Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where the souls are coming out of Freddy's chest, in the first close-up on the bottom left of the screen you can see a man's hand holding a black stick to manoeuvre the little arms. It's real fast but noticeable on standard play. (01:20:45)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Starring: Robert Englund, Brooke Bundy, Lisa Wilcox, Rodney Eastman, Andras Jones, John Beckman, Kisha Brackel, Wanda Bursey
Revealing mistake: After her brother's death, there is a scene in which Alice starts practicing with her brother's nun-chuks. They never show the real actress doing the tricks; instead, they cut to an angle from behind her and show a double who has darker, shorter hair than the real actress and is a bit bigger. (00:56:45)
Continuity mistake: At Rick's funeral, Debbie gives Alice her spike bracelet. The spikes are flat and there aren't that many of them, but at the end when Alice is getting decked out to fight Freddy she pulls the bracelet out of her drawer, and the spikes are very menacing looking and there are more of them. (00:55:25 - 01:13:20)
Trivia: Check out the nurse that wakes Kristen up at the school infirmary. It is Robert Englund, out of his Freddy make-up. After Kristen wakes up, it is a different person.
Trivia: In the beginning of Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master we learn Kincaid's dog is named Jason. Perhaps as a homage to the killer from Friday the 13th?
Trivia: The diner that Alice works at is called the "Crave Inn", probably a nod to Freddy creator Wes Craven.
Freddy Krueger: Sayonara, Rick-san.
Freddy Krueger: How's this for a wet dream?
Freddy Krueger: You flunk.
Question: Why does Freddy use Alice to gain access to new victims?
Answer: He'd killed her friends in the previous movie, remember? When he came back she'd had time to recover and make new friends.
That was Kristen, not Alice. Alice gives the answer to this question herself, while talking to Dan in the diner. She says that Kristen was the last of the children of the people who killed Freddy, and "maybe Freddy can't get to the new kids unless there's someone to bring them to him."
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Answer: As Kristin was being burned to death in the boiler, she passed her ability to pull other people into her dreams to Alice. This enabled Freddy to get new victims.