Fright Night: 10 Horror Movies Based on True Stories

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No. 6 A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

Movie Plot: Freddy Krueger, the ghost of a serial killer with knives on his fingers, starts haunting some American teenagers. This is a famous horror movie, in which Mr. Krueger kills, and kills, and kills some more.

True Story: indeed, the events of the story are fictional. Yet, the writer/director Wes Craven was inspired by an event which took place in Los Angeles, when a group of Cambodian immigrants died together in the throes of a nightmare.

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