Nightmare On Elm Street’s Reboot Should Bring Back The Best Sequel Twist

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While Freddy Krueger occasionally made use of his shapeshifting powers in the original Nightmare On Elm Street movies, there are numerous reasons that the character needs to bring back these skills in a reboot of the slasher series. Even though most modern slasher movies copy A Nightmare On Elm Street and its fusion of fantasy elements with horror tropes, the original series itself failed to fully take advantage of the powers that its iconic villain wielded. The dream demon Freddy Krueger could invade the nightmares of his victims, imitate their friends and loved ones, and possess people.

However, Freddy barely ever used some of these powers, with the character usually only attacking teenage victims in their dreams, feeding off their fear, and killing them. Only one franchise installment, 1985’s highly derided Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, fully focused on the premise of Freddy possessing a living human and using them to commit murders in the waking world. Meanwhile, despite teasing the power numerous times throughout the sequels, the Nightmare On Elm Street series never focused on Freddy’s ability to assume the identities of other people.

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In the brutal ending of Nightmare On Elm Street: Dream Warriors, Freddy disguises himself as Nancy’s father, gains her trust, and kills the original movie’s heroine as soon as her guard is down. It is one of the franchise’s meanest moments and occurs in what is often called the best movie in the series, yet this chilling conceit is not one that the Nightmare On Elm Street movies revisits as often as they could have. The original Nightmare On Elm Street already proved that Freddy could imitate