10 Awesome Horror Movie Deleted Scenes You Won't Believe Were Cut

10. Nightmare On Elm Street: Freddy's Expanded Origin

Any self-respecting horror hound will know Freddy Krueger's origin story off by heart. He was a creepy janitor who killed a bunch of kids, swerved justice in court but was burned alive by the townsfolk for his crimes.

One demon pact later, he becomes a knife-fingered killer who haunts his victims' nightmares, but there was supposed to be a little more to it than this.

In A Nightmare on Elm Street, that scene where Nancy's mother tells her daughter about Freddy's fiery fate was originally longer with more context about his crimes.

It turns out that all of the children Krueger killed were the siblings of Elm Street's current generation. This might seem like a minor detail, but its inclusion in the final cut would have made the film all the more tragic.

Not only have the parents already had to deal with the death of their children, they have to go through the same experience all over again.

Presumably the scene was shortened to trim the movie's runtime, but it would have added something to A Nightmare on Elm Street. At the very least, Nancy would have had another reason for wanting Freddy dead... again.