2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
As if nightmares weren’t scary enough, we now have to worry we might actually die from them?
Whatever you do…don’t fall asleep
As if we didn’t find going to sleep difficult enough after watching this film, we now find out it actually happened?!
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The director Wes Craven had the idea of being killed by your nightmare, after reading in the newspaper about something similar happening to South-East Asian refugees.
It’s only a dream!
These refugees – from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos – fled to the US because of the war and genocide taking place.
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Many of them suffered disturbing nightmares, and because of this refused to sleep. Some of them then died in their sleep, including a boy who was scared of the thing chasing him!
It was this story that inspired Wes Craven. I guess I won’t be sleeping tonight!
The real Freddie Krueger
So dying from your nightmares is bad, but at least Krueger is all fiction…right? Well the character was actually inspired by a man Craven saw briefly as a child.
Fred Krueger was also the very real name of someone who bullied Craven in school.
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