A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Children: One, two, Freddy's coming for you. / Three, four, better lock your door. / Five, six, grab your crucifix. / Seven, eight, gonna stay up late. / Nine, ten, never sleep again.

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Nancy Thompson: [to Glen] Whatever you do... don't fall asleep.

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Fred Krueger: I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy.

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Glen Lantz: Miss Nude America is going to be on tonight.
Mrs. Lantz: How can you hear what she's going to say?
Glen Lantz: Who cares what she says?

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

[Tina is in the alley behind her home when a trashcan lid suddenly comes rolling out and crashes at her feet. She turns around]
Fred Krueger: Tina...
Tina Gray: Shit.
[Freddy laughs mockingly as he appears, extending his arms across the entire width of the alley]
Tina Gray: Please, God!
Fred

Krueger: [reveals his glove] This... is God!

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Nancy Thompson: Mother! What's with the bars?
Marge Thompson: Security.
Nancy Thompson: Security? Security from what?
Marge Thompson: Not from what - from whom. Come down to the cellar. You wanna know who Fred Krueger was? He was a filthy child murderer who killed at least 20 kids in the neighborhood... kids

we all knew.
Nancy Thompson: Oh, Mom.
Marge Thompson: It drove us crazy when we didn't know who it was, but it was even worse after they caught him.
Nancy Thompson: Did they put him away?
Marge Thompson: Well, all the lawyers got fat and the judge got famous, but someone forgot to sign the search

warrant in the right place and Krueger was free just like that.
Nancy Thompson: What did you do?
Marge Thompson: A bunch of us parents got together and tracked him down. We found him in old abandoned boiler room, where he used to take his kids.
Nancy Thompson: Go on.
Marge Thompson: We took gasoline and

poured it all around the place and made a trail of it out the door. We lit the whole thing up and watched it burn. He's dead now. He's dead because Mommy killed him.
[reveals Freddy's glove]
Marge Thompson: I even took his knives.
[Marge touches Nancy on her knee]
Nancy Thompson: You can sleep.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Nancy Thompson: It's only a dream!
Fred Krueger: Come to Freddy.
Nancy Thompson: Goddamn you!

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Nancy Thompson: Help! I've got him! Hey, Daddy! I've got him trapped! Help! Where are you?
Sgt. Parker: Everything's gonna be all right! Everything's under control!
Nancy Thompson: Get my dad, you asshole!

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Hall Guard: Where's your pass?
Nancy Thompson: Screw your pass.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Nancy Thompson: [looking in a mirror] Oh, God. I look 20 years old!

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Marge Thompson: Nancy?
Nancy Thompson: What, Mother?
Marge Thompson: Don't fall asleep in there. You could drown, you know.
Nancy Thompson: Oh, for Pete's sakes.
Marge Thompson: It happens all the time. I've heated up some warm milk for you, honey.
Nancy

Thompson: Warm milk? Gross.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Nancy Thompson: [after Glen failed to wake her up as she fell asleep and dreamed about Freddy] Glen, you bastard!
Glen Lantz: What did I do?
Nancy Thompson: I just asked you to do one thing, to stay awake and watch me and to wake me up if it looked like I was having a bad dream, and what did you do, you shit?
[Nancy slaps him

on the knee]
Nancy Thompson: You fell asleep!

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Nancy Thompson: I grab the guy in my dream. You see me struggling so you wake me up. We both come out, you whack the fucker and we got him.
Glen Lantz: Are you crazy? Hit him with what?
Nancy Thompson: You're the jock. You have a baseball bat or something.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

[Freddy wears Tina mask]
Tina Gray: Nancy, help me, please. Save me from...
[removes mask]
Fred Krueger: Freddy!

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

[Glen is trying to get to sleep on the couch alone, but the sounds of Tina and Rod having sex is keeping him up]
Glen Lantz: Morality sucks.

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Voice on Glen's television set: It is now twelve midnight and this is station KRGR leaving the air.

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Nancy Thompson: I know you're there, Freddy.
Fred Krueger: You think you was gonna get away from me?
Nancy Thompson: I know you too well, Freddy.
Fred Krueger: Now you die.
Nancy Thompson: It's too late, Krueger. I know the secret now. This is just a dream. You're not alive. This whole

thing is just a dream.
[she turns around and faces him]
Nancy Thompson: I want my mother and friends again.
Fred Krueger: You what?
Nancy Thompson: I take back every bit of energy I gave you. You're nothing. You're shit.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Nancy Thompson: [on the phone, referring to Glen] Hi, Daddy. I know what happened.
Lt. Thompson: I haven't been upstairs yet.
Nancy Thompson: Yeah, but you know he's dead, right?
Lt. Thompson: Yeah, apparently he's dead.
Nancy Thompson: Listen, Daddy, I've got a proposition for you.

Listen very carefully, please.
Lt. Thompson: Nancy.
Nancy Thompson: I'm going to go and get the guy who did it, and I want you to be there to arrest him when I bring him out. Okay?
Lt. Thompson: Just tell me who did it. I'll go get him, baby.
Nancy Thompson: Fred Krueger did it, Daddy, and only I can

get him. It's my nightmare he comes to.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Fred Krueger: [approaching Nancy] I'll kill you slow!

A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Nancy Thompson: Come on, Freddy. Can't you catch me?
Fred Krueger: I'm going to split you in two.