A Nightmare on Elm Street

Continuity mistake: When the little girl throws roses at the grave, a thick strand of hair combed to the left appears on the close-ups but disappears on the wide angles. (00:10:05)

Sacha

Continuity mistake: During Dean's funeral, When Chris wonders who Dean was dreaming of, three girls walk past behind her. When Nancy shows up they walk by again. (00:12:30)

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Kris is looking at the photo album just after Dean's funeral, she turns a page and there are no photos on either page as you can see. When the camera changes, two photos have appeared on the one page. (00:13:45)

Ssiscool

Continuity mistake: When Quentin leaves Nancy, Nancy puts her head on the lockers. Camera changes and she repeats the motion. (00:18:00)

Ssiscool

Continuity mistake: There is a scene at the school, where Quentin and Nancy are talking by the lockers. Quentin is wearing a Joy Division shirt. The jacket he is wearing over the shirt keeps changing depending on whether it's a closeup of Quentin or a shot of both him and Nancy. You can easily tell, as the band's name is partially obscured during closeup and fully revealed when it's further away. This changes back and forth several times during that scene. Quentin doesn't move enough to warrant the jacket changing so noticeably. (00:18:15)

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Continuity mistake: Kris is falling asleep during class. In her dream state, the room is flooded and Freddy is taunting her. In shots from the side, her hair is in front of both shoulders. In shots from Freddy's POV, her right shoulder is bare. (00:20:05)

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Continuity mistake: Kris' blood splatters onto Jesse's left sleeve just before her body drops down from the ceiling. The tiny splatters disappear from the sleeve when Jesse bends down to see if Kris is okay. (00:29:55)

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Continuity mistake: The amount of Kris' blood on Jesse's t-shirt changes constantly when he's running from Nancy's house. (00:32:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Nancy puts her phone on the side by the bath it's position changes instantly between shots without anyone touching it. (00:43:40)

Ssiscool

Continuity mistake: When Nancy is in the drugstore and she keeps slipping in and out of sleep, Freddy is walking toward the camera running a finger blade on a pipe, and you can see there is a raised pipe joint just before the camera cuts to a rear view of Freddy, and the pipe joint that his finger blade was going to scrape has now gone. (01:06:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Quentin opens the shoe box with photos in, he places the lid on the floor. In the following shots, the lids position changes from when he put it down. (01:12:35)

Ssiscool

Continuity mistake: In the diner, a guy puts a bunch of dollar bill and coins on the edge of the table. From the opposite angle its position changes.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: During the funeral, Kris is wearing black pantyhose, but when she leaves with Nancy, she's not.

Continuity mistake: When Chris and Jesse are in Chris' room and they are talking, from Jesse's point of view his hand is on Chris' face but when it's a shot from Chris' POV, Jesse's hand is on Chris' shoulder.

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Continuity mistake: After Nancy is thrown out of the cloud of blood onto the bed she raises to check she's OK, then she is pushed backwards, raises again turning her head around, but a frame later her head is resting on the pillow.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Kris is killed, the amount of blood on the right side of her shirt, and especially on the pillow, increases and decreases randomly and drastically between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: At the diner, after the girl asks Dean "What's going on?", the camera shows Quentin drinking and then taking the glass away from his mouth. A frame later from a different shot he's sipping and removing the glass again.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the diner, a guy puts a bunch of dollar bill and coins on the edge of the table. From the opposite angle its position changes.

Sacha

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Jesse: What do you want from me?
Freddy Krueger: I don't know, Jesse. You think you can turn back time? ANSWER ME!
Jesse: No.
Freddy Krueger: You think you can bring the dead back to life?
Jesse: No.
Freddy Krueger: No? I didn't fucking think so.

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Trivia: When Nancy is looking for information on the other kids in her class, she comes across a classmate who posts video blogs of his experiences with Freddy. This is Aaron Yoo, who played Chewie in Friday the 13th's remake.

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Question: At the beginning of the movie, when Dean is asleep, Freddy holds a sharp knife to his throat and cuts it while in the real world it looks like Dean is doing it himself. When Kris falls asleep in class, she is trying to escape from Freddy but is forced into a chair in the back of the classroom. When she wakes up screaming why is she still in her own seat instead of a seat in the back of the class like in her nightmare?

Answer: It is not consistently portrayed throughout the series where victims will end up when attacked by Freddy. Some victims are shown running from Freddy down hallways and their dead bodies are found in their bed, others are shown "sleepwalking", and end up being found relative to where they were in the dream world. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason for this inconsistency.

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