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A Nightmare On Elm Street Book Comparison

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The year is 1987 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors is coming out in theaters. What better time to capitalize on Freddy Krueger, than by releasing novelizations of A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and Dream Warriors. The first two movies never had novelizations at the time, so it was the perfect chance to put them in book form. As for Dream Warriors, the author XXX, based his book on an early screenplay of the movie, so the story comes out much different than the movie we got, which makes it one of the top reason to buy the book.

We'll start with the first A Nightmare on Elm Street. The book follows the movie as close as possible, never deviating from the main story at all. So, if you've seen the movie, you've read the book. The dialog is the same and the scenes are the same. Nancy and her friends are all dreaming of Freddy Krueger, who systematically starts killing Nancy's friends, until it's just her and him in a standoff. It was fun to experience the story in book form, but nothing new is provided, which is a real bummer. I love when extra bits are added in novelizations, so colour me disappointed.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge follows suit with the first …show more content…

The overall story is the same, with Kristen heading to Westin Hills Psychiatric Ward, where she and a bunch of other Springwood kids are experiencing troubling dreams of Freddy Krueger. Nancy, from the first movie comes to help and we discover that each kid has a special ability to fight Freddy with. It's near the end of the book where things differ and the story has the kids and Freddy bouncing back and forth from the dream world to reality and different people die, compared to the movie. It's definitely an interesting read, but I still prefer the movie

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