Few people know it, but Wes Craven got the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street from a real story, published in the LA Times, of a boy who suffered terrible nightmares and actually ended up dying in the middle of one.
As Craven said, “He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time.
When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night.
By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare.”
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