Johnny Depp’s first-ever role in a horror landmark inspired by a terribly tragic story

Wes Craven is a true legend in the horror genre, having created Scream

and Nightmare – Murderous Dreams (OT: Nightmare on Elm Street), influential horror classics developed, which are still ongoing. The latter is running today on Amazon, where Freddy Krueger murders his way through the dreams of teenagers. Sounds completely absurd? But was inspired by true events.

That’s what Nightmare on Elm Street with Johnny Depp is about

The four friends from Elm Street, Tina (Amanda Wyss), Nancy (Heather Langenkamp), Rod (Jsu Garcia) and Glen (Johnny Depp), terrible nightmares plague me at night, which feel very real. Everyone dreams of a man covered in burn scars with knives attached to his fingers. Injuries they suffer in dreams are also visible in reality.

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Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street

Then one night Nancy brutally murdered Tina is sure that Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), the man from the dreams, is behind it. She has to find out why they are haunted and why her with her parents on a wall of silence bump. Time is running out because she must not fall asleep under any circumstances. Anyone who sleeps is helpless at the mercy of Freddy Krueger.

The tragic true story behind Nightmare on Elm Street

As Collider reported, Wes Craven was inspired to create the dark material for Nightmare on Elm Street by a newspaper article from the Los Angeles Times. It reported on a family that made it out of the so-called Killing Fields in Cambodia to escape and who then fled to America. The genocide demanded According to estimates 2 million livesa trauma that lived on despite the escape.

One of the children in particular was attacked every night plagued by horrible nightmares, in which he felt like he was being hunted by someone who wanted to kill him. The child stayed awake for a few days, but at some point the body gave in Boy died during a nightmare while sleeping. In addition to this article, Craven found three others that reported sudden deaths of refugees from the killing fields.

As the article further reports, during the Vietnam War several Southeast Asians fell victim to sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS), in which the heart suddenly stops while sleeping. To date this is Phenomenon unexplained. Wes Craven found inspiration in this tragedy about a man who cannot be escaped, because sooner or later, we all have to go back to sleep.

TV or stream: When is the horror shocker Nightmare on Elm Street running?

On Wednesday, the April 3, 2024 showed Tele5 the horror classic at 11:55 p.m. There was one for those who couldn’t sleep Repetition on the night of April 4th at 3:35 a.m. Regardless, you can buy or rent Nightmare on Elm Street on Amazon Prime Video.

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