A Nightmare on Elm Street
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Marge Thompson: You want to know who Fred Krueger was? He was a filthy child murderer who killed at least twenty kids in the neighborhood. Kids we all knew. It drove us crazy when we didn't know who it was, but it was even worse after they caught him.
Nancy Thompson: Didn't they put him away?
Marge Thompson: The lawyers got fat and the judge got famous, but somebody forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place. Krueger was free just like that!
Nancy Thompson: What did you do, Mother?
Marge Thompson: A bunch of us parents tracked him down after they let him out. We found him in an old abandoned boiler room where he used to take his kids.
Nancy Thompson: Go on.
Marge Thompson: We took gasoline, poured it all around the place, made a trail of it out the door, then lit the whole thing up and watched it burn. He can't get you now. He's dead honey, because Mommy killed him. I even took his knives. So it's OK now. You can sleep.

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!

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.

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?

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.

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Revealing mistake: When Nancy is running up the stairs in her house to escape Freddy for the first time her foot hits the steps and go through the steps into some goop. Look at the steps above that step and you can see the pre-cut holes where the next sets of goop will be. (00:39:10)

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Question: Why did Freddy's voice change? At the start of the film when he was chasing Tina, he said, "This is god," but throughout the rest of the film (and the series of the films) his voice went deeper. You have to kind of listen carefully throughout the film to know what I'm talking about.

Answer: The scene you are referring to is a dream sequence. In dreams everything is different and how they change throughout the movie is no mistake.

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