...wait until rags discovers carpeted bathrooms was a thing

This film helped me realize why he sucks at killing in Dead by Daylight.  It’s just canon.

Freddy really is the only killer that can get away with the whole "playing with his food" thing since what can anyone really do to stop him? Given that every single way they beat Freddy is different, even the writers don't know what to do against him.

Without this film: there would be no Lord of the Rings trilogy. Hail to Bob Shaye and the House That Freddy Built.

Burn victim representation is strong with this one.

I’ve basically stayed up 3 days and let me tell you… it’s like being doped up and not understanding anything. Micro naps and lost time.

Apparently Wes Craven wanted a happy ending for this movie, where everyone came back to life because the whole movie was a dream.

It's a shame we don't have an expert in the cast for this arc. Out of all of the iconic 80s horror movies, Nightmare on Elm Street probably has a lot of interesting pieces to it's creation.

The parents are the ones who are cursed. The parents hunted down and killed Freddy, so now their off spring are the ones being hunted by Demon Freddy, that's the curse.
Nancy just happens to live in Freddy's old house.

That horrifying moment when you find out some of the reactors you respect the most are so much younger than you that they haven't seen Nightmare on Elm Street.

Freddy really had some bad luck, if he waited a little bit and fiddled with kids nowadays he'd probably just get cancelled on Twitter and some YouTubers would make videos exposing him... Which isn't even that bad because there is barely any reason to be on Twitter and YouTube would probably take down those videos for harassment anyway.

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a great horror movie while simultaneously being a goofy product of its time. It's why I love it.

"No you cant talk to Glen, Freddy. Hes sleeping now. Call tomorrow. (Hangs up phone) See? You just have to be firm with these demons."

I really worry about Rags sometimes, he gets so confused by anything slightly different from his own experience 😂 "blue cabinets! Floaty thing in bath! Wat's going on! Why things!"  🤣

Werewolf?  Where wolf?
Miss wolf.  🐺🍕

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ok fun fact, bear with me on this one: So @22:09 the film Nancy is watching is The Evil Dead by Sam Raimi; in the Evil Dead, there is a shredded poster of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes. In that film there was a shredded poster of Jaws. Now Wes said it was a poke at "this is how you do real horror films." So Raimi took that and used one of Wes posters to say he could do it better. So when Nancy is falling asleep watching The Evil Dead, it was a little back and forth Wes Craven and Sam Raimi had between each other (it wasn't scary enough, she practically fell asleep)  It was a friendly nod they gave to each other in their movies. If I remember right in the Evil Dead 2, there's a glove with knives found in the basement.
Finally at 25:14, there is a song called Is It Just A Dream (Strength Mix) by a group called Sequential that uses the voice there... Story time over!

My parents bathtub when i was growing up had skirting tile like that and my mom had one of those inflatable bath neck pillows. Apparently that was just 80s/90s midwest bathroom aesthetic

I just love how Glen does not give a single shit about his friends dying gruesome deaths all around him. Like Nancy is freaking out and screaming "Our friends are being murdered!" and Glen is just "Whatever" for the entire movie. 😂

Little Platoon is incorrect as to what is typically considered the best Nightmare movie. NOES III: Dream Warriors is generally the fan favorite (it's my favorite, too, but that might be because it's also the first I saw). This one, the original, is typically considered pretty good, except for the ending.

The three worst entries are usually NOES II, NOES 6: Freddy's Dead, and the remake in that order.

I honestly like the entire series. Even the remake has some aspects to it that I like.

The actors didn't know what to make of the ending, either. Robert Englund believed that it meant that Nancy was having a prophetic dream; most of the events were going to happen to her soon (with the exception of the bizarre ending).

It is an interesting observation that Freddy is kinda a generic killer in this, using general nightmare imagery rather than specific fears or desires of his victims. I never noticed that before, but it is true. This, of course, changes later on.

I take a bit of issue with the idea that there weren't any characters in this. Especially for an 80s slasher flick, the characters are pretty well established. I consider them just as fleshed out as the majority of the marines in Aliens; you get just enough to care when they die. Rod is hotheaded and has anger issues, Tina has an aura of doom about her and just wants to feel good for a little while, Glen is the flat-earth atheist who denies everything until he's literally swallowed up and Nancy is a proactive survivor.

Even the parents get some hints about their actions. The mom's an alcoholic and the dad's a workaholic -- both are coping mechanisms for dealing with the secret of being communal murderers. All the Elm Street kids seem to have parental problems stemming from this secret.

They also seem to misunderstand the nature of Freddy's revenge. He's getting vengeance on the parents through the children; what worse fear does a parent have than their kid being in imminent danger and being completely unable to do anything about it? Of course, Freddy's a complete monster, so the vengeance angle is really just an excuse.

This is also at least partly why the parents deny the increasingly ludicrous happenings. If their actions really have resulted in a ghost from the past haunting their kids in their dreams and killing them, then they are responsible. It's much easier to deny any evidence of that and insist that the problem has already been dealt with and take solace in the comforting idea that reality is sacrosanct and there is nothing supernatural going on.