Did you ever see a dream ......stalking?.....well, I did.

Ok folks,saddle up the buzz buzz cause this is gonna be a long
one……..
The recent announcement that yet another reboot,remake,regurgitation of the original Nightmare On Elm Street movie was in the planning stages has brought up a lot of old feelings.Why again? This bed on Elm street has been slept in enough already. Don't get me wrong, I would love another movie that recaptures and reinvigorates the old Freddy spirit. But the chances of that are slim to none, and slim just left the room.

First, they never seem to want to involve the man who started it all.Mr Wes Craven. Is it always simply a financial issue , that New Line doesn't want to pay what the man's imagination is worth?Or is it that Wes has no interest in revisiting Elm Street? Understandably so, he has been burned all too many times. Financially,emotionally. It could be just to much like salting the wounds. Or maybe he just would rather move on and be allowed to explore something else in his writing,directing.

Who ever should take up the writing , they should remember what brought us to this point in the first place. It's all there in the original script. Respect that, but don't copy that. Rehashing old beats does not always make for a good song. What's that they say about remixes? A remix is admitting that your original was wrong in the first place.

The real concern with any new Nightmare (see what I did there, heheh) is that Freddy is a known entity.And fear has trouble thriving with the familiar. How can we be thrilled and scared by something where we can anticipate his actions? Freddy would have to become unpredictable.

And even if they manage to write Freddy into a boiler room of new dimensions, he will be nothing without his Nancy. Without a heroine we can care for, who we can  become emotionally invested within the short time frame of a film, Freddy is an empty threat. Surrounding Nancy with people we are interested in, for whom she cares, only strengthens this sensation. In the original, we first meet Tina.Before Mr Craven did a Mr Hitchcock and pulled the rug out from under us as he wiped Tina all over the walls, we were beginning to think she would be our final girl. We mourn Tina with Nancy, whose compassion makes us admire her in return. And Nancy is a strong young girl in this movie, not some screamer who needs to be rescued.She seeks knowledge,she fights back, she, as her Mother observes, faces things. And we cheer her on.

Anywhoo……It got me all nostalgic, and what with Halloweenie just round
the bend, I thought I would dig out a old idea that was bouncing around
in my otherwise empty noggin….See,once there were plans to actually make a
prequel of sorts for the series, jumping on the bandwagon with all the
other sharks that thought ,well, we cant go forward, so lets take two
steps back…….. And talk of such a movie got me to thinking……

I personally would love to see a birth to burning telling of Fred's
backstory. But that said, it would be a tough act to pull off. There are
so many perspectives that this story could be told from. For example...
-LT. Thompson, Nancy's Father, and his search for whose murdering the
children of Springwood(maybe he's not a LT. during this point, but
becomes one as a result)Though I think it should be HE who is
responsible for not signing the search warrant in the right place,
freeing Fred,-I think this may have already been hinted at in one of the
offshoot telling of Freddy's early days, but I'm not sure, nor do I know
who exactly signs a search warrant for that matter, so maybe he's not
even an option. I think there SHOULD be a sister for Nancy that is taken
by Freddy included in the story as hinted before in scripts/books/etc.
So what if it wasn't mentioned in the first movie(Nancy's Mom was a
lush, after all, hell she just was never sober enough to mention it, or
if you want to stretch the logic, she does speak the line about the
abandoned boiler room where Fred used to take "HIS " kids, maybe Mom no
longer acknowledges she had another daughter now that Freddy has tainted
her with his touch. Maybe the sister was taken because she WAS drunk?).
The movie would have to play out as not so much has a whodunit, cause we
already know, but more of a telling of how it effects a family, focus on
the psychological impact, when their children are murdered and in such a
gruesome fashion. Freddy could be shown snatching kids,from playgrounds,
malls, quiet everyday suburban streets etc as well as him chasing the
kids around his boiler room until he catches them.(A subtle bit could be
that the kids are shown playing outside in the beginning part of the
movie and then are forced to play inside as the murders grow in numbers
and the movie progresses. Freddy first snags the kids from outside open
areas and than is forced to take them from bedrooms as Parents grow more
scared and lock their children up behind the safety of their front
door). These type of scenes would be interspersed between scenes of the
Parents building fear/anxiety/stress/hopelessness and falling
apart.Giving us our Freddy fix from time to time.

There would have to be a trial sequence,of course, where more horrors
and Fred history were revealed/shown in flashes.And of course the
final fire setting.

At this point I imagine a montage of Springwood's
kids playing, at first a bit hopeful, happy to be outside again but than it
turns dark, as the big kids and brothers start scaring little
kids/younger siblings with tales of how Freddy's gonna get them.
I imagine older siblings teasing their younger brothers and sisters with "Freddy's coming for you" ..."gonna get you"....."take you to his boiler room" . Their intent is playful playground spooking with no malicious intent but leads to real fear in the minds of the little ones. And we know how Freddy feeds on fear. .

Over time, this would lead to the birth of the jump rope song the kids sing for "fun". Always keeping Freddy present in the minds of the kiddies. Never letting him fade away.But not every kid is having fun. Some are having normal nightmares of this "Freddy" they keep hearing about. And it is within these dreams Freddy finds a way to cross over.  I imagine Freddy watching from within the dream, unable to touch and take the child, personally tormented and enraged that he is trapped in this limbo. A mere shadow on the wall of the dream. Impotent.

Upon his return , could he only watch the children he once stalked? Unable to touch them.I imagine him trying to reach out only for his hands to pass through their bodies.This frustration of being so close yet not being able to do anything would only make this reborn Freddy angrier. But this torture wouldnt last.....

Maybe at first he would only be able to invade their dreams with his taunting voice......laughter ....calling out their names.....perhaps leave a looming shadow on the wall. But that doesn't stop him from trying. He sees these children , he wants them .....and one night  he reaches out from the shadows and emerges as the Nightmare he was meant to be.

What happens to Freddy when the kids aren't sleeping/dreaming?Where does he go?Does he go anywhere , or just mosey around thru hell?Does he only become a active being when the kids dream and stops being when they are awake? Does Freddy remain in his boiler room hell between dream kills?which I guess is some kind of ironic punishment in for Freddy -hes "alive" and still killing in a dream but still trapped in his boiler room,forever surrounded by fire,which led to his undoing.Sure the boiler room was a place of comfort to him, the place where he took his
kids, but I would think it would be aggravating to be trapped in the place where you were burned alive,But than again, hes dead ,what does he care,lol .

I lean towards the he exists in his boiler room limbo between nightmares. Waiting.Dreaming of his next kill. Playing around with his powers. Freddy was always a cutter, of himself and then others. Perhaps he played with the possibilities of the dream world , slicing his own flesh and watching the results, only to heal instantly.Practicing his powers of manifestation. If he only maintained consciousness when in the children's dreams it would seem foolish on his part to dispatch them so quickly and return himself to the darkness.He would want to play with his soul food awhile longer like a cat with a mouse in its claws. Did he know at first that he could hurt the person and have the violence be real?

From here I'm picturing the last sequence of the movie dealing with
Freddy's first awakening in the dream realm hell and his very first Dream
Kill(this doesn't have to be and shouldn't be Tina but maybe some last kid
he was going to kill when alive but was scared away by the cops from
doing so or arrested while trying to snatch-(hell, make it the twins from
that Freddy's Nightmares episode but please dear God with better actresses).
Whose was the first dream he invaded? Was it really Tina,or were there other kids outside the original movies core that Freddy got too first ? And why did it take him so many years to stalk the Dream Warriors? Did they need to be of a certain age before he could get to them? I would imagine a child's nightmare to be more fertile soils of fear to plow than a teenagers.

Ive thought the images we see of him building the glove in the opening of the movie are not to represent it's original construction.Rather, that this is Freddy replacing the knives that Marge took from him in the real world. This is his dream glove.But is his stalking of Tina his first time using them?

We know Nancy ,Rod and even Glen experienced some form of Nightmare before the film begins.The impression is that this is the first time for all of them. And that it occurred on the same evening. Tina's description of her dream reminds Nancy of the dream she had last night, and this triggers a response from a suddenly spooked Glen.Rod is clearly referencing having heard Freddy's glove with his attempt to make a cope with the fear joke out of using the garden tool scraping on metal. But why now,after all those years? What was the trigger?

What happened after he was roasted and declawed? Did he experience instant consciousness? Waking in a boiler room of his mind? Or was his return a slow burn , like embers of a once raging fire slowing growing in the darkness of limbo? That moment between where Freddy dies in the fire and wakes up in his first dream has always fascinated me. What happened? How was the transition?Was it instant? or did he wake up years later?Was he
"conscious " during these years before he could act on his rage?Seeing that moment when he first "wakes" in the dream world after the
fire. His familiarizing himself with the dream realm and his realization
of what power he now possesses.



I really wish they would avoid the Final Nightmare Freddy's daughter
history all together,but it would probably be unavoidable.Unless its
told somehow in the tale that the nightmare sequels are just a Hollywood
cashing in on Freddy's story and this movie is the reality. Than again,
if the movie was told from Freddy's perspective maybe it would work if
they did this...

**Sips Guinness**

Ok, so...the trouble with involving Final Nightmare might be resolved as
such....
It would be Freddy's story, a telling of his psychological
makeup/creation, following him, but perhaps focusing on the impetus for
his murdering of the kids in this specific neighborhood.

The story would have to tell us some of Fred's background, and should
include items of interest not mentioned in the movies but somehow weaves
well into the already existing tapestry.Eventually we come to the point
where Fred finds a woman( some poor obviously naive social worker
wannabe who likes a challenge) who just happens to fall in love with
Fred cause she feels sorry for his upbringing which Fred reveals to
her(Im fuzzy on the Freddy time line right now,damn Guinness beer,but
doesn't he meet and marry here in the late 50/early 60s?)Maybe Fred joins
the army,his options being limited, and is shortly thereafter discharged
for being a little to gun/kill happy crazy and is forceably "recommended
for counseling" wherein he meets the soon to be Mrs Krueger.Now this
could be a turning point for our man Krueger.He actually falls in love.
Hes gets a job, a woman, and soon a daughter.All is nice and looking
well,and different from his dark past which is told in the first part of
the movie.He has a family, a home. But than they move into a house on oh
heck lets say Elm Street in the town of Springwood and the neighbors
aren't to happy.They don't like the Look of the new neighbors, the
Krueger's cheap clothes,furniture and old rusted van,etc don't fit in
with their view of the neighborhood and the snotty rich neighbors aren't
afraid to make comments behind the Krueger's backs or let their distaste
be known directly to the Krueger's faces.The mousey wife gets verbally
abused at the grocery store/PTA meetings, Freddy gets mocked and
humiliated at work or at gatherings where lots of Parents are around.
They even treat Freddy's daughter the same way at school, lots of name
calling/pushing around and abuse. The daughter could tell her Daddy
about what happened to her at school,lets say her new Birthday dress
that shes so proud of gets torn by the rude snotty better than you Elm
St kids.This kind of abuse could lead into Freddy flashing on his
past,and his abuse from others. Well all this leads into Freddy getting
angry for the way his child is treated and he decides to do something
about it.He first tries to ask them to stop,nothing changes, hes laughed
at, the daughters abuse gets worse.Eventually Fred picks a fight with
the neighborhood Dads and gets his ass beaten badly.So Freddy gets
angrier and devises another solution. If these parents wont stop the
abuse cause they think their families are better than Krueger's,wont
teach their kids to behave, than Krueger will take away their families,
child by child, one by one.

But as the bodies pile up,Krueger of course becomes more nasty, and
begins to abuse his wife(but never his own daughter).Until one day, the
wife discovers what hes doing and tries to secretly call the cops on
him. Fred of course finds out and after spewing some nasty comments on
how the neighbors were right,everything that's wrong with her and how she
will never be anything special even to him and his daughter, he kills
his wife.

The story would unfold, with Freddy getting caught,the trial,the parents
decision to burn him alive etc.
This story ultimately could be a social commentary on how neighbors
treat neighbors, especially those who don't look just like their own
kind.How some monsters are made not born by their social
surroundings,though in Freddy's case he kinda was screwed from the
get-go. And could even reflect a underlying message that was in the
first NOES, that the sins of the parents punishes their children ( the
abuse of the parents heaped on the Krueger family results in the
punishing of their children, just like the sin of burning Freddy alive
lead to his continuing to punish the families by killing the kids in
their dreams) And lastly, we could even get a sweet little love story
for a brief moment in the movie. If played out well, the audience could
be made to feel sorry for Fred as we see his awful childhood abuse and
saddening upbringing which than leads into his hopeful joy as he meets
someone to actually love and who loves him.Making his turn for the worse
all that more nasty and heartbreaking.(kinda like what should have
happened with that whole Darth Vader backstory,lol) Ok , no more Guiness
for me tonight , that last bit almost seemed plausible, lol