FilmSeries· 1984· Horror
by Wes Craven
A Nightmare on Elm Street: 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
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Season four's villain Vecna kills teenagers through visions only they can see, cursing them one by one while their friends try to keep them awake, which is Freddy Krueger's method. The Duffers have acknowledged the debt and cast Robert Englund, Freddy himself, as Victor Creel. Filed MEDIUM: one season of five.
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Craven has described Elm Street as a deliberate answer to what the slasher had become by 1984: the suburb, the babysitting teenagers, the final girl and the killer who cannot be stopped are all Carpenter's, and Craven keeps every one of them. What he changes is the one rule the form depended on. Halloween's terror requires staying awake and watching the dark; Freddy can only reach you when you sleep, which turns the survival strategy into the danger.