“A Nightmare on Elm Street” quotes
(1984)
Wes Craven
directed this movie
in 1984
Title A Nightmare on Elm Street
Year 1984
Director Wes Craven
Genre Horror
Year 1984
Director Wes Craven
Genre Horror
Plot – In America someone is building a terrible weapon: a special glove with sharp steel claws as fingers. He tries his weapon on Tina, a girl who has lost herself around the city, but suddently Tina wakes up and realizes all has just been a terrible nightmare. When she notices her nightgown totally torn, she begins to scare herself. The next day she meets her friends Nancy and Rod, who had her same dream, but Glen doesn't believe them. The nightmare continues for Tina who, after her mother's departure, wants the three friends to stay with her during the night. It will be a very long night.
All actors – John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Johnny Depp, Charles Fleischer, Joseph Whipp, Robert Englund, Lin Shaye, Joe Unger, Mimi Craven, Jack Shea, Ed Call, Sandy Lipton, David Andrews, Jeff Levine, Donna Woodrum, Shashawnee Hall, Carol Pritikin, Brian Reise, Ash Adams, Don Hannah, Leslie Hoffman, Paul Grenier, Charles Belardinelli, Jim Doyle, Kathi Gibbs, John Richard Petersen, Robert Shaye, Chris Tashima, Antonia Yannouli
show all“A Nightmare on Elm Street” Quotes 31 quotes
“Whatever you do... don't fall asleep.”
“Midnight. Baseball bats and boogeymen. Beautiful.”
“I'm into survival.”
“- Nancy Thompson: It's only a dream!
- Fred Krueger: Come to Freddy.
- Nancy Thompson: Goddamn you!”“Maybe we're gonna have a big earthquake. They say things get really weird just before.”
“- Glen Lantz: What did you do to your arm?
- Nancy Thompson: I burned it in English class.”“What is seen is not always what is real. According to Shakespeare, there was something operating in nature, perhaps inside human nature itself, that was rotten.”
“- Nancy Thompson: Come on, Freddy. Can't you catch me?
- Fred Krueger: I'm going to split you in two.”“- Lt. Thompson: There's an unsolved murder and I hate unsolved murders, especially ones that my daughter is mixed up in. What are you doing here?
- Nancy Thompson: Look, I just got to see that he's okay.
- Sgt. Garcia: I just checked on him ten minutes ago, he's sleeping like a baby. He's not going anywhere.”“Guys can have nightmares too, you know. You haven't got a corner on the market or something.”
“- Nancy Thompson: What I learned in the dream clinic. That's what I'm trying to prove, mother. Rod didn't kill Tina and he didn't hang himself. There's this guy; he's after us in our dreams.
- Marge Thompson: But that's just not reality, Nancy.
- Nancy Thompson: It's real, momma. Feel it.”“And now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep. And if I die before I wake, I pray the lord my soul to take.”
“Morality sucks.”
“I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy.”
“Maybe I should just pick up that bottle and veg out with you, ignore everything going on around me by getting good and loaded.”
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