A Nightmare on Elm Street (film)

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American slasher film about a spectral child murderer who stalks, in their dreams, the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him.
 * Written and directed by Wes Craven.

Sleep Kills. taglines

Freddy Krueger

 * I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy.

Children

 * [singing] 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.

Dialogue

 * Nancy: Fingernails? That's amazing, you saying that. It made me remember the dream I had last night.
 * Tina: What'd you dream?
 * Nancy: I dreamed about this guy in a dirty red and green sweater.
 * Tina: But what about the fingernails?
 * Nancy: He scraped his fingernails along things. Actually, they were more like finger-knives or something, like he'd made them himself. Anyway, they made this horrible sound. [imitates screeching sound]
 * Tina: Nancy. You dreamed about the same creep I did, Nancy.
 * Glen: That's impossible.


 * Tina: Please God...
 * Freddy: [revealing his knives] This... is God.


 * Nancy: [about Krueger] What'd he look like? You get a look at him?
 * Rod: No.
 * Nancy: Well then how can you say somebody else was there?
 * Rod: Because somebody cut her. While I watched.
 * Nancy: And you didn't get a look at the guy?
 * Rod: I couldn't see the fucker. You could just see the cuts happening, all at once.
 * Nancy: What do you mean all at once?
 * Rod: I mean it was as if there were four knives [looking down at his hand] cutting at the same time. But invisible ones. I probably could've saved her if I'd moved sooner. But I thought it was just another nightmare, like the one I had the night before. There was this guy who had knives for fingers.


 * Nancy: What I learned in the dream clinic. That's what I'm trying to prove, Mother. Rod didn't kill Tina and he didn't hang himself. There's this guy; he's after us in our dreams.
 * Marge: But that's just not reality, Nancy.
 * Nancy: [pulling Krueger's hat out of a drawer] It's real, Momma. Feel it.
 * Marge: Give me that damn thing!
 * Nancy: His name is even in it, written right in here: Fred Krueger. Fred Krueger! Do you know who that is, Mother? Because if you do you better tell me 'cause he's after me now.
 * Marge: Nancy, trust your mother for once. You'll feel better as soon as you sleep.
 * Nancy: Feel better?! You call this feeling better?! Or should I grab a bottle and veg out with you. Avoid everything happening to me by just getting good and loaded.
 * [Marge slaps her]
 * Marge: Fred Krueger can't be after you, Nancy. He's dead! Fred Krueger is dead. Dead and gone. Believe me, I know. Now go to bed. I order you, go to bed.
 * Nancy: You knew about him all this time, and you've been acting like he was someone I made up!
 * Marge: You're sick, Nancy. Imagining things. You need to sleep, (picks up bottle of gin) it's as simple as that.
 * Nancy: [throws bottle of gin onto floor] Screw sleep!
 * Marge: Nancy! It's only a nightmare!
 * Nancy: That's enough!


 * Nancy: Mother! What's with the bars?
 * Marge: Security.
 * Nancy: Security? Security from what?
 * Marge: Not from what - from whom. Come down to the cellar. You want to know who Fred Krueger was? He was a filthy child murder who killed at least twenty kids in the neighborhood. Kids we all knew.
 * Nancy: Oh mom.
 * Marge: It drove us crazy when we didn't know who was doing it, but it was even worse after they caught him.
 * Nancy: Did they put him away?
 * Marge Well, the lawyers got fat and the judge got famous, but someone forgot to sign a search warrant in the right place and Krueger was free, just like that.
 * Nancy: What did you do, mother?
 * Marge : A bunch of us parents got together and tracked him down. We found him in old abandoned boiler room, where he used to take his kids.
 * Nancy: Go on.
 * Marge : We took gasoline and poured it all around the place and made a trail of it out the door. We lit the whole thing up and watched it burn. He's dead now. He's dead because Mommy killed him. [unwraps a cloth, showing Krueger's glove] I even took his knives. So it's okay. You can sleep now.


 * Nancy: [on the phone, about Glen] Hi, Daddy. I know what happened.
 * Lt. Thompson: I haven't been upstairs yet.
 * Nancy: Yeah, but you know he's dead, right?
 * Lt. Thompson: Yeah, apparently he's dead.
 * Nancy: Listen, Daddy, I've got a proposition for you. Listen very carefully, please.
 * Lt. Thompson: Nancy.
 * Nancy: I'm going to go and get the guy who did it, and I want you to be there to arrest him when I bring him out. Okay?
 * Lt. Thompson: Just tell me who did it. I'll go get him, baby.
 * Nancy: Fred Krueger did it, Daddy, and only I can get him. It's my nightmare he comes to.


 * Nancy: I know you're there, Krueger.
 * Freddy: You think you was gonna get away from me?
 * Nancy: I know you too well now, Freddy.
 * Freddy: And now you die.
 * Nancy: It's too late, Krueger. I know the secret now. This is just a dream. You're not alive. This whole thing is just a dream. I want my mother and friends again.
 * Freddy: You what?
 * Nancy: I take back every bit of energy I ever gave you. You're nothing. You're shit.

Taglines

 * Sleep Kills.


 * She is the only one who can stop it... if she fails, no one survives.


 * If Nancy Doesn't Wake Up Screaming, She Won't Wake Up At All...


 * The first word in terror from the creator of Scream


 * A scream that wakes you up, might be your own...


 * Whatever you do, don't fall asleep...or you'll meet the terrifying Freddy.

Cast

 * John Saxon - Lt. Thompson
 * Ronee Blakley - Marge Thompson
 * Heather Langenkamp - Nancy Thompson
 * Amanda Wyss - Tina Grey
 * Nick Corri - Rod Lane
 * Johnny Depp - Glen Lantz
 * Charles Fleischer - Dr. King
 * Robert Englund - Freddy Krueger