A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Ronee Blakley: Marge Thompson

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• Nancy Thompson : Mother! What's with the bars?

  Marge Thompson : Security.

  Nancy Thompson : Security? Security from what?

  Marge Thompson : Not from what - from whom. Come down to the cellar. You wanna know who Fred Krueger was? He was a filthy child murderer who killed at least 20 kids in the neighborhood... kids we all knew.

  Nancy Thompson : Oh, Mom.

  Marge Thompson : It drove us crazy when we didn't know who it was, but it was even worse after they caught him.

  Nancy Thompson : Did they put him away?

  Marge Thompson : Well, all the lawyers got fat and the judge got famous, but someone forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place and Krueger was free just like that.

  Nancy Thompson : What did you do?

  Marge Thompson : A bunch of us parents got together and tracked him down. We found him in old abandoned boiler room, where he used to take his kids.

  Nancy Thompson : Go on.

  Marge Thompson : We took gasoline and poured it all around the place and made a trail of it out the door. We lit the whole thing up and watched it burn. He's dead now. He's dead because Mommy killed him.

  [reveals Freddy's glove] 

  Marge Thompson : I even took his knives.

  [Marge touches Nancy on her knee] 

  Nancy Thompson : You can sleep.

• Marge Thompson : Nancy?

  Nancy Thompson : What, Mother?

  Marge Thompson : Don't fall asleep in there. You could drown, you know.

  Nancy Thompson : Oh, for Pete's sakes.

  Marge Thompson : It happens all the time. I've heated up some warm milk for you, honey.

  Nancy Thompson : Warm milk? Gross.

• Marge Thompson : Nancy, you are going to get some sleep tonight if it kills me.

• Lt. Thompson : [about Nancy]  What was she doing there?

  Marge Thompson : Hello to you, too, Donald.

  Lt. Thompson : [returning greeting sarcastically]  Marge.

• Nancy Thompson : What I learned in the dream clinic. That's what I'm trying to prove, Mother. Rod didn't kill Tina and he didn't hang himself. There's this guy; he's after us in our dreams.

  Marge Thompson : But that's just not reality, Nancy.

  Nancy Thompson : [pulling Krueger's hat out of a drawer]  It's real, Momma. Feel it.

  Marge Thompson : Give me that damn thing!

  Nancy Thompson : It even has his name written in it. Fred Krueger, Mom. Fred Krueger.

  [realizing her mother knows about him] 

  Nancy Thompson : Do you know who that is, Mother? Because if you do you better tell me 'cause he's after me now.

• Dr. King : [at the sleep clinic, referring to the monitor's brainwave display]  A nightmare now would be plus or minus five or six. She's about three.

  Marge Thompson : [Nancy begins twitching; Freddy's knives are heard]  Doctor, what's she doing now? Is she asleep or awake?

  [the monitor's number quickly increases to 30] 

  Dr. King : Something's wrong. It never gets this high.

• Nancy Thompson : The killer's still loose, you know.

  Lt. Thompson : You're saying somebody else killed Tina? Who?

  Nancy Thompson : I don't know who he is, but he's burned and he wears a weird hat and a red and green sweater, really dirty. And he uses these knives, like giant fingernails...

  Lt. Thompson : [cuts her off and guides her into the car, to Marge]  You better keep her home for a few days, until she really gets over the shock of this.

  Marge Thompson : I've got something better. I'm going to get her some help.

• Marge Thompson : [to Nancy]  Oh, I feel like a million bucks. They say you've bottomed out when you can't remember the night before.