10 Deleted Scenes That Explain Confusing Horror Movie Moments
2. A Nightmare On Elm Street - Nancy's Sibling Was Freddy's Original Victim
While no one would blame the parents of Elm Street for hunting down a child killer and enacting their own form of vigilante justice on him (disclaimer: WhatCulture does NOT endorse vigilante justice. Except, you know, if it's Batman), one thing that was dropped from the movie goes a little further toward explaining just why these specific children are being terrorised, and why Nancy's mother chooses to drink herself away from her issues.
You see, the children that Freddie attacked when he was human were the siblings of the heroes that the audience meets in this film. All of the parents that the audience encounters have dealt with the trauma of losing children to Freddie's evil before. As Nancy's mother explains, they killed him, he's dead, and he's not coming back. Sealed in with this murder is the faith in the belief that they have avenged their first born children.
It is a sad detail that was omitted from the final cut, which makes the identities of the kids that Freddie killed a bit more ambiguous. It was presumably considered a bit too much to put on the parents, so it was dropped to allow the children that died to be less directly connected. Still sad, but a fraction less crushing.