"Ready or not... HERE I COME!"
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- The beginning with Dean tearing his own throat open with a knife while screaming "YOU'RE NOT REAL! YOU'RE NOT REAL!"
- "Why are you screaming? I haven't even cut you yet..."
- And after Jesse's death...Freddy: Did you know that after the heart stops beating, the brain keeps functioning for well over seven minutes? We got six more minutes to play...
- And after Jesse's death...
- Freddy's face melting from being burnt alive and his screams while running towards Quentin.
- The Soundtrack Dissonance in the pharmacy scene.
- Really Freddy in general in this reboot. His face is more frightening thanks to better effects and he lost a lot of the humor and campiness he picked up over the years. Also the fact he is portrayed as a child molester rather than a child murderer is somehow even more creepy.
- This film adds the concept of "micronaps," times when, after being awake too long, your brain enters a brief REM-type state to try and rest itself. You can be walking around normally, and suddenly Freddy can get to you, because technically you're dreaming. Suddenly, unlike in the earlier films, it's not about "finding a way to deal with Freddy before we just can't stay awake any longer," it's about "finding a way to deal with Freddy because I could have a fatal micronap at any moment." It also helps to explain the blurred lines between reality and dreams present in the earlier films, especially the original.
- Freddy's ultimate goal in the film isn't to kill the kids from the preschool - well, not ALL of them. He intentionally makes sure that Nancy (his favorite) stays awake long enough that by the time she does fall asleep, she's unlikely to ever wake up again, and will stay alive and trapped in the dream world with him forever.Freddy: You think your boyfriend can wake you up? No ...I'm your boyfriend now.
- The alternate ending turns the creepiness up to eleven for the ending scene by having Freddy change back to his human form. Instead of making him look less scary, it serves as a reminder to the audience (and Nancy) that Freddy was just as much of a monster when he was alive.
