Nightmare On Elm Street 2 Has The Creepiest Nursery Rhyme In The Series

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While Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge is one of the worst sequels in the series, the slasher ironically features the scariest iteration of the infamous nursery rhyme heard throughout the franchise. Director Wes Craven’s original Nightmare On Elm Street featured a twist ending that some viewers found laughable, but the teen slasher movie was still well-received upon release. The next year’s sequelNightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, however, was a different story.

Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge was made without Craven’s approval or involvement, and many fans felt that this fact was hard to hide. Critically derided upon release, the slasher sequel was a mess in terms of plot and was a tonal disaster. Often unintentionally hilarious, Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge ignored Freddy’s ability to invade dreams (his scariest quality) in favor of a drab possession plotline.

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However, there were still some inspired moments in the weak sequel. Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge’s opening scene, for example, was a cartoony delight that nailed the franchise’s ideal balance between spooky and silly. Meanwhile, the sequence where the protagonist Jesse dreams of his sister skipping rope and reciting Freddy Krueger’s trademark nursery rhyme is genuinely creepy and one of the only times that the franchise pairs this unsettling recurring image (of a little girl skipping rope and reciting the rhyme) with a pre-established in-movie character. It’s unusually effective (especially in such an otherwise silly movie) because it’s not just some random child, but a character who Jesse or Freddy could conceivably kill, making