"Dylan, stop it. You're scaring me. Dylan?"
- After being completely silly in previous sequels, Freddy is back to absolutely terrifying here.
- When Heather receives the following phone call, which becomes a callback to the tongue phone in the first Nightmare movie:Freddy: Heh heh heh, I touched him. (cue tongue out of the phone)
- Those three words speak volumes of Fridge Horror when you recall that Freddy was originally conceived as a child killer and a sexual predator. Freddy might have been saying he didn't just have contact with Dylan mentally, but physically. Given the use of a tongue, it's fairly safe to say that's what Freddy meant.
- When Heather receives the following phone call, which becomes a callback to the tongue phone in the first Nightmare movie:
- Tina's death is revisited, as Freddy kills Julie in a quite similar manner. Her last words are especially harrowing, when Freddy is about to kill her after dragging her to the ceiling. As she realizes she's about to die, the last thing she can do is beg a five-year-old kid to save her from the monster.
- "Hey, Dylan. Ever play... skin the cat?" Robert Englund's delivery of that line is positively bone-chilling.
- Dylan's little escapade with the jungle gym. It's as tense as anything else in the film. And Freddy had nothing to do with it. It's just a little kid, using little-kid logic to try and get to Heaven to see his dad.
- The movie's demon can't really be killed. It can only be contained in a story until its completion. With that and the implied "real world" of the movie, that thing probably found a new story to settle into and will make its return as soon as that story is complete. And this movie never got a sequel, and with Wes Craven's death probably never will, meaning its story is finished.
- Though there is still Freddy vs. Jason and the reboot... though that hasn't gotten a sequel after twelve years either... But Freddy has been elevated into a video game, but then begs the question: How long can the demon be locked in the video game before players lose interest?
- Heather being asked if she trusts her child with Robert Englund is a subtle sort of creepy. Especially when one considers that it's one of the things Wes Craven based on something that actually happened to Heather Langenkamp.
- The Reality Subtext of Heather having a real-life Stalker with a Crush; imagine having to recreate your dealing with a stalker for a movie.
- The theatrical poster for the film, which consists of nothing but a pair of Freddy's blood-red eyes with pupils showing the flames of Hell against a black background.
