A Nightmare on Elm Street
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Nancy Thompson: I grab the guy in my dream. You see me struggling so you wake me up. We both come out, you whack the fucker and we got him.
Glen Lantz: Are you crazy? Hit him with what?
Nancy Thompson: You're the jock. You have a baseball bat or something.

John, Kid in Classroom: Oh, God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

Jesse Walsh: Dad? Dad! Help!
Freddy Krueger: Daddy can't help you now! Shhh! I need you, Jesse. We got special work to do here, you and me. You've got the body, I've got the brain!

Tina Gray: Please, God.
Freddy Krueger: THIS is God!

Glen Lantz: Miss Nude America is going to be on tonight.
Mrs. Lantz: How can you hear what she's going to say?
Glen Lantz: Who cares what she says?

Cop: You won't need a stretcher up there, you need a mop.

Glen Lantz: I'm going to punch out your ugly lights, whoever you are.

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.

Glen Lantz: We have reason to believe there may be something very strange going on.
Lt. Thompson: You got that right.
Nancy Thompson: What are you doing here?
Lt. Thompson: There's an unsolved murder and I hate unsolved murders, especially ones that my daughter is mixed up in. What are you doing here?
Nancy Thompson: Look, I just gotta see that he's okay.
Sgt. Garcia: I just checked on him ten minutes ago, he's sleeping like a baby. He's not going anywhere.

Marge Thompson: Nancy, you are going to get some sleep tonight if it kills me.

Fred Krueger: I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy.

Rod Lane: Don't look at me like I'm some fuckin' fruitcake or something! I'm warning you.

Tina Gray: Nancy, you dreamed about the same creep I did.

Nancy Thompson: Come on, Freddy. Can't you catch me?
Fred Krueger: I'm going to split you in two.

Jesse Walsh: I'm scared, Grady. Something is trying to get inside my body.
Ron Grady: Yeah. She's female and she's waiting for you in the cabana. And you want to sleep with me.

Visible crew/equipment: When Freddy falls over the banister onto the stairs near the end, notice the crash mat he lands on. (01:18:55)

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Trivia: The actors' reactions when the car roof came up were real - Wes Craven made the roof speed up unexpectedly.

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Question: When Freddy is killing Tina and slices her body she wakes up right before she gets picked up in the air and dragged across the ceiling. Wouldn't Freddy have stopped messing with her since she woke up at that point?

Answer: She was not awake. People scream, get out of bed and walk around, and even have conversations while sleeping.

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