Joseph "Joey" Crusel, played by Rodney Eastman, is a character in both A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.
Joey is a mute patient at Westin Hills and also the youngest, who refuses to speak or sleep after experiencing nightmares. After he falls asleep Joey is seduced by an attractive nurse who, after restraining him supposedly for sex, reveals herself as Freddy Krueger. Krueger holds him hostage in the dream world to lure Nancy Thompson and the other teenagers at the hospital. Joey is later freed by Nancy and Roland Kincaid before discovering that his dream power was a powerful, deafening voice which he uses to save them from Freddy's attack.
In A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Joey leaves Westin Hills and begins a normal life with Kristen Parker and Kincaid; however, Freddy returns and kills him by drowning and stabbing him in his waterbed.