A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: the Dream Master

Movie • 1988 • Horror  

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Dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills the remainder of the Elm Street kids. However, Kristen, who can draw others into her dreams, wills her special ability to her friend Alice. Alice soon realizes that Freddy is taking advantage of that unknown power to pull a new group of children into his foul domain.
This movie contains 56 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Jason the border collie probably survives
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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A girl says something like "I don't go to the gym just to be killed by a night stalker (referring to Freddy)" but he's not really a stalker
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StevenHay
2 characters have an abusive father
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No one believes the teens and tells them that they are crazy.
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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Two of the teens (a brother / sister) is an extreme alcoholic.
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
A parent who is a background character. He doesn't have a lot of screen time, but he is portrayed as an abusive alcoholic parent which might be triggering.
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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A cockroach is crushed
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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raechl
there appears to be a large fin sticking out of the water moving around in a manner much like sharks are often shown in films, but it isn’t actually a shark
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Are there bugs?
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TaraYoung
One girl turns into a giant cockroach.
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Assault
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fraisierdesbois
Kristen slaps Alice
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Is someone drugged?
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raechl
kristen’s mom puts sleeping pills into kristen’s drink without her knowledge
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Is there pedophilia?
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A character is drowned in a water bed early on in the movie.
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Is rape mentioned?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
(SPOILER) Basically, Freddy asks a teen if she wants to "suck face" and she gasps "no" just before he puts his mouth on hers and sucks her body totally dry.
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Bodily Harm
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StevenHay
Who voted no on this??? He literally has knives for fingers
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A teen who is murdered by Freddy in her dream is depicted of dying from an asthma attack in real life.
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Is there cannibalism?
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SPOILER: a girl gets turned into a bug then she's crushed to death in her roach form
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Is someone burned alive?
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No, though there may be varied answers because Freddy emerges from his grave where he was buried at the end of the last movie, but to wit, Freddy was already dead.
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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raechl
debbie’s arms are disconnected from her body at the elbows we see them fall onto the floor
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Anonymous
One head gets deflated and the other gets torn apart from the inside out.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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SPOILER:




A girl dies from an asthma attack
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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Teenagers die throughout the film.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does a major character die?
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Does someone die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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No, but mourning a parent who is already dead is a minor plot point.

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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Kinda, but not in the traditional sense. Freddy himself is dead, though it's not clear exactly what he is supposed to be, and the souls of his victims are freed at the end, though I think that they are "souls" rather than "ghosts" per se.
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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raechl
brief part of a dream on a beach near the water
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is someone eaten?
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raechl
freddy is presented with a pizza covered in meatballs with the faces of his victims. he eats one of them as they scream and protest.
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Is there misophonia?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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It depends on what you count. There is a dream sequence where someone is in an elevator that is speeding downward, but the terror is more about being on a rapidly descending elevator and there is no emphasis on the size of the space nor does he struggle to get out. That said, if you have claustrophobia and elevators make you nervous, you probably won't like that scene.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Kind of. Not slurs per se, but on a minor level (for me as a queer person), one male character cracks a joke implying two other male friends are gay and they razz him back. While it implies that being gay is supposed to be bad, but is fleeting and not said with malice and is not directed at an LGBTQIA+ character.
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There is a character with asthma that is handled clunkily.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Metta
its not a joke, but there is a scene meant to be scary in which freddy is dressed as a woman
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
As a Q/T person who is re-watching this entire series looking at queer content, there were no explicitly queer characters (and technically the queerest thing about this is Robert Englund in drag as a nurse). That said, though it isn't especially written as such, it is loosely inferable that the female weight lifter is queer and I'm guessing that that is what the yes votes are for. Her queerness is never explicitly established and it plays no role in her death.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there aphobia?
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MoronicCyclops
One of the returning characters (A black guy) dies first 20 minutes in
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Is there hate speech?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
On a minor level (for me as a queer person), one male character cracks a joke implying two other male friends are gay and they razz him back. While it implies that being gay is supposed to be bad, but is fleeting and not said with malice and is not directed at an LGBTQIA+ character.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Sex
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Near the beginning an adult woman is shown completely shirtless. She's implied to be fully naked but the only thing you see is breasts.
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Is there bestiality?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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duckinalagoon
A pin up girl is seen naked in a dream.
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Is there BDSM?
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Sexism
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
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SiRenfield
Debbie has asthma which Freddy uses to kill her
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Is someone homeless?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Sort of- Freddy is hit by a car, but he's fine and the car is totaled.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
Kind of. A kid winds up inside his water bed in his dream, but he's stabbed to death before he has an opportunity to drown. That said, when his mom finds his body, the idea might be that he drowned in real life while Freddy was killing him in his dream, but a drowning is not depicted.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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