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I never understood the front cover.


Who is that supposed to be? And the hair makes it even more confusing.

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It's supposed to be Abraham Lincoln...

Who do you think it's supposed to be? It's Nancy.

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I'm assuming it's Nancy, but it looks nothing like her. It doesn't look anything like her no matter how much I zoom in. https://originalvintagemovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Nightmare-on-Elm-Street-5822LB.jpg

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it's cause she was convoluting.

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Wasn't there also a version of the poster that featured Johnny Depp's character or am I suffering from Mandela Effect?

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I'm remembering one too, but I can only vaguely picture it. It actually looks more like him in this cover than Nancy.

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Check out this original Star Wars poster. They do not look like Hamill and Fisher.

https://www.starwarsarchives.com/ep4-ps-009/

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I mean Freddy looks even less like Freddy here. At what point in the film did he appear as a skeleton with brains popping out and his finger knives having nerves attached to them? If anything these details are closer to the sequel. Weird stuff

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I always assumed it was Tina. Never really thought about it, but Tina was actually killed in bed, and naked in bed, and there was a scene where Freddy was looming over her whilst in bed. So that ticked more boxes for Tina, in my head, than it did for anyone else.

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It's Nancy. It literally looks like her.

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No matter how much I zoom in, I don't see it. It looks like some generic image of an actress.

https://assets.mubicdn.net/images/notebook/post_images/19439/images-w1400.jpg?1441386738

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Definitely Nancy, but not referencing much from the film. Freddy looks odd, like concept art that was never used.

This was the cover from the VHS I had.

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I had this cover too. I remember looking at it thinking it was some amateur who designed the cover. Like it was someone who didn't really see the movie and drew some random girl.

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this post literally just now made me realize that's a chick on the cover and not a dude. my whole life i thought that was a dude. never noticed the hair.

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I can totally see that. The picture is strange on so many levels.

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