Nancy knows that she must find a way to stop him before he kills her and everyone else on Elm Street. Fred Krueger is dead, but he's found a way to return and wreak vengeance upon the children of his killers.
When he was released on a technicality, Nancy's parents and the parents of the other nightmare-plagued children hunted Fred Krueger down and burned him alive. Nancy's mother recognizes the name and soon tells Nancy the story of a brutal child killer who had terrorized the town many years ago. When Nancy awakens screaming from a nightmare with a bloody slash mark on her arm, she shows her mother and the doctor what she has pulled out of her dream: the battered fedora that the killer always wears. Her mother, worried for Nancy's sanity, takes her to a dream clinic where her sleep patterns can be monitored. When Rod turns up dead in his jail cell, Nancy is convinced that a ghostly killer is stalking them in their sleep.
Nancy begins to suspect that something evil is happening within their dreams, and that perhaps the boogeyman is real. But Rod swears he didn't do it, and tells Nancy that he too has been suffering from terrible nightmares in which a knife- fingered man is trying to kill him. When Tina is brutally murdered in her bed one night, suspicion falls upon her volatile boyfriend Rod, who was the only other person in the room with Tina when she died. Tina and her best friend Nancy learn that they're dreaming about the same creature, a hideously burned man in a dirty red and green sweater who bears an odd weapon a glove with razor fingers. The teenagers of Springfield, Illinois are having nightmares. The uncut version is sometimes shown on Pay-Per-View and is rated "not under 18 years." These changes were also made in the German video version, which has a "not under 16 years" rating.The scene where Freddy is killing Nancy's mother by burning her is also cut.When Nancy is burning Freddy, we only see the fire reach his feet, then it cuts to Nancy calling her dad.The scene where the dead Tina is talking to Nancy while snakes are coming out her dress is also cut.When Rod's neck is broken by Freddy Krueger, we only see Rod looking at the "snake", before it kills him.When Nancy meets Freddy for the first time, we can't see when he slices his abdomen and when Nancy puts her arm on the hot pipe.Later, there is a scene where Freddy's face is pulled off by Tina. In Tina's last dream we don't see when Freddy cuts his own fingers off his hand.When Tina is sliced by Freddy Krueger, we don't see how he slices her chest and is pulled to the ceiling.Janice Rule gives an impressive performance as the insecure and vulnerable damsel-in-distress, but she also gets excellent support from young Terry Burnham as Markie and – especially – from Shepperd Strudwick as the smooth and inconspicuous but mischievous stranger.The German television version is heavily cut, allowing for an earlier time slot. Written by Rod Serling himself, the episode is intelligent and original, while the experienced TV-director Alvin Ganzer provides with a continuously sinister ambiance.
"Nightmare as a Child" is another magnificent TZ-episode, subtly dealing with difficult themes like unprocessed traumas and suppressed memories. Shen then receives another unexpected visitor and slowly realizes that Markie attempted to warn her for something. Little Markie overwhelms Helen with private observations about herself and asks whether or not she noticed someone earlier that day who looked familiar to her.
The more experienced thriller/Sci-Fi fanatic then obviously figures out what's going on, but the tale nevertheless remains incredibly tense. Is she real or just a ghostly appearance? Is she good or bad? Those and other questions remain compellingly vague for a mere 5-10 fascinating. There's something peculiar about the girl, who only refers to herself by her nickname Markie. Immediately from the very first sequence, when female protagonist Helen Foley comes home to her apartment and meets a little girl sitting on the staircase, you can genuinely sense that the atmosphere is tense and foreboding. The absolute best "Twilight Zone" episodes grab you by the throat straight from the beginning and practically drown you in a pool of mystery and ominousness "Nightmare as a Child" is such a fantastic episode.
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