dennis Harvey of [[Variety (magazine)|''Variety'']] called it as "horrifying".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harvey |first=Dennis |date=2010-04-29 |title=A Nightmare on Elm Street |url=https://variety.com/2010/film/markets-festivals/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-1117942656/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220230523/https://variety.com/2010/film/markets-festivals/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-1117942656/ |archive-date=2015-12-20 |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Track listing ==
{{Track listing
| headline = ''A Nightmare on Elm Street (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'' track listing
| title1 = Freddy's Coming for You
| length1 = 4:28
| title2 = Main Title 
| length2 = 2:35
| title3 = Missing Pictures
| length3 = 2:22
| title4 = Rufus?
| length4 = 1:34
| title5 = Quiet Drive 
| length5 = 1:48
| title6 = Jesse and Kris
| length6 = 1:07
| title7 = Jesse and the Police
| length7 = 2:50
| title8 = You Smell Different
| length8 = 2:14
| title9 = A Man Named Fred Krueger
| length9 = 5:03
| title10 = Research
| length10 = 2:22
| title11 = It's Hot in Here
| length11 = 3:12
| title12 = The School
| length12 = 0:52
| title13 = Where the Monster Lives
| length13 = 4:51
| title14 = Wake Me Up
| length14 = 4:55
| title15 = Boo
| length15 = 1:06
| title16 = Like It Used to Be
| length16 = 5:32
| title17 = One More Nap
| length17 = 2:44
| title18 = Jump Rope
| note18 = written by [[Charles Bernstein (composer)|Charles Bernstein]]
| length18 = 0:20
| total_length = 49:55
}}

== Personnel ==
Credits adapted from liner notes.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |author=Steve Jablonsky |title=A Nightmare on Elm Street (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |year=2010 |url=https://www.watertower-music.com/release/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-original-motion-picture-score/ |publisher=[[WaterTower Music]] |archive-date=2023-08-10 |access-date=2024-06-14 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810232234/https://www.watertower-music.com/release/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-original-motion-picture-score/}}</ref>
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'''Production'''
* Composer – Steve Jablonsky
* Producer – Steve Durkee, Steve Jablonsky
* Additional music – Jay Flood
* Sound design – Clay Duncan
* Sound engineer – Daniel Kresco
* Recording and mixing – Jeff Biggers
* Mastering – Stephen Marsh
* Vocals – Dahlia Low
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'''Orchestra'''
* Conductor – Nick Glennie-Smith
* Orchestra contractor – Peter Rotter
* Supervising orchestrator – Y. Suzette Moriarty, Steve Jablonsky
* Additional orchestration – Elizabeth Finch, Frank Macchia, Geoff Stradling
* Music preparation – Booker White
* Concertmaster – Endre Granat 

'''Choir'''
* Choir – Claire Gershon, Clara Logan, Colin Clarke, Emily Logan, Emma Gunn, Hana Culbraith, Joel Thomas Anderson, Joshua Britt, Kaylin Anderson, Kylan Brooks, Lexi Gunn, Maia Culbraith, Mariah Britt, Sally Stevens, Susie Logan, Teri Koide
* Choir contractor – Sally Stevens
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'''Instruments'''
* Cello – Andrew Shulman, Armen Ksajikian, Cecelia Tsan, Christina Soule, Christine Ermacoff, Dane Little, David Speltz, Dennis Karmazyn, Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Jennifer Kuhn, John Walz, Paula Hochhalter, Steve Richards, Suzie Katayama, Timothy Loo, Vanessa Freebairn-Smith, Steve Erdody
* Double bass – Bruce Morgenthaler, Christian Kollgaard, David Parmeter, Drew D Dembowski, Edward Meares, Michael Valerio, Oscar Hidalgo, Richard Feves, Nico Abondolo
* Drums – Jon Darling
* Viola – Andrew Duckles, Darrin McCann, David Walther, Gina Coletti, Jennie Hansen, Keith Greene, Luke Maurer, Maria Newman, Matthew Funes, Robert Becker, Roland Kato, Shawn Mann, Victoria Miskolczy, Brian Dembow, Maria Newman
* Violin – Alyssa Park, Belinda Broughton, Bruce Dukov, Charlie Bisharat, Darius Campo, Dimitrie Leivici, Eun-Mee Ahn, Jacqueline Brand, Josefina Vergara, Katia Popov, Kenneth Yerke, Kevin Connolly, Lisa Sutton, Lorenz Gamma, Mari Tsumura, Natalie Leggett, Phillip Levy, [[Roberto Cani]], Searmi Park, Serena McKinney, Shalini Vijayan, Sid Page, Tamara Hatwan, Julie Ann Gigante
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== References ==
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