[StaggerLee]

Nightmare on Elm street is kinda based on a real event. well obviously there's no real Freddy Krueger ro anything like that, but Wes Craven got the original idea for the movie, partly anyway, from a real life story. apparently some boy had been suffering from awful nightmares and after a while he started saying that the dreams were not normal, that they felt too real. and of course everybody just told him to take it easy, that they're just nightmares. the boy was supposed to take same sleeping pills, but he didn't and as his parents later foud out, he had a coffee maker hidden in his room (like Nancy had in the first elm street). then one night the boys parents woke up because the boy was screaming in his sleep. they ran in to his room and found him dead. the doctors found no reason for his death, no heart failure, nothing. the boy had just died while havin' nightmares...