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A Nightmare on Elm Street shed scene of "". Craven originally planned for the film to have a more evocative ending: Nancy kills Krueger by ceasing to believe in him, then awakens to discover that everything that happened in the film was an elongated nightmare. However, New Line leader Robert Shaye demanded a twist ending, in which Krueger disappears and all seems to have been a dream, only for the audience to discover that it was a dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream. Both a happy ending and a twist ending were filmed, but the final film used the twist ending. As a result, Craven who never wanted the film