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A Nightmare on Elm Street on Elm Street" was released in Europe, Canada, and Australia. In a contemporary review, Kim Newman wrote in the "Monthly Film Bulletin" that "A Nightmare on Elm Street" was closer to a Stephen King adaptation with its small-town setting, and "invented monster myth". Newman concluded that the film found "Craven emerging from the his recent career slump ("Swamp Thing", "The Hills Have Eyes Part 2", "Invitation to Hell") with a fine, perhaps definitive bogeyman to back him up" and that the film was "a superior example of an over-worked genre". Paul Attanasio of "The Washington Post" praised the film, stating