Did You Know?
1. The opening scene with Freddy in his workshop was actually one of the last segments shot during filming.
2. Robert Englund did not film the opening scene. It was stuntman Tony Cecere.
3. Tina's first dream sequence in the tunnel was filmed at the Lincoln Heights Jail, which was later condemned for asbestos.
4. Charles Fleischer, who played the doctor at the dream clinic, also went on to become a graphic artist, and the voice of Roger Rabbit.
5. If you watch Tina's opening dream sequence on the original VHS tape, you can actually see Robert Englund on the ground slowly turning behind her.
6. At the end of Tina's tunnel dream, she begins to run away in slow motion. In reality, she was on a treadmill at that point.
7. Tina's mom's boyfriend was one of Johnny Depp's friends.
8. Springwood High School was really Marshall High School in Los Angeles, which was about one block from where Heather Langenkamp lived at that time.
9. When Freddy appears through the wall above Nancy's bed, it is really a huge sheet of spandex measuring 6 feet-by-8-feet. After Freddy disappeared, they replaced the spandex with a solid wall, which explains why it didnt cave in when Nancy knocked on it.
10. When Tina looks out her window and the window cracks, look closely. It wasn't a pebble, but rather, a TOOTH that cracked it.
11. When Freddy appears with the long arms, it is actually two long fishing rods being held out.
12. Right after that, Freddy scratches his claws on the wall. During that scene, the technicians hooked the claw up to a car battery to create the sparks.
13. Tina's death scene was one of two scenes shot on a revolving set, creating the effect that she climbed up the ceiling.
14. The scene where Rod is captured was shot in Venice, California.
15. The teacher at the high school was Lin Shaye, producer Robert Shaye's sister. She would also come back and appear as a nurse in Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
16. The kid who reads Hamlet in class is actually Don Hannah, actress Daryl Hannah's brother.
17. When Nancy is in the tub and Freddy's claw comes up between her legs, that is actually technician Jim Doyle's hand.
18. Gregg Fonseca built a two-story set for the tub scene. Directly below the tub was a huge tank that Nancy got pulled into.
19. After Nancy is pulled under the tub, the rest of it was filmed in a swimming pool. Nancy's double for that scene was Jim Doyle's girlfriend, and the scene was filmed a day after the wrap party. The crew, most suffering from a hangover, covered the pool with a black tarp and filmed the scene in scuba gear.
20. The police station is really a library in Venice, California.
21. When Nancy runs up the stairs, she steps in a sticky substance, slowing her down. It was actually a mixture of oatmeal and pancake batter used to fill in those holes.
22. Rod's funeral was filmed at the Boyle Heights Cemetery, which was also used in Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
23. The nurse at the dream clinic was Wes Craven's ex-wife, Mimi.
24. The close-ups of the bridge scene with Glen and Nancy were actually filmed on a rooftop of the set.
25. The tongue phone used at the very end cost a total of $5 to make.
26. Glen's death was the second time they used the revolving set. It was actually filmed upside down, and the blood was poured into the set, giving the appearance of the fountain of blood.
27. There were 80 gallons of red-colored water used in the fountain of blood scene.
28. When they filmed the fountain of blood scene, every circuit on the set went out, and some of the crew even got electrocuted. Everyone got drenched in the red-colored water.
29. The Timex watch Nancy used for her 10-minute countdown actually belonged to Wes Craven. He paid $250 for it at the time, as it was considered cutting edge.
30. The screeching claw sound used in the movie was actually created using a steak knife on the bottom of a metal folding chair.
31. The scene where Freddy is on fire was actually done by stuntman Tony Cecere, not Robert Englund.
32. At the end, when Freddy emerges from under the bed, there is more spandex used, like they did when he appeared through the wall.
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