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A Nightmare on Elm Street

John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Johnny Depp, Charles Fleischer, Robert Englund, Joseph Whipp, Lin Shaye, Joe Unger, Mimi Craven, Jack Shea, Ed Call
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Her student friend Nancy tells student Tina, referring to student Rod, "Oh, he's nuts about you."
Tina: "Yeah, nuts." (0:05)

Tina tells Nancy and Nancy's boyfriend Glen, "I mean don't leave me alone with this lunatic." (0:10)

Police Sgt. Parker tells Nancy's father, Lt. Thompson, referring to Rod, "He's been arrested for drugs, brawling."
Thompson tells Nancy and her mother Marge, "... I sure would like to know what the hell you were doing shacking up with... a lunatic delinquent like Lane."
Nancy: "He's not a lunatic, Dad."
Thompson: "You have a sane explanation for what he did?"
Marge: "Apparently he was crazy jealous." (0:18)

Nancy tells Marge, "I've gotta go to school, Mother, otherwise I'll sit up there and go crazy." (0:21)

Nancy tells Rod, "You were screaming like crazy." (0:22)

Glen tells Nancy, "So I heard you freaked out in English class today."
Nancy: "I've got a crazy favor to ask you." (0:35)

Funeral for Rod in a cemetery. (0:45)


Nancy prepared for polysomnography (0:47)

Sleep medicine physician Dr. King tells Marge, referring to Nancy, "Well, there's no sign of pathology in her E.E.G."
Referring to Nancy's high heart rate: "It's just due to anxiety... Beta waves are slowing. She's into REMs now."
King prepares an injection.
Nurse: "This'll help you sleep." (0:48)

By telephone Marge tells someone, "No, I'm not crazy." (0:51)

Marge tells Nancy, "You didn't sleep at all last night, did you?"
Nancy: "... I'll go even crazier?"
Marge: "I don't think you're crazy..."
"Rod... didn't hang himself."
"... maybe I should just grab that bottle... avoid everything happening to me by just getting good and loaded." (0:51)

Glen tells Nancy, "Whenever I get nervous I eat."
"Well, instead of screaming and getting all nuts..." (0:54)

Marge tells Nancy, "It drove us crazy when we didn't know who it was..." (0:57)

By telephone Nancy tells Glen, "If I can't then you can all relax because it's just a case of me being nuts."
Glenn: "You're nutty as a fruitcake..."
"Are you crazy?" (1:00)

Glen's father tells Glen's mother, referring to Nancy, "I think that kid is some kind of lunatic or something."
Glen's mother: "Marge is just being cautious what with... Nancy acting so nervous lately." (1:04)

Nancy tells herself, "I'm crazy after all." (1:21)

Marge tells Nancy, "They say you've bottomed out when you can't remember the night before. You know, baby, I'm gonna stop drinking." (1:27)

References in Keanu, Life as a HouseMoonlight (2016), Sleepless in Seattle, Who Gets the Dog?, Wonder