Details: Released theatrically August 18, 1988 Rated R.

Starring: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Danny Hassel, Andras Jones, Tuesday Knight, Brooke Theiss, Toy Newkirk, Rodney Eastman, Ken Sagoes

Director: Renny Harlin

Writers: Brian Helgeland, Jim Wheat & Ken Wheat. William Kotzwinkle & Brian Helgeland (Story)

Production Team: Produced by Robert Shaye & Rachel Talalay. Executive Produced by Stephen Diener & Sara Risher. Associate Produced by Karen Koch

Music: Craig Safan

Songtracks by: Vinnie Vincent Invasion - "Love Kills". Love/Hate - "Angel". Go West - "Don't Be Afraid of Your Dreams". The Divinyls - "Back to the Wall". Dramarama - "Anything, Anything". The Fat Boys - "Are You Ready for Freddy?". Billy Idol - "Fatal Charm". Blondie - "In the Flesh". Girl Talk - "Baula Baula". Joe Lamant - "Pride and Joy". Nick Gilder - "Rebuilding the Big House". Vigil - "Therapist". Sea Hags - "Under the Night Stars". The Angels of Angel City- "Standing Over You". Sinéad O'Connor - "I Want Your (Hands Over Me)".

 


 

Are You Ready for Freddy?

Just when you thought it was safe to sleep again Freddy awakens. Kristen (Tuesday Knight) is dreaming about the Thompson's old house since it's now Freddy's domain and fears that Krueger is alive. In her dream, she calls for her surviving friends from the Psychiatric Hospital Roland (Ken Sagoes) and Joey (Rodney Eastman) now they are better too. They prove to Kristen Freddy is still dead as his boiler room is dead but Roland's dog bites Kristen in her dream as the dog enters one of the boiler room's pipes but Kristen still convinces them that he's coming. Still Roland and Joey advise her not to mention his name and to have better dreams. Later on they are at school and Kristen hangs out with her new friends Alice (Lisa Wilcox), Alice's brother Rick (Andras Jones) who is also Kristen's boyfriend, Debbie (Taryn White) and Sheila (Toy Newkirk) but Kristen is still troubled. Later on that night when everyone is asleep, Roland is dreaming that he is at the car junkyard where Freddy's remains were buried (A dream he didn't want to dream about). Roland's dog is also there but behaves viviously. His dog urinates on the ground causing a trail of fire leading to Freddy's corpse. Freddy awakens and says No one should've never buried him as he wasn't dead. While Roland tries to save himself Freddy kills Roland off while he starts to wake up but it's too late. Joey falls alseep while watching MTV and listening to music. Then he is having a sexual fantasy in his dream while sleeping in his waterbed he sees his favourite model in his waterbed. Then, he realises it's really Krueger and Krueger drowns him. Kristen freaks out when she suspects they're dead when they don't show up for class and accidentally bumps her head in class causing to pass out. She is nearly slayed by Freddy but a nurse wakes her up in a hospital. She knows that Freddy is back when Rick tells her that Roland and Joey were found dead. Kristen and some of her friends go to the Thompson's old house and later on she refuses to sleep but her mother puts a sleeping pill in her drink during dinnertime. Before she falls asleep she thinks of a nice place as Alice tells her about the Dream Master which is about dreaming of a nice place. She dreams about a day at the beach. She sees one of the little girls that are in the nightmares controlled by Freddy making a sandcastle. Then Freddy's blades appear in the ocean like a shark's fin. He comes to land wearing sunglasses and pushes Kristen into the sand that she is sinking in and then she falls into his boiler room. Freddy throws Kristen into the fire pit when she tries to attack Freddy. A pic appears in Alice's room but Kristen however wills her special ability to her friend Alice who was in the boiler room too witnessing Freddy throwing Kristen in the fire pit. Alice sees the horrifying pic of Kristen being held by Freddy when she wakes up and then the pic disappears into flames. Alice and Rick go to Kristen's house and Kristen's bed is on fire with her corpse on it. Suddenly Alice's other friends are being killed off one by one while Alice falls asleep the same time they do and she goes into their dreams. Both Alice and Sheila (Who has athsma) fall asleep in class. They are locked in their desks and Freddy is their teacher. Freddy goes up to Sheila and asks if she wants to suck face and sucks the life out of her. Alice luckily wakes up but Sheila is already dead. Another is her brother Rick who is a master in martial arts but his martial arts didn't keep him alive from Freddy. Then while Alice is dreaming again she is at an old theatre and is sucked in to the screen of her workplace which is a local cafe but the cafe looks gloomy and run down. Freddy is in the cafe next to her and shows her who he's after next which is her gorgeous friend Debbie. Debbie is benchpressing some weights. Alice thinks she's awake and tries to arrive to Debbie's house with her new boyfriend Dan (Danny Hassel) before it's too late. Somehow they both are asleep and Krueger manages to freeze time as they repeat arriving to her house while Krueger turns Debbie into a cockroach (Insects Debbie hates the most) while she falls asleep benchpressing and then crushing her into a little roach motel box. Alice and Dan crash their vehicle and Dan is sent to the hospital and is put to sleep while they do surgery on him and Freddy nearly kills him. Alice has a plan to stop Freddy meanwhile manage to survive Krueger's slayings and rescues Dan. They land in a church but Dan wakes up in the hospital but Alice fights Freddy with martial arts but it doesn't seem to help much. However she hears children chant at the church about stopping evil which a reflection on them and she uses a shattered glass at the church her and dan crashed into to reflect on Freddy. Then souls from his body escape and Freddy vansishes with just the remains of his clothes and blades.