Does the dog die?
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A Nightmare On Elm Street
Movie • 1984 • Horror
ReportTeenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...
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Anonymous
In the 1984 version, there is no dog. In the 2010 remake, a dog does die. However this is the entry for the 1984 version so I think people got confused which is why there are so many yes" entries.
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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vlixxord
Nancy's mom briefly slaps her.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
33 supporters
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Mcdeville
Adults refusing to believe the real and terrible experiences of teenagers based on "knowing better", and implications that the teenagers are just too emotional, is probably the main theme of the film. Personally I feel like more of the horror comes from this than from Freddy Kruger.
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Mcdeville
The entire movie is about children being brutally murdered and the survivors being ignored by the adults who should be caring for them. I'm really not sure why anyone has clicked no for this.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
12 supporters
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Saniso
Nancy's mother is an alcoholic
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Anonymous
Nancy's mother is an alcoholic and frequently shown drinking or hiding alcohol throughout the movie.
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Animal
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Is there a dead animal?
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ceisan
There are no animals in the 1984 (original) movie at all
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Are there spiders?
35 supporters
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DottyBlackheart26
There aren’t any spiders. I’m not sure why there are yes votes for this. I’m incredibly arachnophobic and I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.
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Are there snakes?
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bricker
40:17 there's several eels in a pile of mud in Nancy's dream.
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Are there bugs?
21 supporters
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bricker
40:13 - 40:20 when the woman opens her mouth a long centipede crawls out (very gross) and then turns into a bunch of eels in a pile at her feet.
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Assault
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Dreamdust1600
Nancy is Slapped by her mother
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eastcraven
Freddy is not a pedophile in the original series. He does make some lewd gestures though.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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lukehasahead
Freddy cuts his chest to reveal green ooze and maggots at one point
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Are any hands damaged?
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livelaughslay
Freddy purposely cuts off two of his fingers and green liquid, equivalent to blood, comes out
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
24 supporters
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Blastspark01
One character almost drowns
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Is someone burned alive?
29 supporters
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StanleyKruger
Freddy was burned to death, but IIRC this wasn't shown, merely talked about.
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Is there amputation?
18 supporters
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DottyBlackheart26
Freddy slices off 2 of his fingers while antagonizing Tina, but it’s not very graphic and played for laughs. Since he’s a dream demon, it’s not permanent anyway.
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Is there a hanging?
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A man dies of hanging.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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GreyCaprice
Someone is hung.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
58 supporters
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Mulu
No but the scene where Freddie's knife-hand approaches Nancy's crotch when she falls asleep in the bathtub might feel unconfortable for some people
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
38 supporters
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ceisan
Freddy cuts off two of his own fingers at one point
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Is someone tortured?
68 supporters
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ceisan
Not torture in the usual sense of the word but the deaths of most characters are not exactly quick/ clean
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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GreyCaprice
Freddy falls down two sets of stairs.
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Does someone fall to their death?
9 supporters
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throughourphantoms
A character falls through a sort of portal Freddy created in his bed and is said to be dead. not sure if that counts?
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Is there excessive gore?
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IanMorris
There is excessive gore in the sense that there is tons of blood in two death scenes, and some other scenes. But the effects are not shown in a truly realistic manner, and most of the scenes are quick.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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Anonymous
Teens are killed throughout the movie and it is implied (but not shown) that younger kids were abused and killed by Krueger in the past.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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ceisan
Not kidnapped but one of the characters is arrested and held in jail, and there is talk of Freddy's past crimes which included kidnapping, but it isn't depicted
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Fear
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Are there ghosts?
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DottyBlackheart26
Not really. There’s some hallucinations in the characters’ dreams, but no ghosts.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Westley
Technically. It's a bath scene.
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
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JackLapierre
Not pictured but a character mentions that someone is in the bathroom sick after witnessing a crime scene.
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Is there audio gore?
38 supporters
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It doesn’t fit perfectly into this category, but Freddy does scrape the knives on his glove against a lot of surfaces. Lots of unpleasant squeaking noises that might bother some people with sensory sensitivities.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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SiRenfield
The plot of the whole franchise basically happens due to in the incompetence of the police (or at least Springwood’s).
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
28 supporters
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bricker
50:47 a doctor tries to give a girl a shot but she doesn't let him.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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bricker
47:30 - 51:20 Nancy's parents take her to a hospital for sleep disorders
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
35 supporters
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Mulu
One might consider Nancy's drinking to be an expression of PTSD, but it's not explicitly treated as such
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Alixandraw
~27 mins into the movie Nancy burns her wrist on a hot water pipe to wake herself up. She later looks at the burn.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
14 supporters
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Jackaellk
A lot of the movie happens throughout dreams and in such dreams, reality is bent and twisted.
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Is there misophonia?
32 supporters
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SiRenfield
The iconic Freddy scraping his gloves on the metal pipes
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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SleepSystem
An actual suicide does not occur but a character's death is made to look like a suicide and several characters discuss it as if it is one.
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Noxious
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Are there underwater scenes?
6 supporters
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Nancy is pulled underwater in the bath
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there homophobic slurs?
37 supporters
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Cryptid_Crow
"Fruitcake" is said in a derogatory way.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
34 supporters
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ceisan
There isn't anything horrible but the main character is considered "psycho" by a lot of people so some rude things about that are said
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Sex
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Are there nude scenes?
28 supporters
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Dreamdust1600
There is a bath scene but you can't see any genitals
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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KaitiMaddox
It’s not shown on screen, but it is heavily implied that a car crashes.
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
44 supporters
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DottyBlackheart26
Yes, but it’s not too graphic.
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Does someone drown?
13 supporters
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Anonymous
No, but a character almost drowns.
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Is there gun violence?
19 supporters
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ceisan
(Spoilers, obviously!!) There is one scene where a cop points a gun/threatens to shoot one of the protagonists, but it is never fired and no one in this movie is killed by a gun
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