A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Review
This is a great film. I must of seen this one about 100 times and it never stops on thrills. Wes Craven is a genius, I couldn't of made it any better, and for those kind of effects, it's like watching something from the 21st century. All and all, it was the best in the series, and best film ever. Go see it right now! Get your coats on and off to Blockbuster!

Goofs

Continuity: When Nancy checks her watch she is wearing a short-sleeved nightgown, but the closeup shows a wrist with the end of a long blue sleeve on it.

Continuity: The part in Nancy's hair swaps sides in the scene where her father is talking to get about Tina.

Revealing mistakes: Crash mat visible when Freddy falls over the banister.

Continuity: When Nancy is in the final dream, Freddy is seen wearing his hat, when in fact, she supposedly took it from him in an earlier dream. In the next clip, he is no longer wearing it.

Continuity: In final scene, the girls singing "One, two, Freddy's coming for you" change places between shots.

Continuity: The person who gets up to speak in the classroom is not the same person who was sitting in the same seat in the establishing shot a few seconds earlier.

Continuity: After Glenn leaves through Nancy's window, she shuts it. But, when she looks over at the window, it is open again.

Factual Errors: Evil Dead, The (1981) is playing on Nancy's TV but it does not match the actual movie.

Errors in geography: The movie takes place in some unnamed Midwestern state but when Nancy and her boyfriend are talking on a bridge, there are palm trees in the background.

Revealing mistakes: Crash mat visible when Nancy jumps out of the boiler room and lands in her lawn.

Revealing mistakes: In the beginning when Tina is killed by Freddy, you can see their fake chest lifting when they are moving around.

Continuity: When Freddy is knocked off the stairs one of the razor blades from his fingers has broken off. Yet in the next scene, the blade is back on his finger.

Continuity: When Nancy sneaks Glen back out the bedroom window after she wakes up, the lights are turned off in her bedroom. However, when it shows the house from outside, her bedroom lights are turned on.

Revealing mistakes: When the sheet is coming around Rod's neck to choke him you can see the wire that is pulling it.

Continuity: Throughout the movie, along with all the sequels, Freddy's "razor" glove is on his right hand. When Freddy is chasing Tina, there is a quick shot of him jumping out from behind a small tree and his glove is on his left hand.

Continuity: In a wide shot, when the bars have just been put on the house, the front door window bars are different than the close-up of Nancy on her porch. The closer shot shows a heart shaped design rather than the three-bar pattern of the wide shot.

Revealing mistakes: When Nancy runs up the stairs near the end of the movie, the camera shows a close up of her feet sinking into the "goo" stairs. You can see exactly where she going to put her feet as the "goo" pots are clearly visable.

Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double for Nancy when she is pulled underwater. The double also has blonde hair.

Continuity: When Rod is arrested after running down the street, he is doing so barefoot. However, when in the prison cell, he is wearing white trainers.

Continuity: To wake herself up, Nancy smashes the outside of her arm against the boiler. But when she wakes up, the burn mark is on the inside of her wrist.

Continuity: When Nancy pulls the phone out of the socket, the alarm clock by Nancy's bed is gone.

Deliberate "Mistake": As Nancy and Marge are leaving Rod Lane's funeral, you can see the shot speed off. But, the car sort of jerks as the speed increases in the next shot.

Visible crew/equipment: When Nancy goes to see Rod in jail in the dream, watch the centipede that crawls out of Tina's mouth. You can see that it is not Tina that the centipede crawls out of, but a posble doll?

Visible crew/equipment: When Tina is cornered in the very first dream you can see Freddy bending over and getting ready to scare Tina (In Full-Screen Version).

Visible crew/equipment: When Tina gets cut in the stomach (when she dies), you can see her (in slo-mo) grab a piece of latex pad as she grabs her stomach in pain.

Continuity: After the Dream Clinic the next day, Nancy drinks a big cup of coffee. Watch her throat, she doesn't even drink it, and besides, it seems like a lot of coffee to chug.

Continuity: When Nancy wakes up from her dream when Glen was supposed to watch her, she tells Glen to wait outside her window. She shuts it and gets back to bed. After Marge leaves, Nancy notices a feather, which floats out the same window Glen went out, but now it seems to be OPEN!

Continuity: When Glen is talking to Nancy on the phone, he lifts his bedroom curtain up to see Nancy, pushing it to the right. After they hang up, he pulls the curtain down from the left.

Continuity: When Nancy is in the tub, she puts a cloth to her face, with her left hand by the left ear. Next shot, left hand is in the middle of the tub.

Cool Information & Quotes
Director Wes Craven claims to have named Freddy Krueger after a kid who bullied him in school and to have based his appearance on a disfigured hobo who scared him as a youth.

Krueger bleeds green.

Just before Glen is pulled into the bed, the television station announces its name: "KRGR".

Freddy Krueger's colors of red and green are contrasted throughout the movie.

The movie Nancy watches to stay awake is Evil Dead, The.

There is a ripped poster of Evil Dead

Director Wes Craven's original concept for Freddy Krueger was considerably more gruesome, with teeth showing through the flesh over the jaw, puss running from the sores, and a part of the skull showing through the head. Make-up artist David B. Miller argued that an actor couldn't be convincingly made up that way and a puppet would be hard to film and wouldn't blend well with live actors, so these ideas were eventually abandoned.

Special-effects man 'Doyle, Jim' played Freddy twice in this film, once during the film's first scene, when Freddy creates his infamous glove, and again when Freddy pulls Nancy down in the bath. His wife, Cristina Johnson, played Nancy when she got pulled underwater, and did hand and foot inserts for the gooey stairs sequence.

In the scene where Nancy is sleeping at Tina's house and Freddy comes through the wall over the bed, Jason's hockey mask (from the Friday the 13th films) can be seen.

The poster above Johnny Depp's bed in the scene where he is killed is the Grace Under Pressure album cover by Canadian rock trio Rush.

Johnny Depp accompanied friend Jackie Earle Haley to the auditions, where he was spotted by director Wes Craven, who asked him if he'd like to read for the part.

Wes Craven cast Joseph Whipp, who plays the inept sidekick of John Saxon's Lt. Thompson in this film, as the sheriff who endures David Arquette's inept Deputy Dewey in Scream (1996)

With one exception (Freddy walking through jail-cell bars), all of the F/X in Nightmare were done using physical F/X rather than trick photography.

In the end scene, the top to the convertible came down faster and harder than expected. The expression from the actors is real.

Nancy's bathtub was constructed over a swimming pool. Actress 'Lagenkamp, Heather' spent 12 hours in it during filming

Wes Craven wrote the script and presented it in 1981, but no one wanted it. He said that "It just flew around" until New Line Cinema picked it up.

In _Just the Ten of Us (1988)_ , Heather Langenkamp makes reference to a rusty knife stuck in a cutting board "looking like something from A Nightmare on Elm Street"

This was the first real movie by New Line Cinema. Before that, they were just a distribution company for college campuses.

This movie was almost never made. About halfway through filming, New Line lost its deal with the distribution company. As a direct result, they couldn't pay the cast or crew for two whole weeks until they found another distribution company. They didn't lose one crew member.

This movie was the only time that Freddy wore this particular sweater, which had solid red sleeves. All those worn afterward had green stripes on the sleeves as well.

Freddy Kruger was designed by Wes Craven to be the typical "silent" serial killer such as Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. But in the sequels Freddy developed a cheeky persona that enabled him to be the black humored villain

The original glove was also used in _Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, A (1985)_ but then the glove went missing. The original glove was used in 1986 for Evil Dead II (according to the DVD)

New Line Cinema was saved from bankruptcy by the success of the film, and was jokingly nicknamed "the house that Freddy built".

In her room after almost getting killed in the tub, Nancy looks at herself in a mirror and says, "Oh God, I look 20 years old." Heather Langenkamp was 20 years old at the time of the movie.

When Nancy's dreams are "examined", when her hair turns white, the nurse is played by Wes Craven's wife, Mimi.

Over 500 gallons of fake blood was used during the making of the film

Nancy's school address is 3939.

Nancy's nickname is Nan

Quotes:

Tina's Dad: Are you coming back to the sack or what?
Tina's Mom: This is worth it.

Rod: I had a hardon this morning when I woke up Tina, had your name written all over it.
Tina: There's 4 letters in my name Rod, how could there be room on your joint for 4 letters?
Rod: Up yours with a twirling lawnmower.

Glen: ..Hello, Mom? Yeah, Im out here at Barry's. What, yeah noisy as usual, glad we don't live here. Aunt (Uh) says hello. I'll call you in the morning. What, just some kids drag racing outside I think Mom. Look I gotta go I think theres been an accident. Yeah, I'll call the police, RIGHT ALL CALL THE POLICE. Just, some neighbors having a fight I guess. I'll call you in the morning.
Nancy: It worked like a charm!

Rod: We got the mothers bed, you guys got the rest!

Tina: Please God.
Freddy: This...Is God

Marge: Did you sleep?
Nancy: I'll sleep in study hall.

Hallguard: Where's your pass?
Nancy: Screw your pass.
Freddy: Nancy, no running in the hallway.

Marge: I heated up some warm milk for you, hunny.
Nancy: Warm milk? Gross...

Nancy: Glen, wake up. Are you there?
Freddy: Im here...

"Tingling, one of the best of its kind...Nightmare delivers" - Chicago Sun-Times