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''Nine, ten; never sleep again'' |'''The song of the series'''}}

''[[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street]]'' is the first in a series of films centered around teenagers being murdered by a dream-controlling monster known as Freddy Krueger.

Five years after the original, Freddy -- apparentlyFreddy—apparently deciding that killing in the Dream World is too limited -- makeslimited—makes plans to break into the real world; to circumvent the whole [[Brought Down to Normal]] effect this usually has, he plans to possess [[Ambiguously Gay|Jesse Walsh]], the teenage son of the latest family to move into 1428 Elm Street. [[Broken Base|Either the best or the worst of the series]] because of the installment's increased emphasis on [[Body Horror]] and [[Homoerotic Subtext]].

Wes Craven returns to the franchise (though not as director) in this film, which is set a year after the last. Returning to form, Freddy begins killing off kids in their dreams again, with all the unusual deaths -- whichdeaths—which are occurring primarily on Elm Street -- beingStreet—being deemed suicides by the stumped authorities. The number of Elm Street teenagers eventually dwindles down to a small handful, who are remanded to the local Westin Hills Sanitarium, where Nancy Thompson -- nowThompson—now a recently graduated psychologist -- ispsychologist—is coincidentally placed. Together with the skeptical Doctor Neil Gordon, Nancy sets out to help Elm Street's last teenagers (dubbed the "Dream Warriors" due to their ability to manifest special powers during their dreams) defeat Freddy once and for all. Usually well regarded, it was this film that started the trend of ironic, creative deaths and also introduced Freddy's trademark dark sense of humor (including his penchant for [[Bond One-Liner|Bond One Liners]]).

With Freddy seemingly gone for good, the survivors of the last film are released and return to living their normal lives. Soon enough, though, the nightmaresnightmares—and -- and Freddy -- returnFreddy—return; acting quickly after his resurrection, Freddy finally avenges his own death by killing off the last of the Elm Street teenagers. Freddy isn't content with just this level of revenge, however, and he sets his sights on the rest of Springwood's children. The only person standing between Freddy and hundreds of new potential victims is Alice Johnson, a shy girl given special dream powers by Kristen Parker (the last Elm Street teenager) shortly before her death. Noticeably more flashy and "MTV-esque" than any of the preceding films, ''The Dream Master'' took what was introduced in ''Dream Warriors'' and rolled with it (some would say going too far) by having Freddy become the wisecracking, death-dealing jester he is most often remembered as.

A [[R EmakeRemake]] of the original film was released in 2010, with [[Jackie Earle Haley]] as Freddy, [[Rooney Mara]] as Nancy, and [[Michael Bay]] as producer. The remake generally follows the story of the first film, though not without some alterations (including an attempt to make Freddy look like an innocent man before revealing him to be a [[Complete Monster]] all along). Review buzz is technically negative, going by [[Rotten Tomatoes]], but the reviews themselves are less bad and more lukewarm; the movie is somewhat generic, but not offensively bad.

Heather Langenkamp takes ''[[Wes Craven]]'s [[Self-Referential Humor|New Nightmare]]'' to the [[Cash Cow Franchise|next logical step]] by making a [[Genre Shift|comedic documentary]] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1536421/ about herself and her character Nancy].

* [[Action Girl]]: Most of the [[Final Girl|Final Girls]]s become one.

'''Freddy''': "And now you're all ALONE." }}

* [[Asshole Victim]]: Coach Schneider in ''Freddy's Revenge''. And this trope is rare in the ''Nightmare'' movies (except ''[[Freddy vs. Jason]]'', which is part ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th13th]]'', which is the exact opposite and follows this trope all the time).

* [[Credits Gag]]: In the metafictionalmeta-fictional ''New Nightmare'', Freddy Krueger is credited "[[Character as Himself|As Himself]]".

* [[Creepy Children Singing]]: "Freddy's Coming For You".

* [[Crossover]]: ''Freddy VS Jason''.

** In ''Dream Master'', Freddy is able to harass Alice even when she's wide awake in the daytime, because {{spoiler|he's using her unborn child's dreams, and a fetus's sleep isn't tied to the day/night cycle}}.

* [[Double Standard]]: In the remake, it is made very clear that all of the kids were molested by Freddy. "You're gonna pay for what you did to my son!" and other lines. But the film only shows Freddy taunting and flirting with the girls, and at no point did Quentin seem to blink at the realization of "hey, ''I'' was raped too!" But if you think about it, there is a reason for his attitude towards Quentin, compared to the others. Nancy was always Freddy's 'favoritie', so when he learned about Nancy and Quentin's feelings for each other, he got [[Yandere (disambiguation)|a little jealous]].

* [[Everyone Went to School Together]]: Played straight in the remake when {{spoiler|you find out all the victims went to the same preschool that Freddy worked at in life}}.

* [[Evil Makes You Monstrous]]: Freddy.

* [[Expanded Universe]]: Various [[Novelization|novelizationsnovelization]]s and original novels, comics, a television series, a short stories collection, and two video games.

*** Freddy might actually have caused the damage and made it look self-inflicted, as Neil also says that no one knew how the patient had gotten aholda hold of the razors to do it.

** Attempted (and failed) for rare male examples in the second film what with the excessive scenes of the male lead in his Whiteys, his friend in tight, tiny shorts, the coach full on nude, and just all around erotic shots of the male characters in general..

* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: Happens to Freeburg in Freddy vs. Jason.

* [[Harmful to Minors]]: Freddy was a child killer in life, [[What Could Have Been|and he could've been worse.]] Wes Craven's original plan was to have Freddy be a ''molester'' as well, but he trashed the idea to avoid being accused of [[Ripped from the Headlines|exploiting a series of highly publicisedpublicized child molestations in California that occurred while the film was in production]].

* [[Lady Drunk]]: Marge Thompson.

** Freddy, toying with Mark in part 5, plays dead before levellingleveling up in the guise of Super Freddy!

* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: Freddy Krueger is a combination of [[Fighting a Shadow]] and in some movies The Proxy. He ''can'' be pulled out of the dream world, and then either made to disappear [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|in a puff of logic]], blown up with a pipe bomb shoved into his stomach, or, if the [[Final Girl]] is a [http://www.khurak.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/monica-keena3.jpg hot little blonde from Brooklyn]{{Dead link}} who's [[Took a Level Inin Badass|taken a level in badass]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|decapitated with a fucking machete]].

'''Alice Johnson''': Evil will see itself, and it shall die! }}

'''Freddy:''' ''This'' (holds up claw glove)...is God! }}

'''Freddy Krueger''': No. Just me. }}

** Its actually seems to be a bit of a running gag that [[Mood Whiplash]] music plays over the credits of every instalmentinstallment.

** For that matter, the show had a [https://web.archive.org/web/20160912234951/http://nightmareonelmstreetmovie.com/1-900-909-fred 1-900 number] which taunted children to call... [[Schmuck Bait|if they dared]].

* [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]]: Subverted with Nancy and Don in ''Dream Warriors'' (they both die right at the end and both die [[Blatant Lies|finally]] killing Freddy, played straight with Kincaid, Joey and Kristen in ''The Dream Master'' and Dan ''The Dream Child'').

* [[Supernatural -Proof Father]]: Donald Thompson and Ken Walsh.

* [[This Was His True Form]]: When the entity is seemingly destroyed at the end of ''New Nightmare'' it goes from looking like Freddy to a stereotypical demon.

* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Pretty much all the heroines, but especially Alice Johnson and [[Freddy vs. Jason|Lori Campbell]].

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Freddy's not usually prone to losing his cool, but in the remake, he briefly snaps into an almost childish tantrum that somehow renders him all the scarier. Clearly jealous over Quentin and Nancy's growing affection, he attacks Quentin by banging his head against the boiler room pipes over and over again while furiously screaming [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|"You! Can't! Save! Her!"]] He regains his composure after thinking he's gotten the upper hand again, and quickly reverts back to his calm hide-and-seek taunts, {{spoiler|which turns out to be a bad idea - Quentin survives the attack and ''does'' save her}}.

* [[Wham! Line]]: In ''Freddy's Dead''.

'''Freddy''': Oh. Do you think ''I'm'' your daddy? Mm-mm! Wrong! }}

* [[Yandere (disambiguation)]]: Played straight by Freddy himself in the remake towards Nancy. While he intends to kill all the children for {{spoiler|telling their parents he molested them}} he saves Nancy for [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|something worse]], because as her mother admitted, she's ''his favorite one of all''.

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