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* ClimacticBattleResurrection: Freddy kills people. [[ItsALongStory He gets their souls, but Alice gets their powers.]] Alone, the victims were unable to defeat Freddy, but, with [[AllYourPowersCombined all their powers combined]], Alice is able to lay the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} smackdown]] on Freddy to the point where all of the souls inside of him revolt and tear him apart.
* ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' had MichelleYeoh's character resurrecting the people TheEmperor killed, resulting in a battle between two armies of mummies.
* ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' had MichelleYeoh's character resurrecting the people TheEmperor killed, resulting in a battle between two armies of mummies.
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* CradlingYourKill: [[FauxAffablyEvil Mocked by Freddy]] after he guts one of his victims with his claw. After [[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld wishing the victim off to the afterlife]], he holds him in his arms and pats him on the back of his head.
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* GoingInCircles: Freddy has the FinalGirl running in circles as he stalks another victim, which gives the FinalGirl's boyfriend a sense of Deja Vu.
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* HisQuirkLivesOn: Alice starts to take on personality traits of her friends as they're picked off by Freddy.
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* LockAndLoadMontage: Alice suits herself up with articles of clothing that belonged to her dead friends before going off to fight Freddy.
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* MrImagination: Alice spent a lot of time in daydreams.
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* SkywardScream: After Kincaid witnesses Freddy's resurrection in the car graveyard dream, he tries to escape but is then cornered. He scream towards the sky, trying to signal his friends that Freddy is back, as the camera pans out to reveal that the graveyard covers the whole planet.
* SoulFragment: Freddy Krueger manipulates Kristen into giving her powers (which allow her to pull others into her dreams) to her friend Alice as she dies. This allows Freddy to use Alice's dreams to stalk new victims (he could previously only get at the ones whose parents killed him), and he starts killing off all her friends. It takes Alice a while to realize it, but a small part of each victim stays with her; she starts talking and acting like her dead friends and even develops some of their skills. This grants her [[TookALevelInBadass a level in badass]].
-->'''Freddy Krueger:''' You've got their powers, I've got their souls. [[BringIt Come on!]]
* SoulFragment: Freddy Krueger manipulates Kristen into giving her powers (which allow her to pull others into her dreams) to her friend Alice as she dies. This allows Freddy to use Alice's dreams to stalk new victims (he could previously only get at the ones whose parents killed him), and he starts killing off all her friends. It takes Alice a while to realize it, but a small part of each victim stays with her; she starts talking and acting like her dead friends and even develops some of their skills. This grants her [[TookALevelInBadass a level in badass]].
-->'''Freddy Krueger:''' You've got their powers, I've got their souls. [[BringIt Come on!]]
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* TorsoWithAView: Happens to Freddy via a laser beam shot by Alice. He fixes himself up with just a wave of his hand.
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* DoWithHimAsYouWill: [[spoiler:At the end Alice uses her powers to awaken all of Freddy's devoured souls, who rip him apart from within.]]
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* CallingTheOldManOut: Alice fantasizes about doing this to her father during one daydream.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: CallingTheOldManOut:
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** Alice fantasizes about doing this to her father during one daydream.
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* DeathByIrony: In Debbie's first scene she's shown to hate cockroaches, and she squashes one under her boot. [[spoiler: Later on she gets turned into a cockroach by Freddy, who then crushes the roach motel she's trapped inside.]]
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* KissOfDeath: Freddy kisses [[spoiler:Sheila]] and leaves her a withered husk.
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80s. It was the most financially successful movie in the ''Nightmare'' series until ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' came out.
* BadassBoast: After Freddy heals a nasty hole through his chest:
-->"I... am... eternal."
-->"I... am... eternal."
* BringIt: Freddy does this to Alice.
-->"You've got their powers. I've got their souls. Come on!"
* CallingTheOldManOut: Alice fantasizes about doing this to her father during one daydream.
** Kristen does this to her mother when [[spoiler:she realizes she's been given sleeping pills]].
-->"[[spoiler:No, Mother, you just murdered me. Take that to your goddamn therapy.]]"
-->"You've got their powers. I've got their souls. Come on!"
* CallingTheOldManOut: Alice fantasizes about doing this to her father during one daydream.
** Kristen does this to her mother when [[spoiler:she realizes she's been given sleeping pills]].
-->"[[spoiler:No, Mother, you just murdered me. Take that to your goddamn therapy.]]"
* DivideAndConquer: Freddy disposes of [[spoiler:the Dream Warriors]] this way.
-->"This time, you're alone."
-->"This time, you're alone."
* HeelRealization: Alice's father, Dennis, in response to [[spoiler:Rick's death]].
-->"I don't want to lose you. We're all we have."
-->"I don't want to lose you. We're all we have."
* LastOfHisKind: Kristen, Kincaid and Joey are all that remain of the kids of the adults who killed Freddy. [[spoiler:Freddy kills all three and ensures he'll be able to reach new victims]].
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* UnwittingPawn: Alice doesn't immediately realize that Freddy is using her to get to new victims.
-->[[OhCrap "Maybe Freddy can't get to the new kids unless there's someone to bring him to 'em."]]
-->[[OhCrap "Maybe Freddy can't get to the new kids unless there's someone to bring him to 'em."]]
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* [[BlinkAndYoullMissIt Blink And You'll Miss It]]: During the beach scene, there is a half-second frame when the sand castle briefly turns into the Elm St. house before exploding.
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* GroundHogDayLoop: Freddy traps Alice and Dan in a looping dream in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'' so that he can kill [[spoiler:their friend Debbie]] undisturbed. They eventually catch on, but it's already too late by then.
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* GroundHogDayLoop: Freddy traps Alice and Dan in a looping dream in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'' so that he can kill [[spoiler:their friend Debbie]] undisturbed. They eventually catch on, but it's already too late by then.
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* ContinuityNod: During a graveyard scene, viewers can clearly see [[spoiler:the graves of Nancy and her father]].
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: After coming back, Freddy [[spoiler:kills Kincaid and Joey before taking on Kristen]].
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* PainfulTransformation: How does Freddy transform [[spoiler: Debbie]] into a cockroach? By breaking off her arms and then [[TearOffYourFace forcing her to rip her face]] off to reveal the insect parts underneath.
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* WastedSong: The music played during the scene were Alice [[LockAndLoadMontage prepares]] for Freddy is isn't the soundtrack for the movie's score.
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''Evil will see itself, and it shall die''
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* {{Invisibility}}: Freddy turns himself invisible to beat [[spoiler:Rick]] to death. When he causes Freddy to lose his glove, Freddy just levitates it and propels it at him, killing him anyway.
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* DisguisedInDrag: When Alice falls asleep in the school nurse's office, Freddy disguises himself as the nurse to mess with Kristen, before reverting back to his nightmare form.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Alice can absorb the abilities of her fallen friends, leading to her becoming something of a martial arts-wielding GadgeteerGenius. This also means she [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling instantly knows when someone's died]]. These abilities are absent in the next sequel.
** [[spoiler: Maybe because Jacob was being used as a buffer.]]
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Alice can absorb the abilities of her fallen friends, leading to her becoming something of a martial arts-wielding GadgeteerGenius. This also means she [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling instantly knows when someone's died]]. These abilities are absent in the next sequel.
**sequel. [[spoiler: Maybe because Jacob was being used as a buffer.]]]]
* BalefulPolymorph: Freddy turns [[spoiler:Debbie]] into a giant, helpless cockroach and then crushes her.
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* CreepyCockroach: Debbie, who hates roaches, [[BalefulPolymorph is turned into one]] in her nightmare and is then trapped in a roach motel.
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* CreepyCockroach: Debbie, [[spoiler:Debbie]], who hates roaches, [[BalefulPolymorph is turned into one]] in her nightmare and is then trapped in a roach motel.motel.
* DaydreamSurprise: Some of Alice's fantasies are not revealed as daydreams until she snaps out of it.
* DaydreamSurprise: Some of Alice's fantasies are not revealed as daydreams until she snaps out of it.
* DisguisedInDrag: When Alice falls asleep in the school nurse's office, Freddy disguises himself as the nurse to mess with Kristen, before reverting back to his nightmare form.
* GroundHogDayLoop: Freddy traps Alice and Dan in a looping dream in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'' so that he can kill [[spoiler:their friend Debbie]] undisturbed. They eventually catch on, but it's already too late by then.
* {{Invisibility}}: Freddy turns himself invisible to beat [[spoiler:Rick]] to death. When he causes Freddy to lose his glove, Freddy just levitates it and propels it at him, killing him anyway.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:After Alice defeats Freddy he dissappears, leaving behind only his clothes. Alice kicks away the glove for good measure.]]
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* QuicksandSucks: Kristen finds herself trapped in the beach dream when the sand beneath her tyrns into quicksand.
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* QuicksandSucks: Kristen finds herself trapped in the beach dream when the sand beneath her tyrns into quicksand. Freddy places his foot on her head, and pushes her down.
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* AbusiveParents: Alice's dad is a mean drunk.
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* ImNotAfraidOfYou: Subverted in this bit:
-->[[spoiler:'''Debbie:''']] I don't believe in you!
-->'''Freddy:''' I believe in you. ''(breaks her arms)''
-->[[spoiler:'''Debbie:''']] I don't believe in you!
-->'''Freddy:''' I believe in you. ''(breaks her arms)''
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The fourth ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Elm Street]]'' film, released in the year 1988.
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'''''A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master''''' is the fourth ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' film, released in the year 1988.
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* {{Epigraph}}: The film opens on a quote from ''TheBible'', specifically from Job IV, 13-14:
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* {{Epigraph}}: The film opens on a quote from ''TheBible'', Literature/TheBible, specifically from Job IV, 13-14:
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* AdultsAreUseless: Example being Kristen's mother Elaine, whose uselessness gets her daughter killed.
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* SeeYouInHell: When [[spoiler:Kincaid[['s fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, [[spoiler:Kincaid]] says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
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* SeeYouInHell: When [[spoiler:Kincaid[['s [[spoiler:Kincaid]]'s fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, [[spoiler:Kincaid]] says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
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* KissOfDeath: Freddy kisses Sheila and leaves her a withered husk.
* LecherousLicking: Freddy wags his tongue out to Sheila shortly before he kills her.
* MurderByCremation: Freddy kills Kristen by throwing her into a boiler.
* LecherousLicking: Freddy wags his tongue out to Sheila shortly before he kills her.
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* KissOfDeath: Freddy kisses Sheila [[spoiler:Sheila]] and leaves her a withered husk.
* LecherousLicking: Freddy wags his tongue out toSheila [[spoiler:Sheila]] shortly before he kills her.
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* ParentalNeglect: Elaine Parker shrugs off Kristen's attitude to a lack of sleep, even though her daughter had just lost two close friends in one day, friends she only recently saw. Elaine's pretty much responsible for Kristen's death, since she put sleeping pills in Kristen's lemonade at dinner, leaving her easy prey for Freddy.
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* ParentalNeglect: Elaine Parker shrugs off Kristen's attitude to a lack of sleep, even though her daughter had just lost two close friends in one day, friends she only recently saw. Elaine's pretty much responsible for Kristen's [[spoiler:Kristen's death, since she put sleeping pills in Kristen's lemonade at dinner, leaving her easy prey for Freddy.]]
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* SeeYouInHell: When Kincaid's fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, Kincaid says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
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* SeeYouInHell: When Kincaid's [[spoiler:Kincaid[['s fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, Kincaid [[spoiler:Kincaid]] says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
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* AdultsAreUseless: Example being Kristen's mother Elaine, whose uselessness get her daughter killed.
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Despite the Dream Warriors' best efforts, Freddy Krueger returns from his grave to continue invading the dreams of others. After quickly dispatching the survivors of the last film, Freddy
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Despite the Dream Warriors' best efforts, Freddy Krueger returns from his grave to continue invading the dreams of others. After quickly dispatching the survivors of the last film, FreddyFreddy makes Kristen involuntarily pass her dream abilities on her schoolmate Alice, so that he can extent his cruelty past Elm Street. Alice now has to find a way to defeat Freddy before she loses all of her friends and loved ones.
Critical reception to the film was mixed, but it did so well on the box office it became the most succesful SlasherMovie of the 80s.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Alice's dad is a mean drunk.
* AdultsAreUseless: Example being Kristen's mother Elaine, whose uselessness get her daughter killed.
* AliceAllusion: Freddy welcomes Alice to the "wonderland" when they come face to face at the church.
* AllYourPowersCombined: Alice can absorb the abilities of her fallen friends, leading to her becoming something of a martial arts-wielding GadgeteerGenius. This also means she [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling instantly knows when someone's died]]. These abilities are absent in the next sequel.
* BetweenMyLegs: Shown when Freddy and Kristen meet each other in the boiler room.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Kincaid witnesses Freddy's resurrection, and is first one to die.
* BloodstainedGlassWindows: The final battle takes place in a church.
* BondGunBarrel: Parodied on [[http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/07_10/1988/95742/l_95742_f344fb06.jpg one of the British posters]]. It even includes TheNameIsBondJamesBond line.
* ChekhovsGun: Alice tells Kristen that reciting the Dream Master rhyme helps you control your dreams, but she herself has forgotten it. In the climax, the spirits of Freddy's victims help her recite it to defeat him.
* CoolShades: Freddy puts on a pair during the beach scene.
* CreatorCameo: Series producer Robert Shaye appears as a teacher.
** Director Renny Harlin appears sitting in a classroom.
* CreepyCockroach: Debbie, who hates roaches, [[BalefulPolymorph is turned into one]] in her nightmare and is then trapped in a roach motel.
* DecoyProtagonist: Kristen.
* DestinationDefenestration: Alice and Dan enter the dream-church by being dropped through its stained glass windows by Freddy.
* DownInTheDumps: Freddy's grave resides in the junkyard, and that's the place of his return.
* TheEndOrIsIt: Alice sees a reflection of Freddy on a fountain before the surface is disturbed.
* {{Epigraph}}: The film opens on a quote from ''TheBible'', specifically from Job IV, 13-14:
-->When deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
* EroticDream: Joey tries to have one, but is interrupted by Freddy bursting through his waterbed.
-->'''Freddy:''' How's this for a wet dream?
* HiddenDepths:
** Alice is a meek daydreamer who fantasizes about telling her alcoholic father off and asking hunky jock Dan Jordan out. By the movie's end, Alice has grown as a character and no longer relies on simply fantasizing about what she wants to do.
** Debbie, a punk girl with her own weight equipment who does bad in school...and also likes to watch ''Series/{{Dynasty}}'', is terrified of cockroaches, and is friends with brainy girl Sheila and sticks up for her. When Sheila dies, you can tell from Debbie's voice she's trying her best not to break down.
* ImagineSpot: Alice has a habit of daydreaming.
* KissOfDeath: Freddy kisses Sheila and leaves her a withered husk.
* LecherousLicking: Freddy wags his tongue out to Sheila shortly before he kills her.
* MurderByCremation: Freddy kills Kristen by throwing her into a boiler.
* NoSell: Alice begins the final fight by throwing everything she has on Freddy, but he just laughs it off.
* NowILayMeDownToSleep: The Dream Master rhyme is a variation of this.
* ParentalNeglect: Elaine Parker shrugs off Kristen's attitude to a lack of sleep, even though her daughter had just lost two close friends in one day, friends she only recently saw. Elaine's pretty much responsible for Kristen's death, since she put sleeping pills in Kristen's lemonade at dinner, leaving her easy prey for Freddy.
* PowerCopying: Alice gains the powers and [[HisQuirkLivesOn quirks]] from her friends killed by Freddy.
* QuicksandSucks: Kristen finds herself trapped in the beach dream when the sand beneath her tyrns into quicksand.
* SeeYouInHell: When Kincaid's fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, Kincaid says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
* WastedSong: The music played during the scene were Alice [[LockAndLoadMontage prepares]] for Freddy is isn't the soundtrack for the movie's score.
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Critical reception to the film was mixed, but it did so well on the box office it became the most succesful SlasherMovie of the 80s.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Alice's dad is a mean drunk.
* AdultsAreUseless: Example being Kristen's mother Elaine, whose uselessness get her daughter killed.
* AliceAllusion: Freddy welcomes Alice to the "wonderland" when they come face to face at the church.
* AllYourPowersCombined: Alice can absorb the abilities of her fallen friends, leading to her becoming something of a martial arts-wielding GadgeteerGenius. This also means she [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling instantly knows when someone's died]]. These abilities are absent in the next sequel.
* BetweenMyLegs: Shown when Freddy and Kristen meet each other in the boiler room.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Kincaid witnesses Freddy's resurrection, and is first one to die.
* BloodstainedGlassWindows: The final battle takes place in a church.
* BondGunBarrel: Parodied on [[http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/07_10/1988/95742/l_95742_f344fb06.jpg one of the British posters]]. It even includes TheNameIsBondJamesBond line.
* ChekhovsGun: Alice tells Kristen that reciting the Dream Master rhyme helps you control your dreams, but she herself has forgotten it. In the climax, the spirits of Freddy's victims help her recite it to defeat him.
* CoolShades: Freddy puts on a pair during the beach scene.
* CreatorCameo: Series producer Robert Shaye appears as a teacher.
** Director Renny Harlin appears sitting in a classroom.
* CreepyCockroach: Debbie, who hates roaches, [[BalefulPolymorph is turned into one]] in her nightmare and is then trapped in a roach motel.
* DecoyProtagonist: Kristen.
* DestinationDefenestration: Alice and Dan enter the dream-church by being dropped through its stained glass windows by Freddy.
* DownInTheDumps: Freddy's grave resides in the junkyard, and that's the place of his return.
* TheEndOrIsIt: Alice sees a reflection of Freddy on a fountain before the surface is disturbed.
* {{Epigraph}}: The film opens on a quote from ''TheBible'', specifically from Job IV, 13-14:
-->When deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
* EroticDream: Joey tries to have one, but is interrupted by Freddy bursting through his waterbed.
-->'''Freddy:''' How's this for a wet dream?
* HiddenDepths:
** Alice is a meek daydreamer who fantasizes about telling her alcoholic father off and asking hunky jock Dan Jordan out. By the movie's end, Alice has grown as a character and no longer relies on simply fantasizing about what she wants to do.
** Debbie, a punk girl with her own weight equipment who does bad in school...and also likes to watch ''Series/{{Dynasty}}'', is terrified of cockroaches, and is friends with brainy girl Sheila and sticks up for her. When Sheila dies, you can tell from Debbie's voice she's trying her best not to break down.
* ImagineSpot: Alice has a habit of daydreaming.
* KissOfDeath: Freddy kisses Sheila and leaves her a withered husk.
* LecherousLicking: Freddy wags his tongue out to Sheila shortly before he kills her.
* MurderByCremation: Freddy kills Kristen by throwing her into a boiler.
* NoSell: Alice begins the final fight by throwing everything she has on Freddy, but he just laughs it off.
* NowILayMeDownToSleep: The Dream Master rhyme is a variation of this.
* ParentalNeglect: Elaine Parker shrugs off Kristen's attitude to a lack of sleep, even though her daughter had just lost two close friends in one day, friends she only recently saw. Elaine's pretty much responsible for Kristen's death, since she put sleeping pills in Kristen's lemonade at dinner, leaving her easy prey for Freddy.
* PowerCopying: Alice gains the powers and [[HisQuirkLivesOn quirks]] from her friends killed by Freddy.
* QuicksandSucks: Kristen finds herself trapped in the beach dream when the sand beneath her tyrns into quicksand.
* SeeYouInHell: When Kincaid's fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, Kincaid says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
* WastedSong: The music played during the scene were Alice [[LockAndLoadMontage prepares]] for Freddy is isn't the soundtrack for the movie's score.
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Despite the Dream Warriors' best efforts, Freddy Krueger returns from his grave to continue invading the dreams of others. After quickly dispatching the survivors of the last film, Freddy makes Kristen involuntarily pass her dream abilities on her schoolmate Alice, so that he can extent his cruelty past Elm Street. Alice now has to find a way to defeat Freddy before she loses all of her friends and loved ones.
Critical reception to the film was mixed, but it did so well on the box office it became the most succesful SlasherMovie of the 80s.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Alice's dad is a mean drunk.
* AdultsAreUseless: Example being Kristen's mother Elaine, whose uselessness get her daughter killed.
* AliceAllusion: Freddy welcomes Alice to the "wonderland" when they come face to face at the church.
* AllYourPowersCombined: Alice can absorb the abilities of her fallen friends, leading to her becoming something of a martial arts-wielding GadgeteerGenius. This also means she [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling instantly knows when someone's died]]. These abilities are absent in the next sequel.
* BetweenMyLegs: Shown when Freddy and Kristen meet each other in the boiler room.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Kincaid witnesses Freddy's resurrection, and is first one to die.
* BloodstainedGlassWindows: The final battle takes place in a church.
* BondGunBarrel: Parodied on [[http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/07_10/1988/95742/l_95742_f344fb06.jpg one of the British posters]]. It even includes TheNameIsBondJamesBond line.
* ChekhovsGun: Alice tells Kristen that reciting the Dream Master rhyme helps you control your dreams, but she herself has forgotten it. In the climax, the spirits of Freddy's victims help her recite it to defeat him.
* CoolShades: Freddy puts on a pair during the beach scene.
* CreatorCameo: Series producer Robert Shaye appears as a teacher.
** Director Renny Harlin appears sitting in a classroom.
* CreepyCockroach: Debbie, who hates roaches, [[BalefulPolymorph is turned into one]] in her nightmare and is then trapped in a roach motel.
* DecoyProtagonist: Kristen.
* DestinationDefenestration: Alice and Dan enter the dream-church by being dropped through its stained glass windows by Freddy.
* DownInTheDumps: Freddy's grave resides in the junkyard, and that's the place of his return.
* TheEndOrIsIt: Alice sees a reflection of Freddy on a fountain before the surface is disturbed.
* {{Epigraph}}: The film opens on a quote from ''TheBible'', specifically from Job IV, 13-14:
-->When deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
* EroticDream: Joey tries to have one, but is interrupted by Freddy bursting through his waterbed.
-->'''Freddy:''' How's this for a wet dream?
* HiddenDepths:
** Alice is a meek daydreamer who fantasizes about telling her alcoholic father off and asking hunky jock Dan Jordan out. By the movie's end, Alice has grown as a character and no longer relies on simply fantasizing about what she wants to do.
** Debbie, a punk girl with her own weight equipment who does bad in school...and also likes to watch ''Series/{{Dynasty}}'', is terrified of cockroaches, and is friends with brainy girl Sheila and sticks up for her. When Sheila dies, you can tell from Debbie's voice she's trying her best not to break down.
* ImagineSpot: Alice has a habit of daydreaming.
* KissOfDeath: Freddy kisses Sheila and leaves her a withered husk.
* LecherousLicking: Freddy wags his tongue out to Sheila shortly before he kills her.
* MurderByCremation: Freddy kills Kristen by throwing her into a boiler.
* NoSell: Alice begins the final fight by throwing everything she has on Freddy, but he just laughs it off.
* NowILayMeDownToSleep: The Dream Master rhyme is a variation of this.
* ParentalNeglect: Elaine Parker shrugs off Kristen's attitude to a lack of sleep, even though her daughter had just lost two close friends in one day, friends she only recently saw. Elaine's pretty much responsible for Kristen's death, since she put sleeping pills in Kristen's lemonade at dinner, leaving her easy prey for Freddy.
* PowerCopying: Alice gains the powers and [[HisQuirkLivesOn quirks]] from her friends killed by Freddy.
* QuicksandSucks: Kristen finds herself trapped in the beach dream when the sand beneath her tyrns into quicksand.
* SeeYouInHell: When Kincaid's fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, Kincaid says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
* WastedSong: The music played during the scene were Alice [[LockAndLoadMontage prepares]] for Freddy is isn't the soundtrack for the movie's score.
Critical reception to the film was mixed, but it did so well on the box office it became the most succesful SlasherMovie of the 80s.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Alice's dad is a mean drunk.
* AdultsAreUseless: Example being Kristen's mother Elaine, whose uselessness get her daughter killed.
* AliceAllusion: Freddy welcomes Alice to the "wonderland" when they come face to face at the church.
* AllYourPowersCombined: Alice can absorb the abilities of her fallen friends, leading to her becoming something of a martial arts-wielding GadgeteerGenius. This also means she [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling instantly knows when someone's died]]. These abilities are absent in the next sequel.
* BetweenMyLegs: Shown when Freddy and Kristen meet each other in the boiler room.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Kincaid witnesses Freddy's resurrection, and is first one to die.
* BloodstainedGlassWindows: The final battle takes place in a church.
* BondGunBarrel: Parodied on [[http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/07_10/1988/95742/l_95742_f344fb06.jpg one of the British posters]]. It even includes TheNameIsBondJamesBond line.
* ChekhovsGun: Alice tells Kristen that reciting the Dream Master rhyme helps you control your dreams, but she herself has forgotten it. In the climax, the spirits of Freddy's victims help her recite it to defeat him.
* CoolShades: Freddy puts on a pair during the beach scene.
* CreatorCameo: Series producer Robert Shaye appears as a teacher.
** Director Renny Harlin appears sitting in a classroom.
* CreepyCockroach: Debbie, who hates roaches, [[BalefulPolymorph is turned into one]] in her nightmare and is then trapped in a roach motel.
* DecoyProtagonist: Kristen.
* DestinationDefenestration: Alice and Dan enter the dream-church by being dropped through its stained glass windows by Freddy.
* DownInTheDumps: Freddy's grave resides in the junkyard, and that's the place of his return.
* TheEndOrIsIt: Alice sees a reflection of Freddy on a fountain before the surface is disturbed.
* {{Epigraph}}: The film opens on a quote from ''TheBible'', specifically from Job IV, 13-14:
-->When deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
* EroticDream: Joey tries to have one, but is interrupted by Freddy bursting through his waterbed.
-->'''Freddy:''' How's this for a wet dream?
* HiddenDepths:
** Alice is a meek daydreamer who fantasizes about telling her alcoholic father off and asking hunky jock Dan Jordan out. By the movie's end, Alice has grown as a character and no longer relies on simply fantasizing about what she wants to do.
** Debbie, a punk girl with her own weight equipment who does bad in school...and also likes to watch ''Series/{{Dynasty}}'', is terrified of cockroaches, and is friends with brainy girl Sheila and sticks up for her. When Sheila dies, you can tell from Debbie's voice she's trying her best not to break down.
* ImagineSpot: Alice has a habit of daydreaming.
* KissOfDeath: Freddy kisses Sheila and leaves her a withered husk.
* LecherousLicking: Freddy wags his tongue out to Sheila shortly before he kills her.
* MurderByCremation: Freddy kills Kristen by throwing her into a boiler.
* NoSell: Alice begins the final fight by throwing everything she has on Freddy, but he just laughs it off.
* NowILayMeDownToSleep: The Dream Master rhyme is a variation of this.
* ParentalNeglect: Elaine Parker shrugs off Kristen's attitude to a lack of sleep, even though her daughter had just lost two close friends in one day, friends she only recently saw. Elaine's pretty much responsible for Kristen's death, since she put sleeping pills in Kristen's lemonade at dinner, leaving her easy prey for Freddy.
* PowerCopying: Alice gains the powers and [[HisQuirkLivesOn quirks]] from her friends killed by Freddy.
* QuicksandSucks: Kristen finds herself trapped in the beach dream when the sand beneath her tyrns into quicksand.
* SeeYouInHell: When Kincaid's fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, Kincaid says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
* WastedSong: The music played during the scene were Alice [[LockAndLoadMontage prepares]] for Freddy is isn't the soundtrack for the movie's score.
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Despite the Dream Warriors' best efforts, Freddy Krueger returns from his grave to continue invading the dreams of others. After quickly dispatching the survivors of the last film, Freddy makes Kristen involuntarily pass her dream abilities on her schoolmate Alice, so that he can extent his cruelty past Elm Street. Alice now has to find a way to defeat Freddy before she loses all of her friends and loved ones.
Critical reception to the film was mixed, but it did so well on the box office it became the most succesful SlasherMovie of the 80s.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Alice's dad is a mean drunk.
* AdultsAreUseless: Example being Kristen's mother Elaine, whose uselessness get her daughter killed.
* AliceAllusion: Freddy welcomes Alice to the "wonderland" when they come face to face at the church.
* AllYourPowersCombined: Alice can absorb the abilities of her fallen friends, leading to her becoming something of a martial arts-wielding GadgeteerGenius. This also means she [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling instantly knows when someone's died]]. These abilities are absent in the next sequel.
* BetweenMyLegs: Shown when Freddy and Kristen meet each other in the boiler room.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Kincaid witnesses Freddy's resurrection, and is first one to die.
* BloodstainedGlassWindows: The final battle takes place in a church.
* BondGunBarrel: Parodied on [[http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/07_10/1988/95742/l_95742_f344fb06.jpg one of the British posters]]. It even includes TheNameIsBondJamesBond line.
* ChekhovsGun: Alice tells Kristen that reciting the Dream Master rhyme helps you control your dreams, but she herself has forgotten it. In the climax, the spirits of Freddy's victims help her recite it to defeat him.
* CoolShades: Freddy puts on a pair during the beach scene.
* CreatorCameo: Series producer Robert Shaye appears as a teacher.
** Director Renny Harlin appears sitting in a classroom.
* CreepyCockroach: Debbie, who hates roaches, [[BalefulPolymorph is turned into one]] in her nightmare and is then trapped in a roach motel.
* DecoyProtagonist: Kristen.
* DestinationDefenestration: Alice and Dan enter the dream-church by being dropped through its stained glass windows by Freddy.
* DownInTheDumps: Freddy's grave resides in the junkyard, and that's the place of his return.
* TheEndOrIsIt: Alice sees a reflection of Freddy on a fountain before the surface is disturbed.
* {{Epigraph}}: The film opens on a quote from ''TheBible'', specifically from Job IV, 13-14:
-->When deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
* EroticDream: Joey tries to have one, but is interrupted by Freddy bursting through his waterbed.
-->'''Freddy:''' How's this for a wet dream?
* HiddenDepths:
** Alice is a meek daydreamer who fantasizes about telling her alcoholic father off and asking hunky jock Dan Jordan out. By the movie's end, Alice has grown as a character and no longer relies on simply fantasizing about what she wants to do.
** Debbie, a punk girl with her own weight equipment who does bad in school...and also likes to watch ''Series/{{Dynasty}}'', is terrified of cockroaches, and is friends with brainy girl Sheila and sticks up for her. When Sheila dies, you can tell from Debbie's voice she's trying her best not to break down.
* ImagineSpot: Alice has a habit of daydreaming.
* KissOfDeath: Freddy kisses Sheila and leaves her a withered husk.
* LecherousLicking: Freddy wags his tongue out to Sheila shortly before he kills her.
* MurderByCremation: Freddy kills Kristen by throwing her into a boiler.
* NoSell: Alice begins the final fight by throwing everything she has on Freddy, but he just laughs it off.
* NowILayMeDownToSleep: The Dream Master rhyme is a variation of this.
* ParentalNeglect: Elaine Parker shrugs off Kristen's attitude to a lack of sleep, even though her daughter had just lost two close friends in one day, friends she only recently saw. Elaine's pretty much responsible for Kristen's death, since she put sleeping pills in Kristen's lemonade at dinner, leaving her easy prey for Freddy.
* PowerCopying: Alice gains the powers and [[HisQuirkLivesOn quirks]] from her friends killed by Freddy.
* QuicksandSucks: Kristen finds herself trapped in the beach dream when the sand beneath her tyrns into quicksand.
* SeeYouInHell: When Kincaid's fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, Kincaid says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
* WastedSong: The music played during the scene were Alice [[LockAndLoadMontage prepares]] for Freddy is isn't the soundtrack for the movie's score.
Critical reception to the film was mixed, but it did so well on the box office it became the most succesful SlasherMovie of the 80s.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Alice's dad is a mean drunk.
* AdultsAreUseless: Example being Kristen's mother Elaine, whose uselessness get her daughter killed.
* AliceAllusion: Freddy welcomes Alice to the "wonderland" when they come face to face at the church.
* AllYourPowersCombined: Alice can absorb the abilities of her fallen friends, leading to her becoming something of a martial arts-wielding GadgeteerGenius. This also means she [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling instantly knows when someone's died]]. These abilities are absent in the next sequel.
* BetweenMyLegs: Shown when Freddy and Kristen meet each other in the boiler room.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Kincaid witnesses Freddy's resurrection, and is first one to die.
* BloodstainedGlassWindows: The final battle takes place in a church.
* BondGunBarrel: Parodied on [[http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/07_10/1988/95742/l_95742_f344fb06.jpg one of the British posters]]. It even includes TheNameIsBondJamesBond line.
* ChekhovsGun: Alice tells Kristen that reciting the Dream Master rhyme helps you control your dreams, but she herself has forgotten it. In the climax, the spirits of Freddy's victims help her recite it to defeat him.
* CoolShades: Freddy puts on a pair during the beach scene.
* CreatorCameo: Series producer Robert Shaye appears as a teacher.
** Director Renny Harlin appears sitting in a classroom.
* CreepyCockroach: Debbie, who hates roaches, [[BalefulPolymorph is turned into one]] in her nightmare and is then trapped in a roach motel.
* DecoyProtagonist: Kristen.
* DestinationDefenestration: Alice and Dan enter the dream-church by being dropped through its stained glass windows by Freddy.
* DownInTheDumps: Freddy's grave resides in the junkyard, and that's the place of his return.
* TheEndOrIsIt: Alice sees a reflection of Freddy on a fountain before the surface is disturbed.
* {{Epigraph}}: The film opens on a quote from ''TheBible'', specifically from Job IV, 13-14:
-->When deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
* EroticDream: Joey tries to have one, but is interrupted by Freddy bursting through his waterbed.
-->'''Freddy:''' How's this for a wet dream?
* HiddenDepths:
** Alice is a meek daydreamer who fantasizes about telling her alcoholic father off and asking hunky jock Dan Jordan out. By the movie's end, Alice has grown as a character and no longer relies on simply fantasizing about what she wants to do.
** Debbie, a punk girl with her own weight equipment who does bad in school...and also likes to watch ''Series/{{Dynasty}}'', is terrified of cockroaches, and is friends with brainy girl Sheila and sticks up for her. When Sheila dies, you can tell from Debbie's voice she's trying her best not to break down.
* ImagineSpot: Alice has a habit of daydreaming.
* KissOfDeath: Freddy kisses Sheila and leaves her a withered husk.
* LecherousLicking: Freddy wags his tongue out to Sheila shortly before he kills her.
* MurderByCremation: Freddy kills Kristen by throwing her into a boiler.
* NoSell: Alice begins the final fight by throwing everything she has on Freddy, but he just laughs it off.
* NowILayMeDownToSleep: The Dream Master rhyme is a variation of this.
* ParentalNeglect: Elaine Parker shrugs off Kristen's attitude to a lack of sleep, even though her daughter had just lost two close friends in one day, friends she only recently saw. Elaine's pretty much responsible for Kristen's death, since she put sleeping pills in Kristen's lemonade at dinner, leaving her easy prey for Freddy.
* PowerCopying: Alice gains the powers and [[HisQuirkLivesOn quirks]] from her friends killed by Freddy.
* QuicksandSucks: Kristen finds herself trapped in the beach dream when the sand beneath her tyrns into quicksand.
* SeeYouInHell: When Kincaid's fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, Kincaid says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
* WastedSong: The music played during the scene were Alice [[LockAndLoadMontage prepares]] for Freddy is isn't the soundtrack for the movie's score.
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Despite the Dream Warriors' efforts, Freddy Krueger returns from his grave to continue invading the dreams of others. After quickly dispatching the survivors of the last film, Freddy makes Kristen involuntarily pass her dream abilities on her schoolmate Alice, so that he can extent his cruelty past Elm Street. Alice now has to find a way to defeat Freddy before she loses all of her friends and loved ones.
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''The Master of Dreams my soul will keep''\\
''In the reflection of my mind's eye''\\
''Evil will see itself, and it shall die''
-->-- The Dream Master rhyme
The fourth ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Elm Street]]'' film, released in the year 1988.
Despite the Dream Warriors' best efforts, Freddy Krueger returns from his grave to continue invading the dreams of others. After quickly dispatching the survivors of the last film, Freddy makes Kristen involuntarily pass her dream abilities on her schoolmate Alice, so that he can extent his cruelty past Elm Street. Alice now has to find a way to defeat Freddy before she loses all of her friends and loved ones.
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* SeeYouInHell: When Kincaid's fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, Kincaid says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsToNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
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* SeeYouInHell: When Kincaid's fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, Kincaid says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsToNextWorld "[[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
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Despite the Dream Warriors' efforts, Freddy Krueger returns from his grave to continue invading the dreams of others. After quickly dispatching the survivors of the last film, Freddy makes Kristen involuntarily pass her dream abilities on her schoolmate Alice, so that he can extent his cruelty past Elm Street. Alice now has to find a way to defeat Freddy before she loses all of her friends and loved ones.
Critical reception to the film was mixed, but it did so well on the box office it became the most succesful SlasherMovie of the 80s.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Alice's dad is a mean drunk.
* AdultsAreUseless: Example being Kristen's mother Elaine, whose uselessness get her daughter killed.
* AliceAllusion: Freddy welcomes Alice to the "wonderland" when they come face to face at the church.
* AllYourPowersCombined: Alice can absorb the abilities of her fallen friends, leading to her becoming something of a martial arts-wielding GadgeteerGenius. This also means she [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling instantly knows when someone's died]]. These abilities are absent in the next sequel.
* BetweenMyLegs: Shown when Freddy and Kristen meet each other in the boiler room.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Kincaid witnesses Freddy's resurrection, and is first one to die.
* BloodstainedGlassWindows: The final battle takes place in a church.
* BondGunBarrel: Parodied on [[http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/07_10/1988/95742/l_95742_f344fb06.jpg one of the British posters]]. It even includes TheNameIsBondJamesBond line.
* ChekhovsGun: Alice tells Kristen that reciting the Dream Master rhyme helps you control your dreams, but she herself has forgotten it. In the climax, the spirits of Freddy's victims help her recite it to defeat him.
* CoolShades: Freddy puts on a pair during the beach scene.
* CreatorCameo: Series producer Robert Shaye appears as a teacher.
** Director Renny Harlin appears sitting in a classroom.
* CreepyCockroach: Debbie, who hates roaches, [[BalefulPolymorph is turned into one]] in her nightmare and is then trapped in a roach motel.
* DecoyProtagonist: Kristen.
* DestinationDefenestration: Alice and Dan enter the dream-church by being dropped through its stained glass windows by Freddy.
* DownInTheDumps: Freddy's grave resides in the junkyard, and that's the place of his return.
* TheEndOrIsIt: Alice sees a reflection of Freddy on a fountain before the surface is disturbed.
* {{Epigraph}}: The film opens on a quote from ''TheBible'', specifically from Job IV, 13-14:
-->When deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
* EroticDream: Joey tries to have one, but is interrupted by Freddy bursting through his waterbed.
-->'''Freddy:''' How's this for a wet dream?
* HiddenDepths:
** Alice is a meek daydreamer who fantasizes about telling her alcoholic father off and asking hunky jock Dan Jordan out. By the movie's end, Alice has grown as a character and no longer relies on simply fantasizing about what she wants to do.
** Debbie, a punk girl with her own weight equipment who does bad in school...and also likes to watch ''Series/{{Dynasty}}'', is terrified of cockroaches, and is friends with brainy girl Sheila and sticks up for her. When Sheila dies, you can tell from Debbie's voice she's trying her best not to break down.
* ImagineSpot: Alice has a habit of daydreaming.
* KissOfDeath: Freddy kisses Sheila and leaves her a withered husk.
* LecherousLicking: Freddy wags his tongue out to Sheila shortly before he kills her.
* MurderByCremation: Freddy kills Kristen by throwing her into a boiler.
* NoSell: Alice begins the final fight by throwing everything she has on Freddy, but he just laughs it off.
* NowILayMeDownToSleep: The Dream Master rhyme is a variation of this.
* ParentalNeglect: Elaine Parker shrugs off Kristen's attitude to a lack of sleep, even though her daughter had just lost two close friends in one day, friends she only recently saw. Elaine's pretty much responsible for Kristen's death, since she put sleeping pills in Kristen's lemonade at dinner, leaving her easy prey for Freddy.
* PowerCopying: Alice gains the powers and [[HisQuirkLivesOn quirks]] from her friends killed by Freddy.
* QuicksandSucks: Kristen finds herself trapped in the beach dream when the sand beneath her tyrns into quicksand.
* SeeYouInHell: When Kincaid's fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, Kincaid says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "[[GiveMyRegardsToNextWorld Tell 'em Freddy sent you!]]"
* WastedSong: The music played during the scene were Alice [[LockAndLoadMontage prepares]] for Freddy is isn't the soundtrack for the movie's score.
