A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise) released in 2010, and a second remake is planned. The original film, written and directed by Wes Craven and titled "A Nightmare on Elm Street", was released in 1984. The story focuses on Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) attacking Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) and her friends in their dreams, successfully killing all but Nancy, in fictional Springwood, Ohio. Krueger's back-story is revealed by Nancy's mother, Marge, who explains he was a child murderer. The parents of Springwood killed Krueger after he was acquitted on a technicality. Nancy defeats Freddy by pulling him from the dream world and stripping him of his
A Nightmare on Elm Street (comics) Nightmares", exclusively in the United Kingdom. The series contained no original material, instead opting to reprint Innovation's "Freddy's Dead" adaptation, the first two issues of Innovation's "Nightmares On Elm Street" and the first issue of Marvel's "Freddy Krueger's: A Nightmare on Elm Street". Despite the title of the series, it has no direct connection, other than the depiction of the Freddy Krueger character, to the "Freddy's Nightmares" television series which aired in 1988. In May 2005, Freddy Krueger returned to comic books, for the first time in thirteen years, with the "A Nightmare On Elm Street Special" written by former