8 Most Unexplainable Horror Movie Moments

8. The Random Sheep In 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'

In the opening scene of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Tina is walking through the boiler room while being stalked by a shadowy disfigured man we now know as Freddy Kreuger. While she's in the building, a sheep runs across her path, and leaves the shot, but doesn't reappear at any time.

It's small, and hardly the most mind-bending aspect of the film, but it piqued enough interest from fans to have people still talking about it decades later. What was the sheep for, and how did it get there? Did it represent something about falling asleep in the same way people 'count sheep' to pass out?

There was no indication, and viewers were left wondering what it was there for. Since the movie's release, fans have speculated that the sheep could represent innocence in Tina, and she was walking to her death in much the same way a lamb is led to slaughter.

Whatever it was supposed to represent may have been lost, but there is a rumor that the original script for the film states that "there is no reason for this," and the sheep may have been nothing more than a surreal visual addition to indicate Tina was in a dream.