ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Okay kiddo, let's talk about Nightmare on Elm Street! You know how when you go to bed at night, you sometimes have scary dreams that wake you up? Well, Freddy Krueger is a bad guy who shows up in people's dreams and scares them.

Freddy used to be a really mean guy who hurt and killed kids in a town called Springwood. He was caught by the police and the parents of the town took matters into their own hands and decided to get rid of him. They burnt him alive in a boiler room, but his spirit was so angry and vengeful that he came back as a scary ghost who can only hurt people in their dreams.

Freddy's goal is to keep hurting people and making them scared, so he tries to keep coming back and scaring people every time they go to sleep. But the problem is, every time someone starts to forget about him, or they find a way to stop him in their dreams, Freddy gets weaker and weaker.

In the movies, a group of teenagers have to try and figure out how to stop Freddy from hurting more people and killing them in their sleep. They have to figure out what his weaknesses are and try to fight him in their dreams. Sometimes they win and sometimes they don't, but the goal is always to stop Freddy from hurting anyone else.

So, the lesson here is to always face our fears and not let them control us. Even if something scary happens in our dreams, we can find a way to stand up to it and not let it get the best of us.