An Error in the NOES Series

[teenkiller]

There is an error in the NOES series that I noticed quite a few years ago that I have never seen brought up on this board. Usually when someone posts a question or points out an error in the series I can give some kind of answer or explanation but I can't come up with an answer this time. Throughout the NIGHTMARE series they have us believe that 1428 Elm Street is FREDDY'S house. But in the original movie 1428 is the house that Nancy and her mother live in. Now I can understand why someone like Jesse's family (from Part 2) would have moved in to the house, since they didn't really know the history of the house (or in Jesse's fathers case he just wanted to get a good deal), but why would Nancy's mother move into the place? HELL she was one of the people that BURNED HIM ALIVE?! It wouldn't make sense. Anyone else ever notice this? Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[rilocay]

lol, you have a good point. It's not so much an error though, but it does make you think. Ahwel, these things happen.




Just think if they made a small community where the camp of crystal lake lay...lol.

[pyscho dude]

Well I've never noticed that either. Good observaton!

[TheDeadWalk]

I call it effectively taking one for the team.

After all was said and done, the first and foremost thing you want in your town is to return to normalcy. You don't want that old house in the middle of a popular street winding up like the Myers house in Haddonfield. Abandoned, and looked upon as the remembrance of a cancer that plauged the town.

I could see a parental group sitting around saying "What do we do with that house..." and Nancy's mother effectively standing up with her husband and shouting, "We'll take it!" Especially with him being a law enforcement officer in town, she probably sees no fear in it, and wants the town to return back to normal ASAP.

Driving by the house seeing it abandoned day after day would serve as a symbol, if not almost tribute to the man who committed those heinous crimes. They probably thought it better to indulge into it, fix it up, and have it become a part of them and their daughter, and force it to become again a regular house in the society as everyone forgot about Mr. Fred Krueger.

My thoughts, o' course.

[darchangel]

i always just thought that was nancy's house, and freddy just sort of "lived" there in spirit, because nancy's mom had the hat and the glove in the basement.


i'm probably wrong, though :p


Death to Beth

~darchangel~

[teenkiller]

I see what you are saying TheDeadWalk but wouldn't it have made a lot more sense to just demolish it? That explanation doesn't sit well with me but at least you're trying. The house could easily be destroyed instead of them moving in. Why would she WANT to live there knowing the horrible things that went on?

And darchangel I had actually thought about what you said because its probably the thing I thought of that made the most sense but all in all that answer doesn't sit well with me either. I don't know, it seems like it was intended to be Nancy's house but after the original its like they forgot Nancy ever lived there and it just somehow became FREDDY'S house.

It's not a big problem I have with the series or anything. It just kind of irks me is all.

Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[rtatick]

I think Nancy's mom got the place dirt cheap and well... he's dead so why the heck not! WHOOPS!

[TheDeadWalk]

If I remember right... Freddy didn't do these things in his house, did he? I thought it was a separate location that he went to, and he left his family out of it, and that's what they burnt down.

In my scenario, I could figure that demolition would be an excellent option, but was turned down because of the "Martha Stewart complex". That is, denying something privelige of being trashed because you think you can salvage it.

[deadeye]

Yeah, I thought Freddy did his thing (when alive) in an abandoned factory, hence all the steamy boiler room shots in the earlier movies.

And I too am with Darchangel in perceiving that the 1428 Elm Street house where Nancy lived wasn't Freddy's house, but just sort of his portal into the present world because the girl who dreamed of him lived there.

[X-Nightcrawler]

I didn't know that was the house Freddy lived in. When they mentioned it in the NOES series, I always thought that's the place 'where he came back'.

[jackson13]

I always thought Freddy did it somewhere else as well, and Nancy's mom just took the glove, hat and sweater to her house and threw those in her furnace, thus transferring Freddy and his powers to Elm Street and that house.

[Dignan]

I blame the dog piss in part 4. Thats just me.

[Scully1888]

I can't remember a point in the films where it says Freddy actually lived at 1428 before he was burnt. Indeed, his house in the flashbacks in Freddy's Dead certainly appears to be vastly different to 1428.

The way I see it, the only reason Freddy has anything to do with the house was that Nancy pulled him out of her dream and he ended up there.

Don't forget that Rod, Tina and Glen all dreamt of Freddy too so it's not as if he was exclusively going for whoever lived in that house.

As for Nightmare 2, I think Freddy comes to Jesse simply because it's new meat that's just moved ino the neighbourhood.

What the hell, I don't know. :)

[jagged halo]

Speaking of NOES I've just this minute picked up the box-set for, wait for it: £16.99!!!.

A bargain me thinks, considering the fact I have seen this sell for over fourty quid here in England!.



:D