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Death by strangulation does NOT take "10 to 20 minutes." Consciousness is lost within 10 secconds and death follows in 4 to 5 minutes, assuming that the strangulation does not cause a stroke or cardiac arrest, which can result in death seconds into strangulation.


* ArtisticLicenseBiology: [[spoiler: Rod dies after less than 10 seconds of being hanged. Realistically, hanging takes 10-20 minutes to kill a person, and so he should have survived without any issue.]]
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* DropTheHammer: One of Nancy's traps at the end involves literally dropping a hammer.
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* HalfEmptyTwoShot: In one scene, Nancy is exploring an empty house trying to prove Freddy's existence, as she's still reeling from the nightmares and thinks she can feel him stalking her now that she's awake. Most shots position Nancy very conspicuously in just one half of the frame, leaving in suspense just when will Freddy materialize.
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* TakenFromADream: While Nancy is being tested at the sleep disorder clinic, Freddy attacks her once again, and though Nancy is awakened before he can inflict any permanent damage, she wakes up with [[LockedIntoStrangeness streak of grey in her hair]]... and Freddy's hat clutched in her hand, real enough to be taken home from the clinic. [[spoiler: In the finale, Nancy uses the same technique to bring Freddy himself into the real world, allowing her to subject him to a gauntlet of traps before willing him out of existence entirely.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: [[spoiler: Rod dies after less than 10 seconds of being hanged. Realistically, hanging takes 10-20 minutes to kill a person, and so he should have survived without any issue.]]
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* GreaserDelinquents: Rod has this aesthetic, wearing a leather jacket and jeans and carrying a switchblade. He's described a delinquent and a "musician."

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* GreaserDelinquents: Rod has this aesthetic, wearing a leather jacket and jeans and carrying a switchblade. He's described as a delinquent and a "musician."



* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: [[spoiler:Glen becoming a blood geyser.]]

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* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: [[spoiler:Glen becoming a blood geyser. A deleted scene shows his body was still intact. Somehow.]]



** The teacher in one of Nancy's classes is seen leading a discussion on Creator/WilliamShakespeare and starts speaking about another play of his, ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', just as Nancy begins to fall asleep in class. A classmate starts to read a passage from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' as Nancy [[spoiler:sees the ghost of Tina, who was recently killed by Freddy similar to when Hamlet sees the ghost of his father.[[/spoiler]]

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** The teacher in one of Nancy's classes is seen leading a discussion on Creator/WilliamShakespeare and starts speaking about another play of his, ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', just as Nancy begins to fall asleep in class. A classmate gets up and starts to read a passage from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' as Nancy [[spoiler:sees the ghost of Tina, who was recently killed by Freddy similar to when Hamlet sees the ghost of his father.[[/spoiler]]]]



* TeenyWeenie: When Rod tells Tina he has a hardon with her name written on it, she shoots back her name has four letters, so there wouldn't be room on his dick for it.

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* TeenyWeenie: When Rod tells Tina he has a hardon hard-on with her name written on it, she shoots back her name has four letters, so there wouldn't be room on his dick for it.

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** On the commentary, Creator/WesCraven notes the sheep in the opening shot is a ShoutOut to Creator/LuisBunuel , another shot is a ShoutOut to Creator/StanleyKubrick , and Creator/HeatherLangenkamp notes her performance in the sleep clinic is a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheExorcist''.
** The teacher in Nancy's class is seen talking about Creator/WilliamShakespeare and having a discussion on ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.

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** On the commentary, Creator/WesCraven notes the sheep in the opening shot is a ShoutOut to Creator/LuisBunuel , Creator/LuisBunuel, another shot is a ShoutOut to Creator/StanleyKubrick , and Creator/HeatherLangenkamp notes her performance in the sleep clinic is a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheExorcist''.
** The teacher in one of Nancy's class classes is seen talking about leading a discussion on Creator/WilliamShakespeare and having starts speaking about another play of his, ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', just as Nancy begins to fall asleep in class. A classmate starts to read a discussion on ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.passage from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' as Nancy [[spoiler:sees the ghost of Tina, who was recently killed by Freddy similar to when Hamlet sees the ghost of his father.[[/spoiler]]
---> "O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."

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