The 1984 horror classic A Nightmare On Elm Street inevitably spawned many rip-offs, but how many of the movies accused of stealing Freddy Krueger’s style were guilty? A Nightmare On Elm Street was a deeply necessary shot in the arm for the then-ailing slasher genre during the 1980s. Since the success of Halloween and Friday the 13th, countless masked slashers had plagued the multiplex but few had brought with them the invention and originality necessary to become horror icons.
However, that
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