Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in... Read allTeenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 6 nominations
- Rod Lane
- (as Nick Corri)
- Nurse
- (as Mimi Meyer-Craven)
- Coroner
- (as Jeffrey Levine)
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- TriviaNew Line Cinema was saved from bankruptcy by the success of the film, and was jokingly nicknamed "The House that Freddy Built".
- GoofsIn the full-screen version, during the first nightmare sequence right before Freddy pops up to scare Tina, you can see Robert Englund as Freddy crouched down and moving into place behind her; however, at the time of the film's release, director Wes Craven would assume that only the wide-screen version would eventually be available for home viewing. You can't see Englund behind Tina in the wide-screen version.
- Quotes
Children: One, two, Freddy's coming for you. / Three, four, better lock your door. / Five, six, grab your crucifix. / Seven, eight, gonna stay up late. / Nine, ten, never sleep again.
- Crazy creditsFilm title logo as the end credits are finished.
- Alternate versionsThe German television version is heavily cut, allowing for an earlier time slot. The cuts are:
- When Tina is sliced by Freddy Krueger, we don't see how he slices her chest and is pulled to the ceiling.
- In Tina's last dream we don't see when Freddy cuts his own fingers off his hand. Later, there is a scene where Freddy's face is pulled off by Tina. This scene is also missing.
- When Nancy meets Freddy for the first time, we can't see when he slices his abdomen and when Nancy puts her arm on the hot pipe.
- When Rod's neck is broken by Freddy Krueger, we only see Rod looking at the "snake", before it kills him.
- The scene where the dead Tina is talking to Nancy while snakes are coming out her dress is also cut.
- Glen's famous dead scene is also cut. We only see how he is sucked in his bed. The bloody, second half is cut.
- When Nancy is burning Freddy, we only see the fire reach his feet, then it cuts to Nancy calling her dad.
- The scene where Freddy is killing Nancy's mother by burning her is also cut.
- These changes were also made in the German video version, which has a "not under 16 years" rating. The uncut version is sometimes shown on Pay-Per-View and is rated "not under 18 years."
- ConnectionsEdited into The Kill Count: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 Remake) (2018)
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Written and Produced by Martin Kent, Steve Karshner, Michael Schurig
Those are the good parts. The bad parts are the lame acting (excluding Johnny Depp) and the laziness of the script. It really, really hurts this movie that so little attention is paid to the parents. They are barely even IN the movie, even though the entire premise revolves around them! The backstory about these seemingly nice parents, in a quiet suburban town, viciously killing a man (child murderer or not), and keeping it a big town secret, is a neat idea that is just briefly mentioned like an afterthought ("Oh, by the way honey, all of us parents burned a man to death when you were a kid. Now go to bed, OK?"). The implication is that Freddie is getting revenge on the people who killed him by murdering their innocent children, but it's not explained or developed at all. Why is he coming back NOW, for instance? Why not earlier? And why in the world do Nancy's parents completely ignore her? If you murdered a guy years ago, and then your kid, who knows nothing about it, provides an exact description of him in her dreams, wouldn't you think there was something a bit odd going on? It would have been much cooler if they had realized Freddie was killing their kids, and there's nothing they could do about it.
I also hate the ending to this movie. Why do horror movies always have to have such bizarro endings? The climactic battle at the end is awesome, but then it takes such a weird turn--(and I'm not even including the nutty twist here, I'm talking about the father NOT CARING that his wife just got sucked into a bed by a demon!)--that it totally runs out of steam and turns into a horrible, nonsensical train wreck. Roll credits.
If the movie focused more on the parents, and had a decent ending, it would have been a true classic. Instead, it is a mediocre slasher flick with a few interesting elements, which is a real shame.
- Chromium_5
- Feb 17, 2005
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- Budget
- $1,800,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $25,624,448
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,271,000
- Nov 11, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $25,685,134
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