Most Rewatchable Scene
Tina's death
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- Tina's opening nightmare: she leaves the house and runs into Freddy, starting with rocks at the window, one stuck in the window, and ending with the bloody ceiling dance; anytime somebody is on a ceiling in a movie, they are not making it.
- The set took about six weeks to build and spun around inverted; everybody was getting sick, and Amanda Wiss found it legitimately terrifying.
- The making-of documentary shows the bathtub built over a pool and tactile effects such as getting him through the bars and the blood coming out of the bed, compared with what Chris Nolan does now and with effects generated on the computer.
- Where other slashers avoid the X rating or lack money for makeup, this opening kill is made the bloodiest, scariest thing, so viewers are terrified it will happen to another kid; Tina talking about the dream and the guy with knife hands is a harbinger.
- A participant who had never seen the movie was impressed and happy for the low-budget team while being scared, likened to still marveling that Jaws built a shark.
- Glenn's room was built upside down with the bed of blood, and they almost electrocuted a cast member when the fake blood got into the floor.
- The classroom scene, another homage to Halloween with the body bag, the no-running hallway and Freddy's green blood and worms, is the first classic Elm Street nod where a character seems awake but is in the dream, as the teacher writes 'I'm going to kill you, bitch'.
- The bathtub scene, called CR's favorite, has Freddy's hand coming up through her legs after she locks the door to take a bath having not slept in three days.
- The marshmallow stairs, which Bob Shea wanted and Craven did not, Freddy jumping through the mirror, Rod hanging himself, and the mom's Fred Kruger story with the glove she saved in the basement follow.
- Glenn's bed turns into the Shining elevator, and the final Home Alone showdown is just a dream before the second ending.
- The pick is by far Tina's death, called one of the great accomplishments in horror movies; the popcorn setup of kids pranking with their radio and lying to their mom is also liked.
- Freddy calling out to Tina after Rod is likened to Scream's opening scene or Janet Leigh in Psycho, and Skeet Ulrich in Scream is called a karaoke, poor man's Johnny Depp homage.