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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Six films, a seventh in which those six are films, a crossover, and a remake that never got a sequel.

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Where to start with A Nightmare on Elm Street

Release order works for the first six, then stops working, because the seventh film is not a sequel to the sixth and the eighth reaches back past the seventh as though it never happened.

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    A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) A Nightmare on Elm Street

    The original, and much stranger and quieter than the sequels that turned Freddy into a comedian. Nothing before it.

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    A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

    The best-liked sequel, it brings Nancy back, and it sets up two things the 2003 crossover runs on. If you skip a sequel, do not skip this one.

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    Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) Wes Craven's New Nightmare

    A film in which the six earlier films exist as films and the cast play themselves. It only works once you have watched the series end, because its whole premise is that ending it let something out.

Then what? Fill in the second, fourth, fifth and sixth films in order, and watch New Nightmare after the sixth rather than in release position. Then Freddy vs. Jason, which continues Freddy's Dead directly and ignores New Nightmare entirely. The 2010 remake is one film that connects to nothing. Freddy's Nightmares is an anthology, optional, and best after the fourth film.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below — tick anything off in either place.

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