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post #1 of 14
10/20/03 at 6:31pm
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SPOILER (if somehow you never watched it during the last 20 years) ...

Believe it or not, I just watched it this weekend for the first time. Could someone explain to me what the hell happened at the end (idyllic morning, kids going to school, car gets possessed by Freddy, mother gets sucked through door). Was that a dream or reality? Does that mean the whole movie was a dream? Is it just absurdist surrealism, that I shouldn't really think much about? It's driving me crazy!
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post #2 of 14
10/20/03 at 6:39pm
That was the studio forcing a Carrie-style "shock" ending on Wes Craven. Even then, they smelled franchise.
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post #3 of 14
10/20/03 at 6:58pm
The ending makes no sense except when you take the whole film as a dream. If any of what came before the ending was real how the hell did Johnny Depp end up in the car???

I don't know the official explanation, if there is any. Is what you wrote just speculation on your part or is that something Craven said himself?
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post #4 of 14
10/20/03 at 8:40pm
Easy: Film ends with Nancy banishing Freddy.

Then the end is another dream of hers where she dreams her friends are alive. Freddy come sback and, somehow, she escapes him and thus goes onto the hypnocil.

- Scarecrow
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post #5 of 14
10/20/03 at 8:55pm
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Scarecrow:
Easy: Film ends with Nancy banishing Freddy.

Then the end is another dream of hers where she dreams her friends are alive. Freddy come sback and, somehow, she escapes him and thus goes onto the hypnocil.

- Scarecrow
In the second part, it says that the mother committed suicide in the living room. If the ending of part 1 was just another dream ... well, what exactly happened to the mother according to part 1? Is she killed in real life in the girl's dream? Or, perhaps, that's the mother's dream? But how could it be the mother's dream, if she disappeared into the bed in the scene before?

Aag. I get the feeling that I'm thinking about this way more than the filmmakers did.
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post #6 of 14
10/21/03 at 12:01am
- Scarecrow[/qb][/QUOTE]

Aag. I get the feeling that I'm thinking about this way more than the filmmakers did.[/QB][/QUOTE]

Yea, I think u are. I havent seen it in awhile. Eh..well more like a few months, but I never really thought about it too hard. I just thought it was cool cause Freddys back in the end like always.
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post #7 of 14
10/21/03 at 6:43am
Yeah i also just see the ending as another dream (not the whole film!). This time an idyllic dream where her mother is caring and all her friends are back alive. Then it all goes wrong and Freddy is back but we are left wondering if Freddy really is back or whether it is just a normal dream about Freddy coming back. I personally love the ending.
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post #8 of 14
10/21/03 at 7:05am
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Wetbones:
I don't know the official explanation, if there is any. Is what you wrote just speculation on your part or is that something Craven said himself?
I'm fairly sure Craven talks about it on the DVD commentary.
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post #9 of 14
10/21/03 at 7:22am
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apexnemesis:
Yeah i also just see the ending as another dream (not the whole film!). This time an idyllic dream where her mother is caring and all her friends are back alive. Then it all goes wrong and Freddy is back but we are left wondering if Freddy really is back or whether it is just a normal dream about Freddy coming back. I personally love the ending.
I think that is the best explanation for it I've seen. Ok. I think I'll use that whenever I watch this movie from now on. Thanks!
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post #10 of 14
10/21/03 at 8:39am
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I think that is the best explanation for it I've seen. Ok. I think I'll use that whenever I watch this movie from now on. Thanks!
Yey! I said something worthwhile he he.
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post #11 of 14
10/21/03 at 7:49pm
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mrstiffie:
The second movie was better IMO.
I'll go out on a limb here and say you are in the minority with that opinion (although that isn't necessarily a bad thing).
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post #12 of 14
10/21/03 at 7:57pm
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mrstiffie:
The second movie was better IMO.
The second movie was ... well ... interesting because it went in a completely different direction. Freddy wasn't anywhere near as frightening (though I didn't think the first movie was particularly scary either).

The idea that Freddy is using some kid as a body to do his evil deeds is a cool idea, though. Could have been executed better, in my opinion.
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post #13 of 14
10/21/03 at 8:15pm
Nightmare On Elm St. was a good movie, in much the same way that the original Friday The 13th was good. They made more suggestion of the anagonist, then trying to manifest onto film. NOES was more about the kids being terrified to sleep and fighting amongst themselves, then it was Freddy. If you watch it again, you'll see that Freddy has very little screen time and actually says even less.

Freddy's Revenge was good in concept, but little in delivery. Why the fuck would Freddy want to manifest himself in the flesh? Especially considering once he does manage to take over the kids body, he's exactly the same as he was in the dream world; except with NO dream power. So now we have a horridly burned serial killer on the loose, that will be difficult to spot. The only cool part about that movie was the end, where Freddy rips up the poolside kids.
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post #14 of 14
10/23/03 at 2:19am
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cohen:
I thought it meant to say freddy was to much for Nancy and after killing him, lost her mind, it wasnt freddy, it was Nancy going crazy...

The Creeper
Except Nancy wasn't in Part 2. Some boy was the person going crazy.
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