Here's where the series began it's ascent into pop culture. Not great from a horror purist's standpoint, but I still enjoyed it. This is the first movie where Freddy's sense of humor and personality shine through. It also brings about the return of Nancy from the original Nightmare... all grown up trying to help a new generation of kids fend off Freddy. The teens of Springwood are dieing off left and right... most written off as suicide. The story centers around seven kids, the last of the Elm Street children, at Westin Hills Psychiatric Ward... all having similar nightmares...

First victim is Phillip Anderson. His wrists and feet are sliced open... his veins pulled out and controlled by Freddy as sort of a puppeteer... he makes Phillip walk to the highest point of the ward and jump out the window to his death.

Victim #2 is Jennifer Caulfield... with one of the most classic lines in the Elm Street series. Freddy grabs her from within the TV... "Welcome to primetime, bitch", and crashes her head into the TV.

Victim #3 is Taryn White. Freddy changes his fingers to saringes and gives her a fatal drug overdose.

Victim #4 is Will Stanton. He tries to fend Freddy off with his dream power, but Freddy proves too strong and simply grabs him by the throat and stabs him in the heart.

Victim #5 is Nancy's father, Donald Thompson. Freddy possesses his own unburied corpse and throws Lt. Thompson onto a sharp edge in a pile of broken cars.

Freddy's final victim is his long awaited revenge against Nancy... He assumes the form of Nancy's father and with a simple stab of the 'ol glove, the only Elm Street kid to survive him thus far in the series is finally killed off.

And to cap this one off... Freddy is defeated this time by his bones being buried and consecrated... holy water is sprinkled upon his bones and a cross placed on his skull. Freddy disappears from the nightmare for good... or has he?