A Nightmare on Elm Street: Difference between revisions

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.

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

* [[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 [[:Category:Yandere (disambiguation)|a little jealous]].

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

* [[:Category:Yandere|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''.