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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

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Erika and Katy return to Wes Craven's world for "A Nightmare on Elm Street." They dive deep into the Satanic Panic, troubled sleep in Shakespeare plays, and Erika's big theory that motherhood is all a scam.

  • "American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000," Sarah Hughes: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26803447
  • "Cultural Human Sacrifice in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street Films," Brittany Caroline Speller: https://www.supernaturalstudies.com/previous-journal-issues/vol-4-issue-1/speller
  • "Killer Fears: Slasher Films and 1980s American Anxieties," Gabriel White: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=legacy#:~:text=While%20teen%20films%20gave%20the,teens%20had%20during%20the%201980s
  • "The Trail of His Flames," Tucker Lieberman, from It Came from the Closet: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60708721-it-came-from-the-closet

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