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
Tina Gray (A Nightmare on Elm Street) face, replicating one of the dream sequences from the film, appears as a side item featured in the package. In "Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy: The Making of Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street", Amanda Wyss noted the parallels between Tina and Marion Crane from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" stating: When discussing the differences between Nancy and Tina, Wyss noted that she viewed Tina as a victim of a dysfunctional home life, saying: In "Welcome to Our Nightmares: Behind the Scene with Today's Horror Actors" by Jason Norman, Wyss described Tina as a very difficult character to portray