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The Biggest Mistake in Every Nightmare on Elm Street Movie

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Every Nightmare on Elm Street movie brought something memorable to the franchise—but every film also made at least one major mistake that kept it from reaching its full potential. From Wes Craven's groundbreaking original to Freddy's Revenge, Dream Warriors, The Dream Master, The Dream Child, Freddy's Dead, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Freddy vs. Jason, and the 2010 remake, I'm breaking down the single biggest flaw in each movie and explaining how those decisions shaped Freddy Krueger's legacy.
Do you agree with my picks, or would you choose a different mistake for one of these films? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!
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20 Comments

@kevo111584 2 months ago

I can’t recall who had the idea, but it was one that Robert discussed in an interview or a panel or something: Someone had an idea of a film where the characterization of Freddy was different based on who the dreamer was just because their perception and what they envisioned of him was different. So it would’ve been multiple actors playing Freddy in one movie. Right now, I feel like fans just simply will not accept almost any casting choice made for a new Freddy, and I feel like if they had done something like this earlier, in films that Robert was still in, it would have been a smoother transition for the predicament they’re in now.

@xMrWhatIFx 1 month ago

I love that his answer Freddy's Revenge pool scene is "Just jump his ass."

@greenrobot5 2 months ago

The problem with New Nightmare is that it's very slow, like they weren't sure they wanted to do a psychological thriller or a horror movie

@iamrobot1c 1 month ago

When they were making the second movie, it’s not that he was discarding Wes’ rules but he didn’t understand what they were. That being said, it actually doesn’t matter at all and he still ended up nailing it because Wes’ rules just don’t apply at all in that film. Freddy has no psychic connection or link to Jessie and he’s weak since Nancy took back all the strength she gave him. Nightmare 2 is a haunted item movie. It’s not even a haunted house, it’s the glove itself. When Jessie puts it on that is when Freddy starts being able to possess him and with the later established rules of the souls and fear giving Freddy his strength the more Freddy kills and the more scared Jessie becomes the more powerful Freddy becomes to the point where he doesn’t even need the glove and the claws just emerge out of Jessie’s fingers which is a reach because that only happens because the glove went missing during production but nonetheless it still applies. Freddy needed Jessie to be his vessel because he was too weak to kill for himself, he specifically tells Jessie to kill for him. By the time the third movie happened Freddy killed a bunch of people in part 2 between the pool party and ending bus scene so he was now much stronger and could start killing for himself again but also specifically he was targetting the children of the parents who killed him so again people he has an established psychic connection to. In 4 when he kills the final three he needs another vessel and Kristen gives her psychic abilities to Alice and he uses Alice to help him reach more kids. The rules even though they legitiamtely did not understand them in part 2 actually never get violated and it makes perfect sense. It’s just a haunted item/possession movie

@johnbest1978 2 months ago

Elm Street 2 was the first of the series I seen back on HBO when they had the HBO late night movies. I snuck back into the living room after 11 cause I saw the commercial and was so fascinated by Freddy i had to see it but during the movie i kept looking over my shoulder 😆 sitting in the dark at 6 years old. After i got over my fear for the most part my father would take me to the theater for every Elm Street movie after 2.

@West-d8v 2 months ago (edited)

It's crazy to me, that nobody on the Internet seems to have interpreted the pool party scene the way I did.

Freddy doesn't actually appear in the real world. That visual is for us, they all saw Jesse with that glove on. That's why that first dude was all, "hey man, calm down homie"

If they saw a crispity crackity dude in a burnt fedora and bladed glove, they'd have ran from jump

My head cannon doesn't explain the walking thru flames part, I know.

@lewjones3 1 month ago (edited)

Low key, if that was a Black party in Part 2, they woodbridge jumped him.. it would've been like that "Fade In The Water" in Montgomery 😂

@Anytyme06 2 months ago

The one liners and all the gags like the Nintendo power glove really made Freddy not scary. Making him a troll was a big mistake.

@njjen3953 2 months ago

Nancy figured out how to defeat Freddy at the end of the first movie, and that was not fearing him. She turned her back on him. That would have been perfect if it were a standalone movie. That aspect didn't carry over into the sequels.

@jonathankay9957 2 months ago

Killing off Nancy was the worst thing in the series. Close second was killing off the Dream Warriors so fast in the next movie.

@ryanwest9546 2 months ago

The only reason Jason was afraid of water in FvsJ is because freddy put jason in his child state of mind

@MillenniumIdolPJH 2 months ago

It's awesome that You and Cody are good friends. I just watched his video on that 2 days ago and it's cool to see the same idea but with your own thoughts on it. Both of you guys always have great perspectives on these movies

@appalachianate 2 months ago

Re: Nancy in Dream Warriors, I do agree with you but there was also another option they could have explored to bring Nancy back. In the Innovation comics, they took Kristen dreaming Nancy into a beautiful dream literally, creating a parallel dream world where Nancy continued to exist. It would have been interesting to see Nancy as a dream world rival to Freddy with her own powers in a post-Dream Warriors sequel.

@Sisren86 2 months ago

Nightmare 2 has always been my third favorite (behind the OG and then New Nightmare), and I think recontextualizing it helps in enjoying it.

Imagine...that none of it is real. Seriously. Jessie finds Nancy's journal, reads it, and gets the idea of Freddy in his head. From then on...Jessie is the killer. All of the Freddy stuff is in his head...we're just seeing it because we're watching the movie through his point of view.

The only two things that don't fit in to this interperetation are the combusting bird and the ending. The ending can be writtwn off as just another stinger, same as the first movie. Ooor maybe its just a nightmare Jessie is having while tucked safely away in a mental hospital after his killing spree (you coukd also make that argument for the first ending with a traumatized Nancy...it actually fits her arc pretty well considering Nightmare 3).

The bird...yeah I got nothing. Maybe Jessie really did feed it a firecracker or something.

@jakejuston292 2 months ago (edited)

I love the 2nd one. The possession stuff worked in my head cuz by the end I just assume it was all a dream. My biggest complaint is the end with the dogs and that animatronic rat. Everything else looks great, they didn't need those corny gags at the end.

@Bat_Dad_116 2 months ago

For part 2… I always assumed it was because of how Nancy defeated him in the first. So he lost those powers and needed to posses someone and kind of start over.

And yeah, he was outnumbered, but he used some kind of magic to melt people in the pool and have fire shooting around, didn’t he even electrify the fence too? Anyway, I think that, plus his appearance would keep any bravery at bay.

@kimberlyramos3523 1 month ago

Wow great video & very valid points 👏

@timothyfrasier8218 1 month ago

I would love for you to talk about the Cenobite and the fact that in the early draft Freddy would have been one of them in one of the movies.

And how that would actually affect the franchise as well as what you could actually do with this for future movies.

@BrandontheBeldam 2 months ago

I had a darker ending in mind for New Nightmare: the build up to the finale would have remained the same, the entity would have still chased and cornered Dylan into the furnace and he would have proceeded to consume Dylan because its a parallel to Dylan enjoying Hansel and Gretel and Freddy being a stand in for the crone. But what if Heather or "Nancy" was too late in saving her second love after losing her husband to the very thing trying to take her son? If the entity was successful in devouring Dylan and Heather had to watch..Her love and motherhood and rage and grief would have exploded and she would have done everything in her power to rip the entity apart trying to save Dylan from the monster that took her child. Imagine that ending? Heather would have been like the woodsman in Little red riding hood cutting open the entity in one final clash saving her son in a brawl of gore. That would have been spectacular and they would have defeated the entity having the ending of the film remain the same with Dylan and Heather reading the script in Dylan's bedroom. But they shouldn't show the entity's final form because it doesn't look as good as they wanted. Just hearing the entity's otherworldly shrieks as it burns would have been enough. Maybe not the weird cosmic ending other fans would've liked, but that's how I would change it.