The Nightmare on Elm Street films are about former child killer Freddy Krueger, who was burned alive by the parents of the victims. Some of the Elm Street children survived, and are now teens whom Freddy stalks in their dreams and kills them. The Dream Demon creatively enters the teenager’s nightmares and murders them in spectacular fashion. Here are the top 10 best kills.
10.Glen Lantz (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
He’s dragged into his bed as a giant hole emerges, then a geyser of blood appears out of the hole and spreads across the ceiling.
This is the most visually memorable scene from the first nightmare on elm street film.
9. Mark Gray (A Nightmare on Elm Street 5)
A comic book fanatic friend of Alice Johnson. While in the dream world, Mark is in a black white room and becomes the superhero, Phantom Prowler. Freddy defeats him, and turns Mark into paper, then he slashes him to pieces.
In the real world, his death is made to look like a horrific warehouse accident as he is crushed by a collapsed shelf and its heavy contents. This is depicted on the previously blank comic panels that he was drawing.
8. Phillip Anderson (Nightmare on Elm Street 3 : Dream Warriors)
He’s controlled like a puppet until his tendons are cut and he falls to his death.
7. Joey Crusel (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and 4)
His obsession with naked models was his doom. He dreams of a naked model swimming in his water bed. He’s shoved under the water and drowns.
6. Sheila Kopecky (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master)
A friend of Alice and Kristen, she’s trapped in her desk then Freddy sucks all the air right out of her. In reality she was having an asthma attack.
5. Spencer Lewis (Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare)
Spencer is sucked into a video game, and the enemies are controlled by Freddy. He’s able to destroy some of the enemies before he’s thrown off a cliff and dies.
4. Debbie Stevens (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master)
She is friends with both Sheila and Alice Johnson, she loves working out, and hates bugs. So…Freddy turns her into one.
Freddy grabs her barbel and pushes it down breaking her elbows. She’s turned into a cockroach and appears in a Cockroach trap, then is squashed by Freddy.
3. Dan Jordan (A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child)
He is the boyfriend of Alice Johnson who has the power to bring people into her dreams like Kristen used to do.
While rushing to see Alice he takes a motorcycle and is turned into a cyborg and fused to the motorcycle, he wakes up and dies in a head-on collision
2. Greta Gibson (a Nightmare on Elm street 5: The Dream Child)
A friend of Alice Johnson. After falling asleep in a party Greta is stuck in a high chair. She’s fed her own organs and her cheeks swell up, in real life she chokes and shakes then dies.
1. Carlos Rodriguez (The Final Nightmare)
A patient of Maggie Burroughs and friend to Tracy and Spencer.
A super-sized cotton swab is inserted in his ear, Freddy takes Carlo’s eardrum and hearing aid, and turns it into a parasite that makes any sound louder.
He dies as Freddy scratches a chalkboard until his head explodes.
