Sudden changes?

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 Day 217


June 3rd, 2024


If the police know Freddy has been doing the killings on Elm Street, why did it take them so long to acknowledge him?


If I recall from previous films, parents didn't believe the kids. It was almost like watching the boy who cried wolf. You could argue and say that Nancy’s mom seemingly believed her, but Marge has a drinking problem. In part two, no adults believed Jesse; in part 3, only Dr. Gordon and Nancy felt the kids, four and five, the same with zero adult knowledge of Fredrick. Part six, the doc and Freddy’s daughter… oh, I forgot the weird town people and Roseanne and Tom Arnold.


So why now? Was Dr. Campbell’s wife dying the catalyst for the Springwood PD finally believing that Freddy was haunting the town and killing teens? One would think that her death would be based on the film's four years of peace line. 


I honestly feel it was a poorly written-story. You could have gotten away with the four-year line IF you did not show a recap of Elm Streets 1-6. They managed to make a film a stand-alone Friday the 13th movie, but if you read the novelization, it also has the previous continuity from the Friday films. 


Leaving out such a detail of the town now believing the teens and acknowledging Freddy’s reign of terror is a huge plot hole in the film and takes away from the story. We get the why and when of Freddy and Jason returning, but we never get the why and when on the town acknowledging Freddy.


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