Heather Langenkamp quotes from Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

You played that girl...in that movie...with the guy with the [claws his hand; Heather gives an uneasy smile] Yeah, sure, that's you. That's what I love about this job, I get to meet the stars.

Heather Langenkamp

I'm hardly a star.

What, are you kidding? I love your stuff. The first was the best. Where the girlfriend's cut open and dragged across the ceiling. It was awesome. And when all that blood comes ouf your boyfriend's bed? I thought I'd shit. But they never should've killed off Freddy.

I think they'd like to see us together again.

Heather Langenkamp

In what, a romantic comedy?

Just because it's a love story doesn't mean it can't have a decapitation or two.

You interested in making the definitive Nightmare with us?

Heather Langenkamp

I thought you'd killed Freddy off.

We did. Bad mistake. The fans are clamoring for more. So, "evil never dies," right?

Heather? You doing okay?

Heather Langenkamp

Holding my own. You know that guy who was calling me all the time? He's started again. He's been putting stuff in my mail.

Must've read about the funeral. Sick mother. That's the last thing you need right now, I'm sure.

Heather Langenkamp

Actually, it's been giving me Freddy nightmares.

Wait a second. Now, let me get this straight. You're having nightmares about Freddy? As in me?

Heather Langenkamp

No. It isn't you. He's scarier. He's...

Darker? More...evil?

Heather Langenkamp

Yeah...how'd you know?

Call it a guess...

Heather Langenkamp

Well at least tell me what it's about so far.

I can tell you what the nightmares are about. They're about this...entity. Whatever you want to call it. It's old, very old, and it's taken different forms in different times. The only thing that stays the same about it is what it lives for.

Heather Langenkamp

What's that?

Killing innocence, one way or the other.

Heather Langenkamp

This is still a script we're talking about, right?

I think of it as sort of a nightmare in progress.

Heather Langenkamp

Then, in this nightmare in progress, does this thing have any weaknesses?

It can be captured, sometimes.

Heather Langenkamp

Captured? How?

By storytellers, of all things. Every so often, they imagine a story good enough to catch its essence. Then it's held prisoner for a while. In the story.

Heather Langenkamp

Like the Genie in the bottle.

Exactly. [pause] The problem comes when the story dies. It happens a lot of different ways, the story gets too familiar, or too watered down by people trying to make it easier to sell, or it's labeled a threat to society and just plain banned. However it happens, when the story dies, the evil is set free.

Heather Langenkamp

You saying Freddy's this ancient thing?

Current version. For ten years he's been imprisoned as Freddy by the story of Nightmare on Elm Street. But now that the films have stopped - The genie's out of the bottle, Heather, that's what the nightmares are about. That's what I'm writing.

Heather Langenkamp

If Freddy's loose, I mean, in your script, where's he going to go? Another age? Another form?

That's not what the dreams say he's doing.

Heather Langenkamp

Then what is he doing?

Well, see, he's gotten used to being Freddy now. And kinda likes it here in our time and space, too. So...he's trying to cross over, from film into our reality.

Heather Langenkamp

Isn't there anyone that can stop him?

Interestingly enough, in the dreams there is one person. A gatekeeper, so to speak. Someone Freddy's got to get by before he can enter our world. [looks at her] It's you, Heather.

Heather Langenkamp

Me? Why me?

Dramatically speaking it makes perfect sense. You played Nancy, after all, the first to humiliate and defeat him.

Heather Langenkamp

That was Nancy, not me!

But it was you that gave Nancy her strength. So to get out he has to come through you. And it's inevitable that he'll hit you at your most vulnerable points...The way to stop him is to make another movie. And I swear to you I'll stay at my computer and keep writing until I finish the script. But when that time comes...You're gonna have to make a choice.

Heather Langenkamp

Choice? What kind of choice?

Whether or not you will be willing to play Nancy one last time.

Dr. Christine Heffner

Your son, apparently, is terrified of a man. Someone he thinks is going to come out of his bed. One of the nurses heard him talking in his sleep. You have any idea who that man might be, Mrs. Langenkamp?

Heather Langenkamp

I meant to bring him his dinosaur, Rex. Rex keeps Freddy from...

Dr. Christine Heffner

The man from your films? Freddy Krueger with the claws? Is that who he's afraid of? You have let your child see your films, haven't you?

Heather Langenkamp

Every kid knows about Freddy. He's like Santa Claus or King Kong.

Dr. Christine Heffner

I see. Well. Interesting talking to you, Ms. Langenkamp. I hope you understand, my concerns are simply for the welfare of your son.

Dr. Christine Heffner

Ms. Langenkamp, has...there been any use of recreational drugs in your family? Or any history of mental disturbance?

Heather Langenkamp

What the hell are you asking?

Dr. Christine Heffner

Please don't take this wrong. But if there was, there's a good chance Dylan could be suffering from something passed down to him. Have you been suffering from any delusional events, Ms. Langenkamp? This man from your films...Freddy Krueger... Have you been seeing him?

Heather Langenkamp

No!

Dr. Christine Heffner

There are drugs and treatments, Ms. Langenkamp. We could place Dylan in foster care for a short while. Run some tests on you...

Heather Langenkamp

I want my kid out of here now!

Dr. Christine Heffner

Very well. As soon as we gather the appropriate papers...

Heather Langenkamp

You don't understand. If Dylan falls asleep, then...

Jesus, what the hell's going on, Nancy?

Heather Langenkamp

John, why are you calling me Nancy?

Why are you calling me John? Nancy, you gotta get hold of yourself before you make both yourself and that kid nuts.

Heather Langenkamp

John! Would you call Robert?

Robert?

Heather Langenkamp

Robert Englund. You know. The actor who plays Freddy?

Freddy who?

Heather Langenkamp

You know who. Freddy Krueger.

Freddy's dead, Nancy. Now don't lose it like your mother. I love you, sweetheart. Don't forget that.

Heather Langenkamp

I love you, too... Daddy.