Nightmare_On_Elm_Street

Nightmare On Elm Street “The original A Nightmare on Elm Street was inspired by an extraordinary series of unnoticed stories in the Los Angeles Times. A young immigrant male, early 20’s, usually from Southeast Asia, a son, would have a severe nightmare where he would wake up screaming. The next day, he would tell his family it was the worst nightmare he’d ever had, and he had been terribly shaken by it. The next night when he went to sleep—he died. Six months later I looked in the paper and there was a very similar story. I clipped it out and put it with the other one. Then the third appeared about a year and a half from the first one, this time in Northern California. And the elements were the basis for the film. The rest is horror history.”—Wes Craven, Director of A Nightmare on Elm Street. At a time when the stalker movie had run its course to all ends and the image of mute, staggering, vicious killers had been etched into society’s consciousness to the point of exhaustion, a new kid entered the block. The year was 1984 and it was time for a new villain to enter into the horror nightmare, elm, street, horror, films, film, genre, movie, reality, freddy, dream, krueger, characters, typical, out, one, while, terror, slasher/stalker, sequels, parents, new, made, time, nancy, killed, early, during, about, within, teen, intelligent, gore, fred, dreams