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Article: Imagining murderous mothers: male spectatorship and the American slasher film.
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- Studies in the Humanities
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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During the production of his independent slasher film, A Nightmare on Elm Street (US, 1984), director Wes Craven was forced to make alterations to his script when real-life events overlapped too much with his tale. A police investigation into accusations of child molestation by teachers at a preschool in South Bay, California, and the nationally publicized trial that followed corresponded too closely with Craven's script concerning a local janitor named Fred Krueger who lures children into his boiler room to molest and kill them. As Robert Englund, the actor who played Krueger in the film, explained, both Craven's film and the events in South Bay involved "child molesters ...