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Probably the best film in the Nightmare franchise, this one takes Freddy Krueger’s dream-stalking mayhem to a psychiatric hospital, where the last of Elm Street’s kids are locked up for their nightmares. Guided by Nancy (the hubba-hubba-inducing Heather Langenkamp, returning from the first film), the teens learn to harness special dream superpowers to fight back, turning the nightmare world into a bizarre battleground. Freddy, of course, amps up his sadistic creativity with some of the series’ most iconic kills. Equal parts scary and weirdly empowering, it’s the entry that turned Freddy into a pop-culture legend. Welcome to prime time, bitch!