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'Elm Street' horror franchise:

• An American horror franchise that consists of eight slasher films, a television show, novels, and comic books.
• The franchise is based on the fictional character of Freddy Krueger, introduced in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), who stalks and kills teenagers in their dreams
• The original film was written and directed by Craven, who returned to co-script the second sequel, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), and to write and direct New Nightmare (1994)
• In 1988, a television series was produced with Freddy as the host
• There were 8 sequels to nigthmare on elm street

The film and it's sequels:

A nightmare on elm street (1984): The teens of Springwood, Ohio have been having a shared nightmare of a shadowy figure wearing a fedora, a striped sweater and a glove with metal talons attached to the fingers. they discover that years ago their parents burned an acquitted child murderer alive, and now he's back for dreamy revenge.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985): this film largely abandons the whole dream scenario by focusing on Freddy's efforts to materialize in the real world. He does so by possessing the son of the family that moves into Nancy's old house. However, the son, Jesse, eventually regains control and sends Freddy back to the netherworld.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987): Freddy continues to kill the teenagers in their dreams, but the directors have decided to allow the victims to fight back by giving themselves super powers in their dreams. The movie begins with Freddy stalking the last remaining children of the mob that killed him. They all end up in a psychiatric hospital and coincidentally the doctor of the hospital is Nancy. She helps the kids dispose of Freddy by burying his bones in sacred ground, although she dies in the process.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988): Freddy returns to off the kids who stubbornly insisted on staying alive in the previous film. He does so fairly easily, then moves on to a new group of kids, led by alice who eventually defeats Freddy.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989): Freddy returns by haunting the dreams of Alice's unborn child. Through the baby, he's somehow able to torment Alice and her friends. However, the ghost of Freddy's mother, along with Alice's future unborn child team up to give him what for.

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991): This movie has Freddy tracking down his long-lost daughter, Maggie. She manages to destroy Freddy "for good" by dragging him into the real world, but only after the film flashes back into his childhood.

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994): Freddy haunts Heather Langenkamp (Nancy from the original film) in real life. He draws her and her young son into the dream world, but they eventually defeat him

Freddy vs. Jason (2003): Merging with New Line Cinema's other struggling slasher franchise, Friday the 13th, Freddy vs. Jason finds Freddy recruiting Friday's Jason Vorhees to kill the children of his old Elm Street haunting. This however turns out to be totally wrong as the pair end up at each others throats.