<P> In 2010, a remake of the original Nightmare on Elm Street was released . Here, Freddy (Jackie Earle Haley) stalks the dreams of Nancy Holbrook (Rooney Mara) and her friends as they discover that they all share a common link from their childhood; they were all physically and sexually abused by Freddy before he was murdered by their vengeful parents . Now a supernatural force in their dreams, Freddy kills off the children that alerted the parents about his transgressions . Freddy slowly works his way to Nancy, his favorite of the children, and manipulates her into going without sleep long enough that her body falls into a coma, resulting in permanent sleep and life with Freddy forever . Nancy is awakened when her friend Quentin (Kyle Gallner) injects adrenaline into her and pulls Freddy out of the dreamworld, where she and Quentin kill him and burn the remains of his body . </P> <P> The basis for the original Nightmare on Elm Street has been said to have been inspired by several newspaper articles printed in the LA Times in the 1970s on a group of Khmer refugees, who, after fleeing to America from the Khmer Rouge Genocide in Cambodia, 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 - 57 and is believed to be sudden unexplained death syndrome and / or Brugada syndrome . 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 from the Elm Street soundtrack as well . It has also been stated that he drew some inspiration after studying eastern religions . </P> <P> Initially, Fred Krueger was intended to be a child molester, but Craven eventually decided to characterize 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 . By Craven's account, his own adolescent experiences led to the naming of Fred Krueger . He had been bullied at school by a child named Fred Krueger, and named his villain accordingly . The colored sweater he chose for his villain was based on the DC Comics character Plastic Man, and Craven chose to make Krueger's sweater colors that of red and green, after reading an article in Scientific American in 1982 that said the two most clashing colors to the human retina were this particular combination . </P> <P> On January 29, 2008, Variety reported that Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes production company would be rebooting the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise with a remake of the original 1984 film . To provide a freshness to the character, producer Brad Fuller explained that they were abandoning the things that made the character less scary--Freddy would not be "cracking jokes" as had become a staple of his character in later sequels--and focus more on trying to craft a "horrifying movie". There was not agreement among the original crew as to whether it would be a good idea to remake the film . Craven expressed his displeasure, primarily because the filmmakers chose not to have him as a consultant to the film, unlike with the 2009 remake The Last House on the Left where he "shepherd (ed) it towards production". In contrast, Robert Englund felt it was time for A Nightmare on Elm Street to be remade . Englund liked the idea of being able to "exploit the dreamscape" with CGI and other technologies that did not exist when Craven was making the original Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984 . </P>

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