Details: Released theatrically November 16, 1984 Rated R.

Starring: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

Director: Wes Craven

Writers: Wes Craven

Production Team: Produced by Robert Shaye. Co-produced by Sara Risher. Executive Produced by Stanley Dudelson & Joseph Wolf.

Music: Charles Bernstein

Songtracks by: 213 - "Nightmare"

 


 

 

Who is Freddy Krueger???

Let's start from the beginning. Freddy was a filthy child molester and murderer on Elm Street. He kidnapped the children and took them to an old boiler room where he slayed the kids. He often wore an old hat and a green and red striped shirt. Not only that he made a glove with blades to kill and mame the kids. He was once arrested as the judge and jury got famous for Krueger's trial but forgot to sign a certain part of a form and Freddy was free from prison. It drove the parents of the kids crazy and took the law in their own hands. They found out Krueger's hideout and led a trail of gas they spilt along the boiler room and lit a match. Freddy was burned to death from this incident. One of the parents named Marge Thompson (Who is also an alcoholic) kept Kruegers glove with the blades. However, after Freddy died he managed to slay the kids on Elm Street in their dreams a few years later. A troubled girl named Tina has nightmares about Freddy and her in his boiler room and Tina not knowing who he is while she had an argument with her wild boyfriend Rod that same day. Tina asks Marge's daughter and best friend Nancy if her and Nancy's boyfriend Glen could stay the night cause she was too scared to sleep alone and her mother and mother's boyfriend is away. While they are all having their slumber party, Nancy tells Tina that she had the same dream but Glen thinks that's way too impossible. Also, Rod arrives to make up with Tina for their argument and stays the night with Tina in the same bed. Then Tina has a nightmare about Freddy stalking her in her neighborhood. Boy does Freddy do her in by slicing her to pieces while Rod watches freaking out. This incident wakes Nancy and Glen up and then break into Tina's room and finds her dead while Rod escaped outside of her window. Rod manages to get caught and imprisoned by the police led by Nancy's father who is the Lieutentant and is suspected for murdering Tina. Nancy keeps having nightmares of being trapped in Freddy's boiler room so she refuses to sleep. She finds out from Rod in prison of what really happened to Tina and later tells her about his nightmares of the same guy she sees in her nightmares. Nancy does sleep to find out what Freddy is up to next and dicovers that he will kill Rod. Nancy and Glen rush to the police station but it's too late. While Rod fell asleep Freddy hung Rod with Rod's blanket causing his neck to snap. The police suspected it was a suicide but Nancy tries to describe her parents who the killer is but are too afraid to face the truth. Marge tries to get Nancy help taking her to a sleeping disorder clinic and test her dream pattern while she is asleep. Suddenly they wake her up while it shows she is having a nightmare. Her arm is slit and a bit of her hair is burnt and took something out of her dream which was Freddy's hat. Eventually Marge barres up the house and asks Nancy to go down to the basement with her. Then Marge explained to Nancy who Freddy was and showed her the glove with the blades that she kept after her and the neighbors burned him alive. Nancy calls Glen up and tells him who Freddy is and asks him to arrive at her house during midnight as she plans to fall asleep and to catch Freddy then bringing Freddy into her room before she wakes up. However, Glen manages to fall asleep during midnight and gets sucked into his bed. Then blood sprays up from the bed. Nancy's father and the other police arrive at Glen and his parents' house while Nancy calls over there and tells her father what she plans to do and asks him to arrest Krueger once she catches him. Before Nancy falls asleep to plan on finding Krueger she sets booby traps all around her house. Then she sets her alarm clock at a certain time and falls asleep. She manages to catch him but while she wakes up after her alarm clock goes off she doesn't find him in her room and thinks she's crazy after all. Suddenly behind her bed Krueger tries to grab her and Nancy runs away setting up all the booby traps. She then dumps gasoline on him and lights him on fire. While the police break into Nancy and Marge's house cause the door is locked. Nancy and the police all see a trail of footsteps leading to Marge's room. Freddy manages to kill Marge. Then he plans to kill Nancy but Nancy tells Freddy that she takes every ounce of energy she gave to him and tells him she wants her Mom and friends back and he's nothing at all but her imagination. Then things seem back to normal as it was like all a dream Nancy had. Marge is with Nancy and tells her she is going to stop drinking. Rod, Tina and Glen arrive to pick up Nancy in Glen's car to go to school and then they are all locked in and the car speeds away. Then Freddys manages to kill Marge. According to the sequels Nancy having everyone back again was all just another dream. However, she survived it cause she doesn't show her fear to Freddy Krueger anymore.