JackTheSpaceBoy t1_iuf10ez wrote on October 30, 2022 at 8:50 PM

Reply to comment by JGT3000 in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) is a horror classic. A very good movie, but the ending always hurt it in my opinion. by Any-Satisfaction-770

That's the whole point. It doesn't make sense, like a dream.

JGT3000 t1_iuk7k38 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 11:24 PM

I do get that. Until this rewatch I had always thought was the case. But to me the heart of the movie is the reveal of just who Freddie Krueger is and what happened to him.

But now on rewatch, is that even the case? All that was in the dream too. Are all his victims and murderers stuck in his world now where he endlessly tortures them?

Idk, with the added burden of the ambiguity of the end, a lot of what I thought worked well on my initial watch didn't hold up