10 Deleted Movie Endings Way Better Than What We Got

A Nightmare On Elm Street is the quintessential 80's horror movie - with its big idea premise, clever production value, and a focus on the villain more than the innocent victims. And of course, the crowning achievement of all 80's horror, and by far the scariest aspect of any of them - endless, increasingly ridiculous sequels!

Even as far back as the first entry, New Line Cinema knew they had a franchise on their hands. And so sequels were already planned for home video releases. As such, you can't quite have your villain die in the first outing, now can you? Which is why, despite everything our main heroine does against Freddy, it still doesn't work, as he yanks a clothing store dummy that we're told is our heroine's mother through a window, possesses her car, and drives off to murder her and her friends. It's an out of nowhere ending that serves only to shock the audience, as well as set up sequels.

Originally, the stuff with Freddy just didn't happen. Yeah, she gets in her car, drives off, roll credits, we're done here.

The Nightmare On Elm Street sequels weren't all bad, some were quite good in fact, but none of them came anywhere close to the original. And if this ending had stayed intact, besides keeping the lore and rule set that the film set up intact, it would have spared us from seeing The Dream Child