<Tr> <Td>--Wes Craven on the film's creation </Td> </Tr> <P> A Nightmare on Elm Street contains many biographical elements, taking inspiration from director Wes Craven's childhood . The basis of the film was inspired by several newspaper articles printed in the Los Angeles Times in the 1970s on a group of Southeast Asian refugees, who, after fleeing to the United States from the results of war and genocide in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, were suffering disturbing nightmares, after which they refused to sleep . Some of the men died in their sleep soon after . Medical authorities called the phenomenon Asian Death Syndrome . The condition itself afflicted only men between the ages of 19 and 57 and is believed to be sudden unexplained death syndrome or Brugada syndrome, or both . The 1970s pop song "Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright sealed the story for Craven, giving him not only an artistic setting to "jump off" from, but a synthesizer riff for the Elm Street soundtrack as well . Craven has also stated that he drew some inspiration for the film from Eastern religions . </P> <P> Other sources also attribute the inspiration for the film to be a 1968 student film project made by students of Craven's at Clarkson University . The student film parodied contemporary horror films, and was filmed along Elm Street in Potsdam, New York (the town in the film was named Madstop--Potsdam spelled backwards). </P> <P> The film's villain, Freddy Krueger, draws heavily from Craven's early life . One night, a young Craven saw an elderly man walking on the sidepath outside the window of his home . The man stopped to glance at a startled Craven and walked off . This served as the inspiration for Krueger . Initially, Fred Krueger was intended to be a child molester, but Craven eventually characterized him as a child murderer to avoid being accused of exploiting a spate of highly publicized child molestation cases that occurred in California around the time of production of the film . </P>

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