Children

• 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

:Tina: All day long I’ve been seeing that guy’s weird face, and hearing those fingernails…
: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 Freddy] 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: [about Freddy's hat, that she brought back from her dream] His name is even in it, written right in here: Fred Krueger. Fred Krueger! You know who that is, Mom? You better tell me, cause now he’s after me!
: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!
:Marge: 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 all crazy when we didn’t know who was doing it, but it was even worse when 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 tracked him down after they let him go. We found him in an old abandoned boiler room where he used to take his kids.
:Nancy: Go on.
:Marge : We poured gasoline all over the place, then left a trail of it out the door. Then lit the whole thing up and watched it burn. But he’s dead, Nancy. He can’t get you because mommy killed him. I even took his knives [unwrapping the cloth, showing the glove]. So it’s okay. You can sleep now.
: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, too. You’re not alive. The whole thing is 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

• Heather Langenkamp – Nancy Thompson

• Robert Englund – Freddy Krueger

• Johnny Depp – Glen Lantz

• Amanda Wyss – Tina Grey

• Nick Corri – Rod Lane

• John Saxon – Lt. Thompson

• Ronee Blakley – Marge Thompson

• Charles Fleischer – Dr. King

Source: Wikiquote