Goofs for A Nightmare On Elm Street:
Continuity: When Nancy checks her watch she is wearing
a short-sleeved nightgown, but the closeup shows a
wrist with the end of a long blue sleeve on it.
Continuity: The part in Nancy's hair swaps sides in
the scene where her father is talking to get about
Tina.
Revealing mistakes: Crash mat visible when Freddy
falls over the banister.
Continuity: In final scene, the girls singing "One,
two, Freddy's coming for you" change places between
shots.
Continuity: The person who gets up to speak in the
classroom is not the same person who was sitting in
the same seat in the establishing shot a few seconds
earlier.
Continuity: After Glenn leaves through Nancy's window,
she shuts it. But, when she looks over at the window,
it is open again.
Factual errors: The Evil Dead is playing on Nancy's TV
but it does not match the actual movie.
Errors in geography: The movie takes place in some
unnamed Midwestern state but when Nancy and her
boyfriend are talking on a bridge, there are palm
trees in the background.
Revealing mistakes: Crash mat visible when Nancy jumps
out of the boiler room and lands in her lawn.
Revealing mistakes: In the beginning when a character
is killed by Freddy, you can see their fake chest
lifting when they are moving around.
Continuity: When Freddy is knocked off the stairs one
of the razor blades from his fingers has broken off.
Yet in the next scene, the blade is back on his
finger.
Continuity: When Nancy sneaks Glen back out the
bedroom window after she wakes up, the lights are
turned off in her bedroom. However, when it shows the
house from outside, her bedroom lights are turned on.
Revealing mistakes: When the sheet is coming around
Rod's neck to choke him you can see the wire that is
pulling it.
Continuity: Throughout the movie, along with all the
sequels, Freddy's "razor" glove is on his right hand.
When Freddy is chasing Tina, there is a quick shot of
him jumping out from behind a small tree and his glove
is on his left hand.
Continuity: In a wide shot, when the bars have just
been put on the house, the front door window bars are
different than the close-up of Nancy on her porch. The
closer shot shows a heart shaped design rather than
the three-bar pattern of the wide shot.
Revealing mistakes: When Nancy runs up the stairs near
the end of the movie, the camera shows a close up of
her feet sinking into the "goo" stairs. You can see
exactly where she going to put her feet as the "goo"
pots are clearly visible.
Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double for Nancy
when she is pulled underwater. The double also has
blonde hair.
Continuity: When Rod is arrested after running down
the street, he is doing so barefoot. However, when in
the prison cell, he is wearing white trainers.
Continuity: To wake herself up, Nancy smashes the
outside of her arm against the boiler. But when she
wakes up, the burn mark is on the inside of her wrist.
Continuity: When Nancy follows the body bag down the
stairs into the cellar, she steps in the trail of
blood. She does not leave a print as the blood is dry,
but it would not have had time to coagulate.
Continuity: When Glen is killed, we see a fountain of
blood cover the ceiling of his bedroom. In the next
shot, there's only a puddle of blood around the
fountain on the ceiling, then we return to a shot of
the ceiling covered with blood.
Continuity: Before Nancy goes to sleep, when Glen is
suppose to be watching her, her blue phone is on the
left-hand side, next to the chair. When Nancy wakes up
screaming, it's on the right.
Factual errors: Nancy's teacher has a student read
aloud from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". The first
line is from Caesar, but the line about bad dreams ("I
could enclose myself in a nutshell and count myself a
king of infinite space were it not that I have bad
dreams.") is actually from "Hamlet".
Factual errors: Nancy's teacher has a student read
aloud from William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". The
first line is from Caesar, but the line about bad
dreams ("I could enclose myself in a nutshell and
count myself a king of infinite space were it not that
I have bad dreams.") is actually from "Hamlet".
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Freddy is on fire in
the basement we hear him scream, but his mouth is
closed.
Revealing mistakes: When Freddy is on fire you can see
the fire protective mask he's wearing.
