A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: HALLOWS EVE BODY COUNT
BODY COUNT: 10
1st: Frank Esponade: Stabbed by Freddy's blades in the neck. (Chapter 1)
An hour later, in history, a boy named Frank Esponade sat with his head against the table, the monotone voice of the teacher combined with the boring subject made everyone sleepy. He thought of the invitation he had gotten from Karen Davis for a Halloween party at 1428 Elm Street, a reputedly haunted house. Even though the adults of Springwood had attempted to cover it up everyone still found out about the murders.
He couldn't wait for the party, but not because he wanted to go to a haunted house or even because he liked Halloween, it was because of Karen. He had a crush on her since first grade, but he was a shy boy and had never come out and said it. He was very chubby as well.
He closed his eyes, thinking how much fun the party could be.
Suddenly he heard a crack on the desk in front of him. He opened his eyes and found the teacher staring at him, a ruler in his hand.
"What, may I ask, were we talking about, Mr. Esponade?" the teacher asked.
"I, I, I don't know" Frank mumbled.
"We were talking about ancient nursery rhymes, now can you complete this one, Mr. Esponade, 'One, two, Freddy's coming for you…"
Frank had no idea what this poem was; he had never heard it before.
"Three, four, better lock your door…" the teacher continued, the whole class was now singing along with him, they all pronounced each syllable by itself, "Five, six, grab your crucifix… Seven, eight, gonna stay awake…"
"I don't know, I've never heard it before" Frank said, a bit creeped out by the whole class singing the creepy poem.
The teacher raised his hand, which now had a glove with long knives for fingers, and when Frank looked back up into the teacher's face a new man was there, one with horribly burnt skin and a red and green sweater on.
"Nine, ten, never sleep again…" the man said, running his knife-fingers across Frank's desk, making a horrible grating noise, he had a sickening smile across his burnt face. The rest of the class had just vanished.
Frank cringed back from the man, trying to get up but found he couldn't move the chair away from the desk or get up.
"Die, fat boy!" the man yelled, raising his clawed hand and stabbing his knife-fingers into Frank's throat.
Frank gargled a bit; choking on his own blood, then fell onto the desk in front of him, twitching. The man laughed maniacally as the boy bled in front of him. Somewhere in the distance a little girl was singing, "One, two, Freddy's coming for you… Three, four, better lock your door…"
2nd & 3rd: Michelle Gordon & Logan Henrikson: Killed in same dream, Michelle dropped onto concrete from a large height by Freddy, Logan shot through eye with Freddy's blade. (Chapter 3)
Logan opened his eyes, but he wasn't in his house anymore. He was in a boiler room. Steam hissed from nearby and he could feel the heat.
Logan got to his feet and suddenly heard Michelle scream out.
Logan sprinted towards the sound. He ran through the maze of pipes and climbed up a ladder when he reached it.
When he reached the top he saw his girlfriend held against the wall by Freddy Krueger.
"Krueger! Let her go!" Logan yelled.
"As you wish…" Freddy said, and pulled her over to the railing. He held her over the edge and dropped her, and she fell down to the concrete.
"No!" Logan screamed as he heard the sickening thud from Michelle's body crashing into the hard ground.
Logan rushed at Freddy and knocked him into a wall. Freddy let out a small cry of pain but then looked at Logan with a smirk on his face.
"Come on Logan, let's fight!" Freddy said and threw a hard punch into Logan's face.
It connected and Logan flew to the ground. He quickly got back to his feet and threw some of his own punches. Each one connected with Freddy, who was knocked backwards.
Suddenly Logan's hand was caught and twisted hard. Logan heard the crack and screamed in pain.
Freddy laughed out maniacally and shoved Logan into the wall behind him.
Logan fell to the ground with his arm held against his chest. He slowly made his way to his feet again, using the wall as balance.
When he looked at Freddy again he saw that he had his hand up, his index-knife pointed straight at Logan's face.
"You're going to hell now, tell them Freddy sent ya!" Freddy said and suddenly his index-knife came flying from his hand and into Logan's eye. The knife went straight into his brain and he fell down, dead.
4th: Dean Keller: Dentist drill shoved through the top of his mouth by Freddy. (Chapter 6)
Dean Keller, the blonde haired boy, ended up in a strange place. He turned when he heard the door he just entered slam closed. He ran to it and tried to pull the door back open, but it wouldn't budge.
Dean turned around to survey where he was.
He was at the dentist. He looked around and saw this was his dentist. He shuddered, feeling afraid. He had always been afraid of the dentist, more than people are normally afraid of it. As a child he had cried every time someone tried to bring him to the dentist, he was just too afraid. So many things went through his mind when he was brought there, the 2 things that appeared inside his head most were the drill slipping and a disturbing image, one of the dentist with a sickening smile, his eyes flashing red.
Suddenly Dean was spun around, and he came face to face with the Nightmare King, Freddy Krueger.
"It's time for your checkup!" Freddy yelled, flashing Dean a sickening smile.
Dean quivered with fear and was forced back into the dentist's chair. Immediately the straps snaked their way over his wrists and his feet, holding him to the chair.
Freddy put his gloved hand under Dean's chin, his blades clicking lightly. Freddy then pushed his other hand on Dean's forehead and forced his mouth open.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk… I'm going to have to do some immediate work here" Freddy said and pulled down a big dentist's drill from apparently nowhere.
Dean screamed and tried to close his mouth, but straps appeared from nowhere and held his mouth open.
Freddy pulled the drill down and let out a long cackle while Dean screamed. Freddy ignored his screams and forced the drill up into the top of his mouth, cutting off the screams.
5th: Dina Willows: Drowned and stabbed by Freddy. (Chapter 7)
Dina Willows walked through her door and into a room with a pool in the middle. The door slammed shut behind her and she jumped in shock.
Dina backed away from the door and turned to survey the pool.
The room was mostly pool; it took up at least 3 quarters of the room. It was circular and the water inside shimmered blue. It looked a lot like the pool in her own backyard; it was even around the same size.
Dina slowly walked up to the edge, staring in. She saw her own reflection, and that was all.
She breathed a sigh of relief, but screamed when her head was pushed into the water. She flipped into the pool and surfaced, taking in a gasp of air. Her vision was blurry because of the water dripping into her eyes.
Suddenly something sharp pierced her leg and a warm flow of blood emitted from the wound.
Freddy had thrown the girl into the water, and he had jumped in after. Karen watched in silent horror, she couldn't even scream.
The blood floated through the water as Freddy shoved the girl back under. They both disappeared for a minute, and then she surfaced again, screaming for help.
Freddy jumped back up again and drove his claws in her shoulder. Dina screamed in pain and tried to swim away, but Freddy grabbed onto her leg, preventing her from escaping. He grinned his horrible, perverse smile and drove his claws into her leg again. The blood was filling the pool now, staining the water red.
Dina screamed in pain again and Freddy drew her closer, stabbing her in the stomach, releasing another torrent of blood into the already gore filled water.
Finally Karen did scream, but Dina and Freddy took no notice. Freddy was lost in his kill, and Dina was suffering.
Freddy put his hand on top of Dina's head and pushed her under. They both went under the water, and the blood blocked them from view.
Karen sobbed a bit, waiting for something to happen.
Suddenly Karen heard one last scream and another torrent of blood throughout the pool. Dina was dead. Freddy had drowned her in her own blood, right in front of Karen.
Karen fell down into a sitting position in the corner, sobbing.
Suddenly Freddy surfaced again, alone. He floated up until he was standing on top of the bloody water, and he walked towards Karen.
"You bastard! You killed her!" Karen screamed at Freddy, but he only chuckled.
"Victims, aren't we all?" Freddy said maliciously as he stepped back onto land, blood dripping from his claws.
6th: Joanna Turner: Crushed in-between a brick wall and the "Freddy Car". (Chapter 8)
Karen pushed herself into the corner, trying to get away from Freddy Krueger, who was slowly advancing upon her, the blood still dripping from his claws.
She pulled her legs up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them, not wanting to watch Freddy kill, not wanting to endure this horror. She closed her eyes, wishing it would all go away, even though she knew it wouldn't.
When Karen opened her eyes she wasn't huddled in a corner, shrinking away from the Nightmare King, but inside a car. She was in the backseat, and she was the only person in the car.
Karen slowly let her legs drop to the floor, leaning back against the seat. Outside it was too misty to see anything clearly.
Suddenly she heard the car start up, feeling it stutter into action. Seatbelts appeared from nowhere and wrapped themselves around her so her arms couldn't move and she couldn't move from the seat. She struggled against these bonds as the lights flared on, pointing a direct beam through the mist, yet she still couldn't see anything.
"Sit back, your taking a ride in Christine Krueger!" Freddy's voice surrounded her, coming from the car itself.
As the car started to drive forward Karen saw that they were at the end of an alleyway, and a frightened girl was at the other end, where a solid brick wall that stretched into the sky blocked any escape. The alleyway was only just wide enough for the car to fit through, but it started to accelerate anyway.
Joanna saw the car, the red and green car, and tried to run, but crashed right into the brick wall behind her. She pressed her back onto it, praying that the car would crash, as long as it didn't hit her.
But Karen knew it wouldn't crash. She saw the speedometer from her restrained seat and saw it climbing up towards 100 kilometers an hour. The alleyway was long, but Christine Krueger didn't need long to speed up, after all this was his world, his nightmarish world.
Karen screamed as more tears poured down her face, but the Freddy car only laughed, accelerating even more.
Joanna gave out one last scream as the car slammed into her, splattering blood all over the front of the car, painting the windshield a bloody red.
Karen had shared Joanna last scream, shrieking out in terror and horror as the gore splattered onto the car.
7th: Josh Matthews: Gutted by Freddy's blades.(Chapter 9)
Freddy stood in the middle of the cage, waiting for one or both of the boys to attack. Karen knelt next to him; her sobs had quieted down but were far from stopping. She had just seen 2 people getting killed; she was going to be crying for a long time.
Mike started forward, but Josh put a hand up and said, "Stop, I'll fight him."
"Well I'm glad you want to be a hero, but if we both fight him we'll have a better chance!" Mike said, glaring at Freddy.
"No, you just make sure Karen's alright, I'll fight the bastard. No sense in killing us both" Josh told Mike, and Mike could see the serious look in his eye. He was going to fight, and he wanted to do it alone, and that look told Mike to stay out of it.
Freddy chuckled and clicked his knifes.
"Bring it" Freddy said simply.
Josh ran at Freddy, who threw Karen aside and walked towards Josh. Josh reached him and punched at his face, but Freddy easily dodged it. Mike ran to Karen and knelt beside the weeping girl. Both of them stared at the fight going on.
Josh was kneed in the stomach and pushed away. Josh doubled over for a second before rushing at Freddy again, this time he succeeded in punching him in the cheek. Freddy fell back a step, before righting himself and smiling.
Freddy suddenly drove his claws into Josh's arm, and Josh screamed in pain. Freddy pulled them out, spraying drops of blood on the floor.
Josh fell to his knees, holding his arm. Freddy chuckled, looking down at him.
"You didn't have a chance asshole. And now your friends are going to die, all because you failed. Welcome to my nightmare!" Freddy taunted Josh, raising his clawed hand up for the final blow.
Josh suddenly jumped to his feet and punched up with all his might, connecting with Freddy's chin painfully. Freddy cried out, but more in surprise than pain. Freddy fell back a few steps, holding his chin.
"This is my dream bastard, and I get to make the rules!" Josh yelled, and suddenly a samurai sword materialized in his hands.
Freddy looked surprised for a moment, and then anger spread across his face.
Josh ran forward again and buried the sword deep into Freddy's chest, where his heart would be. Freddy stood there for a moment, a look of complete surprise on his face, before falling to the ground, blood seeping from the wound in his chest.
Josh turned to Mike and Karen, who were just as relieved as he was. Freddy was dead, or at least that's what they thought.
A smile spread across Josh's face, he thought it was over, but it wasn't. As Karen and Mike watched Freddy rose back to his feet, slowly pulling the sword from his chest. A sick grin was on Freddy's face, and a look of horror on both Mike's and Karen's.
Freddy threw the sword away and walked towards Josh, who had turned around and was now backing up, more afraid then ever.
"This may be your dream, but I'm the Nightmare King, and what I say, goes" Freddy said, and stabbed his knife-fingers into Josh's stomach.
Karen screamed and Mike sat in a stunned silence. The tips of Freddy's blades were protruding from Josh's back, blood seeping from the holes his blades made. As they watched Freddy pulled the blades upwards, cutting through Josh's organs and bones as if they were butter. A massive amount of blood was pouring from the cuts as Freddy gutted Josh. Karen and Mike could see bits and pieces of Josh's severed insides inside these cuts.
Freddy pulled his hand back and Josh's limp corpse fell to the ground. Karen screamed again as Freddy walked towards them, a new torrent of tears falling down her face.
8th & 9th & 10th: Eddy Ridley, Brandon O'Dea & Cory Jenkins: Killed one after the other in quick succession, Eddy Ridley had Freddy hand forced through his chest; Brandon was stabbed through the eyes and Cory had his heart ripped out and squashed. (Chapter 10)
Freddy's hand slid easily from Eddy Ridley and the boy fell to the ground, blood pouring from his stomach and his eyes glazed over.
"I'm back!" Freddy said with an evil grin on his face.
Karen screamed as Freddy stepped forward, burying his blades into Brandon O'Dea's eyes. Brandon's eyes spurted blood, the red liquid rolling down his face like bloody tears. Brandon's body fell next to Eddy's as Cory backed away. Now he stared upon the face of the man he had unknowingly sacrificed a group of his peers to.
"Cory, I was wondering when I'd meet you. You're the one who started it all. You gave your friends to me, and I slaughtered them" Freddy taunted, stepping slowly towards Cory, his blades clicking next to his face, "Now it's your turn!"
Freddy drove his clawed hand straight into Cory's chest. Blood started seeping from not only Cory's chest but from his mouth. Freddy shoved him and he fell straight into the nearby TV screen, which shattered as he collided with it.
In Freddy's hand was Cory's heart, beating slowly. The beats slowed down and stopped abruptly, and Freddy clenched his fist, the heart popping, creating a bloody mess.