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Tina's screams when Freddy kills her are on the sound effects tape Glen plays at the beginning


I always thought that was an eerie touch.

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Can't believe I never noticed! Could be symbolic foreshadowing; not only of Tina's death but the revelation of the whole series of events being Nancy's dream given that we first hear her screams as something the audience is to recognize as not real.

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Good points.

It's details like these that make revisiting "Nightmare" so gratifying. Wes never gives us an answer as to what was real and what wasn't, leaving us to draw our own conclusions ... Maybe Nancy's not even a teen girl at all but instead some middle-age mental patient in a padded cell caught up in this alternate reality where she's Nancy, spunky high school student, who squares off against Freddy Krueger, child molester and killer, whose reign of terror results in the deaths of Nancy's three imaginary friends Glen, Rod and Tina ... Nancy could be herself the child molester and she created Freddy to rid herself of the burden of carrying around all the guilt she feels.

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I hate your theory and hate Wes Craven's original ending of the whole movie being a dream.

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