The book

 Day 173

April 20th, 2024

The prologue.

The book starts with a prologue. The purpose of this, I feel, was to tie into how the movie begins by recalling past events that led us to the start of the film. Unlike the film, we find out that the prologue takes place during the last days of Freddy Krueger. 

The boiler room scene with the little girl does happen in the book but is expanded on. She happens to be his thirtieth victim. He does kill the girl, and he is caught by the police that night, right after he killed her. Freddy tries to talk his way out of it, saying he was innocent and found her that way and was only wearing the glove for self-protection from the actual killer. Little did Freddy know that Officer Perry had previously broken into Freddy’s home and found what he needed to arrest him for his crimes. Officer Perry also broke into the boiler room/plant where Freddy hid his crimes. 

What I liked about this is that it also explained how Freddy disposed of the bodies. He would cremate his victims. 

Then we get the trial, and Freddy gets off for his crimes because the officer forgot to get a search warrant for Freddy’s home and boiler room, thus making all evidence inadmissible in court.

Here are some exciting things from the book compared to the film's opening. The book does explain the dream demons from Freddy’s Dead and why they chose Freddy. It was because he was the most vile man on earth, and that's what they needed. The book focuses on the first Elm Street film for the prologue, not everything leading up to where we are at. It briefly touched on how he gets kicked back down to hell, which I am guessing is the ending of the other films. It sets firmly when the story takes place. Right after Freddy grabs Jason’s mask at the end, Jason goes to hell; that's where this story begins. 

There is a bombshell from the book, too, and that was the person who threw the first Molotov Cocktail into the boiler room. It was Sherrif Williams…