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  1. Oct 19, 2022 · Craven had found just one of many articles detailing the sleep-induced death of a Hmong refugee. Having fled genocide in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam for a new life in America, many Hmong began suffering from extremely violent, potentially PTSD-related nightmares.

  2. Oct 16, 2023 · Here’s how a wave of mysterious deaths in the late 1970s and early 1980s among Southeast Asian refugees living in America inspired Wes Craven to pen his 1984 horror classic, “A Nightmare on ...

    • Shayna Murphy
  3. 10 hours ago · Wes Craven terrified audiences in 1984 with the creation of Freddy Kreuger, a demonic predator with the ability to kill people in their dreams. At the time, few viewers could have imagined that A Nightmare On Elm Street was based on an obscure phenomenon that caused a rash of deaths in the late 1970s into the early '80s. Forty years later, the ...

  4. Mar 19, 2020 · Wes Craven unveiled long ago that the inspiration for Freddy Krueger came from a newspaper story a decade before A Nightmare on Elm Street would be produced.

    • Jacob Dressler
  5. Heather visits Nightmare creator Wes Craven, who admits to having precognitive nightmares. He explains that the films had kept trapped an ancient supernatural entity, which has been freed after the series ended with the release of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.

  6. Oct 14, 2024 · Wes Craven is the rare mastermind behind two. The genre icon not only envisioned one of the most imaginative slasher entries of all time with 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, he reinvented the ...

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  8. Oct 16, 2021 · Craven is best known for being the mastermind behind a true pillar of many '80s kids' nightmares — namely, the main antagonist of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise, the man of your...