Imagining murderous mothers: male spectatorship and the American slasher film.

From: Studies in the Humanities | Date: June 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

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 ...

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