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Go Get Your GHOUL: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
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It's spooky season again, which means it's time to temporarily transform into Go Get Your GHOUL! For the next month we will be covering horror movies instead, and we're kicking off this year with the classic slasher about that "weirdo" Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm Street. We also talk about The Current Situation, My Chemical Romance, we debut our new motto, "Let's get laid," Emma demonstrates the classic horror movie run, and we get wrapped around the axle about coffee makers and Elm Street lore.
Fact Check: Jennifer Lawrence doesn't appear in the remake of Last House on the Left, but in the original horror movie, The House on the End of the Street. In our defense, the titles are REALLY similar, but the movies are nothing alike.
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Transcript
Thirsty Thursday & Humor on Alcoholism
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So, thirsty Thursday. For God's sake.
00:00:38
Speaker
I thought about that, like, the other day. i was like, it's not hump day. and it it's not Monday or Sunday. um What's, like, a fun saying that they say on Thursdays?
00:00:48
Speaker
Thirsty Thursdays. I mean, that's a it's a bar promotion is what it is. Well, all of these are bar promotions. I don't know why that's what I equivalent. That's true, actually, I guess, yeah.
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That's what I equivalent days of the week to.
00:01:05
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I think that makes you an alcoholic. I think that does. Fun Fridays. wow Well, good morning, Katie. Good morning. Good morning.
Satire on National Guard in Chicago
00:01:16
Speaker
How are you doing? How's life? Oh, fine. You know, never ending nightmare. Oh, yes. Yeah, things are real exciting in Chicago right now. ah Yeah, yeah, they're deploying the National Guard, right?
00:01:31
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oh I saw a really funny thing. but i was just like, i miss living in Chicago. um About how they deployed the salt trucks to keep out the National Guard.
00:01:42
Speaker
Oh. And like they just have like the salt trucks lined up across like one road ah so that they can't get in. Yeah.
00:01:53
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And I thought that was great. it says that they're not coming now. So. Okay.
Fascism & Concert Narratives
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Well, that's good. um governor pritzker not convinced by apparent uh trump pivot on sending military deployment to chicago three yeah i like so fucking stupid it's so fucking stupid like oh yeah chicago's so scary you gotta send the military here like he's just trying to crush all the cities yeah yeah yeah yeah i'll have to delete this episode eventually once the uh the new reich has taken over
00:02:28
Speaker
Jesus oh my god I feel like my entire life is like surrounded by fascism um yeah I mean it kind of is right it kind of is well because like real life but then also um I went to the my chem concert on Sunday which was right amazing yeah I had some friends go here yeah It was so fucking good. It was so fucking good. But anyone that like knows My Chemical Romance and knows what this tour is, the first half of the tour, the first half of the concert is them playing the Belac Parade yeah in this fictive communist dictatorship place.
00:03:07
Speaker
like Eastern European, fictional Eastern European country. And so like, it was just all that. And I was just like, oh my God, well, I guess this is life. The militaristic kind of, yeah.
00:03:19
Speaker
Yeah. And like, at one point you have like signs that say yay or nay and you vote on, um, assassinating some people uh who broke some rules from the dictator yeah it doesn't matter what you vote they end up getting assassinated anyways and he loves a story gerard way he loves a story he really does he loves a story he loves a narrative and at the end of it he was like thank you for participating in democracy and i was like yep yep yep
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um And
Escaping Reality: Book Discussion
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ah so there's that. And then I'm reading this fabulous book, but it also takes place. I mean, it's a little bit of mental... mental um get away from the world in that yes it does take place in it sort of a dictatorship where witches are hunted oh oh yeah sure ah and again it's sort of like a fascist dictatorship um ah dystopia and but at least things are happening against it that's true yeah
00:04:30
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And the character's fighting against it. And she's getting laid. Of course. Of course. By a sexy witch hunter. Always important. Oh, well. She's a witch. He's a witch hunter.
00:04:41
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Of course. What's it called? um It's called the Crimson Moth. And the second one is the Heartless Hunter. Okay. Okay. It's really good. As long as she gets laid. That's the important thing.
00:04:54
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Right. And they both realize that it doesn't matter um whose side you're on Everybody's wrong.
00:05:04
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ah Sometimes. Sometimes people are right, though. That's true. That's true. um But in this fictive universe, right i war is wrong and let's just stop hunting each other. Sure, sure.
00:05:18
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Yeah. ah Which I think let's stop hunting each other. Yeah. but And most importantly, let's get laid. Yeah. Yeah. A good motto for this podcast.
00:05:31
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um Stop hunting each other and let's get laid. Well, just little just let's get laid was my point.
00:05:40
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Let's get laid. Yeah. Let's get laid. um Nobody gets laid in this movie. ah That's a lie. oh Oh, that's right. No, yeah, of course there's sex in this movie. What am I thinking of?
00:05:52
Speaker
There's so much sex in this movie. There's one sex in this movie. There's one amount of sex. Yeah, but it's a pretty big part, Katie. It is. You're right. You're right. Of course it's a slasher movie. Yeah, so...
Introducing 'Go Get Your Goo' Podcast
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Who are we? What are we doing here? Yeah. So that brings us into it, right? So you guessed it, guys. This is Go Get Your Goo. Oh, oh,
00:06:19
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oh. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie... It's so hard because I thought the protagonist was one person at the beginning of this movie and it was not. That was not our final girl. um Oh, for sure, yeah.
00:06:31
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Yeah. So Emma and Katie have some friends in high school and uh they have been having these weird nightmares right and then like all of a sudden all of their friends are having these nightmares and they wake up and like weird like scratches that they get in their dreams they're actually there what's going this weird guy named freddie keeps following them around like a weirdo yes
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it's putting it lightly i think
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The tamest description of Freddy Krueger ever, a weirdo. Like a weirdo. And, um and yeah, and so they just keep trying to like figure out what's going on and their friends start dying. And then they're like, oh, well, I gotta like kill Freddy Krueger and bring him out of my dream.
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Cause I was able to bring a hat out. hu um And turns out their mom was weirdly connected in Freddy's murder. So yeah, there you have it.
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ah I'm Emma. And I'm Katie.
00:07:38
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And today we are talking our first episode of the season. ah go get your ghoul. Your rom-com podcast will be back in November. yeah um From now until Halloween, we're talking all spooky movies all the time.
00:07:53
Speaker
spooky spooky baby spooky spooky is a nightmare on elm street uh the original one from 1984 um it is introducing donnie um ah it is introducing donny dapp Is it introducing Johnny Depp? Is this his first role?
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That's how it was built. Oh, was it? true
Wes Craven's Career Highlights
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Introducing Johnny Depp. Yeah. Oh, I missed that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. i'm ah Sorry about that, y'all. ah Baby Johnny Depp.
00:08:22
Speaker
Oh my God. His Wikipedia photo is deranged. Does he look like, like as soon as I saw Johnny Depp, I was like, guys, it's Johnny Depp. Okay. So here's a little side story. um My in-laws are in town and they've been staying with us for two weeks.
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and That's a long time.
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And, um,
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and, um, so I, we had no choice but to watch this movie. And my, my father-in-law loves horror films, but my mother-in-law, not so much. And so I was like, I'm so very sorry, Jane, but we have to watch this movie for my podcast.
00:08:59
Speaker
I'm so sorry. This is important yeah to my career, um as a podcast S, uh, podcast tricks. podcast tricks and so we sat around as a family and we watched nightmare on elm street
00:09:18
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that is that's awkward i can't imagine my mom would not sit through this for sure It was a fun time. I mean, my father-in-law loved it. Charlie thought it was silly and ridiculous.
00:09:30
Speaker
I honestly, I'd never seen this movie. um Yeah, that's crazy. I can't believe you've never seen it before. I know. Well, you know, i got into horror late in life. And um so a lot of like the classics have sort of like fallen through the cracks. And so I'm like catching up.
00:09:46
Speaker
you know last year i did all the friday the 13th i still have to do you did all of the friday the 13th i did a ah huge chunk of them wow i did one for jason x is playing at the um uh music box of horror this year i haven't gotten i haven't gotten that far yet haven't seen that one either i did get to friday the 13th the one that's in 3d hell yeah Which is so ridiculous.
00:10:17
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Yeah, I've only seen a cup a few Friday the 13th. It's not really my thing. I prefer Nightmare on Elm Street to Friday the 13th by far. yeah Yeah. I like a good camper slasher. i think that I think those are fun. And I think part of it comes from, number one, the fact that they filmed one of those movies literally in my neighborhood, like around here. i think two or three was filmed in Litchfield, which is like the next town over.
00:10:40
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um um And the rest of it's filmed in New Jersey, like camp. nowhere it's camp nowhere don't know what are you talking about camp wait the camp crystal lake the camp from camp crystal lake camp nowhere is a
New Line Cinema's Evolution
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night nowhere is a children's film from the 90s with christopher lloyd
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camp nowhere camp crystal lake is in new jersey um but uh that and then also the fact that i went to sleepaway camp um right right and so like that's just it resonates with me and i like watching that like during the summer to get some like spooky summer thrills yeah yeah i get that yeah yeah summer vibes um but i'd never seen this before and katie this movie is a fucking delight i know right
00:11:33
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so good there's i mean good's not a word i would necessarily use oh i would i think it rules i think it rules but i don't know if good is a word to describe it i think i think definitely i think groundbreaking in terms of the genre yeah yeah um it was it gets weird with it ah It gets so weird, but there's so many moments in this that I'm just like, oh, what a gem.
00:12:05
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What a fucking gem. Yeah. And I mean, like, we'll get to my favorite part. Yeah. when we get there but there's one particular scene that i had to pause and i rewound and i made everyone watch it again because nobody caught what i caught and i was like this is the best thing i've ever seen in my entire life and how there is not a i mean if i were to make a spoof slasher movie i would probably do 10 minute bit based on this one scene okay okay
00:12:37
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Um, so yeah. So, uh, so yeah, it was, it was a fun little delight. Um, Wes Craven, baby. Yeah. Yeah. Um, the The first repeat director in our Go Get Ghoul series because he did Scream, which we covered last year.
00:12:54
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um Yeah. Nightmare on Elm Street 1984, written and directed by Wes Craven. Wes Craven had made, ah previous to this, he did um The Last House on the Left, which is a very nasty movie that nobody needs to watch anymore. They remade it with Jennifer Lawrence. Why?
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Speaker
Why would they do that? Don't do that. That's a terrible idea. Jennifer Lawrence was in it. Okay. um That's gotta be a pre-Hunger Games Jennifer Lawrence, right? Oh, yeah. It was a pre-Hunger Games Jennifer Lawrence.
00:13:25
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um Oh, so she must be the she's the... She's the kid who gets killed at the beginning, then.
00:13:31
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i think they, like, 2005'd it and changed a lot. wow Well, it's a rape revenge movie. It's, um... Anyway, neither here nor there.
00:13:44
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Last House on the Left is a very upsetting ah movie that nobody needs to watch anymore. He made The Hills Have Eyes, which is a... Very upsetting.
00:13:55
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Mutant freaks in the desert movie. ah And then I think he's got um maybe one other credit or so until A Nightmare on Elm Street, which um he was shopping around, couldn't get...
00:14:10
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And he wanted to bite on it. but and And he got a lot i got a rejection letter from Universal Studios that he had framed in his office until he died.
00:14:21
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um But after a Nightmare on Elm Street became a huge success, he made a bunch of other movies, including The People Under the Stairs, Switch Rules, The Serpent and the Rainbow, four Scream movies. Yes! New Nightmare, which is the seventh Nightmare on Elm Street movie, um which is the one he came back for, which is this weird meta deconstruction.
00:14:44
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Like Heather Langenkamp, the protagonist from this movie, is playing herself. The actress, Heather Langenkamp, Robert England is playing Robert England. Wes Craven plays himself, where it's like and the actors are making a reboot Nightmare on Elm Street movie.
00:14:59
Speaker
But Freddy is, the real Freddy is haunting them in their dreams and starts picking them off. It's very... Oh, so it's it's Scream 3. Sort of, but it's magic, you know? Like, it's... it's it's I think it's better than Scream 3, but Scream 3, I think, is the worst Scream movie, so... ah Scream 3 is the most fun.
00:15:19
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ah um the um Yeah, so that's that's very fun and weird and interesting. yeah um And then also he made um Music of the Heart.
00:15:31
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Oh.
00:15:33
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So. There you go. ah He contains multitudes. Yes. So yeah, so the making of this movie, Bob Shea at New Line Cinema. So New Line Cinema was
Freddy Krueger's Cultural Impact
00:15:44
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one of the, really the first major independent films ah film studio ah in the 80s, but in the 70s, and I think they were founded maybe even in the 60s, it started out as a film distribution company where Bob Shea, who was like a kid when he founded it, was importing movies to play on college campuses and mostly reefer madness.
00:16:06
Speaker
He had some reefer madness for and he would take them into the 60s and 70s and to college campuses and play them for laughs. yup And he built a company that way. um and they had he had They had not produced any movies until the 80s. I think the first, it's hard to tell really by looking this up.
00:16:24
Speaker
I think the first movie that they actually produced was Polyester, the John Waters. Okay. Like John Waters' first kind of decent budget movie with like the odorama, like they had the scratch and sniff cards in the theater where you're supposed like just a bizarre John Waters weirdness.
00:16:42
Speaker
Yeah. And then he did, they did, i think a couple other movies. And this was, you know, one of the, one of the early, still early on in the, in the times of like New Line actually making movies.
00:16:54
Speaker
Yeah. um And um Alone in the Dark, he did Alone in the Dark as well. But they really took a chance on this. And then it was an absolutely massive hit. Like this movie, the New Line Cinema became the, they called it the house that Freddie built.
00:17:10
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Because then they just started making s sequels. They made seven sequels to this movie. yeah From 1984 until I think New Nightmare is like 93 or 94. um yeah So basically every every year and every other year for a while.
00:17:24
Speaker
Then they remade it, right? Didn't they remake And then there was a remake and with Jackie Earl Haley ah who auditioned for this movie. Really? Yeah. And it's terrible. It's like they try to make it like dark and like modern. And I think it's from like 2008.
00:17:44
Speaker
nine or something yeah i remember watching like a behind the scenes thing on it and like they try to make freddie semi-sympathetic like you follow his like death right you see his death well they make him a child molester in yeah in in that one and like so they also kind of make him a child molester in the sequels of this one they kind of retcon it um but in this movie they don't say that at all they just said he killed 20 children which we'll we'll get to that later because yeah that time doesn't time that's too many kids man
00:18:21
Speaker
so i mean one kid is too many kids to to kill what i'm talking about is logistically for the purposes of this movie having him killed 20 children is too many for it to remain a secret Yes, exactly. For it to be not national news. Yeah, we'll we'll get there. um But um yeah, so that yeah it's I don't know. I saw it when it came out. It was awful. It's widely regarded to be awful. I haven't seen it since. Yeah, so yeah, yeah.
00:18:47
Speaker
I don't like that they make him sympathetic. Yeah, which is, I mean, like, but that, I mean, the thing about the sequels to the to these movies and some of the sequels, God, I think for Nightmare 3,
00:19:00
Speaker
The Dream Warriors. is This one is probably my favorite, but that one is definitely all like right neck and neck with that for for the best Freddy movie, because almost immediately after this movie, they get real silly with it.
00:19:16
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um Oh, they weren't getting silly with it in this? Well, no, you haven't seen nothing. ahha
00:19:26
Speaker
The second one is like a gay panic. thing there's it's ah It goes goes nuts. So the second one is about a boy who is being starting to become possessed by Freddy, but he's ah it's also like the most homoerotic horror movie of the 80s. There was a documentary that came out a couple years ago called Scream, Queen, Scream that is about the gay subtext of Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and the lead actor of that who is a very cool person and I can't think of his name. Um, let's Mark something.
00:20:03
Speaker
yeah. Scream queen. oh no, it's just called, I could have sworn it was scream queen scream. It's just a scream queen, my nightmare on Elm street. Um, it is about Mark Patton, um, who was the, the actor, um, on that and about how like,
00:20:21
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everybody saw that. i was like, this is the gayest thing I've ever seen. And it outed him prematurely and kind of ruined his career. um And it's ah it's a really interesting documentary, but um the third one is more of a direct sequel to this because that's a completely different character.
00:20:38
Speaker
um yeah The third one is more of a direct sequel to this. Heather Langenkamp comes back and it's called the dream warriors where these psychic children start to get superpowers to fight Freddie um in their dreams.
00:20:51
Speaker
Oh my god, yes! um And it's super fun. Patricia Arquette is in it. um ah It rules. i Now Wes Craven wrote that one but didn't direct it.
00:21:03
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come He didn't direct any of the other ones until New Nightmare, which is the super meta down the rabbit hole kind of thing.
Origins of Freddy Krueger
00:21:09
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Scream 3. Well, it was made in 1994, so.
00:21:14
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Yeah, so he made that and then he was like, you know what? Scream's going really well. You know what we need to do Super meta. Scream 3. Well, mean, the first Scream is super meta also, but like... Yeah, but they don't have Sydney going to set to see someone playing Sydney. Correct, correct, correct. You're right.
00:21:33
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, honestly, Scream 3 is a bit of a ripoff of New Nightmare, come to think of it. Yeah, yeah. um Yes, so... um So Bob Shea got this movie made. It became a huge hit. They became a powerhouse. They eventually got bought by various companies, but they were...
00:21:50
Speaker
And independent all through the 80s and made like just so many movies. I mean, eventually they made The Lord of the Rings and won an Oscar. um New Line, I think Warner Brothers owns them now, as they're still but they're still like a a shingle.
00:22:04
Speaker
um Like fairly, ah you know, independent in-house, but owned by the the major. But yeah, New Line is a big deal. And this movie is what made their their whole career.
00:22:15
Speaker
There you There you go. there you go So this movie. So this movie, Baby Johnny Depp. That's my very first note is Baby Johnny Depp.
00:22:28
Speaker
Starts with Tina. Yep. Played by Amanda Weiss or Wyss. W-Y-S-S. And ah she's dreaming. Yes. And yeah she is, you can tell because she's in her nightgown.
00:22:43
Speaker
Yes. In a boiler room. Can you? Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:50
Speaker
That's why I'm wearing my nightgown to record this. i That was how to be thematic. Wasn't because I wasn't prepared. It's because I wanted to be thematic. Exactly. It's because Nightmare on Elm Street is like as if you were in a nightmare.
00:23:02
Speaker
So you're in your nightgown. Yeah, exactly. So if you fall asleep naked... that means that you're in your dreams naked like it would appear to be i i don't remember from the sequels um ah ah if that ever happens the same not tina but our main chick wears the same pajamas nancy she does yeah yeah at one point i was like nancy wash those pajamas don't you have a second pair maybe it's like superman maybe maybe she has a drawer that they're all just identical pairs of pajamas yeah because also she's not sleeping. So she'd be like running around and sweating in them things.
00:23:36
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. And she'd never wear shoes. That was the biggest thing that we all saw was nobody ever wore shoes outside. Well, because they're dreaming. No, even when they're not dreaming, they didn't wear shoes. They're wearing shoes at school. I promise you.
00:23:53
Speaker
They are definitely wearing shoes. So they're like running around that town barefoot. And i was like, that's how you get ringworm. And then I was corrected. No, that's not how you get ringworm. That's how you get hookworm.
00:24:06
Speaker
I don't remember which one you get from the shoes, but I'll believe you. Yeah. yeah And tetanus. And tetanus. Yeah. And, you know, who knows what else. So Tina is dreaming um and she's walking through this boiler room. it turns out it's the boiler room of the school.
00:24:21
Speaker
Yes. Because also, I don't... God, did they even mention that he was the janitor at the school in this movie? No, so they don't even mention that. It's hard for me to separate what is in this movie and what was added in the sequels. Because there's also a whole thing where, like,
00:24:37
Speaker
The way, like, he he was, he's a demon because he his he was born when um a nun was was ah sexually assaulted 500 maniacs. And no one's sure which one is the father. It's crazy. Like, the lore gets wild in the later sequels. Like, that's from, like, Freddy V, I think, which is definitely on the decline.
Character Introductions in Elm Street
00:25:04
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ah yeah yeah no that ah you don't find out anything except for he was in the neighborhood and he killed 20 kids he i think they they they definitely imply that that the he had his little base in the his little lair was in the boiler room of the school though so um in i think even in the next movie they mentioned that he was the janitor at the school yes okay um So she is creeping through um the there and she gets she gets attacked, but she survives. She wakes up and we do these yeah constantly in this movie. They're doing these like slow fades and like camera pan cuts.
00:25:48
Speaker
So where the camera's like moving as you're fading in, it's very dreamlike. And so the the effect is that you never really know Like, yeah is this still part of the dream? Is this the next day? Like, it's very, it's very done. I think that's what threw me off.
00:26:02
Speaker
Yeah. Because there were moments like where I was just like, girl, put some shoes on. Yeah. Well, that's the thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. it's It's hard to know what's a dream and what's real. And that's definitely very intentional. um And then we get these creepy girls singing a jump rope rhyme, which rules.
00:26:19
Speaker
It's so spooky. um Like, and so the legacy of Freddie, like, did you, what is your, what so You hadn't seen the movie, but you were aware of Freddy Krueger because yeah of course we were born in the 80s. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
00:26:35
Speaker
um I knew ah who Freddy Krueger was, obviously. I just had never seen any of the movies. And I knew, ah you know, obviously, there's roughford the little Wes Craven cameo in Scream where he's the janitor dressed as Freddy Krueger. And I've seen ah commercials for Freddy vs. Jason.
00:26:57
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. but and like it's So I watched a six-hour documentary um ah but several years ago. I want i should rewatch it. maybe I'll rewatch it this year. Nightmare on Elm Street?
00:27:08
Speaker
Called um the... Oh, what's it called? the the the The Nightmare Legacy. Oh, man, what's it called?
00:27:20
Speaker
The Psychic Children. Elm Street Legacy, something like that. It's called Never Sleep Again, The Elm Street Legacy. Yeah. Never Sleep Again. Gotcha. Gotcha. Which is an extremely long documentary about the making of all of the movies um with a bunch of you know interviews with all the actors and everybody. They didn't get Johnny Depp, surprisingly.
00:27:38
Speaker
Wow. Wow. It was pre... We knew how terrible he was also, so... Yeah. He just couldn't acknowledge that this movie made him. Exactly. Yeah.
00:27:52
Speaker
But it's it's it's super interesting. If people are into that sort of thing. If somebody wants to watch a six-hour Talking Head documentary on all seven Nightmare on Elm Street movies. I mean, once I watch them all, I totally will.
00:28:03
Speaker
Yeah. There's one on night on Friday the 13th, too, called chris Camp Crystal Lake Memories, which is not as good. Yeah. But also because those movies are not as good. Okay. But it's the same person who made both of them, I believe.
00:28:15
Speaker
Gotcha. um The... What was I going? Oh, yeah. yeah He was such a cultural phenomenon. Like, yeah he was everywhere. There were board games. There was a TV show called Freddy's Nightmares.
00:28:29
Speaker
He was marketed to children, which was a thing in the 80s. Like... so much these R rated movies marketed to children and even in the 90s too like um I remember kids yeah I remember kids like on the like like playground when I was when I was little had like Terminator action figures and stuff I'm like that movie's rated R like why aren't they selling action figures to children for an R rated movie I'm pretty sure you get Freddy Krueger action figures. Oh, you definitely could. But I don't have, I never saw any of those because that was before I was born.
00:29:01
Speaker
ah But I mean, it lasted. Like the la the new nightmare was like 93 or 94, I think. And, but the last like mainline Freddy movie was 91. So it was a little bit before our time.
00:29:13
Speaker
Yeah. But in terms of like Freddy mania. Yeah. But like, It was everywhere. It was, there there was, their impact kids had bedsheets and like, he became this, this mascot. And in later movies, he's, he is definitely more of the main character where it's those things where it's like, you're actually pulling for the villain. You know, you yeah you don't actually want, the the kids aren't the protagonist. The Freddy is the protagonist. You want to see him do some crazy shit, like a wild death and say like a punchline when he, he does like, welcome to prime time, bitch.
00:29:48
Speaker
And he pulls her head into the TV that is his body is probably the most famous one. yeah What? Yeah, that's from that's from part three. Oh, my God.
00:29:59
Speaker
um Or maybe four. I don't remember. um I think that's three. It is. um So it's it the the fact that this like kind of small movie where he's mostly serious, like he does talk, which was a big innovation at the time. Like previously, you know, the killers were silent.
00:30:23
Speaker
You know, you have before this, you have, you know, Michael Myers, Leatherface and um Jason all yeah were, or this is 84.
Tina's Nightmare
00:30:34
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Jason is,
00:30:36
Speaker
Jason's around. Yeah. Because that's like, what, 79, 81? Jason isn't the killer in the first one, and but he has been, in there's been at least two or three sequels before 84. I think there's been one every year from 80 on. so Yeah. This silent, slow-moving, like, indomitable, like, force as the as the killer, and is replaced by this, you know, joking...
00:31:05
Speaker
terrifying looking, um, ah um, ah weirdo, as you called him in the beginning. Yeah. A little weirdo. little weirdo with like Muppet arms. Yeah. Oh, that's so cool. I love it.
00:31:17
Speaker
Um, the uh tim burton-esque like things in this that i'm just like why have i not seen this before like a lot of the like spooky scary stuff it gives off beetlejuice vibes yeah yeah yeah i mean well it's it is also pre-beetlejuice too of course yeah yeah um yeah so we go into the next scene after that dream and there's our four main kids um so we have ah nancy played by heather langenkamp um tina played by amanda wiss yep um uh rod lane ah played by sexual harassing cory who's a real freak and of course uh glenn lance played by johnny depp glenn who's such just just a good boy i mean i honestly i'm not gonna lie i loved his relationship with his parents his parents fucking suck
00:32:09
Speaker
His parents do fucking suck. But I thought that any, like the one scene where his mom comes and wakes him up and he's just like, um she's like, I don't understand how you can watch TV and like listen to your records at the same time. And they just had this like fun little tete-a-tete. And then I think he says. He says he's going to watch Miss Nude America.
00:32:27
Speaker
Nude America. Like, I don't think that's a real show. And then she goes, okay, well, be good, honey. Love you. Yeah. She's like, well, how can you hear what they say? he goes, who cares what they say? like, yeah, that's accurate.
00:32:42
Speaker
She goes, okay, you're the best. Love you. um Miss Nude America. I didn't know. He it must get Skinamax on that ah that weird portable TV he's watching. That he's watching on his lap.
00:32:55
Speaker
The 50-pound TV that he's watching on his lap. Well, he's a football player. so um Still, you want to be comfy.
00:33:08
Speaker
um Yeah, with the big giant headphones on. um Right. Yeah. So, but we'll get there later. The four of them all kind of talking about, Tina's talking about her, she's been having these terrible dreams, and all three of the other kids kind of imply that they've been having bad dreams, too. Except for for Glenn. Like, Glenn claims, at least, he hasn't been having bad dreams.
00:33:28
Speaker
But we don't know if that's true. He's like, I'm good. Yeah. Whatever. And Rod is constantly like, hey, you want to bang? Yes. Yeah, it's it's, I mean...
00:33:40
Speaker
not completely inaccurate for high school children well and like he's so sexual harassing towards her he's just like he doesn't even ask her he goes hey why are being such a bitch yeah um ah they so there but there are tina and rod are dating and nancy and glenn are dating they're two couples Um, Tina and Rod are like, you know, fighting and breaking up and getting back together and that sort thing back and forth. Rod's the bad boy. He's a piece of shit. Yeah.
00:34:12
Speaker
He's the bad boy who does drugs. Yes. Um, and Tina's mom is out of town and she's scared to be alone. Um, so. Well, we meet Tina's mom at the beginning and I think it's really funny because Tina's mom comes in with like a cocktail.
00:34:30
Speaker
Yeah, the the parents are all fucked up. And that's part of the thing. like that is So like their parents are the ones who killed Freddy. Freddy is killing specifically the children of the the people who formed the mob to kill him.
00:34:44
Speaker
And here's the other question. The parents are old, you'll also notice. They're all yeah quite old to have 15, 16-year-old children. And none of them have older siblings. Yes.
00:34:54
Speaker
Which... Did their older siblings get murdered and their parents didn't tell them about it? I mean, i kind of like that as like part of the lore. Yeah, it's that but but that's crazy.
00:35:07
Speaker
Oh, it's absolutely insane. but You had a dead sibling? You had a dead sibling and your parents just didn't tell you about it because they murdered the guy? Yeah, well, you know...
00:35:21
Speaker
I feel like that's the least secret of secret in this movie. I regret to to say that I think that this may not be all that well thought out. ah Yeah, absolutely not.
00:35:32
Speaker
Absolutely not. But we get to the the the sleepover. She's got Nancy and Glenn also sleeping over at her house. um ah Glenn does this very charming bit where he calls his mom and says that he's at his cousin's house by the airport.
00:35:47
Speaker
He's got the boombox playing airplane sounds, but then it starts playing like, a motorcycle crash and this woman's screaming and he's like yeah uh-huh you're right i should call the police uh-huh and then it's like gunfire and he's like okay bye okay bye mom it's so good it's pretty funny oh man um ah and then rod constantly is like hey tina let's bang and then rod shows up of course because that's what he does and but we But before that, we mentioned that Nancy says that she had a dream about the same guy. He wears a dirty green and red striped sweater and he has knives for fingers.
00:36:26
Speaker
Yeah. Which is... you gotta have like a cool gimmick, right? Yeah, exactly. The glove with straight razors on it is, it's iconic. Like it's just, it's a cool thing for a horror movie villain to have, you know? It's a cool thing for a horror movie villain to have. It's a little less practical when you think about it from the term of like, this guy was like a child molester killing children and ah he just decided to fashion a glove with straight razors on it for why?
00:36:58
Speaker
To kill children, I guess.
00:37:02
Speaker
Children are easy to kill. You're right. You don't need all that. You don't need all that pomp and circumstance.
Nancy's Classroom Nightmare
00:37:10
Speaker
That's way too much. Just give them a shake. They'll go down. Exactly. Just give them a little shake. um We don't know how young the children were, actually, to be fair. I know, I'm envisioning them as babies.
00:37:20
Speaker
Yeah, me too. But yeah, they could have been teenagers. Again, we don't know. Exactly, exactly. mean, I think they, I don't remember. I think they probably get into it late in later sequels. To be fair, one and three are the only ones I've rewatched.
00:37:34
Speaker
so Yeah, okay. Well, Charlie and I will probably end up watching several of these now. If you watch two, you really should watch Scream Queen, like the documentary about it. it's So it's really good.
00:37:46
Speaker
it's kind of It's pretty sad, but it's very, very yeah interesting. yeah um Okay. Maybe I'll do like a little double feature. Yeah. Um, I kind of like the lore of um if they had older siblings that were murdered by Freddie and they were teenagers or like tweens that were murdered by Freddie on the night that their parents mobbed and killed Freddie, their parents all went back home and banged and all the moms got knocked up on the night that Freddie died. And that's why he's so connected to them.
00:38:20
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. boom That makes sense. that's That's good. that's That would be a good, that's, you know, you probably could have written Freddy too. There you Would have been better than the actual Freddy too.
00:38:32
Speaker
The, yes, so they, ah so Rod shows up and I said, of course, pervert is there too. I wrote in my notes. Tina tells her, ra thats of course my mom is home. And he's like, no, she's not. And he's like, let's go bang. And she's like, okay.
00:38:50
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. She like stops giving him hell, which she has been giving this entire time, or where she's like, get off me, you loser. um to where you I questioned if they even were dating or if he was just sexually harassing her.
00:39:02
Speaker
Yeah, they are dating. Like you learn later in the movie that they were they were ah they were dating and had been like fighting and breaking up and getting back together, et cetera, et cetera. But yeah, he is... It is.
00:39:13
Speaker
He's a piece of shit. He's a piece of shit. Yeah. Yeah. Um, uh, and, uh, I said, it looks like she does want to fuck him, although he is forceful. That's what I wrote. He's very forceful. Yes. Yeah. But then we have the most comically ridiculous, insane,
00:39:31
Speaker
And she's going, oh, Rod. Like, can you imagine? Can you imagine having sex with a guy named Rod and having to say, oh Rod? Right? Like, that's so embarrassing. It's like the bit from Harry Met Sally. It's like, oh, Sheldon. Give it to me, Sheldon.
00:39:47
Speaker
There's certain names that's just, it's hard to sexualize that way for me. yeah Oh, 1,000%. Sorry to all the Rods and Sheldons out there. I know young Sheldon is an avid listener of this podcast. I want to apologize.
00:39:59
Speaker
Yes. Apologies to young Sheldon, who was our number one listener. Not old Sheldon, just young Sheldon. The character of young Sheldon, not the actor. The actor, just the character.
00:40:14
Speaker
oh my god but it's like it's like that scene in easy a is what i immediately thought of um when they're like banging on the wall oh yeah screaming and like faking i was just like are they just like jumping up and down on the bed and like just knocking the wall but then you like smash cut to her rolling over in the sheets and he goes you feel better babe but like i mean be fair sometimes you just need you do need a good fucking especially if you've had some nightmares yeah yeah yeah But, um I mean, i what's what's more awkward is the two of them are probably in an in ah in an ADR booth recording that that that dialogue. like So that's even more awkward. Yeah.
00:40:52
Speaker
yeah And they have to do it with a straight face. Yes. For that paycheck. um ah Yeah. so they have sex and she falls asleep, which yeah we will learn is what you don't want to do. That's bad.
00:41:07
Speaker
If you're in a Nightmare on Elm Street movie, you can't fall asleep. No, you can't. I wrote teenage sex and death. um It also implies that he implies that he's had the dreams.
00:41:17
Speaker
um He's like, boys have nightmares too. Yeah. He's like, i'm not ah I'm not that tough. Yeah. um Then we cut to ah heat ah Nancy, Heather Langenkamp, is asleep in the bed. She and Glenn did not have sex.
00:41:34
Speaker
They did not. Because they have to stay awake. They have to stay focused on it's it's late it's then it's not really awake. I mean, don't have to stay awake. It's not about staying awake. It's like we have to be serious because we're here because Tina is afraid.
00:41:49
Speaker
You know, like we have to be there for Tina. Yeah. So we can't fuck. OK. Yeah. yeah It does imply, and it's not like she's a virgin, though. It's not one of those things. It's not like the, because the virginal, like, final girl is kind of ah um a trope that is, it does not appear to be true of this. It does imply that they have had sex before. Yeah.
00:42:09
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. um The crucifix falls off the wall in her room. And then we get Lisa's dream. The first dream in the Nightmare on Street.
00:42:21
Speaker
um The first kill dream, I guess. um And it's so cool. It's so weird. I love it. um He's throwing rocks at the window. Like yeah like like your boyfriend will throw would throw a rock at the window. But like the the rocks are breaking the window.
00:42:38
Speaker
Yeah. um And she goes outside like a big dummy. But it's a dream. you know That's what happens in dreams. No pants on. Yep. In her nightgown, yeah. yeah Not even her nightgown. She's wearing Rod's shirt.
00:42:50
Speaker
Oh, you're right. You're right. She's wearing Rod's shirt. You're right. um And then we get the bit of the latex wall above Heather, above heather who's asleep. it's And it's it's what they did is they just put a piece of latex as part of the wall and had...
00:43:06
Speaker
the I don't know if it's Robert Englund or a stuntman, like, push into it and lean over. And it looks so cool. It looks so cool. It looks really cool. um It's very spooky, scary. Yeah, and it's just low-budget, like, practical effect. Yeah.
00:43:20
Speaker
Yeah. Practical effect. The first time we see him is he is it really, because he's not, we can't really see him in the in the in the first stream. Yeah. He's in the alley ah behind her house.
00:43:32
Speaker
Yeah. And he does the the bit where he stretches his arms. his big like, his big Muppet arms. Really far so he can touch both sides of the of the alley and scratches his his knives on the um the, like a garage door or something. Yeah.
00:43:49
Speaker
And then he's she says, please God. And he we get the closeup of him with his hand on his face. he says, this is God.
Bathtub Attack & Nancy's Resilience
00:43:57
Speaker
It's holy shit.
00:44:01
Speaker
Freddy is fabulous. um ah Yeah, he's like, hey, look at this. He cuts his own fingers off. and like Yeah, he's like, look at this. Well, not even blood. it's like It's like green bile. yeah, yeah. And like maggots start coming out And he goes, bloop,
00:44:16
Speaker
Yeah. um And then he like attacks her and she pulls his face off. Yeah. and it's just his skull, which that scared me as a kid. um I probably saw this movie as a teenager when I was like, I'm going to watch these horror movies.
00:44:29
Speaker
Probably watched it with a bunch of kids in the basement of my parents' house, if I yeah remember correctly. Which is scariest place to watch a scary movie. Exactly. Yeah. We watched lots of scary movies. We'd go to Blockbuster and load up yeahp and come back. And I, that's probably, I don't really specifically remember, but that's probably where I watched it.
00:44:47
Speaker
um I want to say DVD. I don't think it was, I would have been too young to rent it. and When VHS was around. Yeah. I really want to get a VHS player. Like Charlie's mom brought over a bunch of his like um childhood.
00:45:01
Speaker
There's a childhood children's show in the UK that Charlie was obsessed with. Like we have so much paraphernalia from this one children's TV show now. Cause his mom brought it all over. What's it called?
00:45:11
Speaker
ah Naughty. Oh yeah. I was going to guess Naughty. Yeah. It's it's Naughty. Yeah. ah who ah Who is a little no An elf thing. An imp of some kind. Yeah. He's a little... ah Yeah.
00:45:24
Speaker
But we have, like, eight... He's fucked up little guy. Yeah. yeah We have eight naughty VHSs now. Like, we have so many VHSs. And i I so badly want to get a VHS player to, like, buy old VHSs because I feel like it's, like...
00:45:39
Speaker
He's a wooden boy. He's a wooden boy. Yes. We have a naughty um quilt set. We have naughty sheets. We have... oh my.
00:45:50
Speaker
Naughty sheets?
00:45:53
Speaker
Not naughty sheets. We have naughty books. We have naughty lives. I don't think I could do like children's sheets. that way They're going on our bed. no they're not. They're not. they're not they're not they're not no no no They're getting saved for if we ever want children.
00:46:13
Speaker
No, they are downstairs. They are for children. Yeah, I know. yeah That's what I'm saying. And they're being saved for if we want kids. And then I have extras extra fabric because his mom made the quilt if I want to make one additional quilt. His mom the quilt.
00:46:28
Speaker
Yes. Wow. So we've got so much naughty paraphernalia. He was way like an entire pile. Yeah. But most importantly, like eight VHSs of naughty.
00:46:39
Speaker
I'm sure you could get a VHS player at like Goodwill or something for nothing. Right? Right? I really want one so that not to watch the naughty VHS. We may have gone around the other end on that. Like they may be expensive now.
00:46:50
Speaker
Right? Hard to say. Like polar cameras. Yeah. Like 10 years ago, 15 years ago, you could probably get a VHS player for a dollar. And now it's like. It's coming back to be the record player for millennials.
00:47:01
Speaker
Yeah. That's, that sucks. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yes. So, um, so then we cut to Rod waking up next to her and seeing her thrashing around in the bed.
00:47:13
Speaker
yeah um ah this is so cool. Um, he sees like her get slashed on her back with the, um, with ah the gloves, like the five knife wounds all at once, like a hand scratched her.
00:47:26
Speaker
And then she starts getting pulled up the wall onto the ceiling and it's so fucking cool. Yeah. again like it's just it's it's like the inception thing um it's they just had the the the the camera and the um the they had the the room built upside down and the camera upside down and then twist turned it around well i guess it's the opposite of inception because in inception they had the whole room turn yeah but i believe that the set was just upside down in this and they just turned the camera and had her role um yeah or the stunt woman i so i'm sure
00:48:01
Speaker
yeah And so he's in frame, like, attached to something, I remember. yeah I've seen the behind the scenes of this, but i I didn't watch it for this, so I don't quite remember. But it's ah it's a very cool practical effect. yeah Yeah, I love all the practical effects of this. Yeah. um It's very scary. um Her getting attacked by an invisible person and dragged up onto the ceiling. And he's just screaming. um Yeah.
00:48:26
Speaker
And, of course, um he... like is there in the room alone with this dead body and he runs away because i'm sure he's thinking well everyone's gonna think i did this yeah exactly and they they um heather and glenn run into the room and they're and she's dead yeah yeah i'm not only is she dead she's like yeah like so much blood yeah torn to pieces yeah i mean not as much blood as we see later but yeah yeah not as much blood as the liquefied victim
00:48:58
Speaker
And then we meet Heather's shitty parents. Heather, I keep calling her Heather. We meet Nancy's shitty parents. it Turns out Nancy's the daughter of the police captain. um Yeah, he is. I guess he's not that shitty, but her mom is really shitty.
00:49:11
Speaker
ah um Yeah, her mom's got issues and really bad makeup. John Saxon is um who was in know in some things, like probably the the most famous person in this movie when the movie came out. um He was a recognizable character actor. Yeah, he's been in stuff.
00:49:26
Speaker
um is her dad and is a police detective. And he's like, going to be in charge of this stuff. And so um he's questioning them. Her mother is there.
00:49:40
Speaker
And he's like, so they thought. And she's like, it's not that serious. And her mom goes, and my famous one of my favorite lines of the movie, well, I guess you think murder isn't that serious. It's terrible.
00:49:50
Speaker
what an absurd thing to say to your daughter whose friend was just murdered in front of her like and her other friend is being accused of killing like jesus fucking christ and she's the one that found the body completely clueless um Her parents are divorced.
00:50:09
Speaker
Oh, they are? i did not catch that. It is. It is very, it's kind of subtle um because we we because he's never there. um i am 90% sure that they are divorced.
00:50:22
Speaker
Okay. um And she lives with her mom, but um obviously her dad is the is the police. I think he's the lieutenant, and a lieutenant actually is not the captain. So he's not in charge of that whole thing, but he's in charge of this case. Yeah.
00:50:33
Speaker
He's like in charge. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And so they're trying to find Rod. They can't, he, because he's disappeared and she's saying like, you know, their fights weren't that serious. Like, I don't know. Yeah. I mean, yeah, they had fights, but like, we're just teenagers, teenagers fight. It wasn't like this, you know?
00:50:50
Speaker
Exactly. It was not physical. Yeah. Um, she tells them about the nightmares. Um, and then we do one another one of those, we do another one of those fade outs. Um, and it's the next morning and it's like, again, is this a dream? Is this real? We don't know.
00:51:06
Speaker
um Her mom is shitty to her. Her mom is drunk and throughout the whole movie, basically. All the time. yeah Every single scene. Her mom is so drunk and she just gets drunker as the movie goes on.
00:51:17
Speaker
Yeah. Her, um, she leaves to go to school, because she said she wants, she says she wants to go to school. She hasn't been, so she didn't sleep. She hasn't been sleeping. That's the first, the first night that she's not sleep. She's not slept now. Yeah.
00:51:30
Speaker
And she starts just like living off a coffee and that really comes back. And caffeine pills. Yeah. Um, She is, um she's going to school and Rod jumps out of a bush and is like, you got to help me.
00:51:44
Speaker
And they have, that but then her dad had been following, had been tailing her and they catch him. And she's like, you used me. You used to me. And he was like, you weren't supposed to go to school.
00:51:55
Speaker
Why are you going to school? He, um but he tells her, um I think he tells her, is this when he tells her he's had the dream too? Or is that later in the police, in the jail? I think yeah that's later. That's later. Right now he's just like, you get out of here.
00:52:07
Speaker
We cut to Lynn Shay. Now Lynn Shay is the teacher in this movie. um You probably recognized her or maybe not. um She's been in tons of movies. She is Bob Shay, the head of the ah studio New Line. That is his sister.
00:52:25
Speaker
She is in a bunch of horror movies and non-horror movies throughout the 80s and 90s. And most recently, she is in all the Insidious movies as um kind of a throwback to like her horror movie roots. like she is the She's honestly the main character of some of the Insidious movies. She's the medium in the... Oh, okay.
00:52:45
Speaker
Yeah, and that she's got a small part in the first movie, a big part in the second movie, and then the third movie is all about her, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, I've only seen the first movie. I need to see the other two. Those movies are insane. They're insane, yes. Yes.
00:52:57
Speaker
Absolutely. I haven't seen the most recent one directed by Patrick Wilson. What? I know. The one that came out, I think it was last year. Yeah. yeah Patrick.
00:53:08
Speaker
um ah So she is... at in school and the teacher is talking about Hamlet. I'm surprised it's not a Midsummer Night's Dream. Like I love the movies. Yeah, I was very surprised. I was just like, oh, obviously she's going to be talking about Midsummer Night's Dream. Very much, great restraint, Wes Craven. Because anytime a kid is in school in a movie, like the lecture is so thematic to whatever is happening in the movie. It's ridiculous.
00:53:32
Speaker
But like she it is kind of thematic in that she's talking about like the grave robbers and. Oh, for sure. Yeah. It's yeah dark, spooky stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. um And digging in the past specifically. Yeah. like Yeah. Learning things about the past and like the sins of your parents. So it is thematic. It's just not like 100% on the nose. It's not.
00:53:51
Speaker
yeah It's like foreshadowing more in um than obvious like this is what we're doing, I guess, in other movies. Yeah. um they then a kid uh comes up to read from julius caesar uh which is a favorite little detail of mine he's and he's like very terrible at reading it and then she falls asleep and he suddenly like is good at reading it um and he's like reading it with such import and i love that little little tiny detail where that's how one of the ways you know she's asleep um
00:54:22
Speaker
It's that the kid suddenly gets good at reading. Yeah. Well, it's it's it becomes thematic instead of just like him reading it. Because it's about dreams, right? the The monologue, yeah. um And then we turn, ah she turns her head and she sees Lisa in the body bag sitting in the desk next to her, like blood covered the inside of this like you know transparent body bag.
00:54:47
Speaker
um ah And then she gets dragged down down the hallway and Heather Nancy starts following her invisibly dragged we should say yeah yeah you don't see who's dragging her and she leaves a trail blood like a slug yes like a slug like a slug um ah and uh then the she runs into the hall monitor who is the her stunt double um ah and it is uh this girl dressed like freddie krueger and you're like well obviously this is gonna turn into freddie krueger yeah and she turns around sweater she doesn't turn into freddie krueger but she does have the glove uh yeah and she says no running in the halls nancy yeah um
00:55:31
Speaker
I don't know if you can tell I love this movie. Yeah. Yeah. I'm starting to get that vibe. I'm so excited for all the little bits that like I'm wondering if you have seen the bits that I'm obsessed with.
00:55:43
Speaker
um Probably. The blood leaves to the boiler room of the school, which she goes down into. Freddie is there and she asks who he is and he cuts himself open in response to like on the side and shows the maggots coming out of him.
00:55:56
Speaker
um And he's coming after her and she burns herself on a pipe to wake herself up. And she's screaming in the in the classroom. She has like a little freak out and she's got a little burn mark on her arm.
00:56:08
Speaker
Well, that's the thing. Yeah. Like she's she's like, oh, it's just a dream. And then she looks at her arm and she's like, uh-oh. Uh-oh. Spaghetti-os. That is what she says. She says, uh-oh, spaghetti-os. Another big catchphrase of the Nightmare on Elm Street series.
00:56:21
Speaker
Uh-oh, spaghetti-os. Famous catchphrase, uh-oh, spaghetti-os.
00:56:27
Speaker
And they made Freddy Krueger SpaghettiOs that were made in his little face. Yeah. There you go And like, there's also little claws. Yeah. It's cute, actually. i like that. actually wouldn't be surprised if SpaghettiOs did do like a horror. Like Freddy Krueger. Probably. i don't know.
00:56:42
Speaker
Yeah. They've done it all. You can get Elsa ones. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. Oh, man. It's been a while since I've had SpaghettiOs. I gotta to say. I haven't been keeping up with the SpaghettiOs shapes.
00:56:57
Speaker
She goes to talk to Rod in prison um and he describes the way that Lisa was cut um by like a not by someone who had knives for fingers. And she's like, hey, that's not great.
00:57:08
Speaker
And then we cut to another iconic scene. Every scene is iconic. She's in the bathtub and and the hand comes up right at her, right in between her legs, her thighs which is yeah pretty, it's sexual.
00:57:29
Speaker
Yeah. It's pretty risque. Uh, she's a child. Um, but it is very, very much like, one of the main images of this movie. Like, I'm sure there's, there's not a poster there's posters of that. It wasn't the original poster, but there are, they've done posters of it. I'm sure there's a DVD box that has that as the cover.
00:57:46
Speaker
It's iconic. Yeah. Um, I mean, you don't see anything we should say. No, no, no, no. It's just, it's just like a shocking image. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and her mom in the bath going, yeah.
00:57:57
Speaker
um la la And her mom is like, don't fall asleep in the bathtub. Lots of people die that way. And that's true. People drown every year. People do drown it. Jim Morrison drowned in the bathtub. Jim Morrison drowned in the bathtub? Well, I mean, yeah, he was drunk. um I think he had a heart attack from drugs, but he was in the bathtub. But people who drowned in the bathtub include, i wrote them down.
00:58:18
Speaker
Oh, my God. what Whitney Houston. Oh. ah Dolores O'Riordan, the lead singer of the Cranberries. Whitney Houston's daughter, um Bobby Criss. um Yeah, so it does happen. ah Presumably to non-musicians, but that's just what I got off Googling it.
00:58:37
Speaker
I was like, really? Because I think I was just like, wow, this is such like 80s panic, like nonsense. People drown in the bathtub all the time.
00:58:47
Speaker
Don't fall asleep in the bathtub. People who are drunk and yeah or on like heroin or something who are going to fall asleep and not wake up like they they fall asleep in the bathtub and drown. Yeah.
00:58:58
Speaker
People that are just taking a nice little soak that close their eyes for five minutes probably will not drown. Unless they get killed by Freddy Krueger. Yeah, exactly. Unless it's Freddy Krueger related.
00:59:09
Speaker
um And
Uncovering Freddy's Glove
00:59:10
Speaker
then they do this great bit where he grabs her and pulls her down into the bathtub, which is suddenly super deep now. Yeah. And she's drowning.
00:59:22
Speaker
Yeah. ah But she ah but she wakes up. Her mom starts pounding on the door and it wakes her up and she gets out of the bath and um and she's OK for now. Yeah. And then she starts taking caffeine pills. so Yeah. Then she starts taking caffeine pills.
00:59:35
Speaker
And um this brings me to my next note of, um actually, I should have mentioned this earlier. Nobody knows how to fucking run in this movie.
00:59:45
Speaker
Everybody is doing that scary movie, nonsense girl run that they make fun of in scary movie. Just like, where they're flailing all over the place. I'm like,
00:59:58
Speaker
just run yeah just put one leg in front of the other is happening we're scared we're scared it's a scary time but like it's i i know why they do it it's so that they can run slower so that they can get the shot yeah but it's so ridiculous because yeah because if you're filming somebody and they're running full speed they're gonna be out of frame yes too fast you to go yeah i don't think you to do that with your arms um
01:00:30
Speaker
famously a visual medium podcast um but I feel like everybody knows what she's doing yeah the sound effect helps can't think of any horror movie where the character is doing that but they may as well be
01:00:51
Speaker
um one of my favorite things that happens in in horror movies um especially like slasher movies is when the kids like get smart and yes start doing what they can to actually fight the the monster and the the the villain instead of just like passively waiting to get killed which is what happens in a lot of the lesser um uh horror slasher movies um and that is a really good thing about uh nancy um nancy thompson um she is definitely willing to take the fight to him yes and she keeps trying to brainstorm of like how can i how can i out like smart freddie krueger yeah yeah and she looks in the mirror and says god i look 20 years old
01:01:39
Speaker
Which is... God, I look 20 years old. Which the actor is 20 years old, we should say. um Which is maybe like a little joke. But also, like, why would you say 20? Why not say 30? Why wouldn't you say like 100? Yeah, yeah. yeah Or at least something that would consider be considered old to a 16-year-old and not four years from
Freddy's Backstory & Vigilante Justice
01:01:59
Speaker
now.
01:01:59
Speaker
Right. God, I look 20 years old.
01:02:04
Speaker
um Have we gotten to the sleep study yet? ah No. Okay. We gotta have Rod get killed first. Okay. Oh, yes.
01:02:14
Speaker
This is when ah Nancy comes up with her first plan, which is that um she wants Glenn to watch her sleep. And we get this very strange scene where we're not sure if it's a dream or not. Like, at first you think it's a dream because she's in her pajamas.
01:02:30
Speaker
Yeah, running barefoot. But then... you see, we we see Glenn. She's a Glenn. Are you watching? And he steps out of the bushes and is like, I'm here. Yep. And the thing is, it is a dream. She is dreaming like she's asleep. Yeah.
01:02:44
Speaker
But because he's watching her. He appears in her dream in that way. so But it is it's playing with the audience's perception of is this a dream or not. but yes Because i honestly, I didn't think it was a dream at first. Because I was like, well, obviously Rod is, or um not Rod, um Glenn is there. Yeah. and so It is a dream.
01:03:02
Speaker
But because he's sitting in the chair next to her watching her, i i think the idea is that like she's mostly asleep and she's like, are you there? And he says yes. And so he appears in her dream telling her that there.
01:03:13
Speaker
Oh. okay this is when I was just like girl put some shoes on yeah no no she's not yeah because she's she's she's not wearing shoes because she's asleep oh she goes to the jail and is about to watch Freddy kill Rod but then she interrupts him and he comes after her yeah and then she's like glenn wake me up and he of course has fallen asleep because he's like a dumb tool uh loser yeah i love the bit where she gets to her um she gets to her house and her feet start sinking through the steps they turn to mush as she's trying to get up there and she sees glenn sleeping in the chair and she's like oh glenn you piece of shit yep you dumb bitch
01:04:00
Speaker
And Freddy attacks her and they're rolling around screaming and feathers from the pillows are everywhere. And she, the alarm goes off and she wakes up and she's like, Glenn, God damn it. I told you to watch me. You sleepy piece of shit. ah And then, but then she notices that ah there's feather um in ah still floating in the air by the window.
01:04:27
Speaker
um because her mom comes to check on her and glenn hides out the window and um and then they go they shes she she creeps out she puts on clothes this time yeah that's how you know it's it's not a dream thank god um she goes to the police station and begs to be to to see rod because she knows that freddie's gonna come after rod and they don't want to let her yeah dude it's the middle of the night come on and the real the huge dumbasses that work at the police station that aren't her dad um but her dad shows up and he's like fine we can go see and then we cut to the sheets turning into a noose and wrapping around his neck and hanging him and killing him yeah and he did yeah and then they're like let's have a funeral tomorrow morning right which is crazy let's just you know just we've got all the stuff prepped uh we figured he was gonna die
01:05:19
Speaker
Yeah, I'm just like, is it, and I wrote in my notes, is it days later? Have we jumped ahead? No, it's the next day. she still hasn't been sleeping. um They decide to have the funeral immediately, and the preacher is like, live by the sword, die by the sword. I'm like, excuse me?
01:05:35
Speaker
They're like, this kid's a piece of shit. Nobody's a child. um ah This is insane. um We do cut to this big scene where there's like very, it's tons of palm trees. This movie is set in Ohio.
01:05:48
Speaker
i But it was obviously shot in LA. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah This is the sleep study bit. So you want to talk about a sleep study bit? So sleep study. So then her mom's like, well, we got to take you to a sleep study. And so we go to like, you know, an entire building for sleep studies.
01:06:04
Speaker
And she is put under observation. she's, um so it's the, the doctor and her mom and the doctors got like a little like computer bit to tell her to tell him like when she is going into, REM sleep and when she is having like certain numbers mean that she's having a nightmare, certain numbers mean that she's having a dream.
01:06:27
Speaker
And, um,
01:06:31
Speaker
This is my favorite scene in the whole bugger movie. Wow. ah ah So you cut out, you have this like semi-wide of the ah the doctor and the mom, and he's explaining this to the mom.
01:06:46
Speaker
And it's all very serious, right? Because girls haven't, she is having a time. ah hu She hasn't slept in days, yeah. She hasn't slept in days. um And of course, then the numbers are starting to go up on the computer and like things are starting to go crazy. And the doctor's like, I've never seen this before.
01:07:05
Speaker
I've never seen this. He says that a five or a six would be a nightmare. And her things are showing like thirty in the twenties and up to 30. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he's like, this is insane. All while this very scary, serious thing is happening right next to the good doctor.
01:07:21
Speaker
There is a poster. I did not notice this. didn't notice the poster? No. It is a poster. Oh my god, Katie. It is a poster of...
01:07:39
Speaker
It's kittens in San Francisco.
01:07:46
Speaker
Not just kittens in San Francisco, but they're like anapromorphized. So they're like standing like humans wearing shirts on a little trolley.
01:08:00
Speaker
lost it. I like paused it. I had to back up and I was just like, everybody needs to see this poster. Oh, here it is. Yeah, this is on a blog. 10 useless observations in Nightmare on Elm Street.
01:08:16
Speaker
Oh my god, I'm crying. It's my favorite part the whole fucking movie. And so it's just like, it keeps like anytime you just like trying to like talking about how serious and like, she's like fighting this off. I just keep looking at the kittens having such a great time in San Francisco.
01:08:35
Speaker
It's by a street car. um That's very strange. It's my favorite thing.
01:08:49
Speaker
Yeah, i don't know what that's I don't know what that could possibly be about. I think it was just there and they just didn't move and they didn't think it was going to be a big deal, but it's just so stupid. Yeah, there's a couple of other posters too, but yeah, it's a cat.
01:09:04
Speaker
We should point out that this is a photograph that has been manipulated and not a drawing. It's a photograph of some kittens standing like humans waving.
01:09:15
Speaker
In what I presume is a miniature ah streetcar set that they have constructed and put a cat on.
01:09:25
Speaker
yeah that is what it looks like a toy um that that's that's deranged yeah it's so good i couldn't unsee it i was just like the fuck they couldn't move that poster why would they and it's so clearly in frame that i'm just like was this intentional did they just really love this poster so much all right i'm gonna put this in um the show to put i'm gonna put this in the show notes yeah yeah So everyone can see it.
01:09:56
Speaker
It's so good. So the dozens can all click on it and look at it. Oh my God. Yeah, that's ah that's a great observation, Emma. definitely did not notice that. Yeah, it was my favorite. I kept waiting. I was like, are we at the sleep study yet? Are we at the sleep study?
01:10:10
Speaker
Let me tell you about the kittens in San Francisco. Yeah. um She asks for like, can't you just give me a pill to make me not dream? And he goes, everyone's got to dream. Otherwise you... go crazy that's not true no nope people people cannot dream she cannot dream uh so she has a nightmare um her hair has to a piece of her hair has turned white yeah and uh she's got a scratch on her arm and they're like oh this is normal Let's go home.
01:10:38
Speaker
This is totally fine. And she's like slowly just like just falling apart. Like the bags under her eyes start getting heavier, like darker and darker. um oh yeah. and in the Like a crazy lady.
01:10:51
Speaker
We should say in the in the funeral, she mentions she describes the um what she's been seeing to her parents and like they have a knowing look. um Yeah.
01:11:02
Speaker
Then she brings the hat. also she wakes up with the hat. She went to sleep. yeah And then she woke up and she's got an old hat. And they're all like, where did you have that?
01:11:12
Speaker
like, I didn't have it anywhere. I brought it in from the dream world. And they're like, okay, I guess she was hiding this hat somewhere on her body. something like What an elaborate teen prank. Yeah, ridiculous.
01:11:26
Speaker
um She hears her mom talking on the phone about it with somebody, presumably Glenn's parents, maybe. I mean, who else would she be talking to? She demands answers from her mom, and she's like, the hat has a name inside it. It says Fred Kruger.
01:11:41
Speaker
um And her mom slaps her and says, Fred Kruger is dead. And then she starts to do a home alone. That's what said. She gets her book on booby trap. She's talking to Glenn.
01:11:54
Speaker
um On one of these, you know, the famous canals that we have in Ohio. um yeah That they're walking across.
01:12:05
Speaker
And. um They are taught. He's talking about like Balinese, like. sleep yeah ah warriors or whatever where he's like you know you you you can't give it power you if if they have a nightmare like that's he's talking about ah like lucid dreaming I think and like yeah you're aware you're in a dream if there it just what if you have a nightmare and he's like you turn away from it you can't give it power and which comes up later Um, ah then she gets home and her mom put bars on the windows.
01:12:34
Speaker
Yeah. And they lock on the outside of the door. Which is the stupidest bullshit. Meaning that, you have to have a key to get out the front door, which is fucking crazy.
01:12:45
Speaker
What if there was a fire? yeah Well, there is one later. We learn. Yeah.
01:12:52
Speaker
Um, and then she finally tells her and she takes her to their basement where she has the glove in the furnace In like a little like pillowcase. Yeah. She just like pulls it out of the furnace.
01:13:03
Speaker
And she goes, here's this glove. And she's like, so there's and it's it's crazy because she's giving details, but she's not giving nearly enough details. And and Nancy's asking her zero questions.
01:13:14
Speaker
Yes. Like, I have so many questions. Right. He's like, Fred Kruger was a child murderer who killed at least 20 children before they got him. And I was like, 20 children. Yeah.
01:13:27
Speaker
yeah like that's that's crazy like that makes him one of the most prolific serial killers of all time like yeah and that's that's more than bundy and they're yeah well i don't know if it is you have bundy but still we do have to ask the question um is her mom nancy's mom just exaggerating well yeah she's also drunk yeah um uh At least 20 children. meaning Oh yeah, Ted Bundy killed 30 people. ah But investigators estimated he could have killed a lot more.
01:13:59
Speaker
But that was over years. Yeah, that was over years. Yeah. um And then she said, somebody forgot to sign a um ah search warrant and he got off. And i'm like, I don't think that that would happen. Like, I just don't think if someone killed 20 children,
01:14:20
Speaker
like
01:14:23
Speaker
That would be not just national news, but international news. It would have been the most famous thing this town had. It would, there would be reporters there to this day. There would be like Gail Weathers would not leave. She would have moved there permanently.
01:14:40
Speaker
she would have left Woodsboro and gone to this town. Yes. Um, absolutely insane. And, but like, no but none of the kids know about it, which is yeah the the hardest thing to believe in this whole movie. Harder to believe than the dream killer is the fact that there was a ah mass, a mass murderer who, um got off on a technicality and then disappeared.
01:15:07
Speaker
Yeah. And then just disappeared. Uh, in this town and no one is concerned about it or mentions it to anyone.
Parental Cover-Up Theories
01:15:15
Speaker
Like, Nobody. Yeah. Maybe their parents didn't tell them, but like they go to school. Nobody talks about the most famous thing that ever happened in this town. It's insane.
01:15:26
Speaker
Anyway, she says me, we, the parents, we, the parents, implying that she parents had a child that was killed by this person, or at least had a child.
01:15:39
Speaker
But Nancy's an only child. Glenn's an only child. Lisa and and we assume Rob, we don't really see Rob's family or anything. Yeah, only at the funeral. um At the funeral. We assume that they're all only children. So that is my theory is that all of these people had older siblings that were killed by Freddy and their parents covered it up.
01:15:59
Speaker
So fucking nuts. And then they banged the night that they killed Freddy. Yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh. And then they all got pregnant again. We don't know how many. we Presumably just these
Nancy's Skepticism & Confrontation Prep
01:16:10
Speaker
four.
01:16:10
Speaker
It was just these four parents? ah Except for, you know, is it explained in the sequels? I don't remember. There's, it kind of, like, the lore goes crazy. And it goes more onto, like, weird, like, Freddy stuff.
01:16:26
Speaker
Yeah. Like, the Madhouse and the Nun and the 500 Maniacs.
01:16:32
Speaker
Um, ah anyway. yeah Yeah. So, I'm sure they do return to it, but I just don't remember.
01:16:42
Speaker
um Nancy's like, that's crazy, mom. She's like, yeah, we burned him alive. and And now his ghost is haunting our children's dreams and picking them off one by one.
01:16:56
Speaker
I'm going to drink a fifth of vodka. Good night. Yeah. Good night. Okay, bye-bye. She's like, you just have to go to sleep. That's all that matters. You just have to sleep. You're not sleeping. Yeah, and she's sitting next to her at the bed.
01:17:06
Speaker
And like Nancy looks like Ellen Bernstein Requiem for a Dream. And...
01:17:14
Speaker
but She's like, you just need to go to sleep, baby. You just need to go to sleep. And she leaves. This is my second favorite moment in the entire fucking movie. She leaves. She grabs the coffee pitcher in the room. She's got a coffee pot on her nightstand.
01:17:30
Speaker
On her nightstand. She takes it with her along with like some other mugs and her mom leaves. And Nancy pretends to sleep. She wakes up. She then takes out a plugged in second coffee maker. Yep, yep.
01:17:45
Speaker
be She's resourceful, you know? um we also have a montage of her building traps at some point where she's got like a fire hammer axe thing and like she's done She's home aloning She put gunpowder in the light bulbs like it's wild Yeah, absolutely insane Absolutely insane see Glenn in his little crop top football jersey thing This a famous scene Yes Famous she She tells him, listen, I've got a plan.
01:18:15
Speaker
um I want you to come over here at midnight, okay? Can you do that? my but My man, can you stay awake until midnight? Yes.
01:18:26
Speaker
How hard is it? Just once in your life.
Glenn's Demise
01:18:30
Speaker
He also claimed earlier that he slept like a rock last night. So it's not even like he's not been having sleep, but not been sleeping. He's just, he just can't stay awake till midnight. He's a sleepy boy.
01:18:39
Speaker
He's a sleepy boy because he's watching Miss Nude USA. He's watching Miss Nude America.
01:18:46
Speaker
And he can't stay up 18 minutes past that because it shows the time. Yep. Glenn's parents are like, I don't like that Nancy girl. that Her mom put bars on the window. What a weirdo.
01:18:58
Speaker
ah Her mom has a bottle of vodka in the linen closet. Yes. And then of course he falls asleep. And I wrote, he's asleep again. Loser. She calls him because like they live across the street from each other and she can see his bedroom. She calls him, parent, his dad answers.
01:19:15
Speaker
And his dad's like, he's asleep. Go away. She's like, it's important. It's important. It's like your friends are, her their friends have been getting murdered. And she's like, it's important. And he is like, goodnight and picks the phone, up but hangs the phone up and then takes it off the hook, essentially killing his own son.
01:19:30
Speaker
So he deserves it. Exactly. He deserves to die. He's a piece of shit. He also is like, doesn't want her seeing his son anymore. Cause she's a little weird. Yeah. Yeah. Because she's freaking out that all her friends are dying.
Nancy's Dream Battle
01:19:42
Speaker
I put family of losers. Yeah. Um, she has fallen asleep, but we don't realize it. Um, she, the phone rings, uh, and, um, she pulls it out of the wall.
01:19:55
Speaker
And she's like, oh, great. What am I going to do now? And then it rings again. And it's Freddy. And his tongue comes out of the receiver to like lick her. It's so creepy. It's so creepy.
01:20:06
Speaker
ah And that's how, you know you know, she knows she's asleep. she um She's locked them in the house, though. She's trying to get across the street. But and her mom's like, you just need to sleep.
01:20:17
Speaker
Just gotta sleep. yeah Yeah. And then Glenn gets eaten by the bed. Yeah, he gets eaten by the bed and liquefied. Yeah. Lique-fucking-fied. Like, there was one point that we were all like, well, surely the blood will stop now. Nope, keeps going.
01:20:32
Speaker
Hundreds of gallons of blood poured out of this. And again, this was upside-down room. they yeah they just had water the blood pouring out and then just reversed the image. So it looks like it's just pouring out of the bed onto the ceiling.
Climactic Confrontation
01:20:48
Speaker
Glenn's poor parents, like...
01:20:53
Speaker
um The cops get there, the ambulance is like And so you hear the phrase You don't need a stretcher up there, you need a mop Yeah, and then they're like Where's the coroner? And they're like, he's in the bathroom throwing up Yeah um So She's awake at this point, I guess um Or I think she woke up maybe when um When the tongue Yeah with her mouth Because yeah she was awake when she went downstairs To find herself locked in the house All the windows and doors have bars All the windows have bars on them absolutely insane um she calls her dad at glenn's house um and says be here in 20 minutes but of course he doesn't believe her because what she wants to do is she thinks because she pulled the hat out of the dream she thinks she can pull freddie out of the dream yeah and they can kill him once she pulls him out of the dream yeah he sends a patrolman to watch the house who is a moron
01:21:46
Speaker
Yes. And then she sets up all her traps. Oh, this is where she sets up her traps in her Home Alone shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then her mom wakes up at some point because her this is where her mom tells her that it's good that she faces things, but sometimes she has to turn away too. Yeah, it's something that, I don't know. I was too wrapped around the axle on the second coffee maker. Yeah.
01:22:10
Speaker
um and then she's uh she's going to sleep and she remembers glenn telling her uh about taking control of the dreams turn your back on it make it lobsters of its energy um there's this great bit where she goes downstairs in her house she goes into the basement and then then she opens a door and she's in the boiler room of the yeah hole where it's like you know places you know connected ways that they don't in dreams which i really love yeah Um, it's this, uh, yeah, it's like impossible landscapes.
01:22:39
Speaker
Yeah. Um, she falls back and then she's been in her front yard. Um, and then, um, uh, she, oh, she finds Glenn's headphones in the boiler room. That's the thing. Yeah. And she knows that he's dead.
01:22:53
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, but then she wakes up in her bed. um, but um this at this point she's awake again and like she's falling asleep and waking up over and over again she's screaming for help she busts the glass out of the windows but there's the bars on it she's screaming for the deputy and he's like you're okay and she's like yeah help me help me and he gives her like thumbs up and it's like everything's gonna be all right and she's like get my dad you asshole right well because didn't she she successfully pulled freddie through Yeah. Oh, that's right. That's right. Yeah. She pulled Freddie out of the dream, but he's there now. Yeah. And he's chasing after her and he's setting off the traps. She's got him in the room, in the door.
01:23:32
Speaker
He opens the door and the hammer hits him. Yeah. um The light bulbs are are going off. and Yeah. The house is catching on fire. Yeah. Well, she runs to the basement was that where which where she sets him on fire and then he's on fire and then following her on fire. Yeah. go Setting the house on fire as he goes.
01:23:52
Speaker
um ah Her dad, ah her dad finally comes over there um and gets inside and they, she shows him to where she's got him in the basement on fire, but then she sees the flaming footprints going the room and up the stairs um where they find, where she and her dad find Freddie attack.
Surreal Dream Ending
01:24:12
Speaker
Freddie's on fire attacking her mom on the bed. yeah And then he, um he disappears. And then we see her mom's burned corpse. Yep.
01:24:22
Speaker
Just get absorbed by the bed and disappear. Absorbed by the bed. yeah you're like, what the fuck is happening? What? And her dad's like, okay, I'm going to go downstairs. He's like, well, you later.
01:24:36
Speaker
um And then Freddie comes out of the sheets and like rips it open. um and of course, ah she's, we find out that she's, she's asleep.
01:24:48
Speaker
um that she's been asleep this whole time and this is when she's like, I'm gonna, you know, you can't scare me. This is all a dream. And she turns her back on him and then he disappears. Like, cause he's robbed of his power or whatever.
01:25:00
Speaker
And she opens the bedroom door and then it's outside the next day. Mm-hmm. And she's like, it's so bright and all this fog. And her mom is there and she's like, oh, yeah the fog will get burned off. I think I'm going to stop drinking. and you're like, well, this can't be real.
01:25:13
Speaker
I don't like alcohol anymore. And the ah gray hair is gone. and then all of her friends are still alive. The burn is gone on her arm too, but she touches it like it still hurts.
01:25:25
Speaker
yeah all of her friends are still alive they're in a um a convertible she gets in the car but then the top comes down and it's striped like freddie's sweater and then she starts screaming and the car's driving away and her mom freddie comes through the tiny hole in the top of the door grabs her mom and pulls her through that tiny hole and that's the yeah absolutely uns insane absolutely insane And then the kids are chant are chanting the Never Sleep Again song. and that's Yes.
01:25:55
Speaker
The never... Yeah. And that's the end that's the end of Nightmare on Elm Street.
Childhood Fear of Freddy Krueger
01:25:59
Speaker
Yeah. What a time. I will forever remember this movie for kittens in San Francisco. Uh-huh.
01:26:05
Speaker
Yeah. And a second coffee maker. Here's the thing. Like, only three... There's only three kills in this movie. Well, four, I guess, you count her mom. But, like, yeah that is... That is a surprising low number for a Clasher movie. And for, like, there's a lot of economy in this. I mean, it is fairly low budget.
01:26:24
Speaker
And it made just a shit ton of money. Like, absolutely massive hit. Yeah. And then spawned seven sequels. Eight, if you count the remake. yeah Yeah. Or seven sequels, if you count the remake.
01:26:36
Speaker
It was very ah groundbreaking in in the horror genre. Just took over the 80s. Like, just literally everybody knew about Freddy Krueger. I was saying, I didn't, oh, I forgot to mention, like, when I was a kid, i think we were in a video store, and I must have been very young, but they were playing on a TV in the video store, maybe just a trailer, or maybe the actual movie, one of the Freddy sequels, i don't remember which one,
01:27:06
Speaker
were playing it in the video store and I saw it and I was like, I don't know maybe three or four or something. Like, I don't even really remember the actual, like, I only kind of vaguely remember the actual event, but like, I was afraid that he was going to, and that when I was, that was when we lived in Memphis. So I was like, I guess I was like four or five.
01:27:24
Speaker
um sleep I slept in the bed and I faced my closet door from the bed. yeah And I was terrified that Freddy Krueger lived in my closet and was going to come out
Cultural Reflections on Freddy
01:27:33
Speaker
and kill me. That was my like, ka nighttime like like um nightmare thing for years i was afraid of freddy cougar because i was like yeah so young when i saw like because he's terrifying looking he's all he's terrifying it's terrifying fingers right absolutely insane goodness well any other thoughts feelings questions um i don't think so yeah but that was great what a way to kick off go get your ghoul
01:28:02
Speaker
I'm sorry. i I feel like I really dominated this episode. That's okay. You love You love it. And I mean, I got to talk about my two favorite moments.
Episode Conclusion & Next Tease
01:28:10
Speaker
Yeah. the fucking kittens in San Francisco oh my god I can't I can't um so next week next week we're going a little bit further back into the like old timey um spooky haunted house so we're gonna be doing the haunting OG yeah from like 1960 it's yeah it's something that my mom I think this was the first horror movie I ever saw
01:28:41
Speaker
i 1963 the labyrinth um and it is one of my mom's favorites it's one of my favorites um and i yes i do also love the remake i know the remake gets a lot of flack remake is terrible it's so bad we're doing this one this year maybe next year we'll do the remake oh no um shall we outro yes let's outro um right
01:29:11
Speaker
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01:29:22
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It helps out a lot and we would really appreciate it. Thanks to Andrew Milliken and Nick Svoboda for our theme music and Elena Henderson for our artwork. You can follow us on Instagram at GoGetYourGirlPod or email us that go get your girl pod at at gmail.com.
01:29:36
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You can follow me, and just me, on social media at Emily M. Pizza. Until next time, we're just two girls. Standing in front of the internet. Asking it to love us. To love us.
01:29:50
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Good night. Ow, ow, ow.