Wes Craven

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Wes Craven smiles at a formal event, wearing a black shirt and jacket, with a step-and-repeat banner in the background.

Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson turns in fear as Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, with a burned face and glove of blades, raises his hand in a bedroom scene from A Nightmare on Elm Street.

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American director and screenwriter

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Wes Craven smiles at a formal event, wearing a black shirt and jacket, with a step-and-repeat banner in the background.

Wes Craven

Wes Craven.

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Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson turns in fear as Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, with a burned face and glove of blades, raises his hand in a bedroom scene from A Nightmare on Elm Street.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984),...

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