Hey Guys, it’s Ryan here from Explained, and welcome to the channel. In today’s video,
we will be watching a movie titled “Nightmare On Elm Street” from 2010.
What happens when you get chased by a killer ghost in your dreams.
Can you manage to keep yourself awake to save your life ?
Let’s get started. Turn on subtitles and spoilers ahead.
The movie starts and we see Dean inside a cafe, who has been drinking too many cups of coffee.
He tries to get the waitress’ attention to get one more cup of coffee,
but the waitress doesn't pay attention to him. He follows the waitress into the kitchen,
and there he’s encountered with a mysterious figure with sharp claws.
Dean gets attacked by that figure and then he wakes up from his sleep.
Dean is still in the cafe and he had just fallen asleep.
When he checks his hand, he sees that the claw had managed to cut him for real.
Actually, Dean has been trying to keep himself from falling asleep, because whenever he does,
he gets attacked by that same mysterious figure in his dream, who wants to take his life.
Dean’s friend Kris comes to visit him. Dean tells her about everything that has been going
on. The crazy nightmares he gets when falling asleep, and how he hasn’t slept in 3 days.
The nightmares started since his childhood, but lately it’s been getting more real.
Kris tells him that it’s just a dream and he doesn’t need to overthink it. During their
conversation, Dean accidentally spills coffee over Kris, after which she goes to clean herself.
While waiting for Kris to come back,
Dean can’t help but fall asleep. Then the ghostly figure reappears in his dreams,
and ends up killing him. While in the real world, it appears that Dean is killing himself.
After his death, everyone thinks that Dean committed suicide. At his funeral, Kris sees
a picture of Dean, in which she finds herself in the background. She gets shocked to see this,
as she never met him before highschool. She tells this to her ex boyfriend Jessie. She also
tells him that Dean’s last words before taking his own life was “You’re not real”. To Kris,
it feels like Dean wasn’t in control of himself, and someone else was making him do that. Jessie
tells her that she’s just too stressed with everything and she shouldn’t overthink.
Then their friend named Nancy comes up to them, and she too believes that Dean’s death was
unnatural. Jessie doesn’t want Kris to get anymore stressed. So, he takes her away from there.
That night, Kris can’t fall asleep. She starts to check her old pictures
and sees a few of the pictures missing from the album book.
She goes to the garage and starts to look for more photo albums. She then finds a
box which has her photo of when she was a child, and a dress which has been cut out.
She then sees the same ghost which killed Dean in his dreams. That figure grabs hold
of Kris and asks her if she remembers him. Kris shouts in fear, and she wakes up in her bed.
Next day at school, having not slept for the entire night, Kris dozes off in class.
And in her dream, she yet again meets the ghost with a sharp claw.
That ghost starts to come forward and just when it's about to hurt her, she shouts in fear and
wakes up. She sees that her hair has been cut for real, and she hurriedly runs out of the class.
That night when Kris is in her room, Jessie comes to visit her.
He is concerned with how Kris behaved in class, and wants to know what’s happening.
Kris then tells him about the nightmares she has been having ever since Dean’s death.
She tells him about that mysterious ghost which tries to kill her.
Jessie asks if that ghost has a sharp claw. Hearing this,
Kris gets nervous that they’re both being haunted by the same ghost.
Jessie consoles her and says that they should stop thinking about it.
Kris hasn’t slept for two days, so she asks Jessie to stay with her. The two of them sleep together,
and then Kris sees the same ghost in her dream. She wakes up and goes to wash her face. But when
she returns, the ghost is sleeping beside her. Her body starts to move on its own,
and Jessie sees it all with his eyes. He realizes that their dreams weren't just a nightmare.
Despite seeing Kris get controlled by the ghost, he simply cannot do
anything. Kris’ body gets thrown all around the room, and she finally ends up getting killed.
Jessie gets scared after witnessing all of this, and he goes to see Nancy,
and tells her that Kris got killed in her sleep. Since she was agreeing with Kris
back at the funeral, he believes that Nancy is getting the same dreams as him and Kris.
Nancy tells him that she too gets nightmares where she keeps on hearing a song.
In that song, she hears a name, and the name is Freddy Kruger. Now, they know the name
of the ghost which has been haunting them, and has so far killed two of their friends.
Jessie warns Nancy to not fall asleep, as they don’t know who’s the next target for Freddy.
They have to figure out how to stop Freddy Kruger from killing them. Just when Jessies
gets out of Nancy’s house, he gets arrested by the police in suspicion of Kris’ murder.
He gets sent to jail, and he tries everything in his power to not fall asleep.
But his body gives up to tiredness, and he yet again gets a nightmare. He finds himself in
an unknown factory, where he sees two young children looking at him. Then he comes face
to face with Freddy Kruger; whose face is all burned up and his fingers are sharp as a knife.
Jessie runs away from him, but running is of no help, and this is Freddy’s world,
as he controls everything. Jessie gets caught and he too falls victim to Freddy Kruger.
Meanwhile, Nancy meets her friend Quentin who is taking pills to not fall asleep.
Just like his friends, he too has been getting the same kind of nightmares. Nancy finds it weird how
all of them are getting haunted by Freddy Kruger in their dreams, and why he is after their lives.
She asks her mother if she has any connection with her friends.
She asks if they were in the same school growing up, or if they know anyone by the name of Freddy.
Her mother says No, but she’s definitely hiding something.
Nancy later goes to her bathtub to freshen herself, where she accidentally falls asleep,
and Freddy begins his job. In her dreams, Nancy finds herself in the same elementary
school where she went as a child. And then she meets with Freddy Kruger who says that
she might have forgotten about him, but she has always remained his favorite.
Freddy starts to get closer to her, and then Nancy gets woken up by a call from Quentin.
She tells Quentin about what Freddy told her in her dream. She meets Quentin and
tells him that her mother might be hiding something from her. They start to search
for any kind of clue that might point them towards how they’re all connected to Freddy.
They find an old photo from Nancy’s playschool. In that photo, she sees that Quentin,
Dean, Kris, Jessie and herself went to the same playschool when they were
children. But the weird thing is none of them remember that,
and their parents never brought it out. It was always kept a secret from them.
Nancy’s mom soon arrives there and is confused about what’s going on. Nancy
asks her about the pictures she just found. Then, her mother tells her the whole story.
When they were all in the playschool, there was a gardener there, whose name was Fred Kruger.
Fred was loved by everyone at the playschool, and he was so very fond of the children there. He was
especially very attached to Nancy. He was always playful and seemed harmless to everyone. However,
the children slowly started to keep silent, and their parents found scars on their body. They soon
realized that Fred Kruger was physically abusing their children at the playschool. When he found
out that the children had spoken to their parents, Fred Kruger left the city, never to be seen again.
That was a very disturbing moment in life for all the children and their parents. So,
Nancy’s mother and all the parents of her friends kept it a secret from them,
and never mentioned it. They wanted to erase that memory from everyone’s mind.
After finding out the truth, Nancy starts to gather information on all the other children
who were with her in playschool. After searching on the internet, she finds out that everyone had
died in their sleep. Only two left alive from that photo are Nancy herself and Quentin. Meanwhile,
Quentin, who hasn’t slept for many days, dozes off while swimming. In his dream,
he finds himself in a weird place. He then sees Freddy being chased by the parents of
all the children from playschool. To save his life, Freddy enters a factory, and the
parents of the children set the whole factory on fire, which ends up killing Freddy Kruger.
Quentin now knows the real reason behind why Freddy was after all of them.
Together with Nancy, Quentin goes to confront his father on why they killed Freddy.
He says that they took the life of an innocent person. They don’t remember anything regarding
how Freedy abused them. They were too small and it could have been that they lied to their parents.
But his father says that it couldn’t have been a lie. They could see the
fear of Freddy in their eyes. Freddy was a monster and he deserved to die.
But Quentin is still not ready to agree. He says that according to what they said when
they were children, Freddy used to take them to a secret cave, which their parents never found.
So, it’s very likely that they were lying.
Quentin angrily storms out of his father’s office and goes to a chemist.
He asks for pills which will keep him from going to sleep.
But the chemist refuses to give him any more pills, stating that it could be dangerous for him.
While waiting for Quentin to get back, Nancy is struggling to not fall asleep inside the car.
She hasn’t slept for days, and now she can’t help but go to sleep.
In her dream, she enters the medicine shop, and inside Freddy is waiting for her.
Freddy attacks Nancy but surprisingly, he says that he will not kill her,
at least not yet. Nancy wakes up from her sleep, and she finds out that she
was able to bring a piece of Freddy’s cloth with her into the real world.
Nancy is wounded, so she is taken to the hospital. The doctor wants to give her an
injection to make her sleep, but Nancy strongly refuses to get it.
Quention, on the other hand, manages to steal an adrenaline shot which will keep him awake.
The doctor tells Nancy’s mom that she hasn’t slept in many days. They have to get her to sleep,
or else it could be bad for her. They enter the room, but find out that Nancy is missing.
She has left with Quentin in his car. Quentin takes a dose of adrenaline, but Nancy doesn’t
take it. They go to the playschool which they attended together when they were children.
They manage to find Freddy’s room there, and they also find the secret cave where Freddy
used to take them. After going inside, they find some pictures that Freddy took of them
when they were children. Seeing those pictures, it becomes clear that Freddy
was a monster and their parents were right to take his life. And now Freddy is taking
revenge on them for telling their parents about him, which resulted in his death.
Nancy recalls that she was able to bring a piece of Freddy’s sweater into the real world,
so it is possible that they can bring Freddy in the real world as well.
But for that, she has to go to sleep. She tells Quentin that she will go to sleep,
and when she starts to struggle in her sleep, Quentin has to wake her up. If their plan works,
they can bring Freddy into the real world and kill him forever.
Nancy then goes to sleep, but a few seconds after Quentin also falls asleep. In his dream,
Quentin gets attacked by Freddy and he gets very heavily injured.
Before Freddy could kill him, Nancy arrives there, and takes his attention towards herself.
She makes Freddy chase her, but since it is Freddy’s world, he controls everything,
and he makes it impossible for Nancy to escape him. Freddy captures Nancy and keeps her bound
to a bed. Her dress has been changed to the one which she used to wear in playschool.
Freddy says that he saved her for the very end. He says that his plan is to keep
Nancy with him in his world forever. While Nancy in the real world goes into a coma,
her spirit will be with Freddy in her dreams, living with him forever.
Meanwhile, Quentin wakes up in the real world, and finds that Nancy is still asleep. He tries
to wake her up, but Nancy doesn’t wake up. So, he takes the adrenaline shot he has with him,
and injects it in Nancy’s body, which manages to wake Nancy from her sleep.
And along with Nancy, Freddy also comes into the real world. Quentin attacks Freddy to kill him,
but Freddy is still too strong for him. He is about to kill Quentin, but Nancy cuts his
hand from behind. She then takes revenge on everything Freddy did and finally kills him.
After killing Freddy, Quentin and Nancy burn the whole place down and get out of there.
The fire brigade and police arrive on the scene. Quentin gets taken to the hospital in
an ambulance and they are relieved that they have finally gotten rid of Freddy for good.
Later, Nancy goes to her house with her mother. And unfortunately, Freddy is still alive.
Nancy starts to scream in horror, and Freddy kills Nancy’s mother from the mirror
and takes her into his world.
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