{"id":5869,"date":"1992-09-01T00:01:19","date_gmt":"1992-09-01T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2012-05-03T05:41:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T05:41:57","slug":"a-nightmare-on-elm-street-2-freddys-revenge-adaptation-excerpts-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-2-freddys-revenge-adaptation-excerpts-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy&#8217;s Revenge \u2014 Adaptation Excerpts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Adapted by Bob Italia<br \/>\nTranscribed by Rob Nimmo<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1562391577?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thenightmaone-20&#038;linkCode=xm2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creativeASIN=1562391577\" target=\"_blank\">Order<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:left;\">\n<p style=\"clear:left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THREE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:left;\">\n<p style=\"clear:left;\">\n<div style=\u201ddisplay:block;float:right;\">\n<div style=\"padding-left: 16px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-0772942500851985\";\n\/* 250 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3976876457\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The next morning, Jesse entered the kitchen. Everyone was at the breakfast table, picking at their food. No one seemed particularly hungry. Jesse poured himself a cup of coffee and stared at his father. \u201cWhy did it take them five years to sell this house, Dad?\u201d Ken shrugged his shoulders. \u201cCouldn\u2019t get the right price, I suppose.\u201d \u201cAnd you don\u2019t know anything about the murder across the street and a crazy girl who lived here\u2014who saw the whole thing?\u201d Shirley looked at Ken with surprise. \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Ken said angrily. \u201cThey told me something about it, yeah. What difference does it make?\u201d Then he met Shirley\u2019s stare. \u201cOh, come on, Shirl, how\u2019d you think we got such a good deal? Listen, all old houses have stories.\u201d \u201cDid they tell you she went totally out of her mind\u2014that they had to put her away?\u201d Jesse said. \u201cAnd that her mother killed herself in our living room?\u201d Angela stepped close to her mother. \u201cMommy, I\u2019m scared.\u201d Shirley comforted her. \u201cJesse and Daddy are just making believe, sweetheart. I don\u2019t think we should be talking about this now.\u201d Ken glared at Jesse. \u201cYou see what you\u2019re doing? Now I don\u2019t want to hear another word about it. There\u2019s nothing wrong with this house!\u201d Shirley began sniffing the air. \u201cSomething burning?\u201d She looked at the counter-top. The toaster was glowing red-hot. Suddenly, flames began leaping out of the bread slots. Shirley gasped as Ken jumped to his feet. He grabbed a dish towel and began beating out the fire. Then he turned away from the smoldering toaster, tossed the towel aside and headed back to the table. \u201cCraziest thing I ever saw,\u201d he said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t even plugged in.\u201d Jesse put his cup down hard on the counter and walked out. The screen door slammed behind him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Later that morning before school, Jesse took Lisa to McDonald\u2019s. When they arrived, Jesse unrolled a bundle of rags he found in the furnace and let the finger knives drop with a clatter on the car seat. Lisa picked up the glove and examined it with interest. \u201cThis is amazing! Your dream told you where this was?\u201d Jesse nodded. \u201cOnly it was more like, you know, sleepwalking. All I know is I woke up on the cellar floor next to it.\u201d He reached into his knapsack and pulled out the diary. \u201cForget about going back to sleep after that. I was up all night. I finished reading this. It gets real crazy toward the end, after all the death stuff. But then she said something really freaky\u2014about her mother taking her down to the basement to show her the glove. That\u2019s when she started talking about Fred Krueger.\u201d Lisa was wide-eyed. \u201cWho?\u201d \u201cFred Krueger. The guy in her dreams who\u2019s coming to kill her. Seems he was a real guy, ten years before. He went around kidnapping kids and killing them.\u201d Jesse and Lisa drove to school and walked down the main corridor to their lockers. \u201cMaybe you\u2019re having a premonition or something,\u201d Lisa said. \u201cYou know, like those guys who help the police solve crimes and find missing people. You ever had anything like this happen before?\u201d<br \/>\nJesse paused to think. \u201cNo, never. You think that\u2019s what it is?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t know. Can I look at that diary for a little while?\u201d<br \/>\nJesse raised his eyebrows, reached into his bag and handed the book to Lisa.<br \/>\nBefore she could go on, they were interrupted by a squeaky voice.<br \/>\n\u201cHi, guys,\u201d Kerry said.<br \/>\n\u201cHi, Kerry,\u201d Lisa replied.<br \/>\n\u201cI got your invitation yesterday,\u201d Kerry said to Lisa. \u201cAny cute guys gonna be there?\u201d<br \/>\nLisa sighed. \u201cAll of them.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYour dad picking the music again?\u201d Kerry said.<br \/>\nLisa smiled. \u201cMom\u2019s trying to keep him upstairs.\u201d Then she looked at Jesse. \u201cLast party I had, Dad insisted on playing nothing but Benny Goodman records all night.\u201d Suddenly, the class bell rang. Lisa leaned over and kissed Jesse. \u201cI\u2019ll see you later, okay?\u201d Taken by surprise, Jesse walked off with Kerry. \u201cI may be late,\u201d he shouted. \u201cBaseball practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baseball practice took a lot longer than Jesse anticipated. He barely had enough time to shower before meeting Lisa in the parking lot. Jesse plopped down on the bench and slowly pulled off his jersey. Grady approached and sat in front of his locker. \u201cYou hit the ball pretty good, Walsh,\u201d Grady said. \u201cSo do you, Grady. Schneider shouldn\u2019t have called you out on that double.\u201d \u201cYeah, well, Schneider\u2019s as blind as a bat.\u201d \u201cHe always blows those close calls,\u201d Jesse complained. Suddenly, someone blew a whistle behind them. Jesse turned around and saw Coach Schneider standing there with a wicked grin. \u201cYou boys never learn, do you? Ready for some laps?\u201d When Jesse finished running his laps, the school parking lot was nearly empty. Jesse\u2019s car was parked in the center. Lisa was leaning against it, a stack of books at her side. Jesse approached. \u201cSorry I\u2019m late. Coach Schneider kept me late again.\u201d \u201cI just got here myself,\u201d Lisa said. \u201cWent to the public library. Cut four classes!\u201d Jesse opened the car door for her. She picked up her books and climbed in. Jesse ran around to the other side and slid in beside her. Then he looked at the books. What\u2019s all this?\u201d \u201cResearch,\u201d she replied. Then she kissed him. \u201cC\u2019mon, let\u2019s go for a ride.\u201d Jesse started the Falcon, then it rolled down the highway. \u201cI\u2019m convinced you\u2019ve had a genuine psychic vision,\u201d Lisa said. \u201cAt first, I wasn\u2019t sure because you said that you never had anything like last night happen before. But I found out that most people have the potential for tuning in to the other world and never do. It has something to do with the environment\u2014like they have to be in a place that\u2019s sending signals.\u201d Jesse looked puzzled. \u201cLike a haunted house, right? I don\u2019t believe in ghosts.\u201d \u201cYou don\u2019t have to. You just have to believe in energy. Look, you got electricity in your body, right?\u201d \u201cYeah, I know\u2026synapses, neurons\u2026\u201d \u201cAnd heat and chemical reactions,\u201d Lisa said. \u201cWhere does it all go when you die?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know\u2014into the air, I suppose.\u201d \u201cWhat about essential energy\u2014the soul? Does that go into the air, too? You think there\u2019s good energy and bad energy? Make a left at this corner.\u201d \u201cWhere are we going?\u201d Jesse asked as he turned at the intersection. Lisa smiled mysteriously. \u201cIt\u2019s a surprise.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>They came upon an old generating plant that once served a small town. Now it was rundown and obsolete. The building was charred and the grounds were littered with rubble. The entrance to the plant was boarded up and plastered with NO TRESPASSING signs. Many boards were missing, providing easy access for the scores of vandals who had torn through the complex from time to time. There were no windows at the ground level, but the top of the building was lined with many multi-paned frames. All were either cracked or missing. \u201cWhat is this place?\u201d Jesse asked as he stopped the car. \u201cRemember in the diary\u2014Nancy said that she kept finding herself in a boiler room? Fred Krueger worked here. It\u2019s an old powerplant\u2014a steam generator!\u201d She pulled out several papers and handed them to Jesse. One of the headlines read: \u201cSPRINGWOOD SLASHER ARRESTED.\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d he said. \u201cI did some reading up on our friend, Fred Krueger,\u201d Lisa replied. Jesse leafed through the papers. Each was a front page from the local newspaper. \u201cKRUEGER FREED ON TECHNICALITY! D.A. RESIGNS.\u201d \u201cJUSTICE DONE\u2014KRUEGER KILLED BY MOB! SPRINGWOOD SLASHER DIES IN HELLISH INFERNO.\u201d Jesse took a deep breath. He and Lisa climbed out of the car and slipped between a pair of boards. Now they were inside. Jesse could see the remnants of a large boiler room. Huge steel pipes jutted out of the floor in a tangle of elbows and valves and a clutter of debris. A maze of catwalks wound around the machinery. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis place is incredible,\u201d he said. \u201cHow long has it been closed down?\u201d \u201cA long time,\u201d Lisa said. \u201cEver since I was a kid. Come on.\u201d They moved deeper into the plant. \u201cFred Krueger kidnapped twenty kids and brought them here to die,\u201d Lisa said. She shivered. \u201cSo, you feeling anything?\u201d \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d \u201cI thought you might be able to make a connection.\u201d Jesse shrugged his shoulders. Then he put his hand to his mouth. \u201cAny ghosts here?\u201d he called out. \u201cCome on, cut it out,\u201d Lisa said. \u201cWell, what am I supposed to do?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know. Concentrate or something.\u201d Jesse shifted his legs and stared at the ceiling. Then he closed his eyes. \u201cI feel like a jerk.\u201d \u201cShhh! Just concentrate.\u201d Jesse walked around in a small circle, keeping his head up and his eyes closed. \u201cAnything?\u201d Jesse shook his head, then paused. \u201cWait\u2026\u201d He walked slowly across the room until he came to a board leaning against the foot of the mesh-iron stairway that led to the catwalks. He placed his hand on the board and pulled it away. A large rat, in her nest with her young, snarled at him. Jesse and Lisa jumped into each other\u2019s arms. Jesse and Lisa returned outside and walked along the outskirts of the building to a cluster of shade trees. Lisa hoisted herself up on a boulder and looked at the building. \u201cDisappointed?\u201d Jesse said. \u201cAbout what?\u201d \u201cAbout not finding any bogey men?\u201d Lisa smiled. \u201cI\u2019ll get over it.\u201d Jesse drew close and they stared at each other. \u201cYou are sensitive,\u201d Lisa said. \u201cI mean you sensed that rat was there. And I can feel something about you. Sometimes I feel like I know what you\u2019re thinking.\u201d Jesse put his arms on her shoulders. \u201cYeah?\u201d \u201cMaybe it only happens when you\u2019re sleeping\u2014that\u2019s the way it was with Nancy, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d \u201cNow there\u2019s an idea we can take off on. Maybe we should drive out to the beach tonight and lay out a couple of blankets\u2026until I fall asleep.\u201d Lisa smiled. \u201cMaybe we can do that\u2014strictly scientific, of course.\u201d \u201cNancy went bonkers from this thing. You wouldn\u2019t be afraid of being out on the beach with a potential lunatic?\u201d \u201cGhostbusters are fearless,\u201d Lisa said. Jesse embraced Lisa and kissed her on the lips. Suddenly, he groaned in pain and stood upright, tearing from their embrace. \u201cWhat is it?\u201d Lisa said. \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong?\u201d Jesse held his stomach. \u201cI don\u2019t know\u2014sharp pain.\u201d Finally, the agony lifted from Jesse\u2019s face. \u201cIt\u2019s gone now.\u201d \u201cOh, Jesse,\u201d she said, putting her arms around him. \u201cJesse, this is no good. You\u2019ve got to go home and get some sleep. You\u2019ve got to!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jesse was jogging around the outer edge of the gym, ready to collapse from exhaustion. Coach Schneider was leaning against the wall, watching Jesse run. As Jesse came around for another lap, Schneider reached out and grabbed him. \u201cHit the showers,\u201d Schneider barked. Jesse entered the boys\u2019 shower room and let the hot water hit his face. Meanwhile, Schneider entered his office and approached a huge, padlocked cabinet on the wall. He unlocked it and opened the doors. The cabinet was filled with dumbbells, jump-ropes, baseball bats, and other athletic equipment. Schneider selected a pair of jump-ropes and set them down on his desk. Suddenly, he heard a pinging sound. He went to the door and looked out into the hall. The hall was empty. Schneider turned back into his office. Then he heard another pinging sound. He looked up at a tennis racquet hanging on the wall. Two strings were broken. Just then, another string began smoking, then snapped with a ping. Before he could investigate, a basketball fell out of the equipment cabinet and bounced on the floor at Schneider\u2019s feet. Schneider bent down to pick up the basketball\u2014and two more balls jumped out onto the floor. Then another ball flew out and knocked over a trophy on his desk. Schneider\u2019s eyes flew open as a dumbbell vaulted out of the cabinet and streaked by his ear. He hit the floor as another dumbbell shot across the office and crashed into a window, cracking the thick wired glass. Schneider crawled along the floor to the cabinet as basketballs, volleyballs, and a medicine ball flew overhead. Then he reached up to close the cabinet doors. Suddenly, a jump-rope on the desk unraveled like a harpoon line and wrapped around Schneider\u2019s wrist. The other end pulled hard and yanked Schneider off balance. As he reached with his free hand to unwrap his wrist, a second rope launched off the desk and secured itself to his other wrist. The office door opened by itself. Then the ropes dragged Schneider from the room as he screamed.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the shower room, Jesse frowned as the shower head next to his gurgled and sprang to life. Suddenly, all the showers were on, spewing water and steam. Jesse gazed in horror as Schneider, still screaming, was dragged by ropes into the shower room. The ropes shot up to two shower nozzles and hoisted the coach into a helpless spread-eagle, facing the wall. Then his shirt was torn away like sheets of tissue paper. Terrified, Jesse turned away. The room filled with great clouds of steam. Suddenly, a dark human form appeared in the corner. Dressed in a green and red sweater and battered fedora, the figure cut through the steam clouds and approached Schneider. It drew back its weapon arm and struck quickly. Schneider screamed, then went limp. Jesse lifted his head and stared at his right hand. Then he shrieked in horror. He was wearing Freddy\u2019s glove. \u201cNo\u2026oh, please, no\u2026\u201d Jesse slowly dropped to his knees and stared up at the heavens. \u201cNO!\u201d he screamed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The doorbell rang frantically, repeatedly. Startled, Ken wrapped a robe around his pajamas and hurried to the foyer. Then he flicked on the lights and opened the door. Shirley was right behind him. Two police officers in rain slickers stood on either side of Jesse. His hair was wet and he was wrapped in a blanket. \u201cThis belong to you?\u201d a police officer said to Ken. Stunned by the sight, Ken just nodded. The officer nudged Jesse across the threshold, Jesse stumbled in. \u201cWe found him wandering out on the highway,\u201d the officer said. \u201cKeep a leash on him, will ya?\u201d Ken took Jesse into the kitchen and sat him at the table. Shirley made some tea and poured Jesse a cup. Ken paced the floor angrily. \u201cOkay, we\u2019re gonna put our cards on the table, here and now. There\u2019s not going to be any retribution\u2014no fire and brimstone. I only have two questions. You\u2019ll answer them and we\u2019ll all go to bed, okay?\u201d Jesse nodded weakly. \u201cOkay,\u201d Ken said, \u201cwhat are you taking and who are you getting it from?\u201d Jesse shook his head in disgust. \u201cI\u2019m not taking drugs, Dad. Can I go to bed now?\u201d \u201cSure, go ahead,\u201d Shirley said. Ken glared at Jesse as he got up from the table and left the room. Then he stared at Shirley. \u201cNo question about it\u2014he\u2019s on something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:left;\">\n<p style=\"clear:left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-2-freddys-revenge-adaptation-excerpts-2\/\">Chapter 2<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-2-freddys-revenge-adaptation-excerpts-4\/\">Chapter 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:left;\">\n<p style=\"clear:left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adapted by Bob Italia Transcribed by Rob Nimmo Order THREE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,339],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","tag-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-2-freddys-revenge","tag-bob-italia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5993,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}