A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise) as to whether it would be a good idea to remake the film. Craven expressed his displeasure, primarily because the filmmakers chose not to have him as a consultant to the film, unlike with the 2009 remake "The Last House on the Left" where he "shepherd[ed] it towards production". In contrast, Robert Englund felt it was time for "A Nightmare on Elm Street" to be remade. Englund liked the idea of being able to "exploit the dreamscape" with CGI and other technologies that did not exist when Craven was making the original "Nightmare on Elm Street" in 1984. When comparing
A Nightmare on Elm Street brought to life by makeup man David Miller, who based his creation on photographs of burn victims that he obtained from the UCLA Medical Center. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" contains many biographical elements from director Wes Craven's childhood. The basis of the film was inspired by several newspaper articles printed in the "Los Angeles Times" in the 1970s about Southeast Asian refugees, who, after fleeing to the United States because of war and genocide in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, suffered disturbing nightmares and refused to sleep. Some of the men died in their sleep soon after. Medical authorities called