A Nightmare on Elm Street Page #2

TINA:

Just a dream, Ma...

(more to herself)

Damn dream, is all...

The woman, once attractive, ventures a step into the room. A MAN

hovers BACKGROUND. TINA'S mother waves him away without looking,

shoving a strand of bleached hair from her eyes. She appraises

her daughter.

TINA'S MOTHER

Some dream, judging from that.

She nods at TINA's nightshift.

TINA looks down at her nightgown, only now aware of the chill

penetrating it from the room. There are four long slashes up its

middle, cleanly cut as if by scalpels.

MAN (OS)

(distant, annoyed)

You coming back to the sack or

what?

TINA'S MOTHER

Hold your horses.

(lower, to Tina as she

stands to leave)

You gotta cut your nails or stop

that kind of dreaming, Tina. One

or the other.

The woman shuts the door behind her. TINA looks back to her

nightgown.

TINA:

(low)

Oh, sh*t.

She suddenly snatches up the cross that hangs over her head, her

face white as her sheet.

FADE TO BLACK:

BURN ON:

5. THE FIRST DAY 5.

CHILDREN (OS)

(singing)

One two, Freddie's coming for you...

Three four better lock your door

Five six grab your crucifix...

6. EXT. HIGH SCHOOL. DAY. 6.

FADE UP ON SHOT OF this large highschool and its crowds of

STUDENTS. FOREGROUND, TINA climbs out of a cherry-red 1959

Cadillac convertible with two other students, best friend NANCY

WILSON, and Nancy's boyfriend and owner of the car, GLEN LANTZ.

FOREGROUND several GRADESCHOOLERS are playing jump-rope, and the

old ditty they sing continues unbroken from TINA's bedroom.

ROPE JUMPERS:

Seven eight, gonna stay up late!

Nine ten -- never sleep again!

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