A Nightmare On Elm Street: Cut Scenes

There are a good amount of deleted scenes from the original "Nightmare on Elm Street" on Youtube. Most of these were available either on the recent inifinitfilm edition or an old two-TAPE version that came out in the 90's (which almost certainly was on a laser disc edition at some point or another.) Not much of it has properly mixed sound but there's some interesting stuff along the way.

A different take on Tina's first encounter with Freddy:





It's tough to say this would have been as effective as what they used. The movie used more of a slow reveal, whereas this seems a little too quick. But most of the shots they kept are in there.

Another take on Nancy's final speech to Freddy:





A little too short and not very good. Interesting that they hadn't done any doctoring on Freddy's voice yet. The speech in the movie is better by far.

An interesting scene with Glen and Nancy's fathers, talking about the possibility that Freddy's the killer.





I can see why they cut stuff like this. Particularly after Glen's death, which is deep into the movie, having the parents becoming more aware of the possibility that the killer could be Freddy doesn't add much. It's Nancy's story at this point.

Similarly, Nancy's parents discuss the possibility of what's happening at Rod's funeral.





Way too early in the flick for the parents to be onto something. What makes part one so cool is the plausiblilty that Rod killed Tina and then killed himself, without it being even reasonable that something else was going on. And, again, in a movie like this, you want the heroine to figure stuff out, not her parents.

An extended version of Rod's death, was some bad teen angst drama between Nancy and her father.





"You've already rubbed my nose in sex and drugs now don't start with insanity." That line was best left on the cutting room floor, I say.

And the two shots everyone wants when they look for cut scenes from "Nightmare..."

Extension of Glen's death including the body coming up after the blood geyser (and Nancy screaming 'I'm AWAKE' after the phone tries to suck face with her ...)





And the alternate ending with Freddy driving the car:





There's more stuff here and there if you peruse YouTube of course ...