You could just see the cuts...happening...all at once.
In the past with these, I've written silly little eulogy's to characters who didn't make it past a specific film, but Rod Lane is different. In the annals of slashers and teenagers in horror films, his alpha male "type" has never been done better than in the original Nightmare film. There's a Rod Lane in the majority of slasher films and you usually have decided you don't like the guy the minute he walks in. Its the kind of jock alpha male. They're the ones that is always a loud mouth, pestering characters you like or consider "normal". These guys ruin the good time and find all the characters that take the plot too seriously to be a bunch of buffoons.
